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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 September 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2014
Foreseen end date
31 March 2015
Description
German electricity producer RWE announced that it is to create 100 new jobs at its shared services centre in Kraków by the end of March 2015. The company will start a recruiting process in October 2014; the company is to employ accountants with foreign language skills, especially English and German.
Currently, the centre employs 150 people and provides HR services for 19 units of the company, as well as financial and accounting services for six units. The sources report that over the period of the next two years, the centre will take over services of ten another units of RWE.
Sources
29 September 2014: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
29 September 2014: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2014), RWE, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77765, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77765.
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