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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
British legal and accounting services company PwC has announced that it will create 300 new jobs at its shared services centre in Katowice. About 200 jobs are expected to be created by the end of 2016, another 100 in 2017. The company is looking for candidates with knowledge of foreign languages, especially English and German.
PwC, headquartered in London, operates in 157 countries and employs over 195,000 people worldwide. PwC employs over 3,500 people in eight Polish cities: Warszawa, Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków and Rzeszów. The centre has been operating in Katowice for seven years and employs over 1,000 people.
Sources
30 September 2016: Property News
Citation
Eurofound (2016), PwC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 88743, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88743.
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