Łukasz Szydłowski

Managing client relationships to maintain and grow their existing business to ensure revenue generation
Performance & SLA Management and ensure high customer service satisfaction
Supervise accounting and tax reporting to meet statutory (PL, SL, CZ, PT) and corporate (US GAAP) reporting requirements
Managing implementation of SAP
Formulating Key Result Areas of the Team Leaders & Team Members and conducting appraisals and feedback sessions
Plan and coordinate the staffing activities of the respective processes in accordance with documented policies and procedures (AP, AR, GL)

Delivering high quality, customer focused service with ensuring timely and accurate processing of complex F&A transactions and all related tasks within agreed Service Level Agreements, policies and control frameworks
Managing, motivating, evaluating and developing the team of 30 F&A professionals responsible for Accounts Payable (including T&E), General Ledger and Accounts Receivables processes
Continually striving to simplify, standardize and improve processes. Actively supporting any ideas, concepts and CI initiatives and/or tools’ improvements

Monitoring of stock valuation activities for 10 entities located in Europe, Asia and North America
Supervision of cost calculation, FIFO inventory valuation, settlement of production orders, calculation of provisions for obsolete and slow-moving stocks (including SOX controls)
Managing a team, their development and engagement
Supervision of migration of stock valuation processes between different service centers

Managing a team of R2R accounting specialists
The main point of contact and escalations from the client
Supervision of accounting transactions (General Ledger, Fixed Assets, period end closing, tax declarations)
In charge of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting

Participation in the General Ledger activities migration process – procedure and other documentation preparation
Performing GL month-end closing activities including journal entries, provisions calculation and booking, accounts reconciliation
Preparing monthly VAT declarations and other fiscal/statistical reports (Intrastat)
Performing reconciliation of the reporting and financial statement according to accounting policy
Cooperation with auditors
Solving accounting transaction questions and other complicated issues

Preparing payments to suppliers and their introduction into the banking application
Vendors query handling and dealing with escalations
In charge of AP performance and consumptions reporting
Reviewing Travel & Expenses reports to ensure their accuracy and compliance with the tax and legal regulations
Team Leader backup

Participation in the Accounts Payable activities migration process – procedure and other documentation preparation
Preparing payments to suppliers and their introduction into the banking application
Vendors query handling and dealing with escalations
In charge of AP performance and consumptions reporting
Reviewing Travel & Expenses reports to ensure their accuracy and compliance with the tax and legal regulations