Finance Manager - Poland

Permanent employee, Full-time · Poland - Wrocław

Your mission
Responsible for the overall financial and tax management of the Poland factory ,including but not limited to accounting, taxation, financial planning, cost control, and compliance. The ideal candidate will be a strategic partner to the business, ensuring financial integrity, driving performance, and building a strong local finance team.

Accounting and Taxation: Conduct in-depth analysis of local finance and tax policies. Develop and improve financial and tax management systems adopted to the plant's operations. Prepare and submit regular financial and management reports to meet external disclosure and internal management requirements. Execute effective tax planning strategies to ensure local tax compliance and optimize the group's overall tax position. Proactively identify financial and tax risks and implement preventive measures to ensure stable and lawful company operations.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): Lead the plant's annual budgeting process. Organize and coordinate cross-functional departments for budget preparation and review. Analyze, challenge, and consolidate budget data to form a reasonable overall plant budget. Track budget performance, conduct regular variance analysis, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to business partners. Provide financial evaluation and support for special investment projects.
Cost Control and Analysis: Establish and optimize the local cost management system. Regularly collect and analyze cost data to monitor trends and drivers. Prepare timely cost analysis reports and ad-hoc business case analyses. Lead regular performance review meetings to identify cost-saving opportunities and support the implementation of improvement measures.
Compliance and Internal Control: Regularly review the adequacy and effectiveness of the plant's internal policies and procedures against group standards. Drive improvements across departments. Possess expertise in import/export regulations and trade policies; provide guidance to ensure compliant and standardized operational execution.
Financial Digitalization: Champion the implementation and optimization of the ERP system (e.g., SAP), ensuring the finance and cost modules are configured to meet local statutory requirements. Support headquarters in management transformation and financial digitalization projects.
Business Partnering & Team Leadership: Responsible for building and developing the overseas finance team, including recruitment, training, and mentoring. Foster a culture of continuous learning in both financial and business knowledge to enhance the team's capabilities.
Project Management: Oversee and drive the execution of major operational initiatives and annual key projects for the overseas subsidiary, ensuring coordination and successful implementation.
Your profile
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. Professional certifications (CPA, ACCA, CMA) are highly preferred.
  • Minimum 8 years of finance experience within a large-scale manufacturing environment, including at least 3 years in a senior overseas financial management role. In-depth knowledge of EU/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), local tax policies, and labor laws. Experience in greenfield project setup or building a finance function from the ground up is a significant advantage.
  • Excellent communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills. Strong learning agility, adaptability, and resilience under pressure. A proven team player and leader.
  • Chinese national or a Chinese resident in Europe, fluent in both English and Chinese as working languages, Hands-on experience with SAP is highly preferred.
  • Must be willing to relocate and work long-term in Poland (Wroclaw area)
Why us?
This decade might be overshadowed by Covid19, but sooner or later we will beat and overcome that son of a germ, am I right?
But the true topic for this decade lies in energy!
We are more than happy to state that not only We are leading this discourse, we also offer the fitting solutions for it. We have the strongest PV-Inverter R&D there is and became the world`s biggest Inverter Manufacturer, which we are extremely proud of!And now, for this decade, we are increasing our game, and You, You might become part of it! Besides that, many things await You:  
  • Opportunities for Career advancement   
  • A multinational team awaits You with lots of European and Transeuropean exchange!
  • Possibility for technical and commercial knowledge increasement in regard to string inverters, central inverters, inverter stations including transformer and switch gear and storage solutions    
  • Technical and commercial training in our headquarter in Germany and even visits to the big R&D facility in China!
About us
We are a green tech company with young creative minds.
We are fighting every day to make our mission happen – Clean Power for All!

With 870+GW of clean power presently installed worldwide, we are on the road to success!

Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial & industrial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions and renewable hydrogen production systems.

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