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Our Company

Through its Social Innovation Business that brings together IT, OT(Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) totaled 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.

About Hitachi Centralized Shared Services (CSS)

Hitachi Centralized Shared Services was formulated to support Hitachi Group Companies grow, global expansion and portfolio optimization. CSS is a strategic partner for transforming and delivering business operations by enabling global, social innovation and maximizing the value that powers One Hitachi. We provide the best employee and customer experience through agile and scalable solutions, enabling optimized enterprise processes and driving continuous improvements, excellence, and innovation.

What you’ll be doing

The role will be responsible for ongoing team performance management to ensure the effective operation of Record to Report business processes and adherence to pre-defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and KPIs, compliance to audit and regulatory requirements. The role will manage Month end close process, consolidation, and reporting of actual results. In addition, the role involves monitoring and reporting on team performance and identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives to drive process efficiency and effectiveness in the Record to Report area.

Additionally, the role will act as an advisor and subject matter expert to other Hitachi Companies within Record to Report area.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective line management (recruitment, performance management, coaching and mentoring etc) to direct reports

• Ensure that effective personal performance and development reviews are carried out periodically with all team members

• Manage Month end close process, Consolidation, Reporting acctual results and preparation of Balance Sheet reconciliation

• Approve selected Balance Sheet reconciliations

• Administer banking acceses

• Approve selected payments

• Support E&Y audit and Internal Audits

• Provide input into the development of finance policies and processes and ensure that policies are followed

• Maintain existing and develop new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the team to meet the performance targets

• Continuously monitor KPI performance and take remedial action where required to ensure performance standards are met

• Implement regular, structured communication processes with key stakeholders to update them on team performance, risks and issues

• Respond promptly to queries from stakeholders and take actions to resolve them

• Support discussions on non-routine Transactions/Issues (e.g. new business, new processes etc.)

• Actively supports company change programs and acts as a role model for solution selling

• Provide advisory and subject matter expertise to other Hitachi OpCos

What you bring to the team

We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision and willing to take responsibility. The role can be based in Krakow or remote in Poland.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

• Experience of the Record to Report process and industry leading practices

• Experience of working directly with multiple countries and cultures in a finance capacity

• Experience of working with IFRS principles

• ACCA or CIMA qualification would be an asset

• Knowledge of internal finance processes of a multinational company

• Prior experience of supporting development of finance shared services centre

• Prior technology sector experience

• Experience of Sarbanes Oxley compliance implementation

• SAP knowledge would be an asset

• Fluent English

Competences

• Consider problems as a challenge, collect information relevant to the problem, be disciplined in ascertaining the root cause, identify and develop a practical solution, communicate the findings and implement action to resolve the problem.

• Remain rational when dealing with others, work within organizational requirements, be systematic and factual when dealing with colleagues and handle conflict with logic until a solution becomes achievable.

• Develop and comply with the systems, procedures, rules, objectives and timescales set by the organisation and take a disciplined approach when undertaking tasks.

• Be systematic and logical in the approach to decision making, ensuring that all the necessary facts and information are available and accurate and the decision taken and acted upon is astute and carefully considered.

• Mentor, counsel, coach and generally support those who are not confident in their area of

• competence, building morale and personal esteem and generally encouraging others to give their best performance.

• Remain confident when dealing with negative situations, convince others to have ideas and create new options, as well as encouraging and enthusing them to come up with imaginative solutions to problems.

• Create a culture of continuous improvement.

• Be proactive and energetic in the work situation, seeking to get things done and at the same time deal with a variety of tasks.

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge