Katarzyna Idziniak - Dudek
Krakow
Summary
Experienced leader with a strong background in team guidance, project management, and strategic objective achievement. Proven expertise in process development, standards enforcement, and alignment with organizational goals. Recognized for a collaborative approach and unwavering commitment to excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
21
21
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Team Leader RTR
Schoeller Allibert SSC
01.2023 - Current
- Managing team of 7-8 senior accountants working for European entities
- Managing accounting of headquarter entity - construction in progress, stock reconciliation, recharge invoices (NL)
- Coordination and preparation of audit tasks, cooperation with auditors, preparation of required reports as well as sampling
- Cooperation with Group Treasury, Group Reporting, PTP and OTC teams
- Approving weekly cash flow forecasts
- Escalation point for local businesses
- Ad hoc requests from group reporting team
- Coordination of month-end and year-end closing tasks (including reporting in HFM
- Managing improvement projects within RTR and close collaboration with other teams: PTP and OTC
- Internal controls of team work
- Reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts
- PNL and B/S review during month-end closing
- Managing adjusting items
Subject Matter Expert
IBM BTO
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: external client - pharma industry
- Working with integration of finance systems/ data migration from one SAP instance to another
- Preparation of required journal entries (i.e
- Clearing of technical accounts, PO/GRIR split, Trading Partners reclassification)
- Reconciliation between finance and reporting systems after migration
- Cooperation with Global Process Leads team
- External client - pharma industry
General Ledger Team Leader
IBM BTO
02.2020 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: external client - electronic components industry
- Managing team of 7 specialists
- Transition in UK in Feb-Mar 2020, including knowledge transfer and full process documentation
- Team building in pandemic reality, including onboarding new joiners and knowledge cascade remotely
- Close cooperation with the client - dealing as a single point of contact
- Distribution of workload within a team
- Coordination of period closing activities
- Review of B/S account reconciliation
- Ensuring SLA/KPI are met
- External client - electronic components industry
General Ledger Team Leader
IBM BTO
02.2016 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: external client - medical and pharmacy industry
- Managing team of 5-10 accountants
- Coordination of month closing activities, active support for team members
- 1st line approval for high and low risk B/S accounts' reconciliation
- Ensuring documentation is up to date and that all team members are aware about current changes (work changing environment)
- Preparation of most complex account reconciliation
- Productivity management - various internal and external reports including business controls
- Support team members in obtaining documentation for B/S account reconciliation
- Full ownership of data gathering, reports, samples for audit
- Constant contact with client
- Participation in process standardization - B/S account reconciliation templates, process simplification and introducing improvements to client
- Close cooperation with SMEs and Global Process Lead
- External client - medical and pharmacy industry
Senior General Ledger Specialist
IBM BTO
05.2015 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: external client - medical and pharmacy industry
- Various journal entries posting (including accruals/provisions calculation, recurring entries)
- Detailed reconciliation of B/S accounts in Blackline application
- Intercompany billing
- Managing of intercompany netting
- Close cooperation with client Financial Services team
- VAT and Intrastat reports preparation and first checks before sending them to 3rd party tax services provider
- Help and support for other team members
- External client - medical and pharmacy industry
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
01.2015 - 04.2015
- Company Overview: Swiss external client - insurance industry
- Full ownership of 9 holding entities
- Payment requisitions creation and forwarding approved forms to treasury team for payment execution
- Bank accounts clearing
- Preparing accruals/provisions
- Regrouping - review of Balance Sheet accounts in order to find incorrect balances on accounts
- Financial statements reporting: Pre-Equity, IFRS, Swiss GAAP, Swiss Solvency Test, FINMA, tax reporting, reconciliation between IFRS and Swiss GAAP
- Deferred income tax and VAT posting (in cooperation with tax department)
- Preparing Financial Statements, cooperation with auditors
- B/S accounts reconciliation
- Swiss external client - insurance industry
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
03.2014 - 01.2015
- Company Overview: Swiss external client - insurance industry
- Take over process in very tight deadlines
- Review & update of desktop procedures
- Expense process close on a monthly basis in cooperation with planning & performance team
- Accruals/ Provisions calculation and journal entries postings
- Preparing Management Expense Report for Finance Manager and CFO
- Intercompany process - reinsurance settlement including intercompany balance management, preparing payment requisitions, posting
- Payable and receivable bank transfers, reports for reinsurance partners
- Deferred tax calculation and posting
- Investment reconciliation & reporting
- Claims posting and reconciliation vs Actuarial data
- B/S accounts reconciliation and Balance Sheet Presentation for CFO and Management team
- Monthly/quarterly reporting according to IFRS, local GAAP and Swiss GAAP
- Ad hoc reports and analysis
- Resolving queries from finance/actuarial/PPM teams
- Swiss external client - insurance industry
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
06.2013 - 02.2014
- Company Overview: UK external client - insurance industry
- Work shadowing
- Take over process
- Desktop procedures creation
- Reporting to transition manager
- Review of intercompany BS accounts' reconciliation
- Reconciliation & documentation gathering for reinsurance B/S accounts
- Preparation of part of Director's Review Pack on monthly basis
- Calculation & posting of accruals/provisions
- Documentation for audit & Internal Control Framework
- Preparing reports for statistical returns for external authorities (i.e
- Office for National Statistics, Association of British Insurers)
- UK external client - insurance industry
Senior Finance & Accounting Specialist
Capgemini
09.2011 - 05.2013
- Company Overview: Nordic General Ledger team
- Fixed bookings
- Month-closing reports
- Reconciliation of balance accounts
- Reconciliation of fixed assets
- VAT declaration and reconciliation
- Accruals/provisions calculation and posting
- Recurring
- Cooperation with Financial Manager from Nordic countries
- Full Audit documentation - gathering documents from all teams PTP, OTC, Project Accounting and RTR
- Nordic General Ledger team
Senior Accountant
Capgemini
04.2010 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Nordic Project Accounting Team
- Nordic Project Accounting Team
Accountant
Capgemini
11.2010 - 03.2011
- Company Overview: Nordic Project Accounting Team
- Coding supplier invoices
- Creating & managing projects in Oracle
- Releasing sales invoices during month-closing (approximately 350-450 invoices each month-closing)
- Reconciliation of BS accounts
- Cooperation with Nordic and India business controllers & project managers
- Ad-hoc reports for project management
- Specific monthly reports for end-customer
- Nordic Project Accounting Team
Accountant
Capgemini
03.2008 - 10.2009
- Company Overview: Nordic Project Accounting Team
- Work shadowing
- Take over process
- Desktop procedures preparation - especially month-closing processes
- Reporting to transition manager
- Preparing accounting process in Poland
- Cooperation with Swedish business controller and Nordic management
- Maintaining desktop procedures
- Month-closing cost reports, revenue recognition, releasing sales invoices during month-closing
- Ad-hoc reports from financial and time-reporting systems
- Creating & managing projects in Oracle
- Ad-hoc corrections of employees' time reports
- Monthly reconciliation of B/S accounts
- Processing supplier invoices
- Accruals/provisions calculation and posting
- Support for Accounts Payable team in vendor master data
- Nordic Project Accounting Team
Junior Accountant
Capgemini
08.2005 - 02.2008
- Company Overview: US PTP team
- Processing supplier invoices
- Contact with suppliers via fax
- Error check reports, chasing incorrect entries
- US PTP team
Junior Accountant
Capgemini
10.2004 - 07.2005
- Company Overview: US PTP team
- Processing supplier invoices
- Contact with suppliers via fax
- Error check reports, chasing incorrect entries
- US PTP team
Education
supplementary master's degree - Administration, Public administration
Krakow's Academy
Kraków 01.2007 - 01.2010
1st stage studies - Marketing and Management, Management in administration
Higher School of Business in Tarnów
Tarnów, Poland 01.2002 - 01.2007
High School -
Kazimierz Brodziński 1st High School
Tarnów, Poland 01.1998 - 01.2002
Skills
- MS Office
- MS Excel
- Lotus Notes
- SAP
- Hyperion
- FIP reporting
- Agresso
- Oracle
- Business Object
- Blackline
- GPS
Analytical thinking
Complex Problem-solving
Team collaboration
Organizational skills
Team supervision
Teamwork and collaboration
Work planning
Team motivation
Problem-solving
Quality improvement
Documentation and reporting
People management
Client service
Team building
Employee evaluation
Leading team meetings
Performance improvement
Overtime management
Goal setting
Client support
Attention to detail
Daily workflow improvement
Issue resolution
Key performance indicators
Process improvement
Overseeing daily activities
Staff education and training
SMART goals
SOP adherence
Evaluating employee work
Giving constructive feedback
Change management
Leadership
Problem-solving abilities
Multitasking Abilities
Reliability
Written communication
Interpersonal skills
Audit reporting
Process analysis
Task prioritization
Professionalism
Data analysis
Continuous improvement
Excellent communication
Effective communication
Adaptability and flexibility
Decision-making
Team assessment
Deadline management
Workflow management
Task delegation
Client communication
Service level agreements
Certification
SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling - Configuration & End User - Udemy
Awards
- Service Excellence Award from Global Delivery Project Executive, 07/01/21
- Manager Appreciation Cash Award, 07/01/21
- Capgemini internal OVATION AWARD in category INNOVATOR
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 03/14/83
Timeline
Team Leader RTR
Schoeller Allibert SSC
01.2023 - Current
Subject Matter Expert
IBM BTO
01.2022 - 12.2022
General Ledger Team Leader
IBM BTO
02.2020 - 12.2021
General Ledger Team Leader
IBM BTO
02.2016 - 02.2020
Senior General Ledger Specialist
IBM BTO
05.2015 - 01.2016
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
01.2015 - 04.2015
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
03.2014 - 01.2015
Senior Accounting & Reporting Specialist
Capgemini
06.2013 - 02.2014
Senior Finance & Accounting Specialist
Capgemini
09.2011 - 05.2013
Accountant
Capgemini
11.2010 - 03.2011
Senior Accountant
Capgemini
04.2010 - 08.2011
Accountant
Capgemini
03.2008 - 10.2009
supplementary master's degree - Administration, Public administration
Krakow's Academy
01.2007 - 01.2010
Junior Accountant
Capgemini
08.2005 - 02.2008
Junior Accountant
Capgemini
10.2004 - 07.2005
1st stage studies - Marketing and Management, Management in administration
Higher School of Business in Tarnów
01.2002 - 01.2007
High School -
Kazimierz Brodziński 1st High School
01.1998 - 01.2002
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