Andrzej Gazdowicz

Experience

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  Empik Group

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2007

  Salesman

  • Duties: fiscal cash register service, issuing invoices, receiving invoices, receiving and arranging merchandise in the section.

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  UPS

  Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

  System Administrator (Junior Accountant)

  • Creating and maintaining system basics for the entire AP Department (Oracle environment), in particular: working with systems and applications, analyzing and resolving system issues, removing defects and identifying sources of errors, ensuring all purchase orders are delivered on time.

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  Hewlett-Packard

  Jun 2008 - Nov 2010

  Accounts Payable Expert

  • Processing/booking invoices in SAP environment; assure invoice compliance with accountancy, tax, local and legal rules;• Reporting workflow status to Management according to SLA;• Daily/weekly/monthly/ad-hoc reporting; providing reports formerly performed by Reporting Specialist and Business Process Analyst (calculating KPIs as well as Business Fundamentals Trends);• Backup for Accounts Payable Team Leader (AP Inventory Team);• Accrual accounts reconciliation;• Following and implementation of the Finance Controllership requirements;• Participation in UAT for SAP ver. 6.1;• ISO documentation requirements check; Show less

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  Credit Suisse

  Dec 2010 - Sept 2014

  • Deploying tasks from team in Singapore in February-March 2013;• Process re-modeling: - Deployment included reduction of one headcount. - Workload reduction achieved by eliminating over processing. - Changing the model of communication.• Manage the opening/closing/amendment of street side accounts with CS agent banks worldwide for all IB and for PB APAC entities;• Ensure compliance with the detailed regulatory requirements associated with the task (e.g. maintain appropriate account documentation);• Manage the Acclaim database of all street side account records and on-going development of this tool (including UAT);• Support resolution of reconciliation breaks between IntelliMatch and GNM records;• IT coordinator – acting first level IT support for Account Lifecycle Management Team. Show less • Participation is deployment of Bank Charges process from Pune to Wrocław in July 2012;• Nostro accounts reconciliation management for Bank Charge tags;• Posting of monthly accruals;• Invoice validation - confirming that charges (direct debit) are valid for payment;• Re-classes of various General Ledger journals on month-end as well as ad-hoc basis;• Bank Charge SSI maintenance in conjunction with Reference Data;• Manual payment of Bank Charges invoices through internal Credit Suisse application (NTPA-RCDC) or SunGard's MINT;• Resolution of ad-hoc queries from Expense Management, Product Control, COO's and Investment Banking Operations. Show less • Deploying AP process from Singapore to Wrocław in January 2011;• Green Belt improvement project on the transitioned process: - Analysis of the process to reduce headcounts. - Process re-modeling resulting in error decrease and headcount reductions (0,6615 FTE).• Entering, verifying and auditing invoices using the PeopleSoft Accounts Payable system;• Vendor Master Data maintenance;• Reporting on daily, monthly, ad hoc basis;• Assisting in creating daily and monthly financial and audit reports;• SWIFT messaging through SunGard's MINT;• IT coordinator – acting first level IT support for Accounts Payable Team. Show less

  • Senior Analyst (Account Lifecycle Management)

    Jan 2013 - Sept 2014

  • Senior Analyst (Bank Charges)

    Jun 2012 - Jan 2013

  • Accounts Payable Clerk

    Dec 2010 - Jun 2012
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  Hewlett-Packard

  Oct 2014 - Feb 2015

  Process Analyst (Project Manager)

  • Ensures the standard P2P Process is adhered to• Applies advanced subject matter expertise to identify opportunities to drive efficiency (headcount reduction) and effectiveness ($ reduction to the bottom line), whilst adhering to Accounting Financial Manual (AFM) and maintaining the control environment• Performs continual re-engineering reviews of current processes and systems; validating the process/systems to latest documentation and identifying new opportunities for improvement using Lean Six Sigma methodology• Maintains current process and system landscape documentation• Solves process and system issues in a complex and virtual environment with multiple stakeholders• Considers required management of change and required communications• Builds and maintains network of key stakeholders in the business, operations, other process areas, and IT Show less

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  EY

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2016

  AP Data Analyst (Supervising Associate)

  • Member of AP Management. Supporting AP Manager with the collection, consolidation and further analysis of any process / financial data which is essential for operational excellence, process risk controls and team performance measurement• Analyze any process / financial data and its trends to identify performance deviations, their root causes and proposal of any improvements and precautionary steps of process controls, enhancing RACM model and general service delivery model• Analyze payables patterns to identify improvement suggestions in behaviors of particular clients• Analyze Tower operational service delivery model to identify opportunities for scope development and improvements• Run all Tower operational service delivery reporting, including volume reporting, KPI reporting and so on, resulting with final and regular assessment of process healthy• Drive and participate in the process and tower organization research leading the process efficiency improvement or improving tower organization taking lead on / participate in different projects or providing with necessary data input• Provide project management support on less complex projects and effectively collaborate with the GSS Service Delivery and QAR team / others on larger, more complex projects. Show less

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  Xylem Inc.

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Junior Transition Leader

  • Preparation of the transition waves from Poland , Germany and Italy of P2P processes (AP, AR, GL)• Leading transitions from two locations in Italy (at the same time) from October 2016 till February 2017 of 11 FTE: - transition planning and execution, - remote and direct cooperation with local, regional and global multinational teams, - relationship management between SSC operations team and senior level management/stakeholders, - responsibility for all deliverables relating to process migration, • Acting as Team Leader during the transition period and post sign-off as well (team of 11 people) – direct reporting line• Active participation in Management Committee of Xylem SSC in Wrocław Show less

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  Merck Group

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2021

  Transformation Manager

  • Leading independently complex transition projects, which includes planning and executing all phases of project transformation (Mobilization, Preparation, Execution and Stabilization) of Finance as well as Procurement processes, providing all required project deliverables in quality and a timely manner. • Preparation, monitoring and closing Projects Budget.• Successfully accomplished projects: - Germany (Finance) – 8 FTE - Colombia & Ecuador (Finance & Procurement) – 8 FTE - Hungary (Finance) – 4 FTE - South Korea (Finance) – 4 FTE - Portugal (Finance) – 2 FTE - Germany (Procurement) – 9 FTE - Germany (IT/Finance) – 9 FTE Show less

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  UBS

  Sept 2021 - now

  Project Manager

  • Leading complex transition program, which comprise of transitions from 7 different EMEA locations happening simultaneously (scope => banking operations). • Creation and maintenance of Business Case as well as corresponding Projects Budget (parallel run, travel, severance, etc.).• Accomplishments: - Successful migration of 94 FTE - Delivered total savings $3,4m (on exit rate basis)