Katarzyna Paczkowska

Providing specialist advisory for shared services in Poland.

Consultant specialising in Transition Projects of a boutique advisory and improvement consultancy working with shared services globally.

Transition Project Manager – responsible for transition project plan preparation and maintenance, managing and supervision of transition Finance roles to new locations; collection of local accounting requirements – translation and mapping to standard processes; systems transition assessment, coordination of infrastructure setup, providing process change trainings both to Local Finance and new joiners; organization of work shadowing activities; management of the knowledge transfer process; assuring process compliance after transition; Service Level Agreement documentation preparation and review; identification of process improvement opportunities and support of post transition implementation of improvements


Netherlands – transition of Finance roles (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger) to Poland and India
Australia & New Zealand – transition of Finance roles (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable) to India
UK – transition of Finance roles (Central Financial Planning & Analysis Reporting Team) to Poland

EFC Project Manager – responsible for managing and supervision of transition of new locations to the EFC; collection of local accounting requirements – translation and mapping to standard processes; providing process change trainings both to Local Finance and the EFC; supervision of data conversion to the new accounting system; organization of work shadowing activities; management of the knowledge transfer from Local Finance to the EFC; coordination of EFC and Project team transition activity split; assuring process compliance after transition; Service Level Agreement documentation preparation and review; KPI data capture and analysis; management of post go-live process improvements;

Accounts Payable Manager – management of AP team providing services to internal clients; invoice and T&E processing supervision, standard and urgent payments management; vendor reconciliation supervision; bank reconciliation management; new scanning and authorisation workflow solution implementation management; month end processes management; supervision of implementation of new procedures; SOX compliance assurance; coordination of internal and external audit activities

Italian Ledger – taking over activities carried out by the client’s Finance & Administration Record team (transition from Italy to Poland) – responsible for leading, control, coordination and performing of general accounting processes, payroll accounting, month-end close processes, balance sheet and profit and loss reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations; cash flow forecasts, cost analysis and control versus budget and forecasts, control and supervision of AP and Buy Centre activities; Coordination of internal and external financial and SOX audit activities of the Italian ledger; knowledge transfer to the team located in India, coordination of workflow and communication between client Warsaw and Chennai Delivery centre.

control and support of stabilization of cash collection, cash allocation, Intercompany netting and Month End close processes (support of transition from UK to India) - responsible for revision of processes transferred, training and support of the AR and GL team.

taking over activities carried out by client’s SSC General Ledger team (transition from UK to Poland) – responsible for leading, coordination and performing general accounting and month-end close process, preparing balance sheet accounts reconciliations along with movements variance analysis and interpretation, intercompany reconciliations on monthly basis, preparation of cash flow forecasts, co-operation Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management and Fixed Assets accounting teams and local financial controllers, reporting to regional accounting managers.
Presentation of accounting departments for potential clients, internal SSC performance indicators reporting, participation in process improvement projects, internal training provision for new team members.

preparation of pre-transition analysis and documentation, preparation of process documentation and descriptions for AP, AR and GL, transition progress reporting.

member of the team responsible for taking over the activities of the AP Payments and Bank Reconciliation form client’s SSC to Accenture (transition from Ireland to Mauritius and Prague); The field of activities: payments to the suppliers, reconciliation of AP transit accounts and AP bank accounts, preparing of forecasts for client’s Treasury Department, preparing of month-end close reports according to clients requirements.

member of the team taking over activities of cash collection and accounts receivable department (transition from France to Poland) - service provided for Thomson Multimedia Sales Italy SpA; responsible for collection of receivables from Italian customers, reporting on customers’ overdue; control and registration of customers’ payments, reporting and control of customers’ open items for month closing reporting, control of SAP duplication batch and error processing;

member of a team taking over activities of accounts payable department (transition from Italy to Poland) - service provided for Videocolor Anagni SpA; responsible for registration and control of suppliers’ invoices, analysis and reporting on accounts payable balances;