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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco 46.39 - Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
BAT [British American Tobacco] is hiring 100 employees for its shared services centre in Bucharest in 2015. The Bucharest centre is outsourcing activities in the field of finance and accounting, banking, treasury, customer support, financial reporting and recruitment.The company is looking for economics graduates, preferably with experience in finance, knowing at least one foreign language (English is mandatory) and with familiarity with enterprise resource planning. The local outsourcing industry employs around 60,000 people.Â
Sources
9 January 2015: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2015), BAT, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 78281, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78281.
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