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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.20 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
3 October 2017
Foreseen end date
30 June 2018
Description
British legal and accounting services company PwC has announced that it will create 300 new jobs at its shared services centre in Katowice by July 2018. PwC is looking for candidates with knowledge of foreign languages. The company has just leased a new office in the city. The centre in Katowice provides back office services in 8 languages to PwC’s units in 50 countries worldwide.
PwC, headquartered in London, operates in 157 countries and employs about 236,000 people worldwide. PwC employs almost 4,500 people in nine Polish cities: Warszawa, Łódź, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, Opole and Rzeszów. The centre has been operating in Katowice since 2009 and currently employs about 1,400 people.
Sources
3 October 2017: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), PwC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 92353, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92353.
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