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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 March 2018
Employment effect (start)
20 March 2018
Foreseen end date
19 March 2019
Description
British legal and accounting services company PwC has announced that it will create 100 new jobs at its service delivery centre in Opole within the next 12 months. The company is looking for specialists with knowledge of foreign languages, especially German and English.
PwC operates in 158 countries and employs around 236,000 people worldwide. PwC has been operating in Poland for 28 years. Currently, the company has two shared services centres (Katowice and Opole), Competence Centre in Gdańsk and eight regional offices across the country. The centre in Opole has been operating since September 2016 and currently employs 100 workers.
Sources
20 March 2018: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2018), PwC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93595, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93595.
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