PricewaterhouseCoopers opens a Shared Services Centre in Katowice

09.04.2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers expands its business in Poland and opens a new Shared Services Centre in Katowice. The centre will support PwC in the field of audit services provided within the Central and Eastern Europe.

From the left: Paweł Pepliński, Managing Partner in charge of the Audit section of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Piotr Uszok, President of Katowice

The first part of the Katowice - based centre started operating in December 2009 and has been using the best market practices, tools and technologies. Today, after 4 months, the centre employs 50 specialists in audit services who support PwC teams in providing services to clients in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Within the coming four years the specialist team working in Katowice is expected to expand and finally include 250 people.

Thanks to the centre the company will now be able to streamline a number of processes included in audit services provided and improve the effectiveness of business operations what will translate into a higher quality of services for clients in Poland and the rest of the CEE region. The development of the Centre constitutes an inseparable part of the PwC development strategy in our region.

- I am very glad that PricewaterhouseCoopers chose Katowice and located its Shared Services Centre here. The fact is all the most satisfying when we take into account how competitive the CEE region is when it comes to international investments. We are convinced that Poland offers investors considerable development opportunities, among others, thanks to the country's high quality of human capital. Beside the region of Katowice the major beneficiaries of the project will be clients who operate on the Polish market because Poland will be the major region to which the Centre will provide services. - said Paweł Pepliński, Managing Partner in charge of the Audit section in Poland. - In the complex economic situation like the one we are experiencing now, it is especially important to plan business and create appropriate structures which will make it possible to provide clients with additional value and thus allow generate considerable business opportunities.

Poland was chosen as the best destination for the Centre because of a relatively good economic situation the country had in 2009 and its bright development perspectives for the coming years.

Robert Seges from PAIiIZ