The 3rd annual USA-Europe Business Services Summit & Awards targets US investors who are expanding existing Business Services Centers in Europe, or exploring new locations.

Newest Jury members are from Harman, Zoetis, Western Union, and PepsiCo. The VIP Jury members are primarily US-based global directors of BSCs with operations in Europe.

Nominations – in 11 categories - open on 1st April.

First speakers will be announced 25 March, with more than 17 top professionals leading the presentations and discussions about optimizing BSC operations in Central Eastern Europe.

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European Business Services Association has partnered with CIMA to offer a 20% discount to the 2nd annual CFO Strategy & Innovation Summit 2019. The organizers of the Summit - CIMA and Rzeczpospolita - have pre-reserved a limited number of Tickets which can be reserved here (20% discount using code: BiznesPolska):

This year CIMA looks at trends that affect and will affect the work of CFOs and finance professionals. Among keynote speakers are CFO’s and business leaders from the world's largest companies from the US, UK, Malaysia and many more.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• how does the finance sector support business
  
• what does make the CFO necessary and why will its role grow
  
• how can the CFO support innovation in the company
  
• how does the digital revolution influence the role of the CFO and its tools automation
  
• the role of finance is no longer connected with simple reporting
  
• the role of CFO in the future
  
• where will the finances be in the perspective of 5-10 years
  
• CFO 2.0 new realities and challenges
  
  

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The new Customer Experience Excellence Center will provide world-class customer support for Honeywell customers across Europe.


The new center will be lead by Szymon Pudlik, who is coming to Honeywell after 15 years in the IT sector within a Business Services operation.


Honeywell’s combination of software, hardware and services include technologies for aircraft. The company has been present in Poland and across Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s. Currently, more than 8,000 employees are based in the region in roles such as sales, customer support, business administration, and supply chain functions as well as product development, production and engineering services.


"This latest milestone in our continued growth in Poland reflects our commitment to get closer to our customers here and across Europe, operate locally, and meet the market’s requirements for world class customer support and services," said Ronald Binkofski, president Central and Eastern Europe, Honeywell. "We are pleased to be bringing new career opportunities of this nature to the Katowice region, and look forward to establishing a presence here".


The site will be a primary interface between Honeywell and its established European customer base with jobs including customer support representatives, customer support supervisors and customer support team coaches. Honeywell is seeking employees with a passion for highly innovative technology, and a wide range of European language skills, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, and Norwegian, as well as at least one to two years’ customer support experience or backgrounds in centers of excellence across other functions such as finance and IT.


"For the last few years, Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław have been dominant centres of the Polish Business Services Sector (BSS). However, the investors we have been cooperating with, are more and mroe aware of the opportunities related to other locations in Poland. The Honeywell investment in Katowice proves that thanks to the deep talent pool, Silesia is becoming one of the leading "addresses" for the BSS investors. Each such project intensifies healthy domestic and regional competition" - Jan Kamoji-Czapiński, head of PAIH Direct Investment Dep., points out.


Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) works to increase the inflow of investments to Poland and the outflow of Polish FDI. It also does it best to intensify the Polish exports. Supporting entrepreneurs, the Agency assists in overcoming administrative and legal procedures related to specific projects as well as helps to develop legal solutions, find a suitable location, reliable partners and suppliers.

Moody’s Corporation has chosen Vilnius as the location for its newest European office. Moody’s provides credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody’s expects to grow its new office over the next few years and chose Vilnius over a number of other European cities. Hiring of staff started in January, 2019.

“After long and careful deliberation, we chose Vilnius because of its educated and multilingual talent pool, its highly-developed IT infrastructure and its business-friendly environment,” said Duncan Neilson, SVP HR Regional Lead EMEA. “Given our goals of hiring diverse talent and further developing our automation and cyber security capabilities, choosing Lithuania as our newest EU location makes good business sense.”
The scope of this investment project covers positions that support the ratings and research businesses and operations in areas such as finance, human resources operations, information security, and information technology. Moody’s expects to initially fill the roles with both recent graduates in junior roles, and experienced candidates in senior roles.
“Moody’s business in Lithuania will be the biggest project we have seen in terms of sophistication of functions and projected growth in the business services sector. This project is as important to the country’s business services sector as last year’s major automotive investments were for the manufacturing industry. This investment will propel the sector to a higher level and will help Lithuania to become a leader of the business services sector in Central and Eastern Europe,” said Virginijus Sinkevičius, the country’s Minister of Economy.

The 1st annual Japan – CEE Europe Investment Summit & Awards takes place 25 April at the famous Palace Hotel in Tokyo. While the Awards will distinguish Japanese investors in CEE from multiple sectors, such as automotive and manufacturing, the Business Services sector also stands out.

Japanese investors have been consistently targeting CEE for Business Services centers, especially supporting their EMEA operations. Newcomers such as Toyota (Wroclaw), Transcosmos (Poznan), and Olympus (Wroclaw) have joined other Japanese BSC operations such as Nidec (Romania), JTI (Serbia), Nissan (Hungary), and FujiFilm (Gdansk), Fujitsu (Lodz), HitachiVantara (Krakow), Ricoh (Gdansk).

At the Awards event, a major announcement will be made of a new expansion and consolidation of all F&A operations into one centralized BSC.

To see Jury Members and Agenda: www.JapanEuropeInvestmentAwards.com