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Central and Eastern Europe 2017

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Gracjana Jakubowska-Szarek

Legal advisor and head of commercial finance (Poland) | Siemens Finance

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Gracjana Jakubowska-Szarek

Legal advisor and head of commercial finance (Poland) | Siemens Finance

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One of the top Polish financial sector lawyers, Gracjana Jakubowska-Szarek has impressed with her work on restructuring the scope of the legal department at Siemens Finance. Since joining the company in August 2011, she has transferred menial administrative tasks and repetitive legal issues to other departments and law firms. She has also developed the knowledge base within Siemens Finance by standardising processes that improves efficiency both in the legal department and the wider company. In addition, Jakubowska-Szarek organises trainings for non-legal employees in order to help them gain basic legal knowledge so they can deal with simple and repeatable legal issues. ‘As a consequence, on one hand the business partners are able to do certain legal work on their own, resolve simple legal issues or negotiate. Therefore the processes are faster, easier and more cost efficient and on the other hand we have relieved the legal department’s resources in order to deal with substantive, unique and significant issues which helps keep the legal work in-house and save costs’, Jakubowska-Szarek says. Over the past six years, Jakubowska-Szarek has built a great, well-coordinated and dedicated team that is highly qualified and widely seen as a source of expertise, with an innovative and open-minded approach to business issues. ‘I have engaged my time and energy in developing and enhancing team members’ competencies’, she says. ‘The business colleagues now know that they will get top quality support from our team’. Jakubowska-Szarek previously served at White & Case in Warsaw and Frankfurt and graduated in law at the Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu in 2004.

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