Accent on Warsaw

Accenture, a company specializing in consulting, IT solutions and the outsourcing of business applications and processes, has opened a business-process outsourcing (BPO) center in Warsaw. The center will initially employ 200 people, but within five years it will take on more than 1,000.

"We are currently recruiting highly qualified workers from outsourcing services around the world," said the director of the BPO center, Paweł Łobejko. The company is recruiting accounting and financial specialists as well as experts in IT support. The BPO center in Warsaw will serve companies from Germany and Scandinavia, as well as large Polish firms. So far, the firm has two major clients, the Thomson Corporation and another unnamed player. The value of the BPO center is unknown.

Basilio Rueda, from Accenture Global Delivery Network, said that the firm opted for Warsaw thanks to its skilled and educated labor force, as well as its location. He says it is easy for Accenture to maintain close contact with clients in the region. Warsaw's center will be the company's fifth service center in the region after Prague, Riga, Bratislava and Bucharest.

"We have decided to invest here because the existing centers in Central Europe can't meet the growing demand for outsourcing services," said the head of the company's Central European service centers, Radomir Sabela.