A total of 80 jobs have been created in the center so far this year. By the end of 2013, the workforce of the center, which was established back in 2008, should grow to 450. New employees would work in IT development, financial operations and loan administration operations, SEB Bankas and Invest Lithuania, the government’s foreign investment promotion agency, said in a joint press release.
“The activities of SEB group’s services center in Vilnius are planned to expand further. We are setting up one more IT development unit. In addition, we will expand the scale of financial operations, loan administration operations,” the press release quoted Ilma Mazeikiene, the head of SEB group’s Shared Services Centers in Vilnius and Riga, as saying.
According to the release, an IT operations unit was moved to the Vilnius services center from Sweden in June and currently employs 30 professionals.
SEB’s services center in Vilnius, which is part of international group SEB, provides services to the group in twenty countries. A similar center operates in Riga.