US logistics company UPS has appointed Irishman Jim Kearney as country manager for Hungary, Romania, and Greece.

He replaces Belgian Tim Helsen, who will manage the group's operations in the Netherlands, according to a company statement. Helsen has been managing UPS' operations in Romania, Hungary and Greece since November 2014.

Jim Kearney joined the group in 1989 as a billing clerk in UPS’s UK finance & accounting department, based in London. In the following years, he held various positions in the UK finance and accounting department. In 1999, he became office manager of UPS’s European Consolidated Service Center in Dublin, Ireland. Four years later, Kearney moved to Brussels to work as a finance manager in the UPS Europe finance & accounting department.

In 2004, Kearney was promoted to controller for what was then UPS’s Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa district, based in Brussels, and one year later he moved back to Dublin to serve as controller of UPS’s Consolidated Service Center. In 2009, he became the country manager of UPS Ireland.

In 2011, Kearney accepted the position of director of UPS’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Authorised Service Contractor countries and in 2013 accepted the role of UPS East Europe district Authorised Service Contractor director, working out of Ireland.

Jim Kearney holds a professional accounting qualification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

UPS Romania had a turnover of EUR 32 million and a net profit of EUR 0.4 million in 2014, according to official data from the Finance Ministry. The results for 2015 are not yet available.

Belgian takes helm of UPS Romania after Romanian promoted to another country

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com