The Freeman

Dover to hire more to expand business

- Ehda M. Dagooc, Staff Member

American shared services company announced to hire at least a hundred more people to aid its expansion plans in Cebu.

Dover Business Services (DBS) offers backroom services like accounting, human resource, among others to subsidiari­es of its holding company Dover Corporatio­n, which owns a string of diversifie­d businesses around the world.

According to Kevin Vandermole­n, DBS director for business, the company which started its operations in Cebu in 2017, has grown from 56 people eight months ago, to over 200 as of latest count.

Peejay Dagat, human resources leader at the company, attributed Cebu’s good supply of talents specializi­ng in accountanc­y for the company’s talent expansion plans.

More than half of DBS’ employees in Cebu are graduates of finance and business-related courses, including accountant­s.

Recently, the company open opened its new office site at the One Montage Building along Archbishop Reyes street, near Cebu Business Park.

The expansion has increased the company’s work stations to 400 including those at its old site in FLB Center.

This is to aid its expansion plan in Cebu owing to Cebu’s wealth of talents in the KPO skills.

“DBS’ expansion of talents in Cebu City ultimately paved the way in the developmen­t of a new site. Our movement is a giant step towards furthering our corporate growth as we continue to hire the best in class talents around the country to provide unparallel­ed services to our shareholde­rs” said DBS Philippine­s site director Jing Cubos.

DBS’Asia shared services center in Cebu offers support in functions such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, master data management and travel & expense, and eventually expanded with other functions such as payroll, lease accounting, business transforma­tion, business controls, engaged services, eCommerce and most recently, voice support for customer and vendor management.

Based in Illinois United States, Dover Corporatio­n is a diversifie­d global manufactur­er with annual revenue of approximat­ely US$7 billion.

The DBS Cebu site takes care of the backroom services of the corporatio­n’s member companies which are located across the globe. DBS has three locations globally in Cebu, Suzhou in China and Cincinnati in Ohio.

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