The Area Finance Business Partner is a sparring partner and trusted business advisor to the Product Manager to achieve strategic growth objectives. This person will take an active role in performance management and in driving action plans for improving L&S (Logistics & Services) product performance across area geographic coverage. Based on standard MOS data, he/she will act as a facilitator to analyze and challenge performance, ensure shortfalls in performance and opportunities for high performance are uncovered and that robust benefit tracking is in place. He/She will also work closely with Region FBPs (Finance Business Partners) and colleagues from other Areas thereby ensuring that best practices are shared and applied in order to constantly raise the bar for value adding Finance Business Partnering and ensure decision making is based on robust data and is underpinned by logical assumptions.
We offer
As the leading integrated container logistics company in the world, we offer you exciting career opportunities with an international reach to further expand your experience through our diversity-focused and award-winning talent development initiatives.
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package and are continuously searching for new ways to invest in our talent through ongoing personal and professional development initiatives.
Lastly, as one of the cornerstones of our values, we strive to deliver the right environment for our people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.
Key responsibilities
• Based on standard performance cycle, deliver performance transparency utilizing the latest BI landscape, and Market intel sources
• Build forecast & scenario based simulations & business cases for decision making
• Weekly product performance reporting for Area-wide broadcast
• Monthly Profit & Loss analysis for products managers
• Work closely with cost controllers and Business Controllers to deliver a monthly cost analysis for product managers
• Business case and Financial model building & sparring with product managers (e.g. Discounted cashflow analysis; NPV, IRR etc)
• Run initiatives and projects together with the business; monitor the progress… which leads back to performance transparency
• Contribution in Product FBP community in Asia Pacific Region for best practice sharing & capability development of the community
• Engagement in projects & other focal roles; e.g. Maersk Operating System focal for the Area
We are looking for
• A solid financial educational background as Chartered Accountant or equivalent Master’s degree in Business and/or Finance
• Financial acumen: Understanding & telling stories based on Profit & Loss, Building Business case & Financial/investment model for decision making
• Problem solving: Quickly capturing what business requires, providing relevant insights based on the best data available for decision making. Decomposing a complex problem into manageable pieces
• Stakeholder management: Engaging with senior leaders, managing expectations and speaking-up & influencing without authority
• Communication & presentation: Presenting in front of senior leaders & decision makers and getting your point come across in English
• Microsoft Office suites: Advanced PowerPoint & Excel
• Business acumen: Understanding of Logistics & Services business (In Maersk/Damco is a plus)
Personal Characteristics
• Keeps head cool under pressure and can deal effectively with ambiguity.
• Strong interpersonal savvy and an eye for finding common ground and addressing performance issues in a positive though firm manner.
• Has a visible drive for results, inspires others to strive higher and does not bind him/herself by functional and leadership level boundaries
Bringing a diverse mix of best and brightest talents to Maersk Line is critical to our continued success. That is why we uphold a meticulous screening process. The first step of the hiring process is for you to create your profile in our Maersk Careers website. If you find this role suitable to your experience and qualifications, start filling in your online application right away thru the links below:
https://jobsearch.maersk.com/jobposting/index.html?id=MA-235206
