Senior Finance Business Partner

At Maersk, we are on a revolutionary journey to simplify global trade, which will give us the chance to offer a major impact on the world economy, and on your career. At Maersk we want to be a true integrator of container logistics connecting and simplifying our customers supply chain through global end-to-end solutions. We need to ensure that the voices around our table reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve. If you believe you would add value to Maersk but dont meet all the criteria we have included in this advert, we would still love to hear from you. Please explain the value you would bring in your application.

If you're reading this, were guessing that something about this role caught your attention and that working with numbers, analytics, big data, forecasts, data based decisioning is your passion.

If you thrive being a trustworthy sparring business partner and are described as a superb team player, smart & tactical thinker, a detailed planner & a result-oriented person, then we may have a great opportunity for you.

The Senior Finance Business Partner supports our Procurement team across Africa to provide performance management, financial analytics and decision support. In doing so they must leverage One set of numbers and establish a strong link between financial numbers and operational actions.

The Finance Business Partner must maintain an effective performance management environment in the operations as well as an operating system that supports the cost leadership agenda and enables the operation team to timely identify gaps in performance.

With thorough financial & business knowhows, challenge & influence the performance and the decisions within the execution teams to ensure the right business decisions are pursued.

We Offer

A position in a fast-moving and constantly developing regional function with exposures to all functions within and across the Delivery Organisation

A challenging job with a steep learning curve in a truly international and diverse working environment

Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Value and Team based leadership

An open and engaging company culture

A wide range of international career opportunities

Key Responsibilities

Performance Management / Building Standard Operating System:

• Responsible for driving an effective performance management environment in the function enabling the leadership team timely identifying and correcting derailed performance for critical areas.
• Ensure the Maersk Operating system for performance management is active and highly practiced within the business teams
• Objectively assess the RCA tools, evaluate & implement needed process & checks framework
• Driving KPI deployment and target setting in close cooperation with other functional managers and FBPs
• Ensures the use of one set of numbers and improves the content of the performance dashboard part of the Visual Management System in close cooperation with the functional managers.
• Perform senior management reporting for various readers and prepares for monthly performance reviews with the Centre Operations leadership team.
• Encourages a problem-solving culture, equipping LOC with tools, standard data and training to solve challenges and opportunities effectively and strive for continuous improvements
• Produce relevant management reports, Gap analysis and co-create improvement plans with the assigned execution teams
• Driving usage of BI analytics to provide direction/decision support and assess trade-off between cost savings, efficient operations (SR + Utilization) and customer satisfaction (SVD);
• Co-driving KPI deployment and target setting in close coordination with head of Ocean Fulfilment and Head of Finance, ;
• Driving performance management for the relevant services in the geography balancing outcome KPIs;
• Timely identifying and correcting derailed performance for critical areas through action oriented framework;

Cost Controlling / Cost Conscious Mindset

• Understand the consolidated financial, operational drivers and the business development and take a role in challenging the figures.
• Strong understanding of the cost drivers with the operations and takes ownership, driving initiatives on cost mitigation
• Independent analysis to provide data and drive business decisions across multiple stakeholders and management levels.
• Challenge business case assumptions and ensure that a benefit realisation check is in place for all major business cases.
• Responsible for coordinating all cost saving programmes (e.g. SMARTOPS and Game Plan) and drives the follow up on these and ensure benefit realisation in the monthly report.
• Through analysis provide insights resulting in cost saving initiatives driven together with the other functions.
• Actively participate in the Operations finance community to learn & share best practices as needed
• Optimizing variable cost, ensuring cost recovery process is strengthened collaborating with Market FIN counter parts;
• Driving appropriate use of financial models for decision making process (network, port, etc.);
• Accountable for delivering and following up of Ocean financials (Budget, Monthly and FY process)

Partnering / Right Customer Centric mindset

• Collaborate with business teams to build solutions enhancing value offering for the right segment of customers
• Able to challenge & influence business decisions constructively with a customer centric mindset
• Balance the right mix decisioning between customer centricity & cost consciousness
• Identifying new creative ways to add value to the organization challenging the status quo;
• Driving smooth financial interaction between Ocean fulfilment team, Areas, Market & CD TbM teams and relevant Center functions;
• Actively participating in the relevant FBP community to learn & share best-practices as needed;
• Lobbying behind the scenes to build support for ideas and solicits the involvement of others to build ownership and buy-in;
• Analysing the wider business and political implications when making decisions, including the effectiveness of the outcome;
• Influencing decisions through presenting the right set of financials;
• Can be a substitute for leaders to drive business review meetings.

We're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or equivalent, with CA(SA) or CIMA.
• Minimum 5-7 years of related industry experience, preferably with costing and procurement expertise.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills combined with ability to condense detailed subject matter into clear and effective communications
• Ability to influence and drive change across multiple functional units
• Results oriented, drives issues to closure
• Possesses strong business knowledge
• Adaptable and able to keep the bigger picture in focus while navigating through a complex issue
• Ability to work both independently, as well as and as part of a cross-departmental team where innovative solutions are required.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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