Maersk - Finance Business Partner - Operations

An excellent opportunity for candidates looking to build a career with the world's largest shipping line.

Financial Business Partnering, changing face of Finance, aims at improving the effectiveness of Finance teams through actively supporting business.

We Offer :

- Thorough understanding of internal profitability drivers of Maersk Line and Safmarine

- Improved understanding on how to influence performance across functions

- Improved knowledge of financial impact of commercial decisions

- Stakeholder Management

- Cross functional exposure

Key Responsibilities:

- Take an active role in designing plans for achieving cluster performance and objectives on cross functional basis. Ensure high quality analytical support for Must Win Battle materialization.

- Work with cluster leadership team and in particular the Operations Manager as well as Liner Operations Cluster to proactively improve performance and create alignment between the overall strategy for Operation and Cluster execution

- Based on standardized Maersk Line Operating System data, act as a facilitator to analyse and challenge performance, ensure shortfalls in performance and opportunities for high performance are uncovered and that robust benefit tracking is in place.

- Take an active part in the virtual business partnering forum thereby ensuring that best practises are shared and applied in order to constantly raise the bar for value adding Finance Business Partnering

- Ensure decision making is based on robust data and is underpinned by logical assumptions

Deliverables will focus around:

- Inland profitability: Analysis of inland profitability and develop an understanding of how profitability is dependent on end to end profitability to quantify the value of any trade-offs being made

- Cost recovery: Ensure highest possible cost recovery where applicable.

- Utilization: Analysis of utilization of fixed commitments such as block trains, trucking, feeders etc. including schedule reliability

- Gameplan: Arrange and facilitate cost workshops with the Operations team to create action plans on how to meet and exceed targets

- Business cases: Participate in preparation of business cases in cross functional collaboration with other business partners and functional managers

- Financial Business Reporting analysis and identification of behavioural impact on costs such as development in equipment stocks, empty flows etc.

- Target setting: Participate in annual Gameplan target setting for Operations and ensure that both short- and long-term strategic priorities are catered for

- Performance management of agreed upon actions to ensure that each action can be measured on a concrete outcome be it savings, additional revenue etc.

- Maersk Line Operating System: Responsible for providing the required data and analytics for weekly/monthly flow of MLOS including Operations Performance Reviews. Communicate performance throughout the organization using standard global reports to ensure everyone has the same understanding of operational performance. Ensure standardized reporting landscape is in place and applied on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

- Best practices: Share and ensure local adoption of best practises across Clusters, Regions and Centre including cross-regional work assignments and acting as a focal point for Region and Centre standardization initiatives.

The ideal candidate possesses following skills:

- Master's or Bachelor's degree in Finance or Economics. ICWA qualification/specilaised degree in Cost Management is preferred.

- Prior experience (6 - 8 years post qualification experience) within a business partnering environment, working as part of a business leadership team or in a consulting firm

- Experience with Operations is a clear advantage.

- Proven ability to influence without authority and engage confidently with leaders at all levels

- Keep 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