SME Finance Business Partner

Opportunity

As a company we believe in improving life for all by integrating the world by delivering a more connected and sustainable future for global logistics. Our vision is to be the Global Integrator of container logistics – connecting and simplifying our customer’s supply chain.

At Maersk, you will have an attractive career, in an ambitious, diverse and collaborative environment with the possibility of continuous professional and personal development, in a truly global organization. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performance teams.The Opportunity:

The role of the Finance Business Partner is to provide performance management, financial analytics and decision support to the Stakeholders working closely with the Twill/SME (Small Medium Cargo Owners) product organisation. In doing so they must leverage “One set of numbers” and establish a strong link between financial numbers and Commercial actions.

The Finance Business Partner is expected to provide insight and foresight that enables the Twill/SME Product organisation to consistently create value for customers and shareholders. The Twill/SME Product is the organisation's effort to create an attractive value proposition and as a Finance business partner we display a genuine sense of responsibility towards their cargo.

The Finance business partner, through the operating system must maintain and contribute towards an effective performance management framework and have a detailed understanding of the financial numbers as well as solid business knowledge. Through this he/she must challenge and contribute to more data driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

Finance Business Partner is expected to:

- Be responsible for supporting and engaging in business decision making for the Twill/SME product Org, by providing value-add analysis, management reporting, deep dive analysis, performance management reporting and financial forecasts.

- Understand the product life cycles and be able to provide insights for driving the performance.

He or She will be responsible for recurrent and ad-hoc analysis requiring business understanding and financial knowledge along with core activities that includes

P&L reviews:

- Thorough Understanding of the Product P&L and all the lines of cost and their drivers

- Good Understanding of the Allocation rules, resulting in the P&L

- Monthly Analysis of the Product P&L and explanation for variances

- Analyse the Revenues and Costs - Evaluate variances and one-offs

- Assistance towards performance management and Product Review meeting

- Recommend relevant inputs and Insights that can drive impact in the business.

- Forecasting / Budgeting - Volumes and Revenues and EBIT: a). Preparation of data for enabling twill product for accurate forecasts for volumes and rates; b). Challenge and validate the forecast/Budget Input for best estimates:

- Value Creating Initiatives: Work closely with Stakeholders to identify value creating opportunities.

– Business Intelligence initiatives such as

(a) Best Practice sharing

(b) Drive Initiatives /Standardization

(c) Cross functional co-ordination – FPNA, Product Organisation

- Understand and clearly articulate the present and future state of the Twill/SME business to enable data-based decision making.

- Being able to understand the business and identify value opportunities from the perspective of customers, verticals, segments, and products.

- Provide recommendations on course of action, through the different stages of the customer’s buying journey: planning, execution, and compliance.

- Support product development with relevant quantitative insights at each stage of the product’s life cycle. Holding the business to account with a structured framework for hypothesis testing, feasibility analysis and performance management on expected value creation.

- Be accountable for timely, high-quality and fit-for-purpose financial reporting and analysis, performance management (revenue, cost, commitments, estimates and forecasting etc.) to key stakeholders.

- Drives adoption and standardization of performance management tools for the Twill/SME portfolio aligning with the entire portfolio of Ocean Products.

- Ensure compliance to accounting principles for the Twill/SME product.

- Maintain governance of Operating System cycles for Twill/SME performance.

What We Are Looking For:

• Financial Analysis experience with a Master’s degree in Finance/Economics/Business, or with a professional accounting qualification
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• You are result-oriented and have a strong analytical skills with high attention to details
• You are a self-driven and striving for continuous improvement
• You are a strong team player with the ability to engage with and influence, guide and challenge multiple stakeholders