Finance Business Partner - Deployment & Network Cost

Do you want to play a key role in a challenging and engaging workplace, providing excellent learning opportunities within the global market leader of container logistics?

We Offer

Our vision is to be the Global Integrator of container logistics - connecting and simplifying our customers' supply chain. Key to this is the industry’s largest, most reliable, and most cost competitive network to all markets.

You will be part of Ocean Network Product Finance, a diverse and motivated team which plays an active role in the transformation of the Ocean Business and optimization of our Network. You will partner with the Global Deployment Team and wider Ocean Network Product Team driving capacity and network cost optimization and contributing to uplift our customer outcome by deploying reliable, efficient, sustainable, and innovative Network solutions.

As a finance business partner, you will enjoy being close to the execution of our strategy, influencing the outcomes in a direct and sustainable manner. This role will give you the opportunity to contribute to decisions which optimize our Ocean Network, which have a significant impact on the financial performance of Maersk’s Ocean business.

You will thrive in an environment professionally and culturally engaging, with highly skilled colleagues from different nationalities working in our headquarters, as well as with finance and business colleagues in our offices across the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Performance management/ Management Reporting: Drive accurate, timely and aligned reporting of financial and operational performance indicators for monthly close and forecasting, incl. KPIs and ad-hoc analyses. Act as the analytical anchor point for Network cost and capacity performance reviews, drive follow ups and gap to plan closure. Challenge the network decisions and drive efficiency across the finance team
• Focal point for utilization reporting, for monthly, forecasting and ad hoc.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Responsible for coordinating and executing the quarterly rolling forecast within the Deployment and Network cost scope.
• Partnering: Contribute to form business decisions and enable follow-up. Assist in evaluating alternative scenarios and providing recommendations to the business. Perform ad-hoc analysis and insights to business based on business need.
• Coordination/Collaboration: Maintain close connection with wider Ocean Network Finance and Network Cost community (Fleet Finance and TbM Operations Finance).
• Continuous improvement: Drive simplification of reports, analytics tools and automation of reporting for capacity and network cost performance management
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

• The ideal candidate for the role will have a background in high-impact finance roles, with a previous experience with contributing to business results through financial insights.
• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business Administration combined with at 5+ years of experience in Finance Business Partnering, Project Management, Strategy Consultancy or equivalent.
  
  

Key competencies are:

• Effective collaboration and open communication skills, enabling engagement and influence on multiple stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Proven analytical and logical capacity, being able to zoom in on the relevant details, while never losing sight of the big picture. Conveying insights extracted from data into concise, commonly understood business language for effective decision-making. Working with large sets of data is a must as well as being an experienced user of excel.
• You have great interpersonal skills, strong integrity and a humble personality that goes well with people at all levels in a global organization.
• Experience from the Shipping or Logistics industry are an advantage.
  
  

To achieve goals in our team, we are looking for a motivated person with a growth mindset, constantly developing your skills through learning from experiences, from others and from trying new things.

You are skilled in written and spoken English.

Danish is not 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, colour, 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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