Operations Finance Business Partner at Maersk Line

Maersk Line is the world’s largest container shipping company, known for reliable, flexible and eco-efficient services. We operate 610 container vessels and provide ocean transportation in all parts of the world. But not only do we power some of the world’s largest ships – we also propel the growth ambitions of businesses and individuals all over our planet. Every day our 7,000 seafarers and 25,000 land-based employees at 374 offices share their expertise with our customers

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Operations Finance Business Partner

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Maersk Line are looking to hire a dynamic Operations Finance Business Partner based in Lagos, Nigeria.
• This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team of professional finance specialists working with Maersk Transport and Logistics entities across Africa.

Key Responsibilities

• Inland profitability: Analysis of inland profitability and develop an understanding of how profitability is dependent on E2E profitability to quantify the value of any trade-offs being made.
• Cost recovery: Ensure highest possible cost recovery where applicable i.e. EMR, Foodgrade etc.
• 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 Operation team to create action plans on how to meet and exceed targets.
• SGA: Prepare monthly SGA reports whilst analysing cost drivers and implementing cost saving initiatives.
• Business cases: Participate in preparation of business cases in cross functional collaboration with other business partners and functional managers.
• FBR analysis and identification of behavioural impact on costs such as development in equipment stocks, empty flows etc. In addition, the business partner is the super user of FBR CM.
• Target setting: Participate in annual Gameplan target setting for operation and ensure that both shortand 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.
• MLOS: Responsible for providing the required data and analytics for weekly/monthly flow of MLOS including OPRs.
• Communicate performance throughout the organization using standard Tiger and 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 practices across Clusters, Regions and Centre including cross-regional work assignments and acting as a focal point for Region and Centre standardization initiatives.

Requirements
We are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Economics,
• Professional accounting qualification or Masters in finance related discipline,
• Prior experience (minimum 3 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 an advantage
• Proven ability to influence without authority and engage confidently with leaders at all levels
• Stakeholder management

We Offer

• This role will afford opportunities to work and communicate with multiple AP Moller-Maersk entities in different jurisdictions to enable you build global exposure and strong professional network.
• This is also a unique opportunity for candidates to gain industry experience that comes with working for a world class conglomerate that is active in the transportation and logistics industrial sector.

Application Closing Date
5th February, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online