Area Head of ATR and Financial Controlling, WAF

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Job Summary

Job Description

This role is responsible for ATR service delivery and financial controlling for the WAF Area. Key responsibilities include supporting strategies, ensuring process compliance, maintaining financial data integrity, strengthening controls, and managing a team. The role involves reviewing financial statements, ensuring IFRS/OHADA GAAP compliance, and supporting audits. It requires strong stakeholder management and leadership skills within a matrix organization.
Must have:
  • Support strategies and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
  • Ensure ATR service delivery to stakeholder group.
  • Follow and challenge process standards for efficiency.
  • Ensure financial data integrity and conduct GL scrutiny.
  • Strengthen process controls and compliance.
  • Conduct performance management and suggest improvements.
  • Review monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations and identify exposures.
  • Review monthly NOPAT and explain variances.
  • Review Trial Balance for correct reporting.
  • Apply expert knowledge of IFRS/OHADA GAAP.
  • Support all types of audits.
  • Drive NFTP implementation and enhancements.
  • Participate in global/regional projects.
  • Manage, coach, and lead a team, driving engagement and career planning.
  • Facilitate functional and technical training.

Job Details

This role will be responsible for a variety of the following areas:

Key responsibilities

  • Supporting strategies, adding value, maintaining close and strong relationship with stakeholders.
  • Has responsibility for entire ATR service delivery to stakeholder group.
  • Following standards and ensure we are process compliant. Equally important is to challenge the standards that will lead to further efficiencies in the processes.
  • Ensure Financial Data integrity of books of accounts. Conduct GL scrutiny at regular interval and ensure data accuracy
  • Strenthen process controls and compliance execution
  • Conduct periodic performance management and suggest improvement areas for implementation
  • Review monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations, identify probable financial exposures, and take appropriate action
  • Review monthly NOPAT, and provide explanation for significant variances
  • Review Trial Balance as part of monthly Book Close, and ensure correct reporting
  • Expert knowledge of IFRS/ OHADA GAAP for the relevant country in the area and ensure compliance
  • Support all types of Audit (Statutory, Tax, and Govt., Internal etc.)
  • Drive NFTP implementation & enhancements for WAF Area entities as per project plan
  • Participate/ contribute in global/ regional projects
  • Manage, coach and lead a team, drive top-quartile team engagement, conduct MPACT conversations, actively engage in team’s career planning and progression, etc.
  • Facilitate required functional and technical training to team including on OHADA and French language

Primary internal stakeholders

  • Area Head of Finance/ Area Finance Controller
  • Regional Controller/ Regional Controlling team
  • Area FBP
  • BCO & Finops teams
  • Treasury
  • Respective Area Leads in OTC/ PTP
  • ATR teams in HQ/ CoE

Primary external stakeholders

  • Statutory Auditors
  • Tax consultants

Required qualification, experience & skills

  • Professionally qualified – CA/ CPA/ CMA/ ACCA or equivalent
  • Strong knowledge of OHADA/ IFRS
  • 12-15 years experience in core accounting roles
  • Experience in managing senior stake holders - ability to explain financial data and conclusions based on them to stakeholders with non-financial background.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate cross functionally and in a matrix organization.
  • Experience in managing audit.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to lead people successfully through transformation within the organization and to embed new ways of working

Required Business/ Technical Knowledge

  • Understanding of container logistics business – esply. Maersk setup (Ocean Agency, LnS ex-Damco/ Inland Services, Liner business)
  • Working knowledge of French Language
  • Strong knowledge of SAP, OneStream, Blackline, MS Office tools
  • Thorough understanding of compliance requirements
  • Working knowledge of LnS CUBE, Aspire etc.
  • Touchpoints to Tax, TCB, ICP, Transfer Pricing.

Key measures

  • Monthly on-time book close, ensure completeness of group deliverables, etc
  • Completion of audits as per agreed timelines
  • Support and manage process changes without any impact to process deliverables

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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About The Company

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world.

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