Recrutement de 01 Accounting Manager

Recrutement de 01 Accounting Manager
Niveau d'études: Non précisé
Expérience: 5 ans
Expire le: 27-02-2022

Maersk Line
Maputo, Mozambique
Mozambique Accounting Manager

Maersk
Maputo, Mozambique
Finance/Accounting
Last application date: 27 Feb 2022

Opportunity
The Accounting Manager will be the anchor point for all accounting, compliance and internal control related matters in Mozambique as well as the senior liaison between the frontline and various Global Service Centre (GSC) teams.

The responsibilities of the Accounting Manager include ownership of and providing insight into the Financial Statements, and handling the relationship with external parties such as various Government authorities, and auditors, where relevant. In addition, the Accounting Manager will need to be on top of governance, secure our licence to operate, ensure robust internal controls and protect and enhance our external reputation.

The role entails building a trusted relationship with key internal and external stakeholders, leading without authority and working remotely with various teams to achieve desired outcomes.

We offer
We offer you an exciting global career at the forefront of world trade. Working with the best people in a global team culture with future growth opportunities in an industry that has a significant impact on the world economy.

We’re proud of our people who define our company’s industry leadership, global team culture and customer-centric focus every day.
When you join our team you join a truly diverse, global organization in a fast-moving, values-based, work environment where you can grow on the job, create and shape our digital solutions, tap into industry-leading talent development initiatives, enjoy working with your colleagues and broaden your world view through our international job postings. We offer competitive compensation and benefits.

Maersk is uniquely positioned to play a significant role in global trade, creating opportunities that help countries, companies and people succeed. Our vision is simple: Maersk is the global integrator of container logistics, connecting and simplifying our customers’ global supply chains.

We do this through the global scale of Maersk, the world’s largest shipping line; our Logistics and Services expertise that help customers manage their global supply chains; and through our port operator, APM Terminals, one of the largest container terminal operators in the world with the most strategic locations to serve global supply chains.

Join us and play an important role on our team lifting global trade every day!

Key responsibilities

Accounting and Finance
- Drive the collaboration with the various accounting and finance teams to achieve desired outcomes
- Own and provide insight into the Financial statements
- Ensure that all ageing open items and exposures on the Balance Sheet are identified in a timely manner and are sufficiently mitigated by driving appropriate actions with the relevant parties
- Drive the delivery of working capital across the country in close collaboration with GSC wherever applicable, including effective follow-up on any trapped/restricted cash balances in the country
- Act as the focal point for all accounting and finance improvements within the country (example: banking solution improvements, local accounting GAAP implementation in SAP etc)
- Ensure a timely book-close where still managed locally and in close collaboration with the GSC where already offshored
- Ensure that the year-end audit and preparation of the Annual Financial Statements is completed timely in conjunction with the GSC and an unqualified audit report is issued for all entities within the country
Compliance (our License to operate)
- Maintain our license to operate, ensure we are a good corporate citizen and live up to our values and standards
- Engage with local authorities as needed (example: agency licenses, reporting requirements, foreign exchange control)
- Be accountable for the timely preparation and distribution of the Board Meeting material for the country and ensure that the Board Meetings are conducted in accordance with the local legal requirements
- Take directions from the Regional Tax team in ensuring compliance with tax regulations, optimising tax cost and managing tax risk in the country

Control framework
- Drive a robust control environment which mitigates all material control risks in the country
- Ensure that any risks and control deficiencies raised by regional controlling team and group Internal audit are addressed timely by driving the required actions and improvements
- Ensure that the control self-attestation the country is performed and reported correctly and is being performed consistently in an upright manner
- Timely and comprehensive investigation of all fraud cases and incidents raised on the whistle-blower site for the country in conjunction with regional controlling team and group Internal audit, and drive actions required for closure and recovery of loss
- Conduct Fraud Vulnerability Assessments and fraud awareness training in conjunction with regional controlling team and group Internal audit, and ensure all material risks identified are sufficiently mitigated by driving required actions

We are looking for
- A financial educational background as Master’s degree in Finance, Tax, Accounting or a Chartered Accountant qualification
- Prior proven experience (at least 5 years) in a similar function
- Can lead without authority
- Stakeholder Management is paramount in this role
- Experience with working remotely with various teams to achieve desired outcomes is required
- Fluent in Portuguese and English

Additional Info
Ref. MA-315635


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 70,000 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.
All the way.