Recrutement de 01 Area Accounting Manager

Recrutement de 01 Area Accounting Manager
Niveau d'études: Non précisé
Expérience: 5 ans
Expire le: 16-06-2022

Maersk Line
Cape Town, South Africa
Transports et logistique
Area Accounting Manager

Full time
ZA - Cape Town

Opportunité

Who are we:
Maersk offers exciting career opportunities in a truly international working environment. When you join Maersk, the world becomes your workplace. A career at Maersk means working in a culturally diverse, high-spirited and performance stimulating environment where everything we do is centered around our customers. You’ll be part of a rich heritage and an ambitious logistics company that aims to be an inspiring and challenging place to work. You will feel the diversity and dynamics of our international business from day one. We commit to providing the best possible development and career growth to all our employees. At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job.

The Area Accounting Manager will be the anchor point for all accounting, compliance and internal control related matters in the Area as well as the senior liaison between the frontline and various GSC teams.

The responsibilities of the Area 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. The Area Accounting Manager has to ensure true and fair view of financials and management accounts are published effectively. In addition, the Area Accounting Manager will need to be on top of governance, secure our license 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. The Area Accounting Manager will have to be a true Business Partner influencing decisions when it comes to business cases/ projects and as well as the tax and accounting requirements for future business cases.

We Offer:
A significant and strategic role in a large area where you will utilise your finance expertise to drive business decisions aimed at maximizing sustainable value creation

Through your leadership, you will gain an in-depth understanding of financial management from a leadership perspective, sharpen your commercial acumen and enhance your stakeholder management skills

In addition, you will have visibility and exposure in the area leadership and regional and global finance community for future career development within the Maersk Group

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting and Finance
Drive the collaboration with the various teams to achieve desired outcomes using the standard Maersk operating systems routines
Own and provide insight into the Financial statements
Review consolidated 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
Act as the focal point for all accounting and finance improvements (example: banking solution improvements, local accounting GAAP implementation in SAP etc)
Has responsibility for timely closure of books of accounts, reporting of financials, manages day to day accounting
Ensure that the year-end audit and preparation of the Annual Financial Statements is completed timely, and an unqualified audit report is issued

Compliance (Our licence to operate)
Maintain our license to operate, ensure we are a good corporate citizen and live up to our values and standards
Improve our external reputation and ensure we are in full compliance with all statutory obligations we have in the Area
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 and ensure that the Board Meetings are conducted in accordance with the local legal requirements
Take directions from the Tax team in ensuring compliance with tax regulations, optimising tax cost and managing tax risk.

Control framework
Drive a robust control environment which mitigates all material control risks in the Area
Ensure that any risks and control deficiencies raised by any Audit team are addressed timely by driving the required actions and improvements
Ensure that the control self-attestation is performed and reported correctly and is being performed consistently in an upright manner

Others
Be a role model for our values
Reinforcing APMM culture and values through leading by example
Good ideas and practices should be spread within the Area, Region and subsequently globally
To be involved in Due diligence and control reviews

Who we are looking for:
A financial educational background as MBA or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Tax or a Chartered Area Accounting Manager qualification
Prior proven experience (at least 5 years)
Can lead without authority
Stakeholder Management
Working remotely with various teams to achieve desired outcomes