Logistics and Services Accounting Manager at Maersk Line

Job Description

The opportunity we have, is for a Logistics and Services Accounting Manager who will be the anchor point for all accounting, compliance, and internal control related matters of all Logistics and Services (LnS) operations as well as the senior liaison between the frontline and various Global Service Centre teams for all matters relating to the Logistics and Services.

The scope of this role includes ownership of and providing insight into the Financial Statements for all LnS Projects, handling the relationship with external parties such as various Government authorities, and auditors, where relevant.  The accountant must ensure true and fair view of financials, project accounts as well as management accounts are published effectively. In addition, the LnS 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting and Finance

• Deliver credibility in numbers for all project accounts in liaison with various teams.
• 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).
• Responsible 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.

We’re looking for:

• Our ideal candidate will need to build trusted relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, so experience engaging with multiple stakeholder management is essential.
• We’re looking for an induvial that has a track record of influencing at various levels and leading without authority.  
• The ideal candidate must:
• Have a university degree in finance and CA(SA) or CIMA.
• At least 3 years finance experience in a similar role, within the logistics industry.
• Be able to work virtually with various teams across sites, to achieve desired outcomes.