Senior Finance Business Partner - Cape Town at Maersk Line

Key Responsibilities

Performance Management / Building Standard Operating System:

• Responsible for driving an effective performance management environment in the function enabling the leadership team timely identifying and correcting derailed performance for critical areas.
• Ensure the Maersk Operating system for performance management is active and highly practiced within the business teams
• Objectively assess the RCA tools, evaluate & implement needed process & checks framework
• Driving KPI deployment and target setting in close cooperation with other functional managers and FBPs
• Ensures the use of “one set of numbers” and improves the content of the performance dashboard part of the Visual Management System in close cooperation with the functional managers.
• Perform senior management reporting for various readers and prepares for monthly performance reviews with the Centre Operations leadership team.
• Encourages a problem-solving culture, equipping LOC with tools, standard data and training to solve challenges and opportunities effectively and strive for continuous improvements
• Produce relevant management reports, Gap analysis and co-create improvement plans with the assigned execution teams
• Driving usage of BI analytics to provide direction/decision support and assess trade-off between cost savings, efficient operations (SR + Utilization) and customer satisfaction (SVD);
• Co-driving KPI deployment and target setting in close coordination with head of Ocean Fulfilment and Head of Finance, ;
• Driving performance management for the relevant services in the geography balancing outcome KPI’s;
• Timely identifying and correcting derailed performance for critical areas through action oriented framework;

Cost Controlling / Cost Conscious Mindset

• Understand the consolidated financial, operational drivers and the business development and take a role in challenging the figures.
• Strong understanding of the cost drivers with the operations and takes ownership, driving initiatives on cost mitigation
• Independent analysis to provide data and drive business decisions across multiple stakeholders and management levels.
• Challenge business case assumptions and ensure that a benefit realisation check is in place for all major business cases.
• Responsible for coordinating all cost saving programmes (e.g. SMARTOPS and Game Plan) and drives the follow up on these and ensure benefit realisation in the monthly report.
• Through analysis provide insights resulting in cost saving initiatives driven together with the other functions.
• Actively participate in the Operations finance community to learn & share best practices as needed
• Optimizing variable cost, ensuring cost recovery process is strengthened collaborating with Market FIN counter parts;
• Driving appropriate use of financial models for decision making process (network, port, etc.);
• Accountable for delivering and following up of Ocean financials (Budget, Monthly and FY process)

Partnering / Right Customer Centric mindset

• Collaborate with business teams to build solutions enhancing value offering for the right segment of customers
• Able to challenge & influence business decisions constructively with a customer centric mindset
• Balance the right mix decisioning between customer centricity & cost consciousness
• Identifying new creative ways to add value to the organization challenging the status quo;
• Driving smooth financial interaction between Ocean fulfilment team, Areas, Market & CD TbM teams and relevant Center functions;
• Actively participating in the relevant FBP community to learn & share best-practices as needed;
• Lobbying behind the scenes to build support for ideas and solicits the involvement of others to build ownership and buy-in;
• Analysing the wider business and political implications when making decisions, including the effectiveness of the outcome;
• Influencing decisions through presenting the right set of financials;
• Can be a substitute for leaders to drive business review meetings.

We're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or equivalent, with CA(SA) or CIMA.
• Minimum 5-7 years of related industry experience, preferably with costing and procurement expertise.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills combined with ability to condense detailed subject matter into clear and effective communications
• Ability to influence and drive change across multiple functional units
• Results oriented, drives issues to closure
• Possesses strong business knowledge
• Adaptable and able to keep the bigger picture in focus while navigating through a complex issue
• Ability to work both independently, as well as and as part of a cross-departmental team where innovative solutions are required.