Maersk recruits 01 Area BCO Manager
Responsibilities
Guardian of the PnL and financial health
- Monitors and drives actions to ensure accurate gross profit is reflected in the PnL, at total entity/country level down to job/shipment level
- Coordinates improvements on upstream issues impacting job costing and financial transparency, working closely with FINOPS colleagues and ensure correct usage of approved material codes
- Actively oversees and drives improvements on financial risk and exposure originated from operational processes impacting receivables and payables
- Makes final validation of monthly accruals and overall result.
- Bridge between Operations and Finance
- Ensures file management controls are followed and that a proper mindset on Revenue Assurance and Standards is in place.
- Oversees key operational processes by ensuring quality, accuracy, completeness and timeliness of revenue and cost are updated in system by execution teams.
- Review the use of ‘to-be-deactivated’ and incorrect material codes & liaise with MMD team for support to switch to correct codes
- Perform Risk and Compliance assessment as required in the RICC Manual, within BCO scope. This also includes actively supporting effective resolution of audit findings.
- Local ICB&ICP anchor resolving open and aged items in line with the timelines.
Proactively prevent issues
- Discovers gaps in existing process to prevent negative impacts on PnL accuracy and financial health, avoiding potential audit findings.
- Identifies risks on new service offerings and processes and review with other functions to mitigate/reduce/avoid.
- Works together with CX in the implementation of new customers to avoid pitfalls in the future process to ensure customer satisfaction while safeguarding potential financial exposure.
Add value to the bottom line
- Act as business partner to CX/FINOPS and Area Management to identify and drive resolution of revenue/costs leakages
- Focus on loss making and underperforming businesses, providing insights on reasons behind it and solutions on how to turnaround
- Collaborate actively with CX/FINOPS to find improvements in upstream process which leads to lower financial exposure.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance/economics
- Thorough understanding of and 5+ years’ experience in the business to be able to drive performance and value.
- Strong understanding of processes within relevant products and services
- Result-driven, strong logical & analytical capacity
- Well organized with high attention to detail.
- Leadership experience
- Team player, can act with teams regionally, locally as well as the GSC
- Can work independently
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, strong integrity
- Experience working in a challenging, fast paced and changing environment dealing with a lot of different tasks at the same time.
- Skilled in written and spoken English and French (Portuguese will be a plus).
- TMFF, CUBE, FACT and BW knowledge will be a plus