Maersk Hiring for Finance Business Partner Job at Karāchi Full Time

At Maersk, you’ll be part of a global team motivated by bringing food and commodities to people in every corner of the world. We do this through close partnerships with our valued customers, who trade everything from seafood and fruits, to clothes, electronics and cars! No matter our role in the Region our end goal is to simplify the lives of our customers. This is done through seamless processes, best in class digital solutions, and great customer service!

Our diverse team of passionate and dedicated colleagues are empowered and supported to grow by their leaders. We all have our customers in mind, in every action of our daily work life, and this is truly the key to reaching our target!

An exciting career opportunity in an international, challenging business setting characterised by high pace and diversity. You will get to focus on creating valuable relations with current and new customers and work with highly-professional teams in an environment where you will be valued, recognised and well-rewarded.

• Take an active role in designing plans for improving area performance and objectives on cross functional basis. Ensure high quality analytical support to support materialisation and tracking.
• Work with the Area Leadership Team (ALT) to proactively improve performance and create alignment between the overall strategy and actual performance.
• Based on standardized MOS data and rolling forecasts managed by the Financial Analysts in the same team, challenge shortfalls to target and opportunities for high performance with recommendations.
• Take an active part in the virtual WCA BP forum thereby ensuring that best practises are shared and applied in-order to constantly raise the bar for value adding FBP.
• Ensure decision making is based on robust data and underpinned by logical assumptions.
• Performance management: Support the Maersk Operating System / performance management framework of the Area (including HSUD), by the preparation of management updates for weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reviews, collaborating with fellow FBPs and Area functions to consolidate functional inputs.
• Sales target setting: Collaborate with fellow FBPs in the planning, preparation and cascade of targets for the local Area Sales teams (including HSUD) – and be accountable for timely, reliable and accurate data that provides visibility on actuals vs targets.
• Revenue / profit optimization projects: Conduct deep-dives on chronic revenue application / cost recovery gaps or profit maximization opportunities for local products and services, recommend actions to drive improvements and quantify impact of those actions e.g. Detention & Demurrage.
• Demand-Supply studies: Perform macro-economic analysis to provide demand-supply analysis, benchmarking key P&L metrics for local L&S products and liner surcharges, to help drive forward planning and performance management.
• Customer Profitability: Support the Area Sales teams in bringing full visibility on customer / channel performance and profitability for UAE area. Present recommendations to improve overall profitability.
• Best practices: Share and ensure local adoption of best practises across Areas, Regions and Centre including cross-regional work assignments and acting as a focal point for Region and Centre standardization initiatives.

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Economics [depending on the local market].
• Prior experience (minimum 3 years post qualification experience) within a business partnering environment, working as part of a business leadership team or in a consulting firm.
• Experience of working within a Sales, Product or Pricing or business development environment would be a clear advantage.
• Proven ability to initiate business improvement projects, influence without authority and confidently impact decision making with the area and region leadership.
• Keeps head cool under pressure and can deal effectively with ambiguity.
• Is innovative
• Strong interpersonal savvy and an eye for finding common ground and addressing performance issues in a positive though firm manner.
• Has a visible drive for results, inspires others to strive higher and does not bind him/herself by functional and leadership level boundaries.