Job Description
• Provide financial information and services as enablers to effective business management
• Member of the regional leadership team
• Lead, manage and develop the finance organization
Essential job tasks:
• Ensure that the commercial organisation receives necessary support and is challenged by the function.
• Ensure that local finance and control are complete, accurate and timely in line with global guidelines and local laws and regulations
• Ensure that the cooperation between the team and the cluster is smooth and effective.
• In cooperation with hq and the other functions to optimize opportunities for the working capital
• Report financial figures timely and correctly
• Develop an efficient, competent, integrated and motivated finance organisation
• Establish and maintain an appropriate control environment across functions
Objectives of the position:
• Achieve targets as defined yearly
• Ensure at all times that financial activities meet global requirements and local regulations
• Develop a financial organisation capable of delivering the targets
Learning opportunities:
Financial management
Development of leadership skills
The position will require the candidate to perform as a leader in the following role:
- Optimize the organization
- Align objectives with business strategy
- Delegate and follow up
- Assess and hold direct reports accountable for both their leadership and functional roles
- Manage boundaries and allocate resources between teams
- Overlook management of the team and ensure support to commercial KPI’s
Functional Capabilities:
Operational mindset
- Ensure reliable and efficient performance
- Constant and sustainable delivery
- Maintain focus, prioritise and deselect tasks
- Identify opportunities and risks and act upon
Functional Mindset and Expertise
- More than knowledge and experience
- Manage and act in complexity
- Understand the totality of the system including sub processes
- Identify key change factors
- Drive Finance functional excellence
- Ensure standardisation and best practice within Finance
- Develop the local finance organisation
Contingency Management
- Anticipate and identify bottlenecks and mitigate risk
- Contingency Planning
- Scenario building
- Not afraid of hands on approach
Give Authority
- Drive accountability
- Set the targets
- Ensure support
- Identify and coach talent
- Delegate and empower
- Drive accountability through the 7 questions
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will be a person who naturally takes charge of the finance challenges, anticipates problems and pro-actively seeks out solutions, whilst also driving the day-to-day operational requirement of the job. Is abreast of and involved in the development of the shipping industry, the local market and is customer oriented. The candidate is expected to play a strong role as a business partner in the management team and also in ensuring the best interests of the cluster.
We are looking for a dynamic leader who through effective networking and sound commercial acumen can take finance to the next level.
