Finance Controller

APM Terminals; Svendborg Kommune; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk Training is seeking a Finance Controller to join its central finance function in Svendborg, Denmark. You will be part of the finance team reporting to the CFO and collaborating with regional finance managers and the Shared Service Center in Chennai to drive group financial control and reporting.

The role emphasizes performance transparency, ad-hoc analysis, and continuous improvement, with opportunities to influence local Danish entity financials during onboarding.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in finance controlling.
• 2–4 years of auditing experience.
• Solid understanding of financial statements and cash flow.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to month-end and annual close with financial analysis.
• Prepare ad hoc analyses, business cases and management material.
• Collaborate with HQ Finance Partnering and SSC on performance and data.
• Support optimization of finance processes and master data.

Skills

Finance controlling

Auditing

ERP systems

Business Central

Process optimization

AI experience

Education

Master's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or similar

Tools

Business Central

Job description

We are looking for a strong Finance Controller to join Maersk Training's central finance function, based in Svendborg, Denmark. In the role you will become a key player in the Maersk Training Finance team with direct reference to our CFO and an important role in the global finance team, working closely with regional Finance Managers in our 5 regions, central Finance Business Partnering colleagues, and the skilled team in our Finance Shared Service Center in Chennai, India. The position combines group-wide financial controlling, ad-hoc analysis, and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, accountability, and business understanding.

Key Responsibilities

• Group finance controlling - As part of the month end and annual close processes, contribute to driving financial controlling and performance transparency across the Maersk Training Group, support consolidated reporting, variance analysis, and follow-up across entities, and ensure consistent financial logic, data quality, and comparability across regions.
• CFO support / right-hand role - Act as a trusted sparring partner to the CFO on optimization initiatives, ad hoc financial analyses and decision support, preparing ad-hoc analyses, business cases, and management material, also towards executive colleagues or as support to Board level discussions.
• Collaboration with HQ Finance Business Partnering - work closely with the Finance Business Partnering team in HQ to support performance management, forecasting, and strategic initiatives by translating business and operational questions into robust financial analyses.
• Collaborate with the Finance Shared Service Center in Chennai - on select issues of Master Data improvements, reporting quality, process alignment, and support continuous improvement of finance processes and ways of working across Regions, HQ and SSC by process analysis and as driver of optimization changes and simplifications of workflows.
• Optimization and efficiency gains are in focus for us and being pursued by improvement of processes and master data across finance processes and upstream business processes. A material role in this is also part of the position. Initiatives on the current active list includes implementation of PO process in BC, increasing use of BC functionality for bank reconciliations, improved processes across functions etc.
• As part of the onboarding there is also a unique opportunity to get a deeper hands-on insight into the Danish legal entity financials by being part of a paternity cover together with other HQ finance colleagues during the first 1-2 months, depending on joining date.

Key stakeholders

• In Finance - CFO, Finance Business Partners (HQ), Finance Shared Service Center (Chennai), Regional Finance Managers across our 5 regions
• In the wider organisation - Executive members of the Global Leadership Team

Professional background

• Strong experience within finance controlling, and/or 2-4 years as auditor
• Solid understanding of financial statements, performance management, and cash flow
• Experience from an international, multi-entity organisation is an advantage
• Solid insight into ERP and preferably Business Central, to ease understanding and prioritization of optimizations
• Experience with process optimizations and efficiency gains e.g. through AI will be a benefit

Personal characteristics

• High level of engagement and accountability - sees tasks through and follows up proactively
• Strong problem-solving mindset, able to independently pursue issues in collaboration with colleagues
• Structured, analytical, and pragmatic with the ability to operate in a dynamic environment
• Comfortable working across cultures and organisational boundaries

Education

• Master's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar

We offer

• A highly exposed role close to executive decision-making
• Broad responsibility across regions, functions, and finance disciplines
• Close collaboration with Finance Business Partnering and Shared Services
• A strong platform for professional and personal development within group finance, in an exciting period of change for Maersk Training, from industrial ownership to PE ownership

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world. For more information click here. All the way.