Finance Digital Solutions Manager

Wilhelmsen Ship Management; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilhelmsen Ship Management seeks a senior finance professional to lead SAP-based finance solutions and governance across our global fleet. You will drive lifecycle management of SAP Finance and SAP Analytics Cloud, standardize reporting, and engage stakeholders to deliver measurable business value.

Ideal candidates bring vessel accounting, corporate finance, and project leadership experience, with a strong data governance mindset.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience with finance processes and maritime operations.
• Experience with SAP Finance / SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Proven application management experience including lifecycle management and vendor collaboration.
• Strong data governance, master data and reporting standards.
• Excellent stakeholder management and change-adoption skills.
• Demonstrated project management.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable finance solutions across applications, integrations, data and reporting platforms.
• Drive lifecycle governance of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud and related finance apps.
• Drive finance data governance, data quality, owner ship and master data management.
• Standardize reporting platforms and ensure consistent definitions and KPIs.
• Promote adoption through stakeholder engagement and training input.
• Govern and oversee finance initiatives and related projects with clear scope and value.

Skills

Senior finance experience

SAP Finance

Stakeholder management

Change management

Project management

Solution architecture mindset

Tools

SAP Finance

SAP Analytics Cloud

ERP systems

Job description

Join our global team for a career filled with opportunities to solve challenges both small and large, local and global, simple and complex.

About Us

Wilhelmsen Ship Management is one of the world’s largest third-party ship managers originated from Oslo, Norway with a portfolio of more than 450 vessels, a pool of more than 14,000 seafarers and over 900 shore-based employees all over the world. Our employees are working with a comprehensive global maritime group providing over half of the merchant fleet with essential products and services, along with supplying crew and technical management to the largest and most complex vessels ever to sail.

We offer a culture and vibrant work environment of strong leadership, collaborative, career development, work-life balance and a job that is both challenging and stimulating. All team members are empowered with the freedom to influence each other as long it complies with our Company’s values and vision.

Main responsibilities and tasks

• Design scalable finance solutions across applications, integrations, data and reporting platforms, aligned with enterprise architecture principles and WSM’s growth ambitions.
• Drive the lifecycle governance process of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud and related finance applications, including roadmaps, support models, release management, standards, vendor performance and continuous improvement.
• Drive finance data governance, including data quality, clear ownership, master data management and consistent reporting.
• Standardize reporting platforms and promote consistent definitions, key performance indicators and single-source-of-truth principles.
• Drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, targeted communication, training input, super-user networks and improved finance data literacy.
• Govern and oversee WSM finance initiatives and related projects, ensuring clear scope, ownership, delivery, adoption and business value.

Mandatory requirements

• Senior-level experience and a strong understanding of finance processes, preferably including vessel accounting and finance, corporate finance and accounting, and maritime operational dependencies.
• Practical experience with SAP Finance, SAP Analytics Cloud or comparable enterprise finance and reporting platforms.
• Proven application management experience, including lifecycle management, release coordination, vendor collaboration and user-support models.
• A strong solution-architecture mindset and the ability to translate finance requirements into scalable digital solutions.
• Sound understanding of finance data governance, data quality, master data and reporting standards.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and change-adoption skills.
• Demonstrated project management experience.

Additional preferences

• Experience in ship management, vessel accounting, vessel OPEX management, procurement finance or other asset-intensive environments.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, analytics, integration or finance transformation initiatives.

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