Business Controller

Damco Spain SL; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Business Controller to govern monthly P&L close, maintain clean accounting records, and monitor finance health metrics across multiple countries. You will collaborate with the customer experience team and management to optimize profitability of the SCM products.

The role requires accounting/finance expertise, strong Excel/BI skills, and fluent English. Experience with SAP and BI is advantageous, with a dynamic, cross-cultural, multinational environment.

Qualifications

• Accounting/finance degree and accounting experience.
• Basic knowledge of reporting concepts internally and externally.
• Problem solving.
• Microsoft Excel proficiency; Power BI is a plus.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• Experience with SAP & BI is advantageous.
• Logistics experience is a plus.
• Thrives on challenges with urgency and accountability.
• Able to work across multiple countries and cultures.

Responsibilities

• Provide governance and control over monthly P&L closing.
• Ensure clean file management and track finance health metrics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize product profitability.
• Create transparency on profitability at job, customer and area levels.
• Perform job costing analyses and enforce costing controls.
• Support profitability/margin analysis and daily gross profit reviews.
• Drive upstream process improvements and standard governance.
• Engage with business partners to meet requirements.
• Lead improvement projects across a multinational organisation.

Skills

Accounting degree

English communication

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

SAP

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Responsibilities

The Business controller will provide governance and control over monthly profit and loss closing, oversees clean file management, monitors and drives finance health metrics by working with relevant key stakeholders. Ensures balance sheet accounts are clean by proper upstream process and backlog prioritization. Work with customer experience team and management and financial stakeholders to optimize profitability of the products.

• Responsible for creating transparency on profitability at job, customer and Area level for Lead Logistics (SCM) product.
• Perform job costing analysis and ensure job costing controls are followed and that a proper mindset on Revenue Assurance and Standards is in place.
• Active member of the Business Controlling team, bridging upstream process and financial control.
• Collaborate with all cross functional teams, break the barrier to maintain financial hygiene
• Drive key finops processes by ensuring accuracy and timeliness of job costing process.
• Support profitability/margin analysis, review gross profit of jobs daily with the goal that every job shows the most accurate gross profits according to buying/selling rates.
• Contribute to, form business decisions and enable follow-up on such decisions including margin improvements.
• Implementation of upstream process improvements in line with the Standards and Controls
• Ensure finance governance in new and existing customer onboarding/implementation
• Constantly engage with the business partners in listening & understanding their requirements and ensure that they are met.
• Own and drive improvement projects, collaborate with other Business Controllers in executing projects of global nature, drive a culture of continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

• A professional with accounting/finance degree and working experience in accounting
• Basic knowledge of Reporting concepts internally and externally
• Problem solving
• Must be good in Microsoft Excel, power BI would be an added advantage
• Must be good with communication skills, particularly in English
• Working experience in SAP & BI, would be an added advantage
• Experience in logistics business would be an added advantage.
• Thrives on challenges, acts with a sense of urgency
• Ability to handle multiple countries, has worked in different cultures. Embraces ambiguity and drives a win -win situation
• Able to combine commercial knowledge and technical financial expertise
• Ability to work as part of a large multinational organisation, capable of influencing and understanding global view
• Strong interpersonal skills particularly motivational and communication skills
• Dynamic in nature and be prepared for robust changes happening in accounting and reporting department, be flexible to move roles

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