Manager Finance & Accounting

Hapag Lloyd; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Hapag-Lloyd is hiring a Finance Manager in Saudi Arabia to oversee financial management, accounting, tax, legal, and banking activities. The role ensures liquidity, regulatory compliance, and timely reporting aligned with HQ requirements.

You will lead cash management, budgeting, audits, and project initiatives while coordinating with regional teams and external auditors. Prior experience with SAP S/4HANA is preferred and local regulatory knowledge is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and/or Financial Accounting.
• Master’s degree in Finance is an added advantage.
• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Accounting, Legal, and Tax aspects and ensure timely reporting and compliance.
• Manage banking relationships and day-to-day banking operations.
• Coordinate with Regional Finance and Tax Director on audits, tax matters and reporting to HQ.
• Attend monthly Trial Balance reviews and brief the Head of Department on key figures.
• Define internal payment protocols to promote automation and simplification.
• Verify manual payments and HLAG transfers in SAP and banking systems.
• Ensure monthly tax filing is completed and payments to tax authority are on time.
• Review contracts in Arabic, translate to English, and present for fast decision-making.

Skills

Financial analysis

Results oriented

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Admin/Financial Accounting

Master's degree in Finance (advantage)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

The Finance Manager is responsible for overseeing financial management, accounting, tax, legal, banking, liquidity, and regulatory matters. The role supports financial reporting, receivables management, budgeting, cash management, audits, and financial projects while ensuring compliance and alignment with regional and HQ requirements.

• Oversee the Accounting, Legal, and Tax aspects of the business and ensure timely reporting and compliance.
• Manage banking relationships with commercial banks to drive efficient cash management and oversee day-to-day banking business.
• Manage the arrangement of Bank guarantees to Ports and Terminals in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
• Coordinate with Regional Finance on accounting-related topics, the Tax Director for tax audit matters and payment approvals, and report Quarterly Tax, Legal contingencies, and Business risks to the Regional HQ.
• Attend the monthly Trial Balance review meeting with QSC GL team for HL Saudi and Jordan and brief the HOD on key figures and/or changes compared to the previous month.
• Define the internal Payment protocols to promote simplification and automation to the maximum.
• Responsible for verifying manual payments and HLAG transfers in HSBCnet and SAP.
• Monitor to ensure the tax filing is performed monthly and payments to the Saudi tax authority are released within the deadline, thereby avoiding any late penalties and potential tax inquiries.
• Review the legal contracts in Arabic, translate in English, present to the Department Head for fast decision-making.
• Oversee cash management and ensure the availability of liquidity to meet critical business payments to ensure business continuity and repatriation of surplus cash to HQ.
• Arrange the monthly meetings with the Yemen third-party agency, design the agenda, and follow on the action items consistently to maintain governance on financial matters.
• Responsible for verifying HR related payments and liaising with HR on staff loan deductions and EOS payouts.
• Responsible for ensuring that all the monthly reporting obligations towards Regional HQ are met on time.
• Dedicated PIC to follow up on receivables with top key credit customers whenever overdue are escalated to the Area office. Perform spot checks on the receivables from key credit customers and report any deviation from the contractual payment terms to the Department Head as and when they occur. Regularly liaise with GCC and the customer’s Finance department to reduce invoice errors and improve the payment turnaround for the collection.
• Validate the overhead vendor invoices in SAP as per the terms and conditions of the signed contracts.
• Act as a key point of contact for External auditors, oversee all audit-related tasks, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and assist the BA Finance Supervisor in the timely preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRS standards and comply with local requirements.
• Coordinate the new Projects rolled out by HQ, such as Payment Management, Auto banking, e-bank account management, and other Cash Management initiatives within the Area and track deliverables. Prepare a weekly project progress report for HODs’ review and tracking.
  Assist and oversee the Finance team in preparation of the Budget and Quarterly forecast of resources, Overheads, Detention & demurrage, and budget for IT Hardware and Own Office Investments, to ensure timely submission.
• Prepare the draft Board proposal for annual dividend distribution, update of bank signatories, any commercial matters, and provide qualified feedback to the department head to present the business case to Senior management for approval.
  Responsible for managing the relationship with third-party agents and business partners, arranging meetings, performing revenue and cost evaluation and processing monthly account statements within the set timeline.
• Responsible for liaising with Tax consultants to perform tax health checks for Saudi Arabia and Jordan companies.
• Drive consultancy negotiations with external Auditors, Tax, and legal consultants to optimize overall non-personnel costs, measure them against the budgeted consultancy costs and report variance analysis.
• Fully responsible for efficiently managing the financial transactions and business administration in the absence of BA Head. Represent the BA Head in Management meetings & back him up in off-site management meetings, if needed.
• Responsible for maintaining financial discipline on overhead costs and reporting deviations to the BA Head immediately with a proposal for corrective and preventive measures. Sharpen the focus on cost and maximize cost reduction.
• Responsible for complete end-to-end coordination with SAP 4 HANA project teams in the region and ensuring timely deliverables on Tax, Working Capital, and Cash management templates.
• Saudi Nationals Only
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Administration and/or Financial Accounting.
• Master’s degree in finance is an added advantage.
• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in a similar role.

Technical Skills

• Experience in financial analysis and management reporting.
• Knowledge of financial statements and income/expenditure analysis.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with accounting ERP systems; knowledge of SAP S/4HANA is preferred.

Leadership Skills

• Strong results orientation and ability to drive team performance.
• Ability to organize multiple activities and resources effectively.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to independently lead the team and manage priorities.