At Hapag-Lloyd, you don’t have to set sail before setting course for your career. As one of the world’s leading shipping companies, we offer first rate career opportunities at more than 360 sites in around 125 countries. With more than 13,000 employees both on land and at sea we have the most diverse talent on board. As a team, we do everything we can to transport all kinds of goods from A to B. And we have been doing this for almost 170 years! How do we ensure the highest standards in terms of reliability, service, productivity and environmental protection? By forming a global team united by passion and state-of-the-art IT that brings everything and everyone safely into the harbour.
For our location in Tema we are looking for a
Area Financial Controlling Manager (m/f)
Responsibilities and Tasks:Brief Description
Responsible for of legal, tax, financial and risk management of third party agents(3PA) for West Africa.
Overall Responsibility
- Define and set targets to improve financial controls on business with 3PA
- Responsible for achievement of all targets in BA relating to 3PA
- Review and approve tax filing in relevant countries
- Raise alerts on changes in taxation and propose process / system amendments to mitigate cost exposure for HL
- Liaise with regional departments and 3PA countries for compliance on legal, contractual and taxation
- Is the point of entry for 3PA corporate audit pre and post audit
- Ensure Agency Agreements and Bank guarantees are updated and signed off in a timely manner
- Ensure Hapag-Lloyd revenue tariff properly maintain for 3PA country
- Responsible to follow up, close off of all audit queries
- To coordinate and report to corporate audit to confirm the closure of audit queries
- Implement and monitor processes to avoid the recurrence of audit findings together with introducing preventive processes to reduce and eventually eliminate audit findings
- Maintenance and timeous submission of Quarterly reports : Compliance, Risk Management, Tax Risk Assessment, Legal Contingencies
- Backup for BA Director to approval 3PA CPR and processes
- Work with all departments to proactively implement measure to prevent revenue leakage and overcharging on the Operational side
- Work with all department in 3PA country to ensure we comply with all Hapag-Lloyd policy and guideline
- Produce and maintain management report packs to constructively address matters of risk and possible financial loss
- Travel to 3PA countries for audit and face to face meetings
- Must escalate Area requirements to relevant stakeholders in order for Area to successfully meet our objectives and KPI’s
- Hold regular meetings with 3PA management, 3PA RME team and QSC
- Keep abreast of developments in CS, Sales, Ops to inform Management of impact of changes as well as ensure our processes
- Adhoc requests from Management
- Drive innovation to create meaningful reporting and to address critical topics
Requirements and Qualifications:
Technical Competencies
- Related Tertiary qualification
- Strong accounting and finance experience
- Strong internal audit and risk management experience
- Excellent understanding of HL business including local offices 3PA
- Excellent Excel skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to converse with stakeholders on many levels in the internal and external organization
Core Competencies
Personality
- Self Starter
- Confident in ability to address topics with different stakeholders
- Work independently
- Strong with recommendations and decision making
- Positive mind set
- Perseverance
- Analytical
- Solution orientated
- Open minded and adaptable
- Stake holder management
Conceptional and entrepreneurial thinking and action:
Innovative to understand the business and propose financial opportunities
Positive image to customers and colleagues:
- Fairly social thus maintaining healthy relationships within the different levels in the company
- Building a network of contacts within and outside the company
Interested? You can expect a responsible position in a worldwide operating company. Please send your complete application documents via email to the contact person indicated here, specifying your earliest possible starting date and your salary requirement.
Hapag-Lloyd AG
West Africa HR
westafricahr@hlag.com
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