Maersk Group has five core businesses which include Maersk Line, APM Terminals, Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling and Services and Other Shipping. Through these companies and several others, the Group employs roughly 89,000 people and generated 47 billion US dollars in revenue in 2013. When the Global Service Centres (GSC) was established in 1999, the main focus was to provide off shoring opportunities and solutions to the shipping and logistics business units of the Maersk Group, particularly for Maersk Line. But as the GSCs’ competencies grew, other business units of the Group also started migrating their processes to the Global Service Centres. The GSCs are located in Manila, Philippines; Chengdu, China; and Pune, Chennai, Mumbai in India handling the service delivery and business relationship management for Maersk Group business units.

Finance & Accounting, a core function of a business that requires talents to manage business accounting from its basic entry to analytical process upto sophisticated financial reporting. We require people with career development-oriented to join this profession.

We Offer - 

As an employee with Maersk GSC you will be part of a working environment as diverse as the APMM group. Maersk strongly encourages continuous learning at work and sharing of best practices by rewarding innovations. We aren’t all about work, we believe in a holistic development of our employees and so regularly organize recreational activities giving our employees a chance to unwind and showcase their creative side. As an organization we strongly believe in a people-centric approach with emphasis on employee engagement and work-life balance.

Key Responsibilities - 

Ownership of rates and contracts - 

• Maintain full rate and contract repository for the region
• On a day to day basis liaise and conclude on rates for new vendors
• Liaising/escalating to ensure rates are available before expiry 
• Pro-actively follow-up of the rates that are about to expire in 3 months
• Ensure completeness of available rates and contracts in the system

Updating in the financial system - 

• Updating rates and contracts in the financial system 
• Where rates are tiered rates, then monitor continuously to ensure updates are done based on volume
• Ensure for specific expenses contracts and relevant formulas are updated in financial system

Dashboard - 

• Prepare and publish dashboards on rates analysis
• Compare and analyse different vendors in different terminals and come up with cost optimization ideas.
• Prepare high impact reports on areas of cost leakage due to incorrect usage of rates.

Stakeholder management:

1. Role will be reporting and liaising closely with the local procurement team
2. Be a part of procurement discussion with vendor on rates disputes.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Performance against Key Responsibilities will be measured based on separate KPIs developed for the position. These will be established and agreed upon within the overall KPIs that are determined for the business Unit.

Indicative performance measurements are:

Percent of rates updated in financial system

Percent of contracts and rates available in the repository.

Who we are looking for - 

Technical skills:

• Bachelor / Master Degree holder in procurement/supply chain management

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel/Word

• Excellent Communication Skills with good English speaking knowledge.

• Demonstrable track record in a similarly complex and challenging role.

• Good understanding of terminal and shipping costs and prior experience in shipping industry is an added advantage

Soft skills:

Key requirements (in addition to normal qualifications) - 

• Thrives on challenges, acts with a sense of urgency

• Ability to handle multiple countries, has worked in different cultures. 

• 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.

Position Specifications:

• Job Knowledge & Competency; 

• Understand the Operational business processes across Maersk business

• Basic knowledge of Reporting concepts internally and externally

Learning description of the role:

• SAP

• Maersk specific systems and working knowledge of the systems.