Finance Business Partner

About us

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and have been industry pioneers for over a century. Through innovation and transformation we are redefining the boundaries of possibility, continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.

At Maersk, we believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organization reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve.

With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.

Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk.

About the role

An empowered position in Maersk’s Finance Business Partnering team for Logistics and Services mainly supporting processes around management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, performance management, deep dive analyses, generating solutions. In additional providing finance related business support to our DEPOT and Cargo Risk Management (CRM) product organization.

The team interacts primarily with stakeholders in the Product team as well as internal stakeholders in Finance. The Product team is overall responsible for the global Profit and Loss, the Product Strategy, Delivery and future product development.

As Finance Business Partner (FBP) you will have the opportunity to drive financial analyses, performance management and decision support to the Product leadership team. Your detailed understanding of the financial numbers combined with solid business knowledge will allow you to deliver performance insight, challenge current understandings and contribute to decision making within DEPOT & CRM.

As part of a dynamic finance community, you will be working closely together with the Regional and Area product teams. Further you will drive alignment with stakeholders in other Finance teams. You will be exposed to senior management and a truly global organization.

This role is based in Copenhagen with expectation around flexibility for business travel as per needs.

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs.

We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Key Responsibilities

The FBP is expected to drive key financial processes and operating system in close collaboration with stakeholders in the Product, Delivery, Finance and frontline Teams.

You will support their decision-making process and understanding of financials and performance by structuring and presenting key focus areas in management meetings, providing financial management information, deep dive analysis, performance management reporting and business cases.

Through close interaction with your stakeholders, you will understand their information needs and help them design and develop existing and new initiatives, report to stakeholders with clear business and financial insights and perform analyses of performance and trends to identify and suggest appropriate actions.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Drive accurate, timely and aligned reporting of financial, commercial and operational performance incl. KPIs with particular emphasis on loss making sites
• Provide forward looking and independently initiated analysis
• Support profitability analysis as a subject matter expert for given areas
• Contribute to, form business decisions and enable follow-up on such decisions including investments, customer tenders etc. Ensure governance and compliance to the global authority framework for Investment Proposals.
• Assist in assessing best alternative strategies and proving recommendations to the business
• Perform ad-hoc analysis and insights to business based on business need
• Drive continuous improvements including simplification of reports, analysis tools and automation of reporting
• Take part in Logistics and Services tasks and projects including input to external reporting

Who we are looking for

Ideally, you hold a Master’s degree in finance or economics combined with two to few years of work experience from analytical positions within finance, management reporting, financial planning and analysis, management and/or strategy consultancy, business development or equivalent.

You:

• Are result driven and have a strong logical and analytical capacity being well organized with high attention to detail
• Are a self-starter with a strong driving force and a “can-do” attitude, striving for continuous improvement and wanting to solve problems even if finding answers are not easy
• Are used to and enjoy working in a challenging, fast paced and changing environment dealing with a lot of different tasks at the same time
• Are skilled in Excel and PowerPoint, while experience from BI systems and SAP is a plus
• Past experience working within LnS Finance is an additional benefit but not a must.

Furthermore, you have:

• Great analytical skillset, challenger mindset, high drive and focus on personal development.
• Experience with management reporting, financial modelling and forecasting/planning
• A strong sense of urgency and drive to deliver quality in your work - all at the same time.
• Excellent Microsoft office software skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint for reports and presentations
• Strong English skills and can easily adapt to a multi nationality /cultural team

It will be an advantage for you to be outgoing/extrovert since you will be in contact with many different stakeholders. Furthermore, as the team is on a transformation journey, it is important that you are comfortable with changes and new ways of looking at our current work tasks.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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Work type:
Full time

Locations:
DK - Copenhagen