Chief Financial Officer at APM Terminals

Details
In this position, the incumbent will have an opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge in the following areas:

• Experience in Strategy development and implementation with high ambitions.
• Leadership skills in leading a department of professionals.
• Experience in managing and transforming multiple locations and standalone businesses into a best in clash business.
• Experience in managing in a very volatile and challenging environment with high pressure, inflation and forex challenges

Purpose

• Leads the finance function for the APMT Nigeria through accountability of accounting, control & risk, planning and performance management and corporate governance.
• Establishes strategic planning and initiatives that support the development of the business.
• Finance business partner to the country management teamWorks with the APMT Finance organization to deliver superior outcomes on reporting, tax, treasury and compliance.
• Drives performance management to get to the best possible financial returns with a healthy balance between and short and long term views.

Key Responsibilities
Enable the business to maximize value from resources whilst ensuring compliance.

Ensure efficient Accounting processes:

• Responsible that business events with a monetary impact are correctly and timely recorded & reported in the relevant systems
• Requisition to Pay process
• Order to Cash process
• Accounting to Reporting process

Drive Planning & Performance:

• Responsible for supporting the business/functions by providing data-based insights including external benchmarks to enable strategic and operational decision making
• Drive Financial Planning & Analyses
• Drive Investment analysis
• Drive Business Strategy

Ensure Control and Risk framework:

• Responsible for ensuring the financial information is reliable, accurate and compliant with all legal requirements
• Responsible for a robust, risk-based internal control framework, enterprise risk management and fraud preventions
• Responsible for tax accounting, tax planning and tax compliance
• Responsible for management of monetary assets/liabilities and capital structure
• Responsible for globally aligned claims & insurance processes

Finance business partnering for the country and entity management teams:

• Based on APMT’s and the company vision, drive the entity business strategies and the finance functional strategy, and the implementation of same
• Lead on functional initiatives (e.g. Blueprinting, offshoring, system changes)
• Ensure uplifting of finance capabilities and processes, ensure effective and efficient finance function
• Responsible for business intelligence and analytics to support decision making
• Marked contribution in the Management Team of APMT Nigeria and the ownership of the financial results of the entities
• Complexity of environment depending on structure, business, geography and maturity of the markets.
• Stakeholder management with functional finance in HQ, the region, JV partners, board members and other external stakeholders.
• Inspire, manage, motivate and coach employees and foster interdepartmental communication and collaboration. Develop the finance talent pipeline

We Are Looking For

• Master degree in Finance, Accounting of Business Economics. Preferably Auditor / Accountant / Controller (ACCA, RA, CPA or likewise)
• 10-15 years of experience with Financial Business Partnering, or Controlling on Business unit or Group level.
• Business acumen and the ability to create profitable business.
• Expert knowledge of setting of budgets, reporting, inventory control systems and accounting.
• Understanding of the container shipping industry and an ability to relate with shipping company and other associated industry managers.
• Strategic mindset and ability to drive strategic initiatives.
• Ability to provide leadership, present insights, advise, influence and solve problems. Uses sound judgment and makes decisions based on accurate and timely analysis.
• Effective negotiation skills
• Ability to build relevant networks in the local market
• Able to communicate and manage well across all levels in a matrix organization
• Able to deal with ambiguity and relish environments that is constantly changing
• People leadership and experience in grooming talent
• Role model Collaboration, Customer orientation, Agility, People orientation.
• Resilient individual with experience working in challenging locations