The Senior Financial Controller provides enterprise-wide leadership and strategic oversight of the organization’s financial control framework, ensuring robust governance across accounting, Order-to-Cash (OTC), and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes. Operating at a senior management tier, this role not only addresses escalations but also drive policy implementation, and ensure all legal entities comply with it, drives global standardization, and ensures the optimization of working capital to support sustainable growth and operational efficiency.
The Senior Financial Controller is accountable for monitoring and analysing key financial performance metrics, delivering actionable insights to executive leadership, and strengthening visibility for regional and global execution teams. This role champions transformation initiatives, embeds best practices, and ensures compliance with corporate governance and regulatory standards. By leading without authority three GSCs verticals team, this role must ensure our license to operate and mitigates risk exposure and enable scalable performance across the enterprise.
This role should drive financial accuracy and accounting execution, aka, deep technical expertise in accounting cycles, especially related to reconciliations, month-end closing, to anchor the role in financial execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Explaining and driving mitigation of Balance sheet exposures: identify, monitor and solve, and report to the Regional CFO.
- Managing escalations of GSC matters (ATR- Accounting to Report/OTC - Order to Cash/ PTP - Procurement to Pay) performance and presenting solutions.
- Driving Working Capital Management.
- Monitoring performance, report and track of key performance indicators, including variance analysis, root-cause identification and impact quantification.
- Supporting execution team to enhance visibility to the business / stakeholders
- Identify and drive improvements
- Ensuring Company Compliance framework is followed.
- Close External and Internal auditors findings at legal entity level
- Drive Global Projects
- Indirect lead Product Controller (JL4)
- Lead the External/Internal audit exercise
- Lead audit (internal and external) Findings closing
- Investment proposal experience – CAPEX and OPEX
Teams' Objectives
- GSC Control Effectiveness
- ADL and DSO
- %OD
- DPO and POT
- Open AP Invoices
- Balance Sheet Exposure
- Zero External audit Findings (solve the existing and avoid new ones)
Required Experience & Skills
- Academic Background: Mandatory bachelor’s degree in accounting
- CPA certified
- 10+ years of experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in solving complex reconciliation breaks, unexplained variances, and accounting exceptions.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks/priorities
- Executive communication skills.
- ERP (Nice to Have SAP S4 Hannah/Fiori) and Excel proficiency
- IFRS knowledge, not only theoretical, but also ability to apply IFRS in day to day accounting scenarios.
- Big four experience
- Strong experience in risk mitigation and Internal controls
- Experience in Month, quarterly and yearly report performance and consolidation
- Senior Stakeholder Management
- Working Capital Management
- Continuous Improvement mindset (Maersk way)
- Leading without authority
- Detailed oriented
Change Management
English Level: B1-B2
Capabilities:
Processes ownership Communication (Storytelling) Partnering in a matrix organization (Accountability & Influencing) Business Acumen (Customer, Finance, Product, Industry, The Maersk Way)
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