Financial Analyst - Pune - A P Moller Maersk

Description

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated logistics company dedicated to connecting and simplifying supply chains, enabling global trade, and helping our customers grow. Our financial strength and insightful performance management are crucial to our strategic direction and operational excellence. We are committed to data-driven decision-making to optimize profitability across our diverse global segments.

Position Summary:

We're looking for a highly motivated Financial Analyst to be an integral part of our Regional Ocean / TbM Ops Finance & Procurement Business Partnering team within the Reporting & Analysis Centre of Excellence. You'll be responsible for delivering timely, high-quality analysis to support critical decision-making across regions, countries, and products. This role demands strong financial acumen and business partnering skills to drive performance, support continuous improvement, and ensure financial clarity in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Analysis for Decision Making: Provide timely and high-quality financial reporting and analysis to key stakeholders, proactively delivering value-added analysis, financial information, and performance management reporting.
• Budget & Rolling Forecast (RoFo) Coordination: Execute local processes aligned with global guidance for budgets and RoFo. Translate central and regional plans into actionable requirements for Area and Regional Teams, coordinating across functions and Financial Business Partners (FBPs) to ensure comprehensive inputs.
• Performance Transparency: Provide clear transparency on cost performance, including FTE and productivity metrics, at both product and granular levels.
• Value Creation & Complex Problem Solving: Act as a trusted partner to Regional Operations and Procurement Finance, driving value creation. Solve complex challenges by accurately identifying underlying factors and considering the broader impact of proposed solutions on wider decision-making.
• Special Projects & Continuous Improvement: Coordinate and conduct analysis for Central and Regional projects/requests, collaborating across functions. Proactively seek opportunities to improve analysis, reports, run simulations, and deepen business knowledge.
• Reporting & Communication: Build compelling storylines and consolidate explanations (Area, Region, LnS/MCL/Ocean, SG&A). Communicate changes to business rule governance and financial/business data definitions.
• Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) Performance: Support SG&A performance management at the product level, providing clear visibility on SG&A, FTE, and productivity.
• Best Practice & Standardization: Share and actively promote the adoption of best practices, driving improvement and uptake of standard reporting and insights produced within the CoE.
• Monthly & Quarterly Deliverables: Coordinate monthly and quarterly Management Operating System (MOS) deliverables, ensuring all inputs are prepared, validated, consolidated, and submitted on time. Engage with business and finance stakeholders at the area or regional level (per product) to ensure timely and quality input.
• Analytical Anchor Point: Act as the analytical anchor point for performance reviews and drive follow-up actions.

Accountabilities:

• Ensuring respective product(s) meet all process obligations for target setting, RoFo, and business performance on Operations & Procurement deliverables (VUC / Savings game plan / SG&A / Productivity / Health metrics / Cost recovery).
• Ensuring respective product(s) meet all business plan submission deliverables on the savings game plan.
• Providing accurate, timely, and relevant business information, including for ad hoc requests.
• Delivering routine and bespoke analysis.
• Driving and implementing standardization initiatives.

Consulted About:

• Financial data insights, RoFo, budgeting, business planning, and forecasting processes and analysis.
• Performance management insights on Operations and Procurement financial metric deliverables (VUC & Gameplan).
• SG&A insights and cost improvement opportunities for respective product(s), including productivity & FTE savings based on Op1 tech projects developments.
• Management Operating System (MOS) related matters.
• Financial and business data definitions.

Critical Competencies:

• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Strong partnering skills.
• Strong analytical skills and specialist in data analytics.
• Proficiency in business modeling.
• Expertise in financial management reporting and compliance.
• Proficiency in performance management.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience with process and change management.
• Strategic thinking capabilities.
• Self-starter with a hunger for knowledge.

What We Offer:

Joining Maersk means being part of a team that is not only transforming global trade but also shaping the future of our industry. You will be part of a truly international company with a strong culture, where you will have unique opportunities to make a real impact on a global scale. We offer:

• A challenging role at the core of our financial operations, providing crucial insights for strategic decision-making across regions and products.
• Exposure to diverse financial reporting, planning, and analysis aspects within a global organization.
• Opportunities to collaborate and business partner with various management levels and business segments worldwide.
• A dynamic environment where your expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting will directly contribute to business success.
• A platform to drive standardization initiatives and implement robust FP&A structures across regions.