Regional Head of Finance Business Partnering, MCL, APA

Regional Head of Finance Business Partnering, MCL, APA

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Exciting opportunity to be at the heart of the Maersk Contract Logistics' (MCL) growth journey in one of the fastest growing regions of Maersk.

This role will be the head finance business partner to the Region VP - Head of MCL for the APA Region supporting Maersk’s expansively growing Warehousing, Cold Storage, Middle Mile, E-Commerce and E-Fulfilment portfolio in Asia Pacific. Current revenue of ~$1.3b.

Together with Regional and Global management, the role will be pivotal in shaping and driving the MCL strategy including asset planning and performance management and control for ensuring sustainable EBIT growth.

This role is facilitating profitable new business growth through ensuring the appropriate level of financial and commercial due diligence is performed on assessing capital expenditures and facility leases and the commercial requirements in customer contracts.

Key Responsibilities

Play an active role with the Region VP – Head of MCL in driving the overall MCL strategy development and execution planning, collaborating with the Global Strategy team and Global Product managers.

Lead business initiatives to improve Product performance.

Investigate underperforming MCL business units and develop solutions with Product and Area/Country management.

Drive P&L performance management of the MCL Product.

Drive asset management including optimizing net working capital and fixed asset utilization to improve ROCE.

Indirectly manage the team of Area/Country MCL business partners supporting each Product.

Partner with Controlling team to lower/eliminate monthly unbilled sales order (UBSO) to customers and improve the cash conversion cycle.

Maintain the standard for the assessment of investments and new contracts that conform to Maersk’s MCL Business Rules.

Governance to ensure investment proposals have been developed and approved by relevant internal stakeholders such as Solution Design, Product, Tax, HR, etc.

Review cost modelling, pricing and transaction structuring. Discuss with Region VP – Head of MCL and make recommendations to Region Head of Finance and Global Managing Director of MCL on requests for approval.

Engage with the Commercial Team to ensure new customer contracts are aligned with Maersk’s MCL business rules and protect the key assumptions (volume, liability, pricing, termination provisions etc) to ensure the expected return on the related investment. Improve the sales cycle for transactions through direct involvement with the Commercial Team to identify and provide solutions to commercial challenges.

Lead the weekly Region Investment Committee meeting to approve proposals with the APA leadership in accordance with the DOA and represent APA to Corporate (CEN).

Post Implementation Performance Monitoring in Areas/Countries for large transactions.

Align with global stakeholders on improving the global MCL investment and new contract approval process.

Manage the Region budget, forecast and quarterly/monthly management reporting for the MCL Business in collaboration with Region FP&A team.

Manage the regional Investment Pipeline and estimate capex and lease requirements for the region during Budgets and Forecast and QBRs.

Establish a link between new business pipeline…