Description:
- Help drive financial performance in an organisational area by assisting
with guidance and support on financial information, business
performance and implementation of strategies
- Take an active role in designing plans for improving area performance and objectives on cross functional basis. Ensure high quality analytical support to support materialisation and tracking.
- Work with the Area Leadership Team (ALT) to proactively improve performance and create alignment between the overall strategy and actual performance.
- Based on standardized MOS data and rolling forecasts managed by the Financial Analysts in the same team, challenge shortfalls to target and opportunities for high performance with recommendations.
- Take an active part in the virtual WCA BP forum thereby ensuring that best practises are shared and applied in-order to constantly raise the bar for value adding FBP.
- Ensure decision making is based on robust data and underpinned by logical assumptions.
- Performance management: Support the Maersk Operating System / performance management framework of the Area (including HSUD), by the preparation of management updates for weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reviews, collaborating with fellow FBPs and Area functions to consolidate functional inputs.
- Sales target setting: Collaborate with fellow FBPs in the planning, preparation and cascade of targets for the local Area Sales teams (including HSUD) – and be accountable for timely, reliable and accurate data that provides visibility on actuals vs targets.
- Revenue / profit optimization projects: Conduct deep-dives on chronic revenue application / cost recovery gaps or profit maximization opportunities for local products and services, recommend actions to drive improvements and quantify impact of those actions e.g. Detention & Demurrage.
- Demand-Supply studies: Perform macro-economic analysis to provide demand-supply analysis, benchmarking key P&L metrics for local L&S products and liner surcharges, to help drive forward planning and performance management.
- Customer Profitability: Support the Area Sales teams in bringing full visibility on customer / channel performance and profitability for UAE area. Present recommendations to improve overall profitability.
- Best practices: Share and ensure local adoption of best practises across Areas, Regions and Centre including cross-regional work assignments and acting as a focal point for Region and Centre standardization initiatives.
- Delivers accurate, timely, aligned information. Assists with information
- for business decisions by leaders and internal and external partners
- Assists in assessing best alternative strategies
- Provides various insights to business based on needs
- Provides forward looking analysis.