Finance Control Manager

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

JOB SUMMARY
Reporting directly to country CFO and functionally to country General Manager and Regional Office Financial Control Department. Your mission will be to manage and oversee all finance (AR/AP/GL), banking and taxation matters related to shipping agency, domestic service entity and carriers’ representation.

Assist local teams in and management to solve finance challenge, leading group project assignment, presentation of accurate overview of the financial situation of the various entities to the Management, Regional Office and/or Head Office.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. FINANCIAL & OPERATIONAL

• Manage the overall accounting function of country shipping agency, domestic carrier entity, carriers’ representation and sub agent, i.e., payable, receivable, general ledger and cost control in collaboration with local finance, regional finance and the Global Business Service team (GBS).
• Supervise the monthly accounting closing, e.g., ensuring completeness of bank reconciliation, clearance of payable and receivable and proper accruals/prepayment.
• Preparation of financial statement in accordance with local GAAP, International accounting and IFRS.
• Monitor and achieve performance measurement and core KPIs.
• Closely follow up the AR collection, credit management, overdue % / DSO kept below target and manage credit management.
  Monthly MGA monitoring and timely fund transfer to principals.
• Monitoring of monthly financial reporting to management and regional office/head office.
• Perform variance analysis and analytical review on financial statements. Any discrepancy and risk identified, propose recommendation and action plan.
• Perform weekly and short-term cash flow analysis and forecast.
• Lead annual budgetary preparation and reporting.
• Direct interlocutor with the statutory auditors and tax authority, to ensure timely completion of financial report and finalization of tax matters, respectively.
• Overseas cash and treasury functions, including liaison and communication with bankers on changes and requirements for overseas remittance and currency exposure.
• Coordinate and cooperate (Transversal) with local finance team, GBS team and cross departments to resolve ongoing financial issues and topics.
• Extending leadership and monitoring role to domestic shipping entity’s reporting and accounting process.

2. TAXATION AND COMPLIANCE

• Support Tax/GL team and work closely with regional office on ongoing tax topics.
• Ensure timely and accurate filing of all applicable tax returns for local entities, branches and carriers’ representation.
• Lead and manage BIR expectation, tax audit and clearance, in coordination with local tax consultants.
• Keep abreast and ensure compliance with local tax laws.
• Behave as tax advisor in identifying and mitigating risks pertaining to tax exposure and handle outstanding tax cases.

3. PLANNING & PROJECT

• Lead in groupwide SAP direct posting project for agency and carriers’ representation.
• Support ongoing deregistration exercise for branches and carriers tax ID clearance.
• Introduce best practice, perform benchmarking, revenue improvement and cost saving initiative in line with Group's strategic direction (Gain / Agility).
• Develop financial tactical initiative, tax strategy and participate in key decisions as member of the management.
• Build a high performing Finance and Admin team by providing effective mentoring, on-the-job training and coaching.
• Coordinating with other teams to ensure smooth operation as well as build good relationship at all levels of an organization.
• Support Management in ad-hoc projects and assignment.

4. RISK MANAGEMENT & INTERNAL CONTROL

• Ensure strong internal control is in place.
• Leading internal audit review and external audit engagements.
• Keep abreast of changes in banking regulations, country tax development and financial rules.
• Construct and monitor reliable control system and accounting procedure, adhering to Group policy and accounting standard.
• Ensure compliance with tax and regulatory requirement
• Maintain good relations with external/internal auditor, banker and tax authorities.
• Ensure proper accounting record keeping and reporting to meet the requirement of internal audit, external auditor and local authority.

5. OPEX AND LOCAL REVENUE EFFICIENCY

• Consolidating monthly reports and perform analytical review; cost, local revenue, financial and operational reports. 
• Challenge stakeholder, implement pragmatic proposal to reduce OPEX, improve the local revenue. Follow up action plan and improvement.
• Monitoring cost saving/revenue increase program, budget, forecast, and performance (Agility/Gain).
• Coordinate local benchmark exercise periodically, conduct analysis and propose adjustment. 

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

Minimum Level of Qualification:

• Degree or above in Finance/Accounting/Tax, with an MBA or CPA qualification.
• Minimum 10 years working experience and in managerial role, with minimum 3 years of experience in shipping or logistics fields.

Professional Skills:

• Professional experience in audit and consultancy is a plus
• High level of written and oral communication skills. Fluent in English.
• Project management.
• Advanced skills in MS Excel and Power Point presentation. 
• Experience in Oracle and SAP accounting software is a plus

Personal Qualities:

• Strong business acumen, assertive, self-motivated and able to work independently
• Strong leadership abilities, sound judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to details and analytical skills for decision making.
• Team player and willing to coach.
• Proactive, aggressive and fast learner.
• Results driven and deadline oriented.

Please ensure you are familiar with the CMA CGM Corporate Internal Mobility guidelines