Administrative and Financial Manager - Tangram

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.

TANGRAM is a training and innovation center created by the CMA CGM Group, a global player in maritime, land, and air logistics solutions.

TANGRAM's goal is to create the sustainable transport and logistics of the future. With transport and logistics playing a major role in the global economy, the CMA CGM Group has established a new center of excellence to address the major challenges facing the transport and logistics sectors today: environmental, technological, geopolitical, and economic. TANGRAM is designed to create a rich ecosystem and develop synergies between experts from all backgrounds in the supply chain industry. This center of excellence brings together not only CMA CGM employees but also clients and partners, large corporations, startups, universities, research centers, etc.

TANGRAM opened its doors last May at Pointe Rouge in Marseille, in close proximity to the National Higher Maritime Education School (ENSM). The site covers more than 8500m2 and includes a central Bastide, over 22 training and meeting rooms, an Event Center (auditorium), an Innovation hub, a Café, and a Restaurant.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Deputy Director of TANGRAM, your role will be essential in managing the administrative and financial operations of the center.

Your main objective will be to oversee the accounting, financial, and administrative aspects while ensuring coordination between the TANGRAM team, headquarters, and various external service providers on these subjects.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Financial management: developing, implementing, and monitoring financial processes and budgets, preparing and tracking financial projections, client billing, reporting to the parent company, managing administrative processes, expense tracking, tax compliance in collaboration with the accounting firm.
• Accounting: overseeing general, client, and supplier accounting, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, monthly and annual closures, implementing and monitoring the process of recharging costs to the parent company.
• Planning: supporting the Operations team in planning and coordinating events
• Personnel administration: collaborating with the parent company's HR for staff management, mobility, workforce tracking, ensuring compliance with labor laws, time management, relations with social organizations, preparing regulatory documents related to staff management, maintaining administrative records, managing travel and expense reports.
• Purchasing support: monitoring purchases, participating in contract establishment and monitoring, ensuring the terms of contracts are met, supplier relationship management, measuring business unit satisfaction.

PROFILE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience in finance, accounting, or related field.
• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Strong organizational skills, project management, problem-solving ability, with the capacity to handle multiple issues simultaneously.
• Ability to work collaboratively with agility, engaging with various internal and external stakeholders and driving projects forward.
• Attention to detail, rigor, customer service orientation.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with excellent command of English.
• Sensitivity to the challenges of training and innovation.

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !