Accounting Professional - Account Payable

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 DESCRIPTION: ACCOUNTING PROFESSTIONAL - ACCOUNT PAYABLE

ROLE SUMMARY: Responsible for efficiently managing accounts for payment and performing other Finance Department tasks to ensure our internal and external customers’ needs are met.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Scanning account payable documents into financial system and follow up on outstanding items
• Coordinates with Share Service Center Team (SSC) to record all AP invoices correctly and completely
• Attend to and resolved queries from suppliers
• Coordinates with SSC to reconcile aged vendor liability reports
• Checks and Ensures payment batches are made correctly & completely and inform supplier to pick up check (in case, they have not received payment advice from Bank)
• Prepares Prepayment transactions and raises manual check when/if required
• Issues withholding tax certificate to suppliers
• Release checks to suppliers at Office counter
• Verify and check Purchase order against supplier invoices (if any)
• Acts as back-up to other accounting staff when required
• Ensures all functional parties, as defined on your organization chart, are kept fully informed on the performance of your tasks
• Any work undertaken is performed to a standard that meets or exceeds those set by the company or our internal/external customers
• Identifies training required to undertake the tasks allocated to you.  Such training requirements are to be reported to your manager
• All exceptions to the achievement of the KPI’s are documented for discussion in performance reviews
• Actively demonstrates and promotes the company values
• Undertakes all activities within CMA CGM’s policies and procedures
• Undertakes extra duties, as and when requested, as agreed with your leader

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Minimum Level of Qualification:

• Minimum 2 years working experience
• Bachelor’s degree / University graduated in Finance & Accounting

Professional Skills:

• Good command of spoken and written English
• Knowledge shipping / forwarding industry is a pre

Personal Qualities:

• Good interpersonal communication
• Assertive and tactful
• Accurate
• Highly motivated, result oriented individual

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !