About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 264 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.0 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13,500 employees and 400 offices in 135 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 2.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 113 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2,600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment handle terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

Function and duties

Main Tasks

To manage and oversee the following tasks related to Area Arabian Gulf, ensuring tasks are completed within guidelines.

  • Preparing and Managing Financial Statements to provide a clear and accurate company’s financial performance for all Arabian Gulf countries.
  • Main point of contact for Statutory Audit, both pre and post audit.
  • Reviewing and monitoring of Overhead Cost in coordination with Finance for each of the country.
  • Monthly and Quarterly Financial Statement Review including Variance Analysis for both Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet
  • Ensuring compliance with Tax regulations such as Preparing and Filing of Value Added Tax (VAT) in accurate and timely manner for UAE and Bahrain as well as refunding of Excess VAT
  •   Up to date on changes in taxation and recommend process/system amendments to minimize cost exposure for Hapag-Lloyd (HL)
  • Managing and monitoring lease agreement based on IFRS 16 – Leases Standard
  • Monitoring and analyzing of Commercial Waiver for Arabian Gulf locations.
  • Ensure government compliance on UAE Ministry of Finance specifically relating to Economic Substance Regulation (ESR), Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
  • Conduct financial analysis to identify areas for Revenue Optimization and Profit Improvement
  • Collaboration with Internal audit to implement preventive measures across HL departments ensuring policy are in place and preventing recurrence.
  • Assist in developing, managing, and monitoring Annual Budget and Quarterly Forecasting of Financial Reports
  • Assist in the annual Credit Management Review to ensure standard and optimal credit are issued to credit worthy customers.
  • Assist in maintaining compliance, risk management, tax risk assessment, and legal contingencies.
  • Contribute to strategic area management projects and initiatives.
  • Build and maintain relationships with external business partners, global partner banks, tax and industry experts, to stay up to date with industry trends and innovations.

 

qualifications and Technical job requirement

 

Industry Knowledge

  • 5+ years industry experience in Shipping industry
  • Degree as an Accounting or Finance with verifiable experience
  • Strong analytical skills and a high affinity for numbers

 

       Business Systems/IT

  • Good knowledge of user application systems (SAP, FIS, Qlikview / QlikSense, MS Office, Word, Excel)
  • Extensive MS Office, especially Excel skills
  • Process knowledge & systems support optimization
  • Ability to promptly process data and request under pressure.
  • Understanding of data quality benchmarking and management

 

Communication/Organization Skills

  • Communicative and ability to take initiative.
  • Good command of written and spoken English
  • Effective time management and planning skills
  • Knowledge of interactions with other functions
  • Systematic and efficient way of working
  • Ability to present complex correlations in a clear way.
  • Knowledge in Statistical Methods
  • Highly analytic and independent way of working

 

      Values/Behaviors

  • Leadership Qualities
  • Positive Attitude can do attitude
  • Proactive
  • Energetic and good team spirit
  • Commitment to task
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality

Contact person

Eve Berthomier