About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 11,9 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 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11,9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 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.

Main Objectives

  • Support manager in driving the sub-region's or area's overall working capital performance, adherence to the corporate financial guidelines and policies and the deliverance of project results through the collaboration between the regional finance team, the local finance teams and other functions where applicable.
  • May be directly responsible for smaller areas individually as opposed to a sub-region.
  • Be part of the local accounting team involved in invoice and journal posting, claims processing and month-end, quarterly and annual closing.

Function and duties

  • Driving Financial Performance:
    1. Support finance manager to drive sub-region's and areas' working capital performance
    2. Drive working capital performance of areas assigned
  • Financial compliance
    1. Ensure sub-region's and areas' adherance to corporate guidelines and policies; Ensure adherance to local GAAP
  • Review credit applications from sub-regions and areas, ensuring subsidiaries' adherance to credit guidelines
  • Regional representative in terms of liason and governance of Internal Control system and reporting
  • Forecasting and budgeting for overheads and investments including being the regional team maintaining the IFRS 16 contracts
  • Regular reporting
    1. OUFC/X-Revenue/Unallocated Cash (monthly)
    2. Risk Management Report (quarterly)
  • Invoice and Concur claims processing for Regional HQ
  • Month-end closing
    1. Prepayments and accruals
    2. Lease contracts maintenance
    3. SAP financial consolidation package
    4. Revaluation of balances
    5. Intercompany charging/reconciliation including raising cost plus remuneration invoice

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting. 
  • CPA or CA preferred.
  • 1-3 years of relevant experience in finance or accounting is typically required. 
  • Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and financial reporting standards, and ability to ensure the company's financial practices are compliant.
  • Proficient in MS Excel 
  • Familiar with International Accounting standards. 
  • Adaptable, independent, proactive, Team player
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Good communicator, verbal and written

Contact person

Leonard Leong