About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, 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 deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.
Do you have a keen eye for numbers, a knack for statistics, and a passion for navigating the world of shipping and finance? Join our dynamic team in Kuwait as a Senior Coordinator in Accounting and Finance, where you’ll play a pivotal role in driving financial excellence and business administration success!
Statutory Audit of Financial Statement
Preparation of Leads for Kuwait and work with auditors to facilitate external audits and ensure financial transparency ensuring zero qualified opinion. Deliver timely requirements and on time completion to ensure regulatory compliance deadline are met such as Corporate Tax, DMTT and Zakat.
Tax Compliance and other regulatory requirements
Preparation of tax requirements by external provider for filing of tax compliance in the country on a timely manner. this includes reporting of CRS / FATCA, KFAS and compliance of filing Annual General Meetings and BoD for the country.
Budget and Forecasting
Preparation of overhead budget and quarterly forecast for Kuwait ensuring all anticipated costs are considered. Monthly reporting of variance analysis to Area MAG Business Administration. Lead cost saving initiatives based on regular review of costs with alignment with country manager.
Working Capital
Assists Accounts Receivable team in collections of revenue to meet DSO targets of the country and minimizing overdue outstanding and bad debts in line with targets including assistance to identify unallocated payments and suspense accounts. Assists Accounts Payable team to meet DPO targets and regular review and follow up of debit balances from advance payments to vendors to ensure timely and accurate recognition of cost.
Other Responsibilities
• Assist QSC Mumbai for required information specific for Kuwait
• Ad hoc Analysis for Management requirement - process improvement, cost saving and boost revenue including regular review of waivers and longstanding containers.
• Collaboration with Internal Audit to align all process and policies are in place.
• 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.
• Assess risk in the country from legal, political, tax and compliance
• Prepare petty cash and ensuring full documentation and approvals
• As an IT delegate, handle all IT queries with assistance from Regional IT
Industry Knowledge
• Degree as an Accounting or Finance with verifiable experience
• Having Shipping experience is preferred
• Sharp analytical & statistical skills
Business Systems/IT
• Awareness of data quality importance
• Good knowledge of user application systems (SAP, MS Office, Word, Excel – preferably intermediate)
• Process knowledge & systems support optimization
• Ability to promptly process data and request under pressure
• Understanding of data quality benchmarking and management
Communication/Organization Skills
• Overall Management 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
Additionally as a person, you have the qualities and are ready to live, promote and be a positive role model for Hapag-Lloyd’s 8 Values Based Behaviours:
• Building confidence and trust
• Collaborating and Interacting
• Focusing on customers
• Working analytically
• Driving success
• Embracing change
• Managing self-development
• Demonstrating global mindset and embracing diversity
You will have access to:
• A diverse and international work environment
• Excellent career development opportunities, supported by a wide range of training and development courses
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid work model: 3 days per week working at our and 2 days per week working from home or remote
At Hapag-Lloyd we are proud to make global trade happen. For us, shipping is more than just containers at sea. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in one of the most exciting and multinational industries in the world, and in a Region / Area which is a truly diverse and emerging growth market. You will be exposed to new challenges and diverse cultures every single day.
We believe that communication and collaboration are essential in our day-to-day business. Mutual respect and sincerity affect the atmosphere within our company and towards our customers and employees. You will join an organisation actively committed to our company core values: We Care. We Move. We Deliver.
