Finance Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Group finance controlling – As part of the month end and annual close processes, contribute to driving financial controlling and performance transparency across the Maersk Training Group, support consolidated reporting, variance analysis, and follow‑up across entities, and ensure consistent financial logic, data quality, and comparability across regions.
• CFO support / right‑hand role - Act as a trusted sparring partner to the CFO on optimization initiatives, ad hoc financial analyses and decision support, preparing ad‑hoc analyses, business cases, and management material, also towards executive colleagues or as support to Board level discussions.
• Collaboration with HQ Finance Business Partnering - work closely with the Finance Business Partnering team in HQ to support performance management, forecasting, and strategic initiatives by translating business and operational questions into robust financial analyses.
• Collaborate with the Finance Shared Service Center in Chennai - on select issues of Master Data improvements, reporting quality, process alignment, and support continuous improvement of finance processes and ways of working across Regions, HQ and SSC by process analysis and as driver of optimization changes and simplifications of workflows.
• Optimization and efficiency gains are in focus for us and being pursued by improvement of processes and master data across finance processes and upstream business processes. A material role in this is also part of the position. Initiatives on the current active list includes implementation of PO process in BC, increasing use of BC functionality for bank reconciliations, improved processes across functions etc.
• As part of the onboarding there is also a unique opportunity to get a deeper hands-on insight into the Danish legal entity financials by being part of a paternity cover together with other HQ finance colleagues during the first 1-2 months, depending on joining date.
• Key stakeholders
• In Finance – CFO, Finance Business Partners (HQ), Finance Shared Service Center (Chennai), Regional Finance Managers across our 5 regions
• In the wider organisation – Executive members of the Global Leadership Team

Professional background