Area Site BCO (TZ Depot), EAA at A.P. Moller – Maersk Tanzania

Would you like to be part of a value-driven, commercially oriented international environment where we enable global trade every day? We are looking for a Site Business Controller to join our team and play a critical role in driving financial control, profitability, governance, and risk management at site level.

The Site Business Controller acts as a trusted business partner at the frontline, ensuring a strong control environment, protecting financial performance, and ensuring adherence to corporate governance, policies, and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Implementation Support
• Review compliance to customer implementation as per Corporate Governance, Policy, and Procedure.
• Support and provide input for new customer implementations to ensure all critical tasks with financial impact are completed (e.g. costing, Billing SOPs in place).
• Review checklists for all new customer implementations and raise flags where critical items are incomplete or corporate policy is not complied with.
• Monitor completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of invoicing in line with valid customer contracts.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with authorities and other financial stakeholders to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
• Financial Profitability Hygiene
• Protect financial profitability through site profitability completeness checks and reviews to drive revenue assurance and deliver profitability in line with agreements.
• Analyse and review site profitability (CM1), including loss-making sites and sites deviating from defined profitability models.
• Review weekly and monthly financial reports, coordinate statutory accounts, and ensure compliance with IFRS and statutory regulations.
• Document and follow up on actions to address process control gaps in low-margin or loss-making revenue streams.
• Identify and address revenue leakage with Delivery teams.
• Conduct control reviews to identify excessive costs and revenue leakage and collaborate with the Site Manager to resolve discrepancies.
• Health Metrics and Governance
• Drive local review of Health Metrics KPIs, including invoice quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Review Global Health Metrics KPIs related to operational profitability and process hygiene.
• Support Area/Country Leadership with local risk reviews and performance management actions.
• Ensure adequate follow-up on actions to improve health metrics.
• Escalate key business and financial risks to Finance Leadership, including mitigation plans.
• Ensure adherence to GAM and RACI across all key processes from customer implementation to execution.
• Operational Risk Management (1st Line of Defence)
• Review controls related to profitability (e.g. job costing) and identify root causes of control inefficiencies.
• Partner with business functions to develop and drive mitigation plans.
• Review effectiveness of internal controls (existing and new platforms) and track action plans for ineffective controls.
• Conduct reviews of critical site processes and associated risks.
• Support internal and external audit activities related to business execution.
• Audit Support
• Support external auditors and regulatory agencies during audits and engagements.
• Act as the site point of contact for audits and provide required documentation and information.
• Review stock reconciliation reports to ensure system stock matches physical stock.
• Other Responsibilities
• Provide ad hoc support to the business as required by the Manager.

Who We Are Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting (required).
• Professional certification such as ACCA is highly desirable.
• Minimum 3-5 years’ relevant experience in finance, business control, or a similar role.

Key Competencies

• Strong financial acumen and understanding of operational and warehousing processes.
• Proven experience in financial controls, risk management, and profitability analysis.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and influence without authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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