Key Responsibilities

The Site Business Controller plays a critical role in the frontline, acting as a trusted partner by driving an effective control environment. The role drives financial profitability by ensuring strong controls in operational processes, identifying gaps and taking necessary actions to address the gaps ensuring that the potential exposures are effectively and sustainably mitigated.

The Site Business Controller ensures that relevant risk-related policies, standards, and governance are adhered at site level.

1. 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.

2. 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.
•     Ensure the accuracy and completeness of facility reporting at GP and EBIT level
•     Participate in month-end closing activities and financial performance & risk reporting
•     Provide full customer and profit transparency to Finance Business Partners and Site Management
•     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.

3. Health Metrics and Governance

•     Drive local review of Health Metrics KPIs, including invoice quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
•     Owner of the Health Metrics narrative for the site.
•     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.
•     Guardian of the job costing RASCI

4. Operational Risk Management (1st Line of Defense)

•     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.
•     Perform Billing Control validation to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Invoicing
•     Reconcile Operating systems and financial systems periodically
•     Review completeness of site costing and associated financial controls
•     Conduct reviews of critical site processes and associated risks.
•     Support internal and external audit activities related to business execution.

5. 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.

6. Other Responsibilities

•     Provide ad hoc support to the business as required by the Manager.

We are looking for

• Finance or business degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong financial acumen and knowledge of warehousing operations.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and drive process improvements.
• Attention to detail with strong problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in financial controls and risk management.
• Strong communication skills for presenting financial data clearly
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Influence without authority skills

You have been reading so far, we are glad to see you are interested. If you could see yourself in this role and are keen to be part of this journey at Maersk, we look forward to hearing from you!