Finance Control Senior Manager Region LATAM

CMA CGM

About The Position

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions. Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050. Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world. Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located. Summary: The Regional Financial control is the entry point for all projects and issues involving directly or indirectly Finance/Accounting. He/she ensures the delivery and the quality of the financial statements and processes in line with group internal control rules and compliance. In a context of transformation of the Group Financial Control, you have the responsibility of implementing the function in LATAM. You report to the Regional CFO with a functional link to the Financial Control Head in Marseilles.

Requirements

Analytical skills: Ability to gather, analyze and diverse information skillfully.
Problem Solving: Ability to solve practical problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables to provide efficient solutions for all problems faced.
Interpersonal skills: Ability to show team spirit in work and to exhibit sound and accurate judgment if needed.
Managing Performance: Ability to organize and prioritize work activities, develop realistic action plans and statements and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
Dependability & Adaptability: Ability to complete tasks on time or notify appropriate person with an alternate plan, to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
Communication: ability to speak clearly and write proper understandable English, in positive or negative situation and to write documents and reports to communicate it to departments / management.
Planning and Organizing: ability to plan and organize the work to reach objectives in a timely manner.
Professionalism: Ability to work with integrity and ethically and to cooperate with superiors and subordinates.
Patient, curious, rigorous, eager to learn, and to perform
Post Graduate degree (5/6 years) in Finance and ideally have a 5-year experience in external audit followed by an experience in Financial Control of at least 3 year.
Proven Team Management Experience
Good knowledge of written and spoken English and Spanish
Strong grasp of Microsoft Office programs like, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Transveral contact with different departments in HO and RO, thus good social skills will be an asset in performing your mission.

Responsibilities

Consistently monitor cost-effectiveness, optimize operational efficiency, and challenge performance to enhance overall profitability.
Monitor the project initiatives in the region: development, restructuring, funding, IT projects, transformation.
Liaise with Head of Credit Management, Cost Control, Treasury, Tax and D&D Heads in the region to ensure that responsibilities maintained locally are performed efficiently
Provide a monthly review of the main balance sheet aggregates, PL and cash flow statement and summarize the main risks (tax, forex, other non-recurring events)
Attend monthly closing meeting on Financial Statements package: arbitration, sign off and follow up of issues identified during package review
Manage the external audit and ensure that audit reports are issued in line with group and/or local requirements
Point of contact for any legal corporate request such as account approvals, dividend distribution, capital restructuration.
Control on a yearly basis that key controls defined by Group Internal Control are implemented and efficient and ensure corrective actions are implemented in case of deficiency identified.
Follow up internal audit recommendation and ensure any deficiency identified is handled locally
Implement in the local organizations the target operating model and ensure that all organization in the region are in line with group objectives
Responsible for the efficiency of the finance team in the network, appointing the local finance head in coordination with the local General Managers
Organize, on a regular basis, communications to all local heads of finance to ensure proper share of Finance Group initiatives and news (group priorities, status on key finance projects, share of best practices, group performances…)
In coordination with the Group Financial Control, recruit/train/develop financial controllers to realize the missions listed above