Senior Finance Business Partner - Technology

Opportunity

We are striving to be at our very best and we want our employees to do exactly the same.

We are transforming the way we work so we can unfold our potential as a business. We’re excited about the future and the amazing things we will achieve along the way.

And transforming our business also means you can unleash your own potential.

We have a strong history of taking chances on people, supporting them and offering stretch and challenge. We want everyone to look forward to their future with Maersk.

We offer

A super exciting role in Maersk Finance Technology as a Senior Finance Business Partner. You will be working closely with Cloud Onboarding, Data Center and Integration Engineering functions, supporting them and challenging them in their forecast and ensuring they have the necessary financial transparency and insights to make the right decisions.

The combined portfolio is around 150mUSD for which you will be the responsible Senior Finance Business Partner.

You will be based in Copenhagen in a dedicated and fun team.

Key Responsibilities

Your role will be to drive value creation by applying a challenger mindset and problem solving attitude while also working very closely with your stakeholders.

One of the main tasks will be to build effective relationship with function heads and in all aspects behave as a value adding trusted finance business partner.

You will lead the financial planning processes in close collaboration with the Cloud Engineering, Data Center and Integration Engineering functions.

Other areas of responsibility:

• Provide financial support and guidance in project business cases and total cost of ownership evaluations
• Support optimisation initiatives, ensuring financial transparency and accountability through direct and show-back reporting, ensuring that risks/opportunities are understood and their impacts forecasted and tracked
• Application decommissioning - working with EA/modernisation functions and help them understand the true financial impact from planned/executed decoms
• Produce insightful variance analysis. Bring transparency to risks and opportunities faced by the function and make recommendations for mitigating actions
• Partner with offshore accounting and reporting team on month end including financial controlling, monitoring IT transactions (IT services & assets) to ensure alignment with IT accounting key data structure, accruals and maintain efficient financial data
• By understanding cost drivers and business requirements of technology services, collaborate to develop new cost saving opportunities and support in implantation
• Challenge unjustified spend and unrealistic forecast by understanding business needs and link to overall technology strategy
• Review, challenge and approve contract and purchase order requests – validating compliance to budget, contracting policy and cost versus benefit/risk
• Drive projects and process improvement in support of Technology Finance objectives including standardisation, automation, offshoring and unbiased business decisions.
• Work on assigned cross functional projects for optimizing the overall technology cost base

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate has strong finance partner experience, with proven track record and ability to understand the business while still drive a strong finance agenda.

You have solid experience with financial planning/budget cycle/forecasting and business case evaluation.

Experience from technology finance and knowledge of cloud management practices are desirable.

Furthermore you:

• Are a focused and proactive self-starting individual who is able to deliver consistent results in an ambiguous environment.
• Have the ability to create collaborative and productive working relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Have great attention to detail and thrive with being one step ahead
• Curious of the world of technology
• Proficient with SAP, excel, PowerPoint, SAP analytics cloud or similar

Having substantial operations in over 130 countries, we work across continents, across cultures and with individuals from all walks of life. This drives our ambition, to create equitable and inclusive workplaces where every individual can have a sense of belonging.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, parental or caring status, religion or belief, physical or mental disability, long term health condition, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

We actively work to address systemic bias and support representation. We therefore encourage all to apply and let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for your recruitment process. Learn more at: https://www.maersk.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion