Head of GSC Finance

Pune - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Purpose of the position
Own and institutionalize one global standardized and wellgoverned Finance operating model through Maersks GSCsdigitally enabled via enterprise platforms automation and AIto deliver lean consistent highquality service protect Group value through robust governance risk identification and controls and build insight to partner and advance the GSC vision and Maersks Integrator strategy.

Position Summary
Establish global GSC Finance operations through embedding clear workplacement principles platform enablement and endtoend standardization/automation to deliver consistent highquality service and strong governance/controllership across Ocean Logistics & Services and Terminals.

Act as the enterprise catalyst for Finance transformation by scaling operational finance capabilities and Centres of Excellence (process controllership) to create trusted insights on business performance and enabling valuebased decisions

Hold endtoend accountability for GSC Finance organisation globally leading a 4000 employees across India China Manila (Philippines) Poland Mexico and Brazil that delivers finance operations and businessfinance support worldwide.

Endtoend A2RO2CP2P ownership: deliver accurate company financials and statutory reporting with audit support across 100 geographies; mitigate revenue leakage and drive bestpossible DSO through upstream/downstream process reviews and performance metrics; and realize cost optimization via rootcause analysis and strengthened internal controllership.

Serve as a strategic part of the global finance organisation partnering with Global/Regional CFOs GSC leadership GPLs and Maersk Technology to set priorities orchestrate execution and realize measurable outcomes towards business priorities.

Key responsibilities

Lead build and continuously evolve the Global GSC Finance organisation across people organisation design processes and systems ensuring scalability and sustainability across all locations.

Provide endtoend leadership of global finance service delivery ensuring consistent highquality and compliant outcomes across regions while acting as a trusted business partner to Group and Regional Finance leadership.

Drive growth margin expansion productivity and cash conversion through strong finance insight performance management and decision support.

As a member of the GSC Leadership Team play a key role in operationalizing the GSC Vision translating strategic intent into tangible outcomes that directly support the APMM Integrator Strategy.

Serve as trusted partner to CFO Controllers Regional Finance BU Finance and Corporate Functions.

Enable and support Finance Transformation ensuring the foundational systems and process landscape is stabilized and a bestinclass finance function is embedded.

Own and govern objective workplacement and siteoptimization principles for GSC Finance ensuring transparent and factbased decisionmaking with Finance Leadership and Area/Regional Finance.

Embed The Maersk Way driving continuous improvement in execution quality processes and business outcomes.

Endtoend A2RO2CP2P ownership: deliver accurate company financials and statutory reporting with audit support across 100 geographies; mitigate revenue leakage and drive bestpossible DSO through upstream/downstream process reviews and performance metrics; and realize cost optimization via rootcause analysis and strengthened internal controllership.

Partner closely with Maersk Tech and the GPL organisation to identify and implement priority use cases aligned with the Maersk AI Vision and Finance transformation roadmap.

Lead organisation design capability building and succession planning ensuring sufficient leadership depth and futureready finance capabilities.

Build and sustain a highperforming leadership team with aligned ways of working clear ownership strong collaboration and operational rigor

Key competencies

Proven change leader with a culturally agile leadership style shaped through global roles experienced in leading large geographically distributed teams. Able to set a clear strategy and inspire followership.

Global Service Delivery Excellence: Capability to design operate and continuously improve a global finance service delivery model across regions.

Transformation Leadership: Proven track record of leading enterprise finance transformation including operatingmodel redesign standardization ERP/platform implementations and transition to valuedriven finance operations.

Organizational Scale & People Leadership: Capability to lead develop and scale large multicountry finance organizations while building leadership capability bench strength and succession depth

Digital & Automation Enablement: Strong capability to leverage automation data and digital solutions to simplify processes improve controls and materially enhance productivity and insight.

Strategic Execution at Scale: Ability to translate enterprise strategy into executable roadmaps with measurable outcomes balancing longterm ambition with nearterm delivery in complex environments

Influencing Collaboratively: Open collaborative leadership style that prioritizes enterprise outcomes fosters strong culture and builds trust while influencing senior stakeholders through periods of transformation and integration.

Functional finance competency: Career finance executive with strong technical depth across all areas of financial management with 20 years in Finance leadership across shared services/GBS/global operations with multi-region accountability (India/Asia/Europe).Professional qualification: CA/CPA/CMA or equivalent; MBA Finance preferred.

Key Stakeholders

Group CFO and Global Finance Leadership Team

Head of GSC

Regional presidents and APM Terminal CEO

Regional CFOs and Business Finance Leaders (Ocean L&S Terminals)

GSC Leadership

Maersk Technology Data & Platform Organizations

Internal Audit External Audit Tax and Risk teams

GPL organisation

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