Finance Manager

FLEET Management Limited

Our 27-year journey rides on the passion of over 24,000 seafarers and 1,000 onshore professionals. Today, we are one of the largest independent third-party ship management companies managing over 600 diverse types of vessels.

Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, we operate on a global scale having 27 offices in 12 countries. Our client base spans over 100 world-class ship owners, including Fortune 500 companies from China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the USA, among others.

In a shore career at FLEET, you will be working with a team of a highly passionate, self-driven and committed group of people. We aim to be a place where you can achieve your full potential, regardless of your background. We are looking for individuals who are ambitious about making a strong contribution to FLEET’s short and long-term sustainable growth – whether you are dealing directly with clients or working in a role supporting the business, such as technology, legal or communications.

Job Position Summary

• The role exists to manage the bottom line at a country level, and inform business decision by implementing financial controls, managing the country’s budget, and providing accurate high level financial analysis, adhering to business strategy, as well as professional and legal regulation

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Project and develop budget for country operations

• Accountable for the development and projection of the country’s overall and functional budget for the current and next financial year and for compliance of financial reports to legal reporting and tax filings requirements in the country.
• Drive the timely and accurate compilation of accounts and preparation of budget, financial forecasts, and other required reports at a country level through heads of departments.
• Assist the Country Head in the allocation and approval process for the budget for relevant businesses and projects.

Analyze high level financial data

• Accountable for assisting the Group Financial Controller developing the financial strategy of the organization.
• Provide expert insight on analyzed financial data at a country level, and present findings to Group Financial Controller and Country Head to guide business decisions and strategy formulation.

Establish financial controls

• Responsible for ensuring all financial transactions in the country adhere to the developed processes and policies, as well as legal requirements.
• Drive the adoption of business processes and accounting policies to manage, document, evaluate and report financial transactions implemented by Group Financial Controller within the country.

Manage risks and develop contingencies

• Accountable for implementation the developed financial risk management system within the country.
• Drive the implementation of structured contingency plans to minimize impact of unforeseen financial risks through collaboration with Country Head and relevant internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Group Financial Controller and Country Head to review financial risk management systems and contingency plan to ensure alignment to local financial legislation and regulations.

Drive continuous improvement within the department

• Responsible for implementing and driving continuous improvement initiatives through managers and employees within the department.
• Collaborate with Group Financial Controller and employees within the department to identify improvements that can be made to policies, processes, or technological infrastructure.
• Drive the operationalization and implementation of improvement initiatives within the department through managers and employees.
• Monitor adherence to timeline and budget for continuous improvement projects and technological implementations within the department and report progress to Group Financial Controller.
• Monitor and report improvement in outcomes within the department to Group Financial Controller.

Oversee day-to-day operations

• Accountable for the oversight and management of Accounting, FP&A, Tax, AML/KYC processes within the country.
• Responsible for addressing major issues of anomalies or non-compliance in financial transactions.
• Monitor and review daily operations within the Finance department to ensure compliant and efficient processes, providing guidance for improvement if necessary.
• Act as the final point of resolution for cases of non-compliance in financial transactions within the country, working with departments and authorities to understand the causes of non-compliance and anomalies, and ensure timely and appropriate resolution of issues. Collaborate with relevant senior stakeholders, departments, and authorities.

Develop human capital

• Develop capabilities of direct reports through formal or informal mentorship and implementation of development plans.
• Drive the identification and addressing of gaps in competencies through performance review of direct reports and collaboration with HR.
• Review and comment on workforce plan developed by HR to ensure adequate manpower for critical positions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Accounting & Finance/CPA/ Chartered Accountant from a certified accountancy body such as CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW
• Proven success in a Financial Manager or equivalent position of a global organization
• In-depth knowledge and experience in the discipline of Accounting and Finance
• In-depth understanding of business model of the ship management industry is preferred.
• Ability to work on Oracle Finance or any other finance platform
• Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Proven success in people management

Location

• Korea

Competencies

• Commercial acumen
• Analytical mindset
• Excellent Problem solver
• Leadership
• Good Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently

Fleet Management Limited is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by local laws.

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