Accountant (APM Terminals)
Opportunity
The Accountant is
overall responsible for financial reporting & analysis for the Mombasa
Depots, Business Performance management, coordinating country-wide projects and
generally providing the Area Finance team, as well as the Area Leadership team
with accurate, timely, and comprehensive quality financial information and
feedback on performance and business plans.
It is the Accountant’s responsibility to ensure that appropriate financial
controls and policies are in place.
This is a one-year fixed-term contract, based in Mombasa.
We offer
When you join Maersk,
you’ll find that the world is your workplace. You’ll work in a culturally
diverse, stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of
doing things. We believe in individual performance within highly professional
teams supported by our distinctive values. To us teamwork means acceptance,
respect, dedication and the idea that we can achieve more when we all pull
together.
Living our values means
competing in the market place in an ethical way so our name is synonymous with
being a credible and valuable business partner. Through Constant Care and
Humbleness we strive to prepare for the future, while never forgetting that our
customers and competitors are key to our ability to improve. In our daily work
Uprightness and Our Employees mean that transparency and accountability in
everything we do go hand in hand with being an inspiring, challenging place to
work.
At Maersk, we take pride
in hiring the best person for the job irrespective of gender, age, nationality
or religious belief.
Key responsibilities
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of entity
results with a 100% score in completeness, timeliness and quality in
Reporting.
- Ensure that the accounting system is up-to-date
with all transactions.
- Complete and correct accounting of the country’s
result every month in line with APMM GAAP.
- Monthly reconciliation for all accounts.
- To ensure that adequate visibility of all items in
the PNL and Balance Sheet is provided to all stakeholders and deliver
necessary management reports.
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of customer
collections and vendor payments.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Ensure proper registration process in local and
corporate accounting systems (SAP, IFS & HFM)
- Coordination with internal and external auditors,
tax authorities and lawyers as required.
- Ensure the compliance of tax, legal and transfer
pricing matters.
- Ensure corporate governance policies and
procedures are in place and up to date.
- Carry out cost projections at required intervals
for Budget/FYE.
- Consolidate and prepare Budget/FYE data.
- Manage budget and full year estimate.
We are looking for
A dedicated and
qualified candidate with:
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, ACMA,
ACA, CPA or equivalent is a must.
- 3+ Solid Experience in Finance and Accounting.
- Knowledge of Tax laws.
- Knowledge of and experience with SAP.
- Excellent Stakeholder Management skills.
- Strong core values & willingness to live our
company culture.
- A structured way of working, showing attention to
detail.
- Communication in open, engaging, sharing,
assertive, inquisitive and clear.
- Detail-oriented with a structured, methodical way
of working.
- Must be highly self-driven and result oriented
- Multi-disciplined, including finance &
accounting.
As a performance-oriented
company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job regardless of
gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud
of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing
teams.
How
To Apply
Interested
and qualified? Go to Maersk Line on
www.maersk.com to apply
