Maersk India
Maersk India | Area Head of ATR & Financial Controlling, WAF
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Job Highlights
Key responsibilities
- The successful candidate will be responsible for end-to-end ATR service delivery, ensuring financial integrity, statutory compliance, and process excellence across entities in scope.
- The role will ensure compliance with IFRS and OHADA GAAP standards, drive strong internal controls, lead transformation initiatives including NFTP implementation, and act as a key finance partner to Area Finance leadership.
- The individual will play a critical role in strengthening governance, improving reporting quality, and driving top-quartile engagement and performance within the ATR team.
- Own end-to-end ATR service delivery for WAF stakeholder group, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
- Ensure financial data integrity of books of accounts, including periodic GL scrutiny and accuracy reviews.
- Review Trial Balance as part of monthly book close and ensure correct financial reporting.
- Review monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations and proactively identify financial exposures.
- Review monthly NOPAT and provide detailed explanations for significant variances.
- Ensure compliance with IFRS and OHADA GAAP requirements.
- Support and manage all audits (Statutory, Tax, Government, Internal, etc.).
- Drive NFTP implementation and enhancements for WAF entities as per project roadmap.
- Participate in global/regional finance transformation initiatives.
- Lead, coach, and develop the ATR team; drive engagement, conduct MPACT conversations, and support career progression.
- Facilitate functional and technical training including OHADA and French language capability building.
Requirements
- Professionally qualified – CA / CPA / CMA / ACCA or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and OHADA GAAP.
- Proven experience in managing audits and regulatory compliance.
- Experience managing senior stakeholders and explaining financial data to non-finance audiences.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams through transformation.
- Strong financial acumen and analytical capability.
- Deep understanding of compliance and governance frameworks.
- Ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally in a matrix organization.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate and engage teams.
- Fluent written and spoken English; working knowledge of French preferred.
- Strong systems knowledge – SAP, OneStream, Blackline, MS Office tools.
- Understanding of Maersk logistics business model (Ocean, LnS/Inland, Liner setup).
- Knowledge of LnS CUBE, Aspire, Tax, TCB, ICP and Transfer Pricing touchpoints.
- Strong change management capability
About the company
A.P. Moller - Maersk
Maersk has been in business since 1904 and is run from Copenhagen, where its parent, A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S, is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen. Its roots are in container shipping, but it now describes itself as an integrated container logistics company, linking ocean freight, port terminals, inland transport and air cargo for customers in about 130 countries. In India, Maersk Line India Private Limited has its registered office in Mumbai, and the group has offices in cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Kolkata and New Delhi. Its Global Service Centres, set up in 1999, run finance, commercial, operations and technology work for the group from Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.
Finance hiring at the service centres in Chennai, Mumbai and Pune covers account-to-report (ATR) accounting, cost and financial controlling, financial analysis and reporting, finance business partnering, SG&A analysis, indirect tax operations and tax audit, and treasury settlements. Most postings ask for a Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance, and many also accept a Cost Accountant (ICWA/CMA), ACCA or CPA. Some are open to semi-qualified CAs or CA/CWA finalists, several look for a good grasp of IFRS, and one treats a law degree as an added advantage.
