Finance Business Partner - West

Finance Business Partner

This role is part of Maersk's North American Finance team, focused on transforming the FTL Middle Mile business into a profitable standalone product. You will work closely with the operations and product management teams to grow the ground freight business in North America. Responsibilities include supporting financial decision-making, forecasting, budgeting, performance management, and strategic analysis. You’ll help drive business success by providing insights, improving financial processes, and developing financial models to enhance both top and bottom-line growth.

• Location in Santa Fe Springs, CA or any other Maersk office in the SoCal region.
• ·Position is full-time with a hybrid model.

We Offer:

We offer exciting career opportunities with a focus on diversity and award-winning talent development. Our values-led, diverse team is dedicated to supporting employees and fostering a culture of fairness, respect, and responsibility.

We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, and our talent policies are recognized as industry-leading. We are committed to ongoing personal and professional development and believe that recruiting diverse talent strengthens our high-performing teams

Key Responsibilities

• Creates and analyzes monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensures financial information has been recorded accurately. Involvement in month-end close.
• Performs bi-weekly financial forecasting and analyzes financial information to determine present and future financial performance.
• Evaluates complex profit plans, operating records, and financial statements.
• Works closely with accounting and billing teams and may independently utilize accounting systems to monitor and track revenue/expenses.
• Drive annual Budget process, a bottom’s up approach, by working closely with Operations and Commercial teams to build a solid, detailed set up assumptions using historical/future anticipated trends, and following through with pertinent team members that commitments are kept and delivered on a timely basis
• Ability to lay out detailed assumptions and effectively bridge variances from Budget to Forecast, and Forecast to Actual
• Identifies trends and developments within the operation and various profit centers. Presents recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies.
• Conducts special studies to analyze complex financial actions and prepares recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action.
• Establishes databases of pertinent information for use in analyzing future plans and forecasts.
• Support customer pricing efforts to win or renew business.
• Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within the finance and accounting field.
• Collaborates heavily with operational leadership to provide quality tools to expedite and improve decision-making.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university, Business, Finance, Accounting or a related field of study.
• 2-5 years financial analysis experience.
• Relevant experience in Forecasting, Budgeting, Financial Analysis and Reporting.
• Logistics, Distribution, Warehouse, or Transportation highly desired.
• Advanced degrees or accreditation are desirable but not necessary.
• Knowledge of Accounting software such as Netsuite and Anaplan, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Access and MS Word software. Experience with SAP HANA is preferred but not necessary
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Manage multiple priorities and timelines.

Job Type:

Full Time

Salary:

$115,000 - $125,000*

Benefits:

Full time employees are eligible for Health Insurance, Paid Time Off, and 401k Match.

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Performance Team is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Performance Team is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any