Junior SAP Inhouse Consultant - Finance and Accounting

Join our team at Hapag-Lloyd as Junior SAP Inhouse Consultant Finance and Accounting and help us navigate the future!

As part of Hapag-Lloyds IT Team, you work in a team of 40+ colleagues located in Hamburg and Gdansk. The focus of the team is SAP Finance and Accounting. Together with the other SAP teams, you will be maintaining and developing the Hapag-Lloyd SAP system. You will also work for the product Sustainability (CSRD) Reporting, which is a SaaS-based, standalone application integrated in the creation of the annual report. You will work together with colleagues in the business and IT in Hamburg, Gdansk and around the globe. Hapag-Lloyd uses SAP for Finance, Treasury, Controlling and Materials Management.

• In close cooperation with departments of finance, accounting, risk, sustainability, and corporate communications in Hamburg and around the globe you will be responsible for the creation and implementation of new functions, for process consulting as well as for the maintenance and support of the finance and accounting processes in SAP and other applications together with the team
• Be part of our S4 Hana transformation program and help with the technical conception, development and implementation of the future SAP accounting and finance solutions of Hapag Lloyd
• With your creative ideas, you can act as an innovator within the team and drive new processes forward operationally, as well as use and implement recent technologies
• Working together with colleagues from other teams and thinking out of the box is part of your daily business and something that comes naturally to you
• Operation and monitoring of our SaaS-based CSRD software: ensuring the continuous availability and performance of the cloud-based solution, including regular review of the SLA (Service Level Agreements) with the SW vendor
• You define implementation measures, create of test plan, documentation, execution of functional tests and support of functional acceptances as part of your job
• Troubleshooting and support: Coordination internally and externally to quickly resolve technical issues and provide support to end users
• Interface management: Configuration and monitoring of interfaces (APIs) to other systems such as ERP, HR software and Disclosure Management to ensure smooth data exchange

• At least 1 year experience in hands on customizing and working in SAP FI modules
• You have a sound understanding of business processes, especially in the areas of Finance, Accounting and Sustainability
• Experience in supporting SaaS solutions, ideally in area of sustainability or ESG reporting would be an advantage
• A collaborative and empathic mindset to enable our business colleagues through our solutions
• Experience in agile working methods, as in Scrum or experience as a Product Manager is an advantage
• Effective communication skills in an international environment paired with good command of written and spoken English
• Nice if you have:
  •    Understanding of HL IT Products
  •    Relevant previous experience in the areas of logistics or transportation
  •    Understanding of container shipping business is an advantage

With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13.500 employees and 400 offices in 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2.600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.