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What we offer:
Impact: Your work will directly contribute to the success of our global operations.
Opportunity: Maersk provides ample opportunities for growth and development, both professionally and personally.
Innovation: Join a forward-thinking team that embraces innovation and cutting-edge technologies.
Global Exposure: Collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and gain exposure to international business practices.
Work-Life Balance: We value work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to support our employees
The Area Analyst SGA drives accuracy, transparency, and quality in area SG&A performance management, supporting the Area Analysis & FP&A Manager with timely insights for area leadership.
As the area SG&A subject-matter expert, the role ensures rigor in cost analysis, accrual quality, and forecasting across People Cost, Other SG&A, and structural cost drivers.
The role owns area SG&A across month-end, Flash, ROFO, and Budget cycles. Partnering with Product analysts, ATR, GSC team and Country Managers, it strengthens cost visibility and decision support for the area. The role exists to transform SG&A cost data into meaningful insights that drive efficiency, control, and informed cost management at the area level.

Key Accountabilities:

Strategic Financial Ownership: Drive the area SG&A analysis agenda in line with regional standards. Partner with Area Stakeholders on cost governance and accrual quality. Standardize analysis across functions and cost centres governance and provide actionable insights for cost decisions and savings tracking.

•Financial Planning & Analysis: Maintain budgeting and forecasting models at UID and cost-centre level. Deliver timely, accurate analysis for area and regional decisions. Identify automation opportunities, analyse results, and communicate cost drivers to stakeholders.

•Global Collaboration: Link the area with the Regional Analysis CoE on SG&A standards, methodology, and reporting. Support standardized reports and dashboards, and harmonize best practices for scalable, repeatable analysis.

•Reporting & Performance Management. Own SG&A reports and performance reviews, including WD7 to WD9 inputs. Monitor KPIs against cost objectives. Ensure data integrity, accrual accuracy, and comparable reporting with one-off documentation.

•Functional Leadership: Run the functional SGA agenda together with leaders and ensure budget is followed throughout the year and highlight area of concerns.

•Strengthen Business Partnering Responsibilities: Partner with Area FP&A Leads, ATR teams, GSC team and Country Managers.. Challenge unusual spends, identify risks/opportunities, and support decision-making.

•Enhance Transformation & Automation Focus: Expand beyond reporting and analysis.   Own process standardization, automation, and AI-enabled improvements within the process and evaluate scalability.

•Strengthen Stakeholder Influence: Responsible to present insights and recommendations to area leadership and influence decisions through fact-based analysis.

Experience and Qualification:

•Bachelor or Master in finance (CA/ MBA-finance)

•8+ years of experience in finance and analysis domain

•Experience of financial modelling and budgeting and forecasting

•Good communication and stakeholder management skills

•Working proficiency on tools such as Microsoft Excel, SAP-BI/BW, Power BI.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, 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 other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

 

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