DLS Consultancy

Key accountabilities:
•Ensuring KPIs are achieved for the team
•Ensure weekly reports are produced on a timely & accurate basis
•Individual productivity is achieved
•To extract and prepare projected payment report for submission to CMA HO Treasury.
•To arbitrate cash allocation under CMA HO instruction
•To perform variance analysis between actual versus projected payment.
•Review and highlight all late/unprocessed invoice to avoid urgent payment support to agencies
•Coordination with SSC and Cluster Heads on the payment release items.
•Instruct SSC to build payment batch.
•Review payment batch prepared by SSC and arbitrate adhoc payment release items requested by Cluster that is not included in the forecast report.
•To support migration projects initiated by HO Transformation team and ensure all related task to migration are performed on timely manner
•Any other ad-hoc assignment.
•Ensure individual KPIs and SLAs are achieved.
•Ensure daily and weekly reports are produced on a timely & accurate basis.
•Ensure issues not resolved are escalated to supervisor on a timely basis.
•Individual productivity is achieved.

Essential Skills:
•At least 3-5 years of experience
•Bachelor Degree in Accounting.
•Proficient with Microsoft Excel and computer applications. Teamwork and cooperation, Strong initiative, Good interpersonal & communication skills and Dedication
•Desired Competencies (nice to have): Working experience in a Global Finance Shared Service Centre. Prior working experience with Financial system

Key accountabilities:
•Perform assessment of existing contracts and business requirement for the implementation of new Bank communication platform.
•Definition of a project methodology and timeline, with the director of FiCOM quality process and IT development team and HO MOA.
•Deliver effective communication on the progress of this project.
•Deliver quick and accurate solution for production incidents
•Assess the existing payment processes in order to migrate them to Kyriba Bank Communication tool
•Analyze the EFT payment file structure against the bank file format specification
•Design, setup and maintain the Kyriba Bank Communication tool
•Conduct and perform Unitary & integration Testing phases consist of file format testing, bank connectivity testing and pivot file testing and validation
•Follow-up UAT with Key Business Users
•Perform Roll out of Kyriba solution
•Weekly communication on project progress
•Kyriba system setup maintaince in accordance with business requirement
•Kyriba system evolution including setups of new entities, new payment formats and new bank statement formats
•Monitoring of production activity and provide first level support to the business users including analysis and troubleshooting to rectify production incidents and when needed with the solution provided by Kyriba support
•Administration of Kyriba application in accordance with the HO policy including the account management, data permissons and access profile.
•Management of accounting interfaces with different ERPs including incident monitoring, maintainance and evolution
•Reporting of KPI’s to HO MOA

Essential Skills:
•Experiences: At least 2 years acquired in IT and/or Finance transformation projects, and possess the following knowledge:
o Payment format standards (SEPA, PAIN, MT101)
o Bank Communication tool design, setup and maintenance
o Finance and Treasury knowledge
•Education: Bachelor degree level or equivalent expertise with experience, detailed knowledge of Banking and Treasury Management Systems and Bank Communication tool.
•Coordination with Banks and other third parties (Business teams, IT teams, editor teams, integrator teams).
•Design Business requirements with Business stakeholders following a defined methodology.
•Define, perform and lead Testing phases.
•Lead a roll out from the Business requirement to the Go Live.
•Plan his own activity and provide regular reporting.
•Desired Competencies (Nice to have): o A good financial culture is wished as well as a level of operational English.
•Having excellent interpersonal skills, you are recognized for your reactivity, your rigor, your pedagogy, your analytical mind and of synthesis, and your capacity to work in interactions with various teams.

Key accountabilities:
•Prepare and consolidate monthly results (Management / Flash / Forecast) at standard costs
•Collate and compile information and prepare budget of dedicated activity for Assistant Manager’s review. Involve in the yearly budget preparation and quarterly revisions
•Prepare Gap analysis report between actual and estimates in relation with analytic control. Validate and perform 1st level of business analysis and carry out investigation appropriately and highlight to Assistant Manager/Finance Manager on any anomalies or significant deviation / trend noted.
•Assist Assistant Manager / Finance Manager in carrying out the performance studies for Line and Finance Management
•Obtain, validate and extract relevant information from various systems and Business Units to produce reports and perform data analysis on a timely basis
•Ensure accuracy in the computation of standard costs and make revisions as required
•Collate and compile information and prepare various indicators / dashboards to support decision making process
•Prepare profitability analysis as and when required by superior
•Attend to any ad-hoc requests and contribute to problem solving for ad-hoc issues arising during period close or voyage completion
•For non-shipping activities: Assist in the production and book engagements to calculate accruals in relation with analytic control
•Support in the periodic Financial Control reporting and review or any other projects and tasks assigned from time to time

Essential Skills:
•Bachelor Accounting Degree or complete full / partial Professional Degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Admin/Shipping (Min CGPA 3.0 and above)
•At least 3 years of relevant working experience in a similar function, preferably from a maritime or financial environment in costing role.
•Explanatory Guide: 3 years excludes internship/short-term posting/experience which is less than 1 year.
•Preferably large organization, or at least medium sized corp. where candidates are exposed to usage of various systems.
•Excellent computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Office (Excel, Words and Power point)
•Capex and cash flow budgeting/forecasting for treasury payment/project expenditure is not what we are looking for, though the word suggest budgeting/forecasting.
•Inventory or stock management & costing is not sufficient
•Excel at least intermediate level, can perform PIVOT, V-Lookup, and various functions & formulas)
•Has shipping knowledge
•Strong cost accounting knowledge, data analysis and diagnosis
•Knowledge in financial control, accounting process and analysis
•Good written and verbal communication skills
•Strong team player with ability to work independently and be proactive
•Ability to work under time pressure to meet deadlines within tight time frames
•Good organizational and analytical skills with a mature methodical approach to tasks
•Demonstrate ability to solve problems and offer innovative solutions;
•Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus
•Strong attention to detail
•Ability to engage and build strong work relationships with Operations, Commercial and Management in order to effectively influence and be considered dependable
•Knowledge Proficiency in SAP/Oracle financial systems