Fin Ops Mgr at DAMCO Logistics Kenya Ltd

As a Fin Ops Manager, you will report to the Head of Customer Service Office.

As an employee with DAMCO you will be part of diverse team of country/Area and GSC and CSO. We strongly encourage continuous learning at work and sharing of best practices by rewarding innovations. As an organization we strongly believe in a people-centric approach with emphasis on employee engagement and work-life balance.

We Offer

A Visible Role Where You Will Be Responsible For

• Fin Ops team’s accuracy in reporting by ensuring all costs are accrued correctly in time and billing done both in time and correctly
• Managing and reporting on the team’s Kewill jobs with best estimates for all bookings and handover to Operations, execute the job, and once job is completed, do final job costing
• Coordinate resolution of any exceptional issues with GSC, Customers, Operations and finance

In return, you will gain valuable experience in long-term strategy planning and execution, negotiation, and play a pivotal role in setting the future direction of Damco ESAF.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the Fin Ops Associates and team
• Engage with GSC in regular reviews
• Review job costing weekly and providing response to CSO manager and BCO.
• Providing FINOPS weekly reports and advice to senior management
• Provide weekly status of unbilled jobs with reasons and expected resolution timeliness and follow up to ensure they are billed as per plan.
• Receipt and management of exception reports, providing feedback to the CSO/Region/CEN
• Support the team’s query with GSC / Operations
• Maintain a working relationship with operations.
• Work with CI and Business Controller on continuously improving related processes in order to increase productivity, timeliness and quality.
• Ensure compliance to internal & external audit controls
• Mange ICB process
• Ensure data quality in Kewill.
• Develop an understanding of the EAF business to appreciate the dynamics and stakeholders in the business
• Partner with the GSC, IS, Operations and CS team in the CSO and increase cooperation between them.
• Collect data on errors made within the CSO to highlight improvement opportunities
• Meet up with Operations & GSC teams to address challenges faced and highlight the importance of improving the quality of inputs to GSC.

Who we are looking for

• Graduate
• Experience in Logistics sector
• A strong finance/accounting background
• Keen on details,
• An auditor sort of mindset
• Exceptional knowledge on excel.
• Knowledge of DAMCO systems and processes