Chief Finance Officer

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

1. PURPOSE

The job holder will manage and monitor the financial and fiscal activities of the entity cluster (Vietnam and Cambodia) and supervise the Internal Control.

2. WORK RELATIONSHIP

• Internal: All departments within countries; Head Office (HO); Asian Regional Office (ARO).
• External: Customers, Banks, Vendors, Auditors…

3. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure accounting and financial information are accurate, reliable and compliant with local rules and Group financial processes and procedures (IFRS, etc.) in coordination with FiCOM/GBS.
• Assure the application of Group financial rules and procedures (customer collection, treasury, working capital, financing).
• Build the budget with the Management of the entity and ensure its monitoring and as business partner support the Management in all development and optimization projects of the entity/ies.
• Serve as a reference for local authorities in his scope of responsibilities: financial institutions, legal auditors (and other external bodies) and for Group internal departments.
• Propose, implement, monitor all necessary actions to reach performance targets (KPI) set up by the Group and contribute to the optimization of financial processes.
• Assure the appropriation and the correct application of internal control rules and warn the General Manager as well as Group Finance Department (Financial control Department) and Fraud department of any fraud and/or compliance issue).

What sorts of problems are typical for the job?

What decisions are required?

What decisions are required to be referred to supervisors?

Agency Scorecard

Coordinate all functional units to ensure agency KPIs are met at highest scores.

GM and Regional CFO influence functional unit to achieve targets.

CFO Scorecard

Lead team to meet finance KPIs

GM and Regional CFO support team to achieve targets.

Business improvements

Coordinate team for process improvement across functional units

GM and Regional CFO support to have agreeable and effective process

People development

Build, train and develop finance people to best in class

GM and Regional CFO support to motivate staffs and career.

Best finance services

Improve finance services to provide adequate support to other functional units

GM and Regional CFO support to have best effective finance services.

4. QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFILE

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting / Finance.
• Minimum 10 years working experience with the same position in the MNCs.
• Financial accounting and financial management reporting.

• Knowledge of process, law and commerce.
• People management, holding team’s accountability, coaching skill, building effective team, share vision, motivating others.
• Analytical skill, Leading change, Positive toward changes, Proactive, Dynamic, Problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in both Vietnamese and English as you would be dealing with local authorities and working in an internationally diverse workplace.
• Skill at PowerPoint, Microsoft offices, and other office applications.

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !