CMA CGM

Finance Generalist Director Lebanon

CMA CGM  •  Beirut, LB (Onsite)  •  7 hours ago
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Job Description

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.

GBS is an organization that provide back office and transactional service for multiple departments of the CMA CGM group. The finance and accounting function is spread across the geography with centers in Costa Rica , Tallin , China , Lebanon, Manila, Bulgaria, Portugal along with India, being the primary Hub. We also have portion of Finance delivered by Third Party service providers

FA& Logistics Delivery head is responsible to head the F&A Logistics operations managed in GBS India handled by both inhouse as well by Third Party. The person will also act as a Global F&A owner for the Logistics business delivered across other locations.

REPORTING STRUCTURE

Direct Line

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Direct Team (Hierarchical)

4-5

Functional Team

Finance & Accounting Services ( F&A Services )

Base Location

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PURPOSE

The F&A Logistic Delivery Head will ensure that the GBS Finance And accounting Team is organized, trained, equipped and motivated to deliver service as per agreed TAT and quality levels. He is building and maintaining relationships with HO Finance Function owners to ensure alignment with Business. He is the key contact with all Stakeholders for regions in scope and Head office, coordinating with the Business development head.

He is leading and animating a team of seasoned managers to ensure delivery and continuous improvements with a large experience, and knowledge on their process scope. prioritizing tasks and managing resources to achieve product goals in a timely and efficient manner through utilization of metrics and data-driven decision, as well as promote Transformation, along with standardization and compliance, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

People:

  • Manage team all F&A Streams per (O2C/P2P/RTR)

  • Ensure staffing at the agreed level for each activity.

  • Manage within industry level of attrition without impact of delivery.

  • Develop skills and talent to permit new added value task transitions.

  • Promote Ownership and transformation Mindset within the team.

  • Identify, motivate and retain talents

  • Ensure equity, respect and fairness of management over a global team

Process /Projects:

  • Guarantee quality and timelines of monthly financial closing for each entity under scope

  • Drive Process/Optimization and Automation through Continuous Improvements

  • Identifying opportunities for process optimization, standardization, and automation to enhance service quality and reduce costs. Opportunities should be prioritized to improve the Customer Experience and address the Business pain points.

  • Standardization and Automation – Promote RPA’s plans.

  • Build the business case for improvements and get the approval from Function Owners

  • Develop and maintain transversal activities:

  • Process Management, standardization

  • Core project management as per set Roadmaps

  • Host niche activities and subsidiaries

Business Management:

  • Manage within set Productivity target, with continuous review and enhancement.

  • Focus on Service Delivery:

  • Hitting service quality target and SLA’

  • Guarantee the timeliness of each activity.

  • Report all measurables timely on activity to stakeholders.

  • Market success and failures

  • Assess root causes to ensure future success.

  • Compliance of all activity performed toward local, international regulation and group standard, in full alignment with Group Financial internal Control.

  • Manage the transition for each business, Transfer and transform to have a standard and optimized approach and plan of work for each process delivered.

  • Build and maintain BCP plan for all transferred process.

  • Ensure Process Excellence through building and propagating best Practice and making it standard.

  • Continuously assess risk of Fraud to reduce and eliminate them.

  • Arbitrate issues with stakeholders and propose solutions matching core and local requirements.

  • Innovation and Technology: Staying updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and enhance service capabilities, with a special focus on Artificial Intelligence solutions.

  • Drive Change management along the team

Please ensure you are familiar with the CMA CGM Corporate Internal Mobility guidelines.

CMA CGM

About CMA CGM

The CMA CGM Group is a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, true to its corporate Purpose, "We imagine better ways to serve a world in motion".

Present in 177 countries, it employs 160,000 people, of which nearly 6,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

The world's 3rd largest shipping company, CMA CGM serves more than 420 ports across 5 continents with a fleet of over 650 vessels. In 2024, CMA CGM carried over 23 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers. Its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, one of the world's top five players, operates 1,000 warehouses and handled 15 million shipments in 2024. CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the Group's air freight division, will operate a fleet of 6 cargo aircraft by 2025.

CMA Media, France's 3rd largest private media group, includes RMC-BFM and several national and regional press titles (La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune, La Provence and Corse Matin).

Committed to energy transition, the CMA CGM Group is aiming for Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

The CMA CGM Foundation provides humanitarian aid in crisis situations, and is committed to education for all and equal opportunities throughout the world. To date, the CMA CGM Foundation has transported 63,000 tons of humanitarian aid to 97 countries and supported over 550 educational projects.

Industry
Transportation & Logistics
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Marseille, FR
Year Founded
1978
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