The company is seeking a proactive Accountant for its Post Fixture, Opex and Business Process roles. You will be the company's professional resource in accounting for post fixture expenses and revenues (time charter hires), technical expenses budget management, cost control, fund request and capital investment projects. The candidate will have the opportunity to improve and implement processes and systems in accordance with their professional recommendations to enhance budget management, cost control, fund request and charter-hire payment. Candidate must be independent and diligent nature should be combined with a constructive attitude and the ability to work as team member across multi functions, different levels of an organisation and with external parties as ship technical managers, agents and Charterers.
Main Responsibilities:
Fleet Technical
- Annual Opex and Capex budgeting
- Prepare and analyze monthly and quarterly cost reports for projects and technical operations, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Monitor actual costs vs. budgeted costs and investigate variances.
- Continuous strengthen existing budgetary and cost control processes.
- Performance analyzes, map and document business processes.
- Develop and maintain cost control procedures to ensure compliance with company policies, procedures and accounting manual.
- Compliance with OPEX & Capex accounting policies and procedures.
- Coordination and monitoring of ship managers reporting process, including ensuring smooth flow of data through various reporting IT systems.
- Follow up of administrative tasks and data quality.
- Work with head of procurement to manage costs associated with contracts and agreements.
- Advise and guide ship managers on company's policies, standards and address their strength and weaknesses.
- Follow up of site team cost and owners benefits for newbuilding.
- Fund request by ship managers and charter-hire payment monitoring.
- Coordinate with Technical, Operations and Accounting teams.
- Work with our digital team to increase performance and data analysis.
- Support business needs as required.
Commercial Operation Voyage/Hire Revenues and cost
- Understanding of charter party (CP).
- Handling of Voyage Management System (VMS) as operational accounting, generate Hire Invoices, capture voyages expenses/cost and interco.
- Posting data from VMS result to accounting software XLedger in handling of AR/AP, generate revenues reporting.
- Quarterly accounts closing of Voyage Revenues and submit reports to London for Management Reporting
- Keep record of outstanding and aging report
- Good control of Accounting standard practices, provide guidance and work closely with Vessel Operators
- Responsible to both Internal Control and External Auditors inquiries
- Reconciliation of Final Hire Statement
- Provide voyage analysis as and when required
