Finance Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Finance Manager

Experience Required: Minimum 5–7 years of accounting experience in shipping & Logistics Industry.

Location: Sharjah, UAE

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Description

The Finance Manager is responsible for managing, maintaining, and reporting the financial activities related to shipping operations, including freight, customs, warehousing, and voyage-related transactions. This role ensures accurate billing, cost tracking, financial reporting, and compliance with accounting standards while supporting smooth coordination between finance and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and maintain financial records, reports, and general ledger accounts.

• Ensure accurate billing for freight, customs, warehousing, and other services.

• Track revenues and expenses for each shipment or voyage.

• Prepare voyage profit and loss statements.

• Monitor charter hire, demurrage, and freight payments.

• Oversee billing, invoicing, reconciliation of accounts, and generate financial reports. also negotiate with carriers, Agents, and track performance metrics.

• Process payments to port agents and other vendors.

• Ensure timely invoices to customers and collection of dues.

• Knowledge of shipping operations and terms (e.g., demurrage, laytime, time charter, in gage, exit entry).

• Prepare bank statements, reconciliations, on daily basis

• Knowledge in Odoo Software is an advantage

• Freight vendor invoices and ensure proper GL coding

• Budgeting, cost analysis, and financial planning.

• Maintain accurate financial documentation and filing systems.

• Collaborate with logistics managers, fleet supervisors, and warehouse heads for accurate financial capture.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• Minimum 5–7 years of accounting experience in shipping & Logistics Industry.

• Strong understanding of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards).

• Excellent analytical, organizational, and time-management skills.

• Good command of Arabic & English.