Job Description

Join our global team for a career filled with opportunities to solve challenges both small and large, local and global, simple and complex.

Wilhelmsen Ship Management is one of the world’s largest third-party ship managers originated from Oslo, Norway with over 20,000 employees including our seafarers with a portfolio of more than 450 vessels and counting. Our employees are working with a comprehensive global maritime group providing over half of the merchant fleet with essential products and services, along with supplying crew and technical management to the largest and most complex vessels ever to sail.

We offer a culture and vibrant work environment of strong leadership, collaborative, career development, work-life balance and a job that is both challenging and stimulating. All team members are empowered with the freedom to influence each other as long it complies with our Company’s values and vision.

Main responsibilities

• Preparing funds request to vessel owners and update funds schedule on a monthly basis.

• Posting bank related entries via FEBA for non-open item payments

• Performing vessel bank reconciliation on a monthly basis.

• Verifying payroll entries on a monthly basis

• Verifying opening balances of onboard cash acc, provision and bond stores.

• Verifying all purchases made with cash onboard are supported by original receipt.

• Verifying all expenses are supported with proper documents.

• Preparation of requisition forms for payment.

• Posting entries from manning agent disbursement in the accounting system.

• Ensuring expenses are coded accordingly and approved by relevant Crewing Manager, Vessel Manager and Fleet Manager (where appropriate).

• Posting appropriate journal entries (accruals, adjustments, amortization etc).

• Verifying the Gard Insurance distribution.

• Reconciling vessel balance sheet items on a monthly basis - a few examples are given below:

  • Advances

  • Accounts Payables

  • Crew Balance of Wages

  • Allotment

  • Cash to Master

  • Open P.O. lists

  • Other balance sheet items

• Verifying figure accuracy in online reporting.

• Performing analytical review before submission to Management Centers.

• Preparing and submitting of monthly reports for vessel owners within the deadlines.

• Ensuring supporting documents are adequate and complete.

• Maintaining a proper filing for financial statements, bank statements, budgets, other correspondence etc.

• Preparing of budget follow up report (comparison of actual against budget figures) where applicable.

Qualifications

Mandatory requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field, or an equivalent qualification from a recognized professional accounting body

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, with strong skills in Microsoft Excel

• Good command of English; Mandarin language skills would be an added advantage

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills

• High attention to detail and strong numerical accuracy

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