About this role
Demurrage Analyst for Marathon's global marine team, focused on developing and evaluating demurrage claims and negotiating settlements for blue and brown water vessels. The role also supports analysis, root cause investigation, reporting, and monitoring demurrage receivables.
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiate settlements of tanker demurrage claims
- Evaluate contracts to determine billable demurrage to third parties
- Analyze payable demurrage and ancillary post fixture claims payable to shipowners/third parties
- Provide invoicing and pay instructions to the accounting team
- Perform analytical support including root cause analysis and receivables monitoring
Technical Overview
Performs detailed claim analysis against charter party and cargo contract terms, validating claims using voyage documents, distance tables, and vendor invoices. Produces invoicing and pay instructions to accounting and conducts root cause analysis on demurrage events while assessing intercompany charges and tracking receivables.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of industry-related experience handling demurrage claims, including evaluating contracts and negotiating settlements for tanker demurrage. They are strong in analyzing voyage documents, distance tables, and vendor invoices, and they can provide accurate invoicing and pay instructions to accounting. They also demonstrate analytical root cause analysis skills and can monitor demurrage receivables for delinquent payments.
Must-Have Skills
development and evaluation of claimsnegotiates settlements of routine to moderately complex tanker demurrage claimsevaluates cost and freight or delivered commodity sales contracts to determine barge billable demurrage to third partiesanalyzes payable claims arising out of charter party contracts and free on board or delivered cargo contractsreviews and provides invoicing and pay instructions to accounting teamroot cause analysis of demurrage eventsassesses intercompany demurrage charges on time chartered vesselsmonitors demurrage account receivables to identify delinquent payments
Nice-to-Have Skills
experience with both blue and brown water vessel demurrage
Required Skills
development and evaluation of claimsnegotiates settlements of routine to moderately complex tanker demurrage claimsanalyzes cost and freight or delivered commodity sales contractscompiles and prepares post fixture claims for reimbursementcharter party contractsfree on board or delivered cargo contractsvoyage documentsdistance tablesvendor invoicesinvoicing and pay instructions to accounting teamroot cause analysisintercompany demurrage chargestime chartered vesselsdemurrage accounts receivables monitoringreports
Hard Skills
development and evaluation of claimsnegotiation and settlement of demurragetanker demurrage claims settlementcost and freight contract evaluationdelivered commodity sales contracts analysisbarge billable demurrage to third partiescompiling and preparing post fixture claims for reimbursementcharter party contracts claim analysisFOB or delivered cargo contract analysisdemurrage and ancillary post fixture claims payable to shipownersvoyage documents validationdistance tablesvendor invoices reviewinvoicing and pay instructions to accounting teamroot cause analysis of demurrage eventsintercompany demurrage charges assessmentcompiling and disseminating reportsdemurrage accounts receivables monitoringdelinquent payments identification
Soft Skills
NegotiationAccountabilityAdaptabilityBusiness AcumenChange FacilitationCommercial AwarenessCommunicationContinuous LearningData AnalysisProblem SolvingSelf-StarterWork Management
Keywords for Your Resume
Demurrage Analysttanker demurrage claimsdemurrage settlementsblue and brown water vessel demurrageclaims developmentclaims evaluationcharter party contractsfree on boardFOBdelivered cargo contractscost and freight contractsdelivered commodity sales contractsbarge billable demurragepost fixture claimsreimbursementvoyage documentsdistance tablesvendor invoicesinvoicing and pay instructionsaccounting teamroot cause analysisdemurrage eventsintercompany demurrage chargestime chartered vesselsdemurrage account receivablesdelinquent paymentsreports
Deal Breakers
Bachelor's degree in Marine Transportation or Business Administration (or 5 years of experience in lieu), Two (2) or more years of industry-related experience required, Experience negotiating settlements of tanker demurrage claims
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