Financial Controller

Job ID:40785
 

Financial Controller

Lloyd’s Register

Location: Mumbai, India

What we’re looking for

The Financial Controller for the COO function is a key member of the Maritime Finance Organisation, responsible for the timely and accurate reporting of actual financial performance. This ensures Maritime Finance can effectively evaluate results against the Budget, latest forecasts, and the prior year. The role also involves identifying, communicating, and addressing risks and issues as they arise.

Reporting within the Maritime Finance team, the Financial Controller supports the Finance Business Partner through a dotted line relationship. The position carries responsibility for both the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, requiring a strong focus on maintaining robust controls and ensuring all reported data is accurate and well-explained.

This role is an integral part of the broader Financial Controller community, and it's essential that it contributes to the adoption of best practices, adheres to standard templates and controls, and actively participates in knowledge sharing across the function.

What we offer you 

• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs
• Hybrid Work

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The Role 

• Ensure that monthly, quarterly and annual performance is accurately reported and ready for review by Business Finance in accordance with published timetables.
• Ensure that all material variances to Budget, latest forecast and Prior Year are explained clearer and concisely
• Work with the Finance Shared Service Centre, the Statutory Compliance and GL teams, as well as Business Managers to gain a full understanding of financial performance.
• Work with fellow controllers and the Head of Financial accounting to ensure that a common process with common templates are followed.
• Provide answers to questions from Maritime Finance and management in relation to financial performance; and where answers are not known, to take responsibility for getting the answers in a timely basis.

• Act as an interface between Maritime Finance and the Statutory Compliance and GL teams and the Finance Shared Service Centre, helping to resolve any reporting and process issues.
• Ensure that the Balance Sheet is reviewed and understood and that any risks and opportunities in the Balance Sheet are clearly communicated to Maritime Finance in liaison with the GL team.
• Take the lead on responding to audit queries in relation to P&L and Balance Sheet movements. Ensuring the responses are clear and concise and reflect the risk to the reported

What you bring

• Degree qualified with a management accounting/commercial accounting background; a recognised professional accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and significant experience of operating in an international finance function, with medium to large matrix structure.
• Being regarded as a trusted and credible resource by key stakeholders within both business and/or area management teams; able to build strong relationships.  Have a ‘hands on’ approach, visible across the businesses with good communication and other interpersonal skills.
• An enthusiastic and committed team player who can establish and maintain strong relationships with business leaders and across the Finance community.
• Able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of a strong control framework

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About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

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• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

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