Financial Controller

Job ID:41466
 

Financial Controller (COO)

Lloyd’s Register
Location: Mumbai, India | Maritime Finance

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for an experienced Financial Controller to join Lloyd’s Register’s Maritime Finance Organisation in Mumbai. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring actual financial performance is reported accurately and on time, enabling Maritime Finance to fully understand performance against Budget, latest forecast, and prior year.

This role sits within the Maritime Finance teams, with a dotted line into the Finance Business Partner, and includes both P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility. You will play a key role in maintaining a strong control environment, driving consistency, and ensuring that risks and issues are escalated, understood, and acted upon.

What we offer you

• A key finance role within a globally recognised organisation with a strong purpose and values.

• Exposure to a complex, international matrix environment with a strong finance community.

• The opportunity to work in a role with real accountability across both P&L and Balance Sheet.

• A collaborative culture focused on quality, continuous improvement, and best practice.

The role

As Financial Controller for COO, you will support accurate and timely reporting, ensure strong governance and controls, and provide clear insight into financial performance.

Performance reporting

• Ensure monthly, quarterly, and annual performance is accurately reported and ready for review by Business Finance, in line with published timetables.

• Ensure all material variances to Budget, latest forecast, and prior year are clearly and concisely explained.

• Follow up and act on risks and issues, ensuring they are shared, understood, and appropriately escalated.

Financial insight and business support

• Provide timely answers to questions from Maritime Finance and management in relation to financial performance.

• Where answers are not known, take ownership for obtaining them within agreed timelines.

• Work with Business Managers to build a full understanding of financial performance drivers.

Cross-functional finance collaboration

• Work closely with the Finance Shared Service Centre, Statutory Compliance, and GL teams to ensure reporting is accurate, complete, and explainable.

• Act as an interface between Maritime Finance and the Statutory Compliance Team, GL team, and Finance Shared Service Centre, helping resolve reporting and process issues.

• Work with fellow controllers, the GL & Overheads Controller, and the Head of Financial Accounting to ensure common processes, templates, and controls are followed.

Balance Sheet ownership and controls

• Ensure the Balance Sheet is reviewed and understood, and that risks and opportunities are clearly communicated to Maritime Finance, in liaison with the GL team.

• Maintain and demonstrate a strong control framework across reporting and processes.

Audit and governance

• Take the lead on responding to audit queries relating to P&L and Balance Sheet movements.

• Ensure audit responses are clear, concise, and accurately reflect risk to reported results.

What you bring

• Degree qualified with a management accounting / commercial accounting background.

• A recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) and significant experience within an international finance function, ideally in a medium-to-large matrix structure.

• Strong understanding of financial reporting, month-end processes, and performance analysis.

• Proven experience working with Shared Service Centres and central finance teams (e.g., GL, statutory, compliance).

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility across the business and finance communities.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial performance clearly and confidently.

• A thorough understanding of a strong control framework and the discipline to follow standard processes.

You are someone who…

• Takes ownership for accurate reporting and follows issues through to resolution.

• Has a strong eye for detail and enjoys ensuring numbers are correct, explainable, and well controlled.

• Is confident working across teams and functions, especially in a matrix organisation.

• Builds strong relationships and is regarded as a trusted and credible finance partner.

• Can challenge constructively, ask the right questions, and escalate risks appropriately.

• Enjoys working to deadlines and thrives in a structured reporting cycle.

• Values consistency and best practice, and actively supports standardisation across teams.
  
  

  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.

    

   

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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.

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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! 

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 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. 

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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.

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