Financial Controller
Lloyd's Register
- Location
- Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- accounting
- business strategy
- compliance
- interpersonal skills
About the role
Lloyd's Register
Website:
lr.org
Job details:
Lloyd’s Register
Location: - Mumbai, India
What We’re Looking For
- The Financial Controller for Global Functions & CCO is part of the Maritime Finance Organisation. The role is accountable for ensuring that actual financial performance is reported timely and accurately, enabling Maritime Finance to fully understand financial performance compared to Budget, latest forecast and prior year. All risks and issues should be followed up and acted upon, ensuring they have been shared and explained.
- The Financial Controller is part of the Maritime Finance team with a dotted line reporting to the CCO Finance Business Partner to whom they support.
- The role has both P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility, ensuring controls are maintained and data reported is accurate and explainable.
- It is critical that the role operates as part of the Financial Controller function, ensuring best practice is shared, common templates are used and controls are followed.
What We Offer You
- The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose is value driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes.
- A Full-time permanent role.
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 clearly and concisely
- Support the annual Global Functions budgeting cycle by preparing and reviewing budget submissions, ensuring underlying assumptions are robust and aligned with business strategy.
- Collaborate with budget owners to ensure cost lines (e.g., personnel, L&P, insurance, promotional costs) reflect accurate phasing and expected activity.
- Prepare periodic Global Functions forecasts (i.e. 0+12, 3+9, 6+6 & 9+3 cycles) to assess whether the business remains on track to deliver its budget.
- Update forecast assumptions through engagement with stakeholders, including headcount planning, staff movements, cross-charges and major cost drivers.
- 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, the GL & Overheads Controller and the Head of Financial accounting to ensure that common processes 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 obtaining the answers in a timely manner.
- Act as an interface between Maritime Finance and the Statutory Compliance Team, GL team 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 results
- Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements
- 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
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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