Financial Controller

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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