Financial Controller

Lloyd’s Register

Location: Mumbai, India

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for an experienced finance professional with solid financial control, reporting and stakeholder management capabilities. As part of the Class & Advisory Finance team, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely and accurate reporting of financial performance, providing insight into actual results against budget, forecast and prior year performance. You will bring a good understanding of P&L and balance sheet management, a focus on financial controls and governance, and the ability to identify, communicate and resolve financial risks and issues. Working closely with Finance Business Partners and the wider Financial Controller community, you will help promote consistency, best practice and high-quality financial reporting across the business.

What We Offer You

The opportunity to work for an organization that has a clear sense of purpose, is values-based 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 Head of Finance Controlling and the Head of Financial accounting to ensure that common processes with common templates are followed.
• Provide answers to questions from Class & Advisory 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 Class & Advisory 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 Class & Advisory Finance in liaison with the GL team.
• Respond 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.
  
  

• 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 good relationships. Have a practical approach, visible across the businesses with good communication and other interpersonal skills.
• A motivated and effective collaborator who can establish and maintain good relationships with business leaders and across the Finance community.
• Ability to demonstrate a thorough understanding of a solid control framework.
  
  

• Is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs
• Is able to self-manage and prioritize tasks towards meeting goals
• Is effective at solving problems, trouble-shooting and making timely decisions
• Is motivated and willing to take initiative
• Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present technical ideas in user-friendly language
• Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment
• Responds positively to learning opportunities and is comfortable stepping out of own comfort zone