Financial Controller - Shipping
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About the Role
A confidential company seeks a Financial Controller to take full ownership of accounting and controls for its Maritime business. The role includes managing accounting staff, audit relationships, consolidated financial statements, budgeting, cash flow analysis, tax compliance, and leveraging AI/automation tools.
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Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of accounting and controls for the Maritime business, including supervision of accounting staff
- Own the audit relationship and processes for all related subsidiaries
- Produce consolidated financial statements for the Maritime business in accordance with IFRS
- Ensure timely close of ledgers and submission of reporting packs to Group Accounting
- Perform periodic detailed reviews of balance sheets and schedules of subsidiaries
- Support and develop a proper internal control framework
- Prepare cashflows and budgets for the full Maritime business and analyse liquidity and cash forecasting needs
- Understand, manage and report the forex exposure of the Maritime business
- Review profit and accrual numbers and challenge the business on appropriateness of accruals and provisions
- Prepare qualitative management packs, monthly variance analysis and financial KPIs
- Develop accounting policies and write accounting memos
- Resolve complex accounting issues in areas such as revenue recognition and financial instruments
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or similar
- Minimum 10 years of experience directly related to managing and controlling a company’s financial management system
- Managerial experience
- Experience within the Maritime industry
- Strong understanding of accounting standards
- Excellent analytical skills and proven experience developing and improving reporting processes
- Solid experience engaging with senior stakeholders, banks, auditors, and advisory services
- Genuine interest in AI and automation with practical experience applying such tools to finance work
- Master’s Degree (preferred)
- Certified / Chartered Accountant (preferred)
- Financial modelling and investment analysis capability (preferred)
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Core Controllership
- Take full ownership of the accounting and controls for the Maritime business, including supervision of the accounting staff and teams as the company grows its global Maritime footprint.
- Own the audit relationship and processes for all related subsidiaries.
- Produce consolidated financial statements for the Maritime business in accordance with IFRS, translating locally produced financial statements to group policy.
- Ensure timely close of the ledgers at every month end and submission of reporting packs to Group Accounting.
- Perform periodic detailed reviews of the balance sheets and schedules of subsidiaries within the Maritime business to ensure accurate accounting.
- Support and develop a proper internal control framework and guide the organisation through corrective measures to ensure good governance and best practice.
Planning, Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare cashflows and budgets for the full Maritime business and analyse its liquidity and cash forecasting needs.
- Understand, manage and report the forex exposure of the Maritime business.
- Review profit and accrual numbers and challenge the business on the appropriateness of accruals and provisions.
- Prepare qualitative management packs, monthly variance analysis and financial KPIs, providing insight into the drivers behind the numbers.
Technical Accounting
- Develop accounting policies as required and write accounting memos explaining the interpretation of accounting standards and the treatment of specific transactions.
- Resolve complex accounting issues arising in areas such as revenue recognition and financial instruments.
Tax & Compliance
- Maintain and keep up to date a central calendar of all tax and legislative reporting requirements.
- Identify opportunities to reduce tax exposure, forecast tax cashflows, and work with the tax accountant and external advisers to validate the appropriate indirect tax treatment of transactions.
Systems, Data & AI
- Maintain a thorough end to end view of the system landscape and transaction flow – from front office systems and market valuations through to final accounting treatment and reporting.
- Make active use of AI and automation tools across the finance function – streamlining reconciliations, data capture, reporting and exception review – and continuously improve ways of working as these tools evolve.
- Ensure finance data is clean, well structured and properly integrated across systems so that it readily supports automation and analysis.
Investment Support (secondary)
- Support the MFMI team with financial analysis on asset investment projects as they arise – sense checking deal cash flows, financing assumptions and returns, and helping translate deal economics into the correct accounting treatment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or similar
- Excellent analytical skills and proven experience of developing and improving reporting processes.
- Solid experience and comfort engaging with senior stakeholders and external stakeholders and parties like banks, auditors and advisory services
- Drive and determination to master complex, business driven accounting processes
- Strong understanding of accounting standards
- Genuine interest in AI and automation, with practical experience applying such tools to day to day finance work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- Certified / Chartered Accountant
- Financial modelling and investment analysis capability (cash flows, returns, sensitivities).
Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience directly related to managing and controlling a company’s financial management system
- Managerial experience
- Experience within the Maritime industry
- Exposure to deal, transaction or investment environments is a plus.
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