Lead Financial Controller

Maersk; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Lead Financial Controller – Group Reporting & Controllership to oversee group consolidation and the financial close process across entities worldwide. You will partner with senior finance leaders to ensure accurate, timely reporting and strong financial controls.

You will apply IFRS and GAAP, coordinate audits, and drive improvements in governance and automation while growing into broader leadership responsibilities in a dynamic international setting.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Financial Control, Group Reporting, Consolidation and Accounting & Reporting.
• Proven IFRS knowledge and month-/quarter-/year-end reporting expertise.
• Experience in multinational reporting environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate group consolidation and financial close activities across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Coordinate reporting activities to meet deadlines through planning, alignment and delegation.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery of reporting outputs.
• Review consolidation adjustments, intercompany balances, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Own month-, quarter-, and year-end reporting cycles and key deliverables.
• Support consolidated financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Apply IFRS and APMM GAAP in FX, leases, provisions, impairments, and business combinations.
• Coordinate external audits, manage requests, and build stakeholder relationships.
• Drive governance, automation, standardisation and continuous improvement of reporting.

Skills

Financial control

Group reporting

Consolidation

IFRS

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Leadership potential

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

OneStream

Hyperion/HFM

SAP

Oracle

Job description

APM Terminals At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. What drives us forward is a mindset of always improving, observing how work happens, identifying what creates value, and removing what gets in the way. We constantly look for smarter, simpler, and safer ways of operating. If you thrive in environments where people value learning and are committed to continuously improve daily operations, join us and be a part of our journey.

Lead Financial Controller – Group Reporting & Controllership

As Lead Financial Controller, you will play a central role in ensuring the integrity, accuracy and timely delivery of group consolidation and financial reporting across a global organisation. Working closely with senior finance leadership, you will act as a trusted sparring partner, helping create clarity across multiple priorities, maintain financial control, solve complex reporting challenges, and continuously improve how the team operates. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong accounting and reporting expertise with a hands‑on mindset and enjoys balancing multiple stakeholders, reporting cycles, audit deadlines and competing priorities in a dynamic international environment. We are not necessarily looking for an established senior people leader. Instead, we are seeking someone with the potential and ambition to grow into broader leadership responsibilities while already demonstrating strong ownership, coordination skills, and the ability to bring people together around shared goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate group consolidation and financial close activities across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Coordinate and prioritise work across reporting activities, ensuring deadlines are met through effective planning, alignment and delegation.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery of reporting and consolidation outputs.
• Review consolidation adjustments, intercompany balances, and key balance sheet reconciliations.
• Own and coordinate the month‑end, quarter‑end and year‑end reporting cycle, ensuring accurate and timely execution of all key deliverables.
• Support the preparation and review of consolidated financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Apply IFRS and APMM GAAP requirements across areas including foreign exchange, leases, provisions, impairments, and business combinations.
• Coordinate external audit activities, manage requests, support issue resolution, and build strong stakeholder relationships across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Shared Services, and the business.
• Drive reporting quality, governance, automation, standardisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What We Are Looking For

Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset, curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.

Leadership expectation: We are looking for people who consistently put customers first, lead by example with respect for people, deliver results with integrity, and drive continuous improvement by solving problems at the root, developing people, and raising standards every day.

Proven experience in Financial Control, Group Reporting, Consolidation, and Accounting & Reporting.

Strong applied knowledge of IFRS and experience managing month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end reporting processes.

Experience within a multinational reporting, consolidation or corporate finance environment.

Exposure to OneStream, Hyperion/HFM, SAP, Oracle or similar reporting environments.

Strong understanding of consolidation, intercompany accounting, balance sheet integrity, financial controls, and external audit requirements.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple reporting workstreams and deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality and accuracy.

Strong stakeholder management, communication, professional judgement, and problem‑solving capabilities, combined with a hands‑on approach.

Interested? Do you recognize yourself in the above profile? We are looking forward to hear from you.

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A.P. Moller – Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end‑to‑end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end‑to‑end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world. For more information click here. All the way.