Marine Personnel Cost Control Lead

About the role

The Marine Personnel Cost Control Lead provides advanced crewing and manning financial coordination and cost governance support to the Marine Personnel function. As a cross-functional facilitator, the role ensures accurate cost allocation, robust expenditure monitoring and clear financial communication across Fleet, Marine Personnel, Procurement and Finance, acting as a subject matter expert on crewing OPEX control, payroll-linked cost analysis and vendor-related spending.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and validate monthly seafarer wage execution across all vessels, ensuring timely payment, continuous bank detail verification and compliance with payroll governance.
• Track and communicate crew and manning OPEX budget performance to Fleet Management and Superintendents, supporting accurate manning OPEX allocation and variance resolution.
• Ensure crew costs are authorised, recorded and allocated to the correct GL accounts in line with budgets, finance policies and internal controls.
• Maintain complete, audit-ready documentation for reviews, audits and variance analysis.
• Act as central liaison between MPD, Fleet, Finance, Procurement and external providers, and support crewing procurement by preparing financial inputs for crewing contracts and commercial assessments.
• Validate vendor invoices with Finance, confirm GL/cost centre application and review month-end cost allocation outputs.
• Monitor expenditure trends, highlight deviations and provide structured financial insights to the Head of Marine Personnel and Technical Manager.
• Generate analytical reports, dashboards and cost summaries for senior leadership, and identify workflow optimisation opportunities.
• Support system improvements and digitalisation of payroll-linked cost allocation, cost capture and reporting, and promote best practices in financial documentation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management/Administration or a related field.
• 5 years' experience in cost control, financial coordination or payroll-linked accounting at a shipping company, or 8 years ashore in a similar cost control and finance role.

Required skills

• Understanding of analytical and problem-solving tools and methodologies.
• Ability to develop and implement cost-saving initiatives.
• ERP systems such as SAP, AMOS and crewing systems.
• Microsoft Office suite.