Sr Manager - Finance - Construction

Responsibilities:

- Conduct financial review of the project progress with the project team & compare to approved budget and analyse the reason for variance

- Arrive the quarterly project % of completion, spend accounting, provisioning for financial book closure

- Collate future needs and identify price advantages in terms of procurement, and be able to work with Procurement team

- Participate in commercial discussion of large vendor contracts & procurement benchmarking

- Ability to spot excessive procurement costs, waste and fraud in the system, and ways to reduce costs during execution

- Have knowledge of Government and statutory requirements for civil, and work with legal, finance, taxation, (to deal with SEZ, and other tax regimes, labour laws, business taxes etc)

- Have the ability to understand and resolve contractual disputes in terms of financial and commercial issues, and be able to present a balanced opinion.

- Have the experience in contracts administration to safeguard Wipro’s interest and limit Wipro’s liability. Responsible for financial documentation control, contract claim management for escalation & variations.

- Should have high leadership, negotiation & convincing skills

- Maintain & update the standard cost of construction with item wise break up

- MIS reporting of civil project under construction, budget vs variance analysis, project progress/deviation review with the project team

- Contractor bill accounting and provisioning, review of the balance budget requirement and % of completion of the project, periodical vendor running bill accounting and final bill closure.

- Knowledge of taxation requirement related to construction industry - WCT, VAT, Service tax

Role Demands:

Excellence in strategic and analytical problem solving:

- Excellence in financial analysis to address cost escalation change request concerns, quick analytical thinking, and able to have focused energy in transforming problems into solutions.

Outstanding leadership and communication skills:

- Polished verbal and written communication style. Ability to confidently build a strong rapport with project teams and the customer teams. Good networking skills to work across different multicultural teams towards focused goal. Comfortable in interacting with and presenting to executives and senior business leaders.

Personal Drive:

- Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape your own career path. Commitment to making a positive lasting client impact.

Self-Guided Attitude:

- The ability to succeed in a professional environment where inter functional and project direction is not always well defined. Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging environments.

Experience and skill set required:

- CA, ICWA candidate preferable.

- Finance leadership experience in Constructions industry is mandatory.

- Excellent skills in MS Office Tools (Power Point, Word, Excel)

- System/process improvement project implementation experience desirable