General Manager - Finance & Accounts

Role Overview:

Advise on financial implications and risks related to key issues and important strategic decisions; keep all relevant stakeholders posted on a timely basis, regarding ongoing financial condition of the organization.

• Evaluate, and potentially design/redesign and implement the Companys financial, accounting and reporting processes and supporting systems, across Development and Property Management ensuring an effective financial administration.
• Oversee annual business planning and budgeting process. Develop and implement financial strategies and action plans to achieve financial objectives set in the budget jointly with business leadership.
• Oversee preparation of quarterly and interim management committee and Board of Directors financial reports.
• Ensure timely closure of all the statutory external and internal audit requirements.
• Drive SAP implementation for the Company across all departments in a timely & efficient manner and oversee Yardi stabilization for Property Management.
• Meet requirements related to centralized reporting at Group level and alignment functional processes and systems as needed.
• Effectively lead the finance / accounting team by hiring, training & retaining top-grade talent.

Development and Property Management:

• Review and update available detailed cost plan and cash flow at various stages of design and update changes on regular basis.
• Providing inputs to the commercial team in the preparation and/ or collation of tender documentation in sufficient detail to enable a tender or tenders to be obtained for the project to ensure all works are properly priced by the contractor.
• Support the commercial team on prospective tenderers to shortlist and, if required, recommend suitable contractors for consideration.
• Assist the commercial team in providing Pre- Bid estimate / priced BOQ prior to tender opening.
• Understands the composition of construction/project cost and work in progress and monitor and report periodically the nature of significant costs incurred.
• Understands, monitors and reports the key reason for variation in budgeted cost and actual cost for ongoing and completed projects.
• Ability to analyze, monitor and report the working capital requirements of the business through negotiating the mobilization and retention amounts on large contracts.
• Manage project costs, assess all variations and extra work. Ability to carry out quantity reconciliation of material working closely with QA/ QS.
• Establish the most advantageous analysis of the construction/project cost. As part of process, Cost Managers will ask vendors to submit their tax invoices, challans etc. - any specific tax related compliances will be done by vendor.
• Ability to foresee and report financial implications of delays, extensions of time on on-going projects.
• Assist in the financial control and management of the contract. Prepare and, if appropriate, negotiate the settlement of the final account.
• Assist in the drafting of special forms of agreement relating to the completion of the project and financial settlement.
• Oversee the Operations vertical and ensure alignment in processes and functions within the overall SPV.

Tax and Compliance:

• Advise alternate business models from the perspective minimizing issues and optimizing opportunities based on the identified types of supply chains for the overall business of the Company.
• Finalize tax positions for the Company in consultation with advisors.
• Suggest alterations to the current supply chain or alternate business models (if any) to optimize the direct and indirect tax.
• To ensure adequate documentation in place supporting the positions taken on corporate tax and withholding tax.
• Oversee compliance and reporting of direct and indirect taxes.

IT Skills:

• Working knowledge of SAP S4/HANA (PS, MM and FICO modules).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel user (candidates having knowledge of VBA applications, Power Query, BI -Business Intelligence and financial & data modelling would be added advantage), PowerPivot, Scenario Analysis, KPIs and dashboards.
• Excellent spreadsheet skills with working knowledge of Macros.
• Superior analytical skills practiced at drilling down to transaction/ workflow details.
• Specialist in MS PowerPoint, Data Analytics.