Job Title:  Associate Vice President - Delivery | Project Management | Bengaluru Finance Transformation

Manager | Enterprise Technology and Performance-Finance Transformation | Project Finance

·        Location:  PAN India

The team

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Your work profile

·        Act as business partner with project development management team to assist in project commercial and risk management

·        Scenario analysis with understanding of commercial drivers and bespoke contractual arrangements to inform decisions for key stakeholders including JV partners and communicate clearly so can be understood by non-financial stakeholders

·        Identification of pathways to achieve and / or exceed project budgeted results

·        Prepare and participate in presentations for project governance forums with internal and external stakeholders, with a focus on providing financial insights

·        Debt strategy and project funding analysis

·        Transaction (Selldown/Disposal) activities,

·        Analysis for investment committee papers/JV meetings

·        JV Business Plan analysis and sensitivities

·        Ownership of commercial assessment model including updates to assumptions and cashflow phasing to support monthly management reporting and analysis through coordination with DM team.

·        Ownership of internal and external reporting deliverables ensuring consistency, accuracy and timeliness of reporting with variance analysis and insights

·        Ownership of of Half Year and Full Year project statutory submissions including presenting in State/FC review meetings.

·        Distribution forecasts in relation to settlements, distribution waterfall, coordination of internal and external tax review and coordination of execution with CoSec

·        Technical accounting analysis under IFRS as required

·        Ad hoc commercial/financial tasks as required by the project team and Senior Management.

·        Engagement with Tax (particularly on JVs where LL doesn’t advise JV so need to engage with external advisor (PWC)

·        Coordinating contractual deliverables and accurately responding to specific investor queries on numbers or analysis e.g. Monthly TB reporting, forecasts, queries on financial statements, reconciling statutory position to JV BP, coordination with QS for debt reporting (covers whole project budget not just construction claims)

·        Coordinate monthly budget/cost reporting meetings with project development management team

·        Coordinate budget management in the finance system and managing governance processes and approvals, focusing on efficient cash management.

·        Coordinate the Business Plan budgeting processes for Development projects that aligns profit outcomes, cash, capital and cost base with key strategic initiatives over the plan period, driving accountability for budget outcomes through projects.

·        Ensure compliance with milestones and obligations under relevant Development Agreements, including liaison with internal/external Legal advisors

·        Leasing analysis to support leasing offers/deals working closely with DM team

·        Coordination of risk and opportunities analysis collaborating with DM team

·        Collaboration on JV governance deliverables (where DM content needs to align with Finance content like contingency and contract sum reporting

·        Analysis for investment committee papers/JV meetings

·        Equity funding calls including coordination with JV Partners (time pressured)

·        Act as business partner to project team, providing relevant commercial/financial support and advice, including participation in scenario modelling and analysis, project cost/commercial assessment reviews.

·        Oversight and training of BPO team

Relevant tertiary and post tertiary qualifications, including CA or CPA

This role requires early shift starting 5:30 AM

·        Ensure compliance with the company’s policies and accounting standards in Joint Venture reporting.

·        Accounting for Investments in Associates & Joint Ventures

1.     BU Support:

·        Provide accounting support to business units (BUs) to ensure their financial transactions are recorded accurately and in a timely manner.

·        Collaborate with BUs to improve processes, resolve issues, and enhance financial understanding

Key skills required: 

·        10+ years of work experience in financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, project accounting or a related field

·        Development or property experience preferred

·        Experience in the property industry and with large ERP packages (Oracle) and forecasting software (Anaplan, Excel models) is preferred