Project Finance Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to oversee all financial activities within multiple small-scale projects or a single large project. Each day, you will act as a business partner to the Project Management team, supporting all financial and commercial matters. You will also showcase your skills by supporting the project's performance.

The work model for the role is: #LI - Onsite

This role is contributing to the Automation business area within the Energy Division in the India region. Main stakeholders include customers, project execution teams, finance and commercial teams, sales and business development teams, supply chain teams, and external regulatory authorities

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Reviewed project tenders from a commercial and trade compliance perspective, identifying risks and advising on contractual structures covering GST, permanent establishment, and EXIM regulations

• Managed end-to-end export and import (EXIM) operations, including benefit optimization, realization, utilization, and accurate financial accounting

• Administered Advance License (AL) and Project Export Memorandum (PEM) processes, ensuring compliance, timely documentation, obligation fulfillment, and closure

• Acted as a key interface with internal stakeholders and external agencies, monitoring regulatory changes in trade compliance and assessing their business impact

• Oversaw commercial operations including GST invoicing, bank guarantees, and letters of credit, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency

• Partnered with business leadership on taxation, EXIM, and commercial matters, providing insights, early risk warnings, and ensuring alignment with compliance requirements

• Managed project financials including invoicing, accounting, forecasting, cash flow optimization, and risk mitigation (currency, tax, and guarantees), ensuring accuracy in financial reporting

Qualifications for the role

• You are highly skilled in trade compliance, export and import operations, taxation, customs, and GST within the manufacturing industry, and you enjoy working with financial governance and compliance methodologies

• You have 10 to 15 years of experience in commercial and trade compliance matters in a manufacturing industry background, with established knowledge of managing regulatory requirements and cross-border transactions

• You possess an enhanced knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, particularly MS Excel and PowerPoint, for financial analysis, reporting, and presentations

• You are committed to compliance excellence and are innovative in leading process improvements and risk mitigation in commercial operations

• You have a master's degree in finance or are a Chartered Accountant (CA) from a reputed university, with relevant experience in finance and compliance domains

• You are at ease communicating in English

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division's goal is to help customers adapt to the rapidly changing global energy transition. Applying data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain knowledge delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

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