Glassdoor

**Location**
- Mumbai, India

**Country**
- India

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Various

**Discipline**
- Finance and accounting

**Job ref**
- 8544

**Recruiter contact**
- Vrajesh Gajjar

At Mott MacDonald, we are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. We employ brilliant people, and we trust them to do brilliant things. We’re a collection of leading experts who combine our different expertise to stay ahead of the curve and move the industry forward, contributing towards career-defining projects that create essential social outcomes.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:
**Driving Change**
- Develop, communicate and implement new finance strategies to improve the business and reduce risk in line with the Unit Business Plan.
- Collaborate with and support the statutory accounts team to ensure compliance of all entities/territories is maintained in accordance with the prevailing legislation.
- Support the winning of work by supporting the development of innovative pricing strategies and cost effectiveness measures.

**Management**
- Partner the Unit General Manager and Unit management team in preparation and evaluation of Business Plans. Accountable for decision-making and planning from a finance perspective.
- Escalate issues promptly contributing to an open and honest dialogue across the management team.
- Set objectives and Key Performance Indicators, for performance monitoring and quality measurement.
- Build strong relationships with the project teams and wider business community, sharing best practice and driving a unified culture.
- Collaborate with internal and external specialists in tax, treasury, finance, commercial and legal as necessary to ensure compliance and manage the changeable requirements and obligations across multiple international jurisdictions.
- Attendance at Executive and Management Board meetings, providing strategic direction for the Unit.

**Projects**
- Create and maintain a pro-active support system to the WIN process including the review of proposals, assessment of financial aspects of contracts to facilitate invoicing and payments, working capital requirements, managing fiduciary risk, contingency levels, benchmarking, costs modelling, budget profiling in Connect Business, indexation and identify grounds for additional fees.
- Participate in WIN governance, particularly Yellow and Gold Reviews. This shall include challenging/supporting pricing, entity use, inflation, currency and ensuring sufficient and appropriate level of effort and CVs for finance inputs into programme budgets is made.
- Support the project establishment process to ensure all new projects are set up properly from a finance and accounting perspective.
- Monitor the spend across Unit and Divisional Business budgets and provide information and data to the budget holders to facilitate their management of the same.
- Develop scenario analysis and different financial models to derive multiple options for a financial solution to mitigate risk on the project.
- Work with Group Finance, Treasury, Tax, and Shared Service teams to enhance delivery with project teams.
- Review project finances and challenge Project Principals and Divisional Managers on notable deviation from the forecast of project performance. Where necessary support corrective actions, identify claims for additional fees and changes to staff requirements. A particular focus should be on early identification and management of profit deterioration, rising working capital and billing.
- The UFM may wish to attend or provide support from the Finance to engage with Monthly Project Control Meetings. “Attend monthly project control meetings to support major and sensitive projects.”
- “Lead the finance team and project teams in positively challenging the status quo.”
- Manage working capital; optimising prompt invoicing and collections, cashflow and remittances.
- Able to develop and implement FOREX risk mitigation and management approaches for projects.

**Reporting and Compliance**
- Interpret monthly management accounts for the Unit, controlling financial performance, improving profitability, utilisation, overhead control and working capital.
- Prepare the monthly accounts and the finance-related Board paper and Business Plan sections providing a narrative on Unit performance, forecasts and recommendations for improvements.
- Supervise preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, aligned in delivery of Business Plans.
- Work with Territory Managers to ensure local compliance.
- Monitor financial control environment and effective completion of an annual Controls Matrix.

**Resourcing, Training and Development**
- Manage and prioritise the resources available to the finance function in line with the requirements of the Unit and prevailing risk, including the use of digital/automation, the FSC and the G