FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) AND ECONOMIST

Internal

Interaction with different teams and mangement

External

Interaction with auditors, authorities, banks, lenders, shareholders

Reporting and Monthly Financials

• Work and assist on preparation of monthly financials for reporting in line with IFRS rules and local/ applicable regulations. Coordinate with shared service centre (SSC) for monthly closing of books.
• Conduct monthly detailed analysis of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet accounts. Review information in MBC for monthly reporting.
• Assist Financial Controller in chart of accounts reconciliations, and review.
• Prepare and review cashflow statement prepared by SSC.
• Suggest JVs for specific costs/ accruals to SSC.
• Maintain tracker for all project and other costs to ensure costs are maintained within budget and analyse reasons for deviation. Prepare dashboard for analysis.
• Ensure correct accounting of expenses and revenue for monthly and annual reporting as needed.
• Prepare and update as and when required the finance and accounting policies and procedures for the company.

Lenders and Bank accounts

• Assist in maintaining compliance with financing agreement.
• Prepare treasury forecasts for placing cash calls to the lenders and shareholders
• Maintain right flow of information with the lenders.
• Ensure the monthly, quarterly and yearly covenants compliance in accordance with the Loan/ financing agreements.
• Respond to inquiries from CFO, Shareholders, Lenders and other department managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and other ad hoc inquiries and tasks.
• Prepare management report as and when needed
• Conduct analysis for LTP, Budget exercise and as per requests from shareholders.

Audit

• Assist in audit related tasks for annual audit. Coordinate with auditors and provide requested information as and when needed.
• Coordinate for statutory accounts of the companies in accordance with the requirements of all applicable Laws and IFRS and manage the Independent Auditors.

Costs Monitoring

• Compare invoices and cost with contracts to ensure correct invoices are received and paid
• Monitor and follow up with SSC on status of payments to vendors
• Maintain tracker for all parts of the project costs to ensure costs are maintained within budget and analyse reasons for deviation. Prepare dashboard for analysis. Prepare and present actuals v/s budget report to management.
• Prepare reconciliation for all payments made during the month
• Prepare actuals v/s budget report for costs incurred
• Complete the KPI related analysis/ reviews

Budget and LTP process

• Work on financial model of the project to review, update information as needed.
• Run the model to derive updated information for financials.
• Prepare analysis files linked to the model
• Coordinate with different teams to gather information on updated costs
• Assist in annual Budget related work and long-term planning by TTE
• Collate information required from different functions for adequate budgeting
• Assist in hypothesis and template to be prepared for budget and long-term plan
• Assist in analysis related to equity, debt and updating the financial model for actuals incurred.

Others

• Ad hoc tasks as and when needed by management

Knowledge

Strong finance/ economics background & MS literate. IFRS understanding and ERP knowledge

Skills

• Highly proactive and self-motivated.
• Team player, strong ethics and integrity.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and respect deadlines
• Proficient with excel, power point

Education

ACCA/ CPA / CA /CIMA/ Accounting Qualification/Equivalent Degree inFinance or Economics

Experience

At least 4-6 years of experience in finance or related function, preferably within the power industry or other similar renewable industry