Alstom India
Alstom India | Senior Analyst - Project Controlling
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Managers, Work Package Owners, Accounting Team), ensure control of project results, and much more.
- You’ll work alongside dedicated, strategic, and innovative teammates.
- You'll deliver critical financial insights and support to our project teams, fostering sound economic management and optimizing project financial targets.
- You’ll specifically take care of the precision of financial project data, uphold compliance with financial standards, and proactively manage risks and opportunities.
- Validate Manufacturing BOM (mBOM) financials to support project EAC (Estimate at Completion).
- Perform detailed root cause analysis of mBOM gaps (line-by-line explanation).
- Ensure alignment between BOM, EAC, actuals, and “To Be Engaged” costs.
- Manage risks, savings, and opportunities across projects.
- Conduct monthly reviews of BOM evolution by subsystem, material category, and supplier.
- Maintain financial index database for inflation tracking and cost analysis.
- Ensure consistency across budget, forecast, and actual project figures.
- Act as business partner to Project Procurement and Project Finance teams.
- Analyze monthly actual costs vs forecast and identify variances.
- Support cost forecasting and timing with Procurement teams.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain for cost monitoring and progress tracking.
- Review purchase price variance (PPV) and material rate variances.
- Own and manage SAP/GSI transactions and reporting tools (e.g., QlikView, BI tools).
- Monitor extra costs, claims, and liaise with Claims department.
- Track and forecast revenue, gross margin, and cost-to-completion.
- Ensure strong procurement/material control and governance processes.
- Validate cost assumptions, QCD performance, and tender-stage costing.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives (cost reduction / “cost killing”).
- Monitor WIP, cost performance vs targets, and financial accuracy of project data.
- Provide financial reporting, KPIs, and benchmarking (cost, productivity, delivery).
- Identify cost drift and productivity risks; propose mitigation actions.
- Ensure compliance with internal rules, processes, and project control standards.
- Support management with reliable financial insights and ad-hoc reporting.
- Work with the latest financial management tools and practices.
Qualification
- Experience or understanding of Project Controlling / Costing / Corporate Finance.
- Knowledge of financial management systems, notably SAP.
- A certification in finance or a related field is a plus.
- Robust analytical and presentation skills.
- Familiarity with MS Excel
About the company
Alstom SA
Alstom was formed in 1928, when the electrical engineering arm of Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques merged with Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston; its original name, Alsthom, combined parts of both. In November 2015 it sold its energy businesses to General Electric to concentrate on rail, and on 29 January 2021 it completed the acquisition of Bombardier Transportation. Alstom SA, based in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine near Paris and listed on Euronext Paris (ALO), makes Avelia high-speed trains, Coradia regional trains, Citadis trams and Metropolis metro trains, along with signalling, rail infrastructure and maintenance services. In India its main company is Alstom Transport India Limited, registered in Bengaluru, where Alstom also has its main Indian office and a Digital Experience Centre for signalling, opened in December 2023. Its Indian factories include Sri City in Andhra Pradesh, Savli and Maneja in Gujarat, and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Madhepura Electric Locomotive Private Limited, its joint venture with Indian Railways, builds WAG-12B electric freight locomotives at Madhepura in Bihar.
Its finance openings in India are in Bengaluru and cover record-to-report, inter-company accounting, project controlling, FP&A for its IT function, treasury systems and payments, process improvement for its global finance centre, and finance project management. Several roles ask for a CA or CMA, some also accept CA Inter or a postgraduate degree in accounting or finance, and experience asked for ranges from two years for qualified Chartered Accountants to more than eight years.
