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.
- Support project setup and ensure timely collection of all financial and accounting data for assigned contracts.
- Validate accuracy of project financial records, including customer/supplier invoices, timesheets, and travel expenses.
- Monitor and control monthly project costs and financial movements, ensuring transparency in reporting.
- Manage and control internal purchase order intercompany flows.
- Prepare and maintain Estimate at Completion (EAC), with clear assumptions, justifications, and documentation.
- Reconcile approved project financials between ODYC and accounting books.
- Drive project financial strategy, including tax, hedging, financing, and cash optimization.
- Provide financial oversight, analysis, and early risk warnings to management.
- Review contract terms and advise on financial implications and competitiveness improvements.
- Deliver reliable financial insights to support stakeholder decision-making.
- Prepare project review materials and reassess project profitability periodically.
- Improve forecast accuracy for revenue, cash flow, costs, and profitability.
- Coordinate with finance expert functions such as Tax, Treasury, Audit, Risk, and Accounting.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, tax requirements, and statutory reporting.
- Support project risk and opportunity management, including contingency and savings validation.
- Partner with Project Managers on contract and claim management, focusing on financial risks.
- Ensure proper financial closure of projects, including bond collection, checklist completion, and ERP closure.
- Monitor project financial performance and recommend actions to improve margin, cash flow, and risk mitigation.
- Review and approve project financials (cash flow, competitiveness) in line with Delegation of Authority (DoA).
- Work with the latest financial management tools and practices.
Requirements
- Experience or understanding of Project Controlling / Costing / Corporate Finance.
- Knowledge of financial management systems, notably SAP.
- 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.
