Chief Financial Officer - Business House

Our client is a privately-held group, respected business house, and is now in its 151st year of business. They are in a diverse range of businesses, including Construction (buildings, institutional structures and industrial - covering both civil construction and MEP), Infrastructure (including marine, oil and gas infrastructure, hydro, metro and tunnels), Real Estate development (both residential and commercial), Water / Waste water, Oil & Gas, Renewables (particularly solar) and Consumer products. SP Group is over 35,000 employees strong with over 20 nationalities contributing towards the shared vision; more than 8,000 of which are fully-qualified engineers. Our group revenues in this fiscal will be upwards of USD 4 billion, with around a third coming from international operations outside India.

Business Lines of our Interest

- Large-scale infrastructure projects such as port development, mining infrastructure

- Complex transportation projects (such as roads with bridges, tunnels etc.), railways and metros

- Oil and gas infrastructure such as LNG terminals and refineries

- Hydropower projects

- Airport construction

- Residential, Commercial and Industrial buildings

- Complex building projects, such as iconic structures, institutions and townships

- Hospitality Projects

- Hospitals and healthcare facilities

- Solar projects (both for EPC and for development)

- Gas-based power projects (both for EPC and for development)

- FPSOs (as also allied offshore structures such as FSRU and FLNG) etc

The promoters of the group also have a family office through which they own various infrastructure assets. The Family Office are looking to get on a Chief Financial Officer.

Job Descriptions:

The CFO will establish systems for financial controls and regulatory compliance; oversees accounting, tax and financial reporting functions; shares in oversight of infrastructure investments, and oversees corporate and partnership structuring; budgeting and asset management; treasury, cash flow and financing activity, maintains relationships with financial partners; provides leadership in planning and policy development; and shares in coordination of risk management and legal activities.

Accounting, Compliance and Financial Reporting

- Development and enforcement of internal controls and financial procedures

- Accounting responsiveness to external and internal stakeholders

- Timely, accurate and useful financial and management reports

- Audits and proper filing of tax returns

- Legal, regulatory and partnership compliance regarding all financial functions

- Development and maintenance of cost accounting systems on development projects

- Cash flow planning to match availability of funds with needs

- Financial tracking and reporting systems regarding affiliate and partnership needs including surplus cash flow, capital accounts and equity with status reports.

- Provides Owners with monthly comparisons of expenditures with budget and provides Owners with monthly summary of all outstanding loans to projects.

Budgeting Planning, and Policy Development

- Oversees development of budgets for core operations, and infrastructure projects;

- Plays financial leadership role in developing corporate strategic and business plans; works closely with Management Team members on departmental levels

- Develops long-range forecasts and maintains long-range financial plans

Asset Management

- Legal, regulatory and partnership compliance regarding all owner and property management functions

- Capital needs assessments

- Planning, administering and monitoring risk management activities, including annual insurance renewal process

- Analysis of property financial and other performance indicators

- Preparation and submission of quarterly and annual reports

- Analysing refinance and re-syndication possibilities

Finance, Treasury, Cash Flow & Investor Relations

- Oversees financing strategies, activities and banking relationships

- Oversees cash & investments to appropriately balance risk, return and liquidity

Ideal Candidate:

- Ability to combine macro strategic, policy and planning perspective with attention to details, controls and other micro concerns

- At least 4 years' experience at the CFO or equivalent level

- Significant working knowledge of infrastructure accounting & management

- MBA, CA or comparable advanced degree

- Minimum eight years of broad-based business experience, including significant experience with infrastructure projects and development