Our client is a comprehensive real estate developer involved in land acquisition, design, construction, marketing, and sales across various sectors including residential, commercial, retail, township, and redevelopment assets.

They have a presence in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and are actively operating in other locations as well.

About the Role: The role involves overseeing finance, accounting, fund raising, and investor relations, ensuring optimal financial strategies and compliance with regulations.

Responsibilities:

- Fund raising through QIP, PE and other Institutional Investors as required.

- Optimize debt and working capital funding structures for minimum interest cost to the business.

- Monitor cash flows to ensure healthy liquidity and short term sustainability of the company and take necessary measures to ensure availability of working capital for various projects.

- Creation & implementation of strategic investor relations program, which includes target plans to encourage a long-term and stable investor base.

- Recommend & implement a communication strategy to get the right positioning of the organization in the financial community.

- Participation in Investor meetings, conferences and road shows.

- Identify and secure long-term and short-term financing for various projects depending upon business requirements ensuring favorable cost of capital.

- Drive short, medium and long term financial planning for various projects for all business units working with all relevant stakeholders.

- Develop / enhance implementation of internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures relating to financial controls, expenses and other general accounting.

- Develop / enhance practices and procedures and maintain accounting principles, to ensure accurate and timely financial statements.

- Ensure timely consolidation of books of accounts.

- Monitor compliance with set accounting and reporting standards.

- Drive financial planning for the short, medium and long term, working closely with the Leadership Team, Project Heads and Functional teams.

- Participate in the budgeting exercise of various businesses and ensure the management signs off the budgets as per timelines.

- Ensure compliance with tax authority regulations and laws by reviewing & assessing computations to ensure that the taxes for the various Entities / SPVs / Projects are accurately calculated and returns timely filed to avoid penalties.

- Undertake periodic Tax Planning exercises and carry out comprehensive analysis of any changes in the tax framework (in consultation with Tax advisor, legal team, etc.) to ensure tax optimization for the organization.

- Provide update/ respond to queries to the Board on the financial health of the organization as per the accounting statements.

- Develop a risk-based internal audit plan and evaluate other risk exposures, safeguard the company and ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

- Ensure execution of the internal audit plan across the businesses.

- Basis the audit findings, establish "Best Practices" for various functions / businesses.

- Facilitate Audit Committee meetings, evaluate various observations / recommendations by external auditors and implement approved changes.