Project Finance - Project Accounting

The purpose of this role is to provide proactive financial oversight and support across the project lifecycle, ensuring robust project hygiene, accurate reporting, and strong stakeholder engagement. The role serves as a key point of contact for project managers—delivering training, troubleshooting, and guidance to improve financial awareness and project compliance. Through regular project reviews and insightful reporting, the role identifies projects requiring attention and collaborates with cross-functional teams, including billing support, to drive corrective actions. Ultimately, the position supports the delivery of financially sound, well-governed projects through enhanced visibility, engagement, and operational discipline.

Personal Attributes

• Experience of finance business partnering, supporting a variety of senior stakeholders.
• Confident in communicating at all levels of the organisation
• Committed to enhancing collaboration across organisational boundaries
• Committed to continuous improvement and lifelong learning
• Familiar with working in collaboration with shared services teams.

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.

Core Accountabilities

• Work towards compliance with NI 52-109 for all Project Finance controls in an Oracle environment
• Provide Internal Audit support
• Review processes and suggest improvements
• Analysis of Working capital for various businesses/ projects
• Perform Project reviews and timely identification of risks and opportunities.
• Comparison of actuals vs budgets /forecasts and identifying reasons for variations
• Contribute to delivering Business Unit P&L, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Coordination with different team members including project leaders, business partners and GBS
• Review of various reports like utilisation reports, time cost reports, etc. and reaching logical conclusions
• Analysing the cost to complete of different projects
• Good understanding of the business and analysing the numbers based on the business understanding
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and reconciliations as required
• Preparing and finalising reports pertaining to various projects for Global reporting
• Reviewing and carrying out project wise, Business Unit wise cost & margin analysis and providing reasons for the erosion/ gain of margins