• Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment. We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day. We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

Role Summary

This role will have primary responsibility of handling Project Finance for South Asia, leading statutory responsibility of Project business (Including EPC Business) and supporting ES Finance Manager in day to day operations including managing and controlling the organization's financial processes, making the necessary changes to upgrade and improve process, policies and procedures and support leading various strategic decisions for business. The role envisages multi stakeholders’ engagement, effective team management to deliver the value. This role has a significant impact in ensuring profitable project delivery and thus contributing significantly in the business effectiveness.

Experience: 3 - 5 yrs 

Roles & Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Supports Business Leaders in managing Project Finance portfolio

• Drives strategic decision making for business aligning on profitability and sustainability

• Monitors region’s performance on ongoing basis. Supports business in growing with right set of strategies. Manages the processes for financial forecasting and budgets, and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting

• Reviews and leads significant projects and analyze value creation for region

• Drives and coordinates communication across the Global Finance team and builds collaborative relationships. Establishes and develops engagement with senior management, external partners and stakeholders

Operational & Stakeholder Management

• Leads end to end financial processes, planning, statutory and compliance requirements for Project business. Supervises taxation and treasury functions related to EPC / Project business

• Supports commercial teams on structuring the contracts with optimum tax structure and finds mitigation plans for the risk involved in critical areas

• Drives policy implementation and handles change management. Leads Internal Controls and continuous process improvements for the business focusing on EPC and Project segment.

• Leads various cost optimization projects & workgroups and transformation initiatives including IT applications and systems changes – internal / external

• Drives team(s) to lead operational closing – monthly / qtrly / yearly

• Drives rigor on cash to maintain positive cash flow. Exercises control on overdues and works closely with operations team and customers to achieve planned collection

• Leads and mentors core team and defines directions for them to achieve the business results.

• Team Nurturance & Engagement

• Plays the role of an Enabler, Culture Shaper and Team Motivator for the team members

• Able to engage them through meaningful conversations, encourages conflicts and drives a behavior which gives confidence to members of being inclusive

• Invests his bandwidth in career development of team members and enables growth for them with meaningful plan

• Demonstrates a role model behavior of a leader.

Good to Have Skills

• SAP ERP experience (Project Systems)

• Tableau

• MS Office (Expert in Excel)

Qualification

Chartered Accountant/ Cost Accountant/ MBA Finance

Desirable: Commerce Graduate degree

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.