Manager - Project Finance - Manufacturing - CA

Role Overview :

As a Project Finance Manager based in Mumbai, you will serve as the financial architect for large-scale infrastructure or capital projects, ensuring that complex financial models translate into viable business outcomes. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, legal, and senior leadership to structure debt, manage cash flows, and mitigate project-specific risks. By maintaining rigorous oversight of project lifecycles and capital allocation, you will directly influence the profitability and long-term sustainability of the organization's investment portfolio, ensuring all financial milestones are met with precision and transparency.

Job Description:

Develop project financial models, track budgets, capex/opex, cash flows and project milestones; analyze variances, risks and overruns; prepare MIS/dashboards; support capex proposals, controls, capitalization and cross-functional project governance.

Required Candidate Profile:

- CA with 7 - 10 yrs of experience in project Finance.

- Candidates from Product based manufacturing industry will be preferred.

- Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to evaluate project feasibility, ensuring stakeholders have accurate data for critical investment decisions.

- Lead the end-to-end debt syndication process by engaging with banks and financial institutions to secure competitive funding terms that optimize the project's capital structure.

- Monitor project financial performance against budgets and forecasts to identify variances early and implement corrective actions that protect the bottom line.

- Possess a deep understanding of project finance structures, including debt-equity ratios, cash flow waterfall mechanisms, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Maintain a proactive communication style, capable of distilling complex financial data into clear, strategic narratives for executive-level presentations.

Role Details:

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Finance

Education:

PG: CA in CA, First Attempt, Second Attempt

Key Skills:

Skills highlighted with ' ' are preferred keyskills: Project Finance, Cost Estimation, Finance Modelling, Capitalisation, Budgeting, Forecasting, legal risk, Cost Overrun Analysis, Budget Management, Procurement Coordination, Vendor Payments, MIS, Cost Control, Operational Risk, Asset, cash flow, project capex