Billing Manager - Experience from Steel/Manufacturing/ Heavy Industry

We are hiring Billing Manager for our upcoming industrial / Manufacturing /Steel Plant at Gadchiroli - Maharashtra.

Role & responsibilities

The Billing Manager will lead the billing, quantity verification, cost-control, and commercial-record functions for construction of a steel manufacturing plant. The role is responsible for accurate and timely certification of contractor invoices, validation of quantities and contractual entitlement, administration of variations and recoveries, cost forecasting, final-account closure, and maintenance of auditable records across civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, utilities, and plant-infrastructure packages.

Lead the PMC billing and quantity-surveying function across all plant packages and guide billing engineers and quantity surveyors.

• Review contracts, BOQs, schedules of rates, payment milestones, price-adjustment provisions, taxes, advances, retention, guarantees, recoveries, and certification procedures.
• Establish standard billing formats, measurement protocols, document checklists, approval workflows, cut-off dates, responsibility matrices, and audit controls.
• Review and certify interim, milestone, running-account, escalation, and final bills against approved drawings, joint measurement sheets, inspection records, progress status, and contractual entitlement.
• Validate quantities for earthwork, piling, concrete, reinforcement, structural steel, equipment erection, piping, cable laying, electrical and instrumentation systems, utilities, roads, drains, buildings, and associated infrastructure.
• Plan and participate in joint measurements; maintain measurement books, certified-quantity registers, bill logs, payment trackers, quantity reconciliation, and package-wise commercial records.
• Review extra and substituted items, omitted works, variations, change orders, rate analyses, deviation statements, claims, and supporting substantiation; recommend contractual disposition.
• Reconcile free-issue and contractor-supplied materials, scrap, owner-provided equipment, consumption norms, advances, retention, liquidated damages, statutory deductions, and other recoveries.
• Monitor approved budget, committed cost, certified value, paid value, forecast cost, cash flow, balance-to-complete, and potential overruns; issue periodic cost and billing dashboards.
• Coordinate with client, contractors, construction, planning, engineering, procurement, quality, finance, contracts, commissioning, and audit teams to resolve discrepancies and protect the clients commercial interests.
• Support claim assessment, extension-of-time cost implications, negotiation of variations, commercial risk reviews, and preparation of contemporaneous records.
• Lead final measurement, reconciliation, no-claim and no-dues documentation, final-account settlement, completion certification, contract closeout, and response to internal or statutory audit queries.

Preferred candidate profile

- Possess experience in contractor/client billing

- Must possess experience in BOQ preparation

- Must possess experience in Contracts mgmt