Chartered Accountant Government Projects and Financial Advisor

Chartered Accountant Government Projects and Financial Advisory

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Employment type: Full-time

Reporting to: Managing Director

Qualification: Chartered Accountant (CA), mandatory. CFA / MBA Finance, or project finance or infrastructure finance exposure, is a plus.

Experience: minimum 3 years. Age and years are flexible for the right profile, but the experience must be relevant (government and infrastructure projects). Open to men and women.

Salary - No restrictions for the right candidate.

About the role

This is not an accounting, audit or tax role. We need a CA who can take a project idea (roads, bridges, civil and public infrastructure, technology, sustainability) and turn it into a financially structured, government-ready proposal: DPR, financial model, approval notes, committee and senior-officer presentations, and tender documents. The person works directly with the Promoter / MD and management across the whole project life: concept, structuring, feasibility, DPR, financial model, government proposal and approvals, RFP and bid, contract financial review, and implementation monitoring.

Key responsibilities

• Work with senior management to turn a project idea into a structured proposal: objectives, scope, capital need, revenue model, government and private obligations, implementation plan.
• Compare project structures: government-funded, PPP (BOT, DBFOT, DBFOO, DBFOM, concession), annuity or availability payment, user fee, hybrid, Viability Gap Funding.
• Lead or support DPRs and feasibility studies: need and demand, project sizing, CAPEX and OPEX, revenue, funding, phasing, risks, sensitivity and scenario analysis, implementation roadmap.
• Build detailed financial models: CAPEX, OPEX, revenue, financing and debt-equity, working capital, tax, P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, project and equity IRR, NPV, DSCR, payback, escalation, scenarios. Models must hold up in discussions with government, banks and investors.
• Prepare government proposals and approval papers: concept notes, administrative and financial approval proposals, cost-benefit and value-for-money analysis, government financial exposure, funding proposals, and replies to observations from Finance, Planning, Law and other departments.
• Support presentations to high-powered, empowered, finance and steering committees, and to Secretaries and other senior officers: executive financial summaries, project economics, risk allocation, decision matrices.
• PPP and transaction advisory: option analysis, bankability, risk allocation, payment and revenue-sharing mechanisms, concession period, termination payments, guarantees and securities, escrow and payment waterfall, change-in-law impact.
• Support the tender and bid process: EOI, RFQ, RFP, qualification and financial criteria, bid and performance security, evaluation (including QCBS), pre-bid queries, corrigenda, bid comparison, negotiation, financial closure.
• Review the financial side of project contracts with legal and technical advisors: payments, milestones, penalties, liquidated damages, escalation, guarantees, insurance, change in scope or law, force majeure, compensation events. The role does not replace legal counsel.
• Evaluate projects the company is considering: returns, capital commitment, cash flow, downside, government receivable and concentration risk. Give a clear call: invest, restructure, negotiate, partner, defer or reject.
• Prepare management and government presentations and decision notes, and explain complex models in a simple, decision-oriented way.
• Coordinate with technical consultants, engineers, technology companies, legal advisors, government departments, project management consultants, banks, investors and consortium partners; bring their inputs into one financial and commercial architecture.
• Handle several projects at different stages together, from a 2-page concept note to a full DPR, financial model, approval package and RFP.
• Track project financials during implementation through monitoring dashboards.

Who we are looking for

• A CA with experience in government transaction advisory, PPP or infrastructure advisory, project finance, government PMU / PMC work, Big Four government and infrastructure advisory, or infrastructure consulting.
• Has worked with Maharashtra State Government departments or public bodies (for example a State transport corporation such as MSRTC) and has presented to Secretaries and senior officers. Understands how a proposal moves inside the Maharashtra government system, including local language and working culture.
• Hands-on exposure to road, bridge and civil / government construction projects: project planning, DPRs and analytics.
• Candidates whose experience is mainly statutory audit, GST, income tax, bookkeeping or routine accounting are not suitable.

Skills

• Essential: advanced Excel and financial modelling; project finance; IRR, NPV, DSCR; DPR and feasibility studies; PPP financial structuring; government proposal writing; strong PowerPoint and written English.
• Preferred: government procurement (GFR and State procurement rules), concession agreements, QCBS, Viability Gap Funding, government approval processes, public-sector financial evaluation.
• Qualities: analytical, commercially minded, structured, hands-on with Excel, comfortable with senior government officers, entrepreneurial (can work on a concept before it becomes a project), able to manage several projects.

What success looks like

Success is not the number of accounting reports. It is taking a project from "this is an interesting idea" to "this is a financially structured, commercially viable, government-ready and procurement-ready project". Over time the person becomes a trusted financial and commercial advisor to management, owning the financial architecture of several government and PPP initiatives from concept to implementation.Role & responsibilities