Project Manager (DPO)

Job Summary

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Lead end-to-end financial governance and PMO oversight across assigned accounts or portfolios, ensuring achievement of revenue, margin, cash flow, and profitability objectives. Partner with senior Delivery, Account, Finance, and Commercial leadership to drive financial strategy, strengthen controls, mitigate business risks, and enable sustainable growth through data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

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Lead portfolio-level P\&L governance, with accountability for revenue, gross margin, operating costs, profitability, and financial commitments.

Drive annual operating plans, budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly and quarterly financial review cycles.

Provide strategic financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership based on business performance, trends, and forward-looking scenarios.

Establish and govern financial controls covering revenue recognition, billing, accruals, unbilled revenue, cost allocation, reconciliations, and leakage prevention.

Lead variance and profitability analysis, identify performance gaps, and drive corrective actions with accountable stakeholders.

Own executive financial dashboards, portfolio scorecards, management reviews, and decision-support presentations.

Partner with Delivery and Account leadership to develop and execute margin improvement, productivity, utilization, pyramid optimization, and cost-transformation initiatives.

Review and challenge commercial constructs, including pricing models, rate cards, contracts, SOWs, change requests, payment terms, and financial assumptions.

Support growth pursuits through business-case preparation, deal modelling, pricing analysis, scenario evaluation, and commercial risk assessment.

Govern financial risks, dependencies, compliance requirements, audit readiness, and closure of control observations.

Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across PMO Finance processes, reporting, forecasting, and governance mechanisms.

Lead cross-functional financial governance involving Finance, Delivery, Sales, HR/TAG, WFM, Procurement, Legal, and other enabling functions.

Manage escalations related to revenue, billing, margins, costs, approvals, and commercial deviations, ensuring timely resolution.

Mentor and guide PMO Finance team members, review deliverable quality, allocate responsibilities, and build team capability.

Act as the senior finance and PMO point of contact for portfolio leadership, ensuring transparency, accountability, and timely decision-making.

Skill Requirements

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Strong expertise in P\&L management, FP\&A, portfolio financial governance, and business performance management.

Advanced knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, cost allocation, and profitability improvement.

Strong commercial acumen with experience in pricing, rate cards, contracts, SOWs, billing models, and deal-finance evaluation.

Proven capability in financial modelling, scenario analysis, variance analysis, business-case development, and executive decision support.

Sound understanding of invoicing, accruals, reconciliations, unbilled revenue, revenue assurance, and financial controls.

Strong leadership and people-management capabilities, including delegation, mentoring, performance guidance, and capability development.

Ability to manage financial governance across multiple accounts, projects, stakeholders, and competing priorities.

Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior Finance, Delivery, Sales, and Account leaders.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and PowerPoint, along with working knowledge of ERP and financial platforms such as SAP.

Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and escalation-management capabilities.

Experience in risk management, audit support, compliance governance, process standardization, and control improvement.

Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to convert complex financial information into actionable business insights.

Experience in automation, analytics, and transformation initiatives that improve financial visibility, accuracy, productivity, and governance.

High degree of ownership, commercial judgment, attention to detail, and ability to operate independently in a dynamic business environment.

Must Have Skill

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Finance business support

Good to Have Skill

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Other Requirements

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