About Applus+:

Applus+ is a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification services. With a presence in over 70 countries and a workforce of more than 23,000 professionals, we provide solutions for a wide range of industries including energy, automotive, and infrastructure. Our commitment to innovation, quality, and safety ensures that we deliver exceptional services to our clients, helping them achieve operational excellence and compliance with the highest standards.

Join Applus+ and be part of a team that is dedicated to improving and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps our communities moving.

Job Overview:

Financial Reporting & Analysis: Lead data reporting, investigate project variances, prepare corporate and shareholder reports, and conduct financial analysis for projects and services.

Project Monitoring: Set up and monitor project budgets in SAP, update costs/revenue, and track project performance. Ensure accurate invoicing and operational data.

Forecasting & Budgeting: Manage monthly/quarterly closings, prepare forecasts, and perform budget gap analysis. Support budgeting processes for project managers.

Cost Control: Develop cost control systems, conduct profitability analysis, and ensure accurate project closings.

Operational Support: Assist operations with invoicing, supplier registration, PO issuance, and end-market classification.

Contract Management: Review major contracts, highlight risks, and ensure proper reporting of commercial data.

Compliance & Reporting: Ensure timely reporting to internal/external stakeholders, provide government data submissions, and manage insurance policies.

Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Lead reporting of the data in the corporate systems.
• Investigate and analyze all variances against project/contract budgets, forecasts, business cases with HOD's and Project managers.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual corporate and shareholder-related reporting.
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities, reporting of forecasts, monthly backlog data, quarterly commercial data, working capital projections.
• Collect information about projects and set up WBS in SAP in accordance with company procedure.
• Obtain project budget and monitor the execution by timely updating the incurred costs.
• Update revenue and cost accruals monthly and ensure correct reporting of project performance.
• Ensure and monitor updates on project invoicing carried out by OTC/AR Team together with the operations and supervisory staff.
• Check all relevant project related financial and operational data related to execution progress and make necessary amendments if needed.
• Develop and implement enhanced cost control systems to ensure visibility on margins evolution.
• Ensure proper project closings in accordance with company and client procedures.
• Deliver written monthly comprehensive project variance analysis to the management, explaining variances between actual and budgeted figures.
• Make gap analysis study and communicate any discrepancies or gaps to appropriate Managers.
• Perform project financial analysis and develop related financial models enabling an effective monitoring of project KPIs.
• Produce reports on profitability by station, service line, project, customer, field employee, etc.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting to operational management and direct supervisor.
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process for project managers.
• Monitor and comment on variances of budget vs forecast and against actual performance.
• Increases awareness of the financial impact of business activities within the operational team and support decision making processes related to the project financials.
• Assist in various project-related tasks, ensure timely response to any query raised.
• Follow up with suppliers and Ariba Support for completion of supplier registration.
• Prepare and monitor profit and loss (P&L) accounts for major projects and service lines.
• Assist the Operations in invoices issuance.
• Assist in Purchase Order (PO) issuance and new vendor registrations through SAP Ariba.
• Perform employee-wise profitability analysis where and when required.
• Handle CIMSA/LIMS quotations issuance and manage proper end-market classification.
• Act as a Champion for all CIMSA/LIMS quotations issuance and end-market reporting.
• Assist in monthly closing and reporting – prepare necessary reporting dashboards.
• Review all big contract drafts and advise on any issues prior to having them signed.
• Monitor and report the backlog under assigned areas.

Expected deliverables:

• Monthly analytics for all the Companies under the scope timely submitted on D-2 inclusive of all the comments and variance analysis to the forecasts, budgets and last year results.
• Accurate monthly forecasts across all the service lines based on the input from the managers.
• Monthly consolidated reporting by industry and business unit.
• Timely and accurate data reporting in QlikView (forecasts) and BPC (actuals, forecasts & budgets).
• Monthly CBRM support files and presentations inclusive of all the comments on the variances and highlights to the major Operations events.
• Quarterly commercial information vetted and accurately reflecting the actual results and forecasted outcome by correct end-market.
• Quarterly IKTVA reporting, annual Local content projections, project specific local content estimates for the bidding submission.
• Accurate annual budget files across all the legal entities separate and consolidated, aligned with the service lines managers and corporate instructions.
• Comments on major contracts during tender and signing stage with highlight of any potential risks.
• Summary of insurance policies and reporting of the same in ASM and GRC.
• Data submission to the Statistics, MISA, and other government authorities.
• Profitability analysis for the selected projects, service lines and employee wise.
• Insights on potential operations issues and evolution of the projects’ portfolio.
• Rolling 12 months cash flow forecasts by industry, legal entity, inclusive of dividend summary due to shareholders.
• Monthly results reporting and distribution to the shareholders.
• Ad-hoc reports as required.

Ideal candidate will have:

• 8-10 Years of experience.
• proficient in MS Office, Power BI.
• ACCA Or CIMA qualified.
• Experienced in MNC environment.
• Having sense of urgency and attention to details.