Job Description

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Quest Global is a global engineering services company driven by aspiration, hunger and humility, and guided by a leadership team that cares for its people, their ideas, and their well-being. We know that flexibility and openness produce the most fertile environment in which innovation, creativity, growth, and success can thrive.

We are looking for dreamers, who understand and value the ways in which engineering has the potential to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow; believers, who long to be part of an organization that is ethical, promotes social responsibility, and is dedicated to being a force for good; doers, who seek challenges that are both meaningful to them and creates a positive impact on others.

As a diverse team of over 13,000 humble geniuses, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you long to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we\xe2\x80\x99re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and collaborators we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

ROLE PURPOSE
Project Operations Leader is a high value add role. This will be a highly influencing, innovative and analytical role.
Unique opportunity to work with the Tech leaders of Quest Global on project management skills as you will be the SPOC between the delivery and various other functions.
An opportunity that provides an individual to demonstrate his / her capability, leadership skills and help the organization deliver great financial results on time. We are looking for an extremely motivated and inspired individual who is having a keen interest in leveraging one\xe2\x80\x99s experience to the benefit of the delivery team.
The individual is expected to have command over one\xe2\x80\x99s communication skills may it be reporting, stakeholder management, influencing without authority.
The individual shall carry the following responsibilities under various heads -
Governance of Projects and Programs.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES
Operating within a position of key business importance, the Project Operations Leader will be expected to carry out the following:

• Drive financial discipline within the Delivery Organization bringing controls on RAR, UBR, Provisions. Assist them in any clarifications they may require
• Provide knowledge to the delivery team in potential areas where they could reduce UBR provisions and potential provisions eliminating risks
• Assist the Service Line Managers in IPMS activities across the project lifecycle
• Maintain project hygiene with project closure initiations through delivery
• Provide delivery support to bring up their financial compliance
• Work with the PMO-PC (Project Controllers) in assisting project creation, financial task creation, bill rate assignment, resource management and timesheet reconciliation in IPMS for designated DUs only
• Raise Invoices for the project from time to time based on contract type (monthly / milestone based / periodic)
• Maintain project financial hygiene such as revenue at risk, unearned revenue, unbilled revenue, On Time Invoicing (OTI) minimizing write offs
• Support / Execute Other financial practices such as effort movements
• Responsible for maintaining effective and value enhancing project control processes across the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for Enabling & Assisting the overall monitoring and reporting of project performance
• Represent O2C in various PL Forums, Biz 360 and other scheduled meetings to drive financial compliance
• Own by results and drive by actions, the project financial activities globally and work with necessary departments like Revenue Team, Invoicing team and any other department resolving Delivery pain points
• Maintain rhythms on emails, communication, reminders with financial disclosures as necessary
• Work on improvement plans for driving rigor across the delivery teams and come up with improvement action plan and implementation plan on systems and process
• Assist SDU, IDU, DU leaders on their requirements

PRINCIPAL INTERFACES
The Project Controller is required to maintain regular interfaces at Project Owner level in Q-Germany & various other enabling functions at QuEST Bangalore (Revenue, Invoicing, Costing, Oracle DB Team, HR) to ensure business objectives are achieved and approved in accordance with requirements.

The interactions should portray a positive image of the Quest Global Tools & Enabling functions capability and the wider Quest Global organisation. Issues should be dealt with promptly but rationally and without the sacrifice of programme integrity/profitability for the sake of customer expediency.
EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE
The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong written & verbal communication skills
• Good Networking skills & connected well with Delivery
• Strong Business Finance knowledge
• Conversant with Quest Project Life cycle & working through IPMS
• Should have a fair understanding of all Project type & Contract type (T&M, FFP, UFP and FMB)
• Project Management Experience at Quest will be an advantage
• Fair understanding of the interphases IPMS \xe2\x80\x93 Oracle & other tools
• Ability to influence \xe2\x80\x93 get things done without authority
• Business acumen and commercial awareness

About Company:

Over the past 25 years, we have built a business centered on engineering excellence to solve the most challenging problems for industry. We have deep expertise across the entire product life cycle and a breadth of engineering capabilities from mechanical to embedded software to digital. With our depth and breadth, we not only partner with our customers to tackle their most daunting challenges of today, we retain institutional knowledge to help them again and again. This depth and breadth position Quest Global to function quite uniquely as an extension of our customers\xe2\x80\x99 teams. Sure, we can supplement personnel during staffing crunches, but we can also take full ownership of projects as a trusted, strategic partner for the customers we serve.

Quest Global