About the role
Location: Bangalore
Industry: Real Estate / Construction / Infrastructure
Role OverviewWe are looking for a seasoned professional to lead the Central PMO – Billing function, responsible for managing end-to-end project billing cycles. This role ensures accurate, timely, and transparent billing aligned with project progress and contractual terms, enabling strong cash flow management and revenue visibility.
Key Responsibilities1. Contractor Billing & Certification
- Validate contractor RA bills, progressive claims, and measurement sheets
- Ensure alignment with contracts, milestones, and quality benchmarks
2. Customer Billing & Revenue Management
- Drive customer billing in sync with construction milestones
- Ensure timely invoicing and revenue recognition
3. Documentation & Compliance
- Maintain complete billing documentation (RA bills, WOs, approvals, amendments)
- Ensure compliance with contractual, statutory, and audit requirements
4. Governance & MIS Reporting
- Develop dashboards for billing vs progress, ageing, collections, and cashflows
- Support leadership with accurate and timely MIS reports
5. Cross-Functional Coordination
- Collaborate with Project, QS, Finance, CRM, Contracts, and Vendors
- Ensure seamless billing operations across departments
6. PMO Setup & Process Excellence
- Define PMO governance framework, KPIs, templates, and reporting cadence
- Implement tools (Excel / Power BI / ERP / SAP)
- Drive process standardization and continuous improvement
- Support SAP activities (SES, PR/PO validation, amendments)
- Billing accuracy & certification turnaround time
- Collection efficiency & billing-milestone alignment
- Documentation accuracy & audit compliance
- Reporting accuracy, ageing reduction, DSO improvement
- Cross-functional dependency closure
Internal:
Leadership, Finance, Legal, CRM, Project Teams, HR
External:
Contractors, Consultants, Architects, Statutory Authorities
Qualifications & ExperienceEducation:
- BE/BTech (Civil / Construction / Architecture) – Preferred
- MBA/PGDM (Finance / Operations / Project Management) – Advantage
Certifications (Good to Have):
PMP / PRINCE2 / Lean / Six Sigma
Experience:
- 12+ years in Real Estate / Construction / Infrastructure
- Strong exposure to multi-project/program management or Central PMO
- Experience in billing cycles, cost control, and cash flow forecasting
- Exposure to leadership reporting (MBR/QBR)
- Program & Portfolio Management
- Project Controls & Planning (SPI/CPI, EVM concepts)
- Financial Acumen & Cost Management
- MIS & Dashboarding (Excel, Power BI, SAP/ERP)
- Stakeholder & Cross-functional Coordination
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High ownership & accountability
- Strong communication with leadership
- Collaborative mindset (solution-oriented, not blame-driven)
- Process-driven approach with continuous improvement focus
- Opportunity to build and lead PMO billing excellence
- High visibility role with leadership interaction
- Work on large-scale residential projects