Project Finance Business Partner

TAIT Towers Asia Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

TAIT Towers Asia Limited is seeking a Project Finance Business Partner to independently validate and assure project forecasts for large construction programs. You will work with Project Managers to confirm contract values, costs to complete, margins, and financial risks, delivering an unbiased view of performance.

This role operates upstream with project teams, strengthening governance and forecast reliability, across contracts, progress, and valuations, while collaborating with PM Accounting,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 8+ years’ experience in construction, large-scale, or complex project-based environments.
• Demonstrated experience in project finance, project accounting, project controls, or commercial finance.
• Proven experience conducting site visits and project valuations (e.g., percent complete, earned value, cost-to-complete).
• Strong understanding of construction contracts, cost forecasting, and margin management.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP and project costing systems.
• Ability to work independently and confidently challenge financial assumptions. project finance, project accounting, or project controls.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Project Managers or Operations teams.
• Strong understanding of contract structures, cost forecasting, and margin management.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP and project costing systems.
• Ability to work independently and confidently challenge financial assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Independently review and validate project financial forecasts, including contract value, revenue projections, cost-to-complete, and margin estimates.
• Challenge assumptions used by Project Managers, ensuring forecasts are supported by contractual terms, scope, progress, and cost data.
• Identify inconsistencies, gaps, or emerging financial risks within project forecasts and upscale appropriately.
• Act as a finance partner to Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle, from award through closeout.
• Provide financial insight and constructive challenges to support better project decision-making.
• Support PMs in understanding financial impacts of scope changes, change orders, and execution risks.
• Conduct regular project site visits to assess physical progress, execution risks, and alignment between site conditions and financial forecasts.
• Review and validate project valuations, including percent complete, earned value, and cost-to-complete assessments.
• Reconcile operational progress observed on site with financial projections and reported performance.
• Identify productivity, sequencing, subcontractor, or site-related risks that may impact cost, margin, or schedule.
• Review project contracts and change orders to confirm alignment between commercial terms and financial projections.
• Validate inputs to revenue recognition, cost capitalization, and forecast updates in collaboration with Project Accounting.
• Monitor actual performance versus forecast and investigate material variances.
• Strengthen project financial governance by ensuring consistent forecasting methodologies and documentation standards.
• Support internal and external audit requirements related to project financials.
• Serve as a second line of defense over project financial integrity, independent from project delivery pressures.
• Partner closely with Project Accounting, FP&A, and Operations to ensure alignment between forecasts, actuals, and reported results.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project financial tools, templates, and forecasting processes.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel skills

ERP systems

Contract understanding

Site visits

Stakeholder partnering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Project costing tools

Job description

The Project Finance Business Partner acts as a trusted financial partner to Project Management and Operations, with a primary focus on independently validating and assuring the accuracy of project financial forecasts in construction and large, complex project environments.

This role partners closely with Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle to confirm projected contract values, costs to complete, margins, and financial risks. Through financial review, site engagement, and valuation analysis, the role ensures leadership has a clear, unbiased view of project financial performance and emerging risks.

Unlike traditional project accounting roles focused on month-end close, this position operates upstream and alongside project teams, strengthening financial discipline, governance, and forecast reliability.

Responsibilities

Project Financial Assurance & Validation

Independently review and validate project financial forecasts, including contract value, revenue projections, cost-to-complete, and margin estimates.

Challenge assumptions used by Project Managers, ensuring forecasts are supported by contractual terms, scope, progress, and cost data.

Identify inconsistencies, gaps, or emerging financial risks within project forecasts and upscale appropriately.

Business Partnering with Project Management

Act as a finance partner to Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle, from award through closeout.

Provide financial insight and constructive challenges to support better project decision-making.

Support PMs in understanding financial impacts of scope changes, change orders, and execution risks.

Construction Project Oversight, Site Visits & Valuation

Conduct regular project site visits to assess physical progress, execution risks, and alignment between site conditions and financial forecasts.

Review and validate project valuations, including percent complete, earned value, and cost-to-complete assessments.

Reconcile operational progress observed on site with financial projections and reported performance.

Identify productivity, sequencing, subcontractor, or site-related risks that may impact cost, margin, or schedule.

Contract, Cost & Commercial Oversight

Review project contracts and change orders to confirm alignment between commercial terms and financial projections.

Validate inputs to revenue recognition, cost capitalization, and forecast updates in collaboration with Project Accounting.

Monitor actual performance versus forecast and investigate material variances.

Governance, Controls & Transparency

Strengthen project financial governance by ensuring consistent forecasting methodologies and documentation standards.

Support internal and external audit requirements related to project financials.

Serve as a second line of defense over project financial integrity, independent from project delivery pressures.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with Project Accounting, FP&A, and Operations to ensure alignment between forecasts, actuals, and reported results.

Contribute to continuous improvement of project financial tools, templates, and forecasting processes.

Position Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.

8+ years’ experience in construction, large-scale, or complex project-based environments.

Demonstrated experience in project finance, project accounting, project controls, or commercial finance.

Proven experience conducting site visits and project valuations (e.g., percent complete, earned value, cost-to-complete).

Strong understanding of construction contracts, cost forecasting, and margin management.

Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP and project costing systems.

Ability to work independently and confidently challenge financial assumptions. project finance, project accounting, or project controls.

Demonstrated experience partnering with Project Managers or Operations teams.

Strong understanding of contract structures, cost forecasting, and margin management.

Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP and project costing systems.

Ability to work independently and confidently challenge financial assumptions.