Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) Manager

Larsen & Toubro (L&T); Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro Ltd is seeking an experienced CSR Budget Planner based in Mumbai. The role involves budgeting, tracking of CSR spend, and coordinating with internal teams and external partners to ensure 2% CSR spend targets are met.

You will manage data collation for CSR programs, update MIS systems, and support budgetary processes across multiple locations in India. A strong background in development sector work is required.

Qualifications

• Masters in Social Work or Development Studies.
• Experience with CSR programmes and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Budget planning and execution to meet 2% CSR spend across the group.
• Prepare quarterly CSR budget proposals and presentations for CST Committee.
• Maintain CSR data in MIS, coordinate with IT and Accounts for portal parity.
• Collate CSR project data (budgeting and programmatic) and support board disclosures.

Skills

Budgeting

Monitoring & Evaluation

Stakeholder management

MIS systems

Education

Masters in Social Work / Development Studies

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

Job description

Job Description:

Larsen & Toubro Ltd, commonly known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, with business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, information technology and financial services, headquartered in Mumbai. The company is counted among world's top five construction companies.

The L&T Group comprises of 93 subsidiaries, 5 associate companies, 27 joint ventures and 35 jointly held operations, operating across basic and heavy engineering, construction, realty, manufacturing of capital goods, information technology, and financial services.

This role is based out of Andheri, Mumbai

Purpose of the Position:

CSR Budget planning and tracking across L&T group

Interaction with internal and external stakeholders

Collation of CSR project data (both budgeting and programmatic)

Digitization and Updating CSR MIS systems

Execution of select Project Unnati location

Educational Qualification: Masters in Social Work/Masters in Developmental Studies

No. of years of work experience: 12-15 years

Technical Qualification: All round knowledge of development sector, including areas such as Education, Health, Water & Sanitation and Skilling .Exposure to Urban and Rural community based activities. Managing CSR programmes. Budgeting, Monitoring & Evaluation, documentation of development projects.

Behavioural Competencies: Excellent written and oral communication skills, good interpersonal skills, team worker and research orientation, attention to details and Capacity to Multitask.

Areas of Exposure/Work Background: Corporate Experience with CSR departments or Foundations, NGO/ Development sector. Driving CSR targets and MIS systems

Job Duties/Responsibilities :

A. Budget planning process and execution for achieving 2% spend requirement on CSR; Interaction with multiple stakeholders including IC CSR coordinators, NGO partners, F&A and associated teams.

• Preparing budget guidelines, compiling proposals, preparing slides on the proposals to the CSR Committee, notifying respective people on approval/rejection by the committee, ensuring that all projects are input into the internal tracking portal with valid supporting. Once budget is allocated to the projects, ensuring through constant follow-up that the spend projections for each quarter are to be met. Compilation of programmatic and overhead costs from all Independent Companies. Finally ensuring that the spends are booked fully against the budget allotted.
• Organizing quarterly review meetings with CSR coordinators from all Independent Companies of L&T
• CSR spend data compilation and analysis against past years trends
• Compilation of costs from all Independent Companies and prepare final disclosure sheet for company's CSR spend, required for Annual L&T Board meeting as well as Annual Report of company.
• Coordinate with Corporate Accounts team to ensure spend and booking are reflected properly. Maintain monthly expense sheets to ensure all spends are tracked, parity between data of budget tracking portal and actual bookings on portal.

B. Collation of CSR project data (both budgeting and programmatic); preparing quarterly presentations to CSR Board Committee

• Preparation of quarterly presentations to the CSR Board Committee encompassing all major aspects of CSR activities across India. Highlights, budget vs spend, any major proposals and updates about ongoing projects, audits, way forward for multi-year projects
• Regular update presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Data compilation for locations, coordination with stakeholders.

C. Overseeing CSR portal: Functional budget tracking portal for CSR budgeting across India, regular updates

• Regular coordination with IT team and Accounts team for updating budget on portal and maintaining parity with SAP
• Changes on the budget tracking portal implemented at regular intervals, enable smooth functioning for unit, Independent Company coordinators and apex team to better monitor projects spread across locations country-wide.