Analyst - Core Infra & Services Development

About the Company

Tata Communications focuses on redefining connectivity through innovation and intelligent services. The organization works across cloud, mobility, IoT, collaboration, security, media services, and network services to help shape a new era of communication.

Role Overview

This position supports Central Billing Party operations along with PG and I&A responsibilities. The role combines billing, collections, contract coordination, financial tracking, and documentation management across vendors, suppliers, consortium members, and project stakeholders.

Central Billing Party Responsibilities

• Oversee the complete billing and collection cycle for vendors, suppliers, and consortium participants, including invoice preparation, dispatch, and follow-up on pending payments.
• Handle billing for supply and non-supply agreements while staying aligned with contract terms, billing milestones, and cost allocation rules.
• Identify billing mismatches, short-billing, and excess-billing cases, and support corrective follow-up.
• Keep financial records accurate and well-organized to help with audits, governance checks, and review processes.
• Monitor money moving into and out of the CBP bank account on a periodic basis.
• Coordinate collection efforts from consortium members with accuracy, transparency, and compliance with consortium agreements.
• Serve as the initial contact for day-to-day CBP operational questions and help resolve billing issues and disagreements.
• Prepare routine CBP reports and dashboards on daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
• Escalate billing differences, missing data, and delays to O&MSC / MC.
• Compare actual spending against budget and carry out variance analysis.
• Ensure billing SOPs, internal controls, and approval limits are followed.
• Spot recurring issues and recommend basic process enhancements.
• Support the creation of detailed financial procedures whenever needed.

PG and I&A Responsibilities

• Execute the supply contract with the supplier on behalf of the parties in a cost-efficient way while preserving technical requirements.
• Assist with drafting, reviewing, and administering key project agreements such as Consortium Agreements, Construction & Maintenance Agreements (C&MA), Landing Party Agreements, and Capacity Purchase / IRU Agreements where applicable.
• Help manage approvals, signatures, and document version tracking.
• Work with legal teams to monitor comments, revisions, and signing timelines.
• Maintain agreement trackers and compliance records.
• Review supply contract spending against the current budget and forecast to completion.
• Assess and negotiate contract variations, amendments, and proposed project changes.
• Track project budgets, funding commitments, and investment milestones.

Qualification and Experience

• A graduate degree in Commerce, Finance, or Business Administration is required.
• Prior exposure to billing operations, finance operations, or shared services is expected, with telecom industry experience preferred.

Preferred Advantage

• Understanding of contract and commercial law.
• Project management capability.
• Exposure to finance, investment, or infrastructure finance.