Manager - Finance & Accounting

About the job

Main tasks & responsibilities:

- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for the project.

- Utilize Google Workplace G Suite, JIRA, Confluence, and Google Sheets automation to streamline data analysis processes and generate actionable insights.

- Prepare detailed reports and presentations that communicate analysis findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including the Program Director and Program Managers.

- Prepare and administer monthly salary payments/ payroll.

- Directing all aspects of accounting operations.

- Analyze and evaluate critical time-bound dependencies in project development and program management.

- Developing and maintaining necessary accounting policies and systems and building an accounting department as the company grows.

- Developing processes and communication flow to support different business units.

- Overseeing transactions related to the general ledger, receivables, payables, payroll and financial reporting.

- Coordinating, preparing and reviewing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

- Ensuring a smooth audit process by creating and maintaining internal controls, establishing and maintaining immaculate record keeping, managing the audit process and providing requisite schedules.

- Overseeing stock administration and asset management.

- Overseeing and managing the companys finance IT system and choosing appropriate software programs & processes based on unique needs.

- Coordinating corporate tax reporting and preparation of tax returns with outside tax accountants.

- Ensure annual tax reports are completed and submitted to local authorities in a timely manner, lead payments of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS), Goods and Services Tax (GST) to respective institutions.

- Leading financial planning, budgeting and reporting and creating and maintaining budgeting tools.

- Assisting senior executives in planning, budgeting and results management.

- Providing strategic guidance around capital financing options to support the startups growth

- Managing internal and external teams by setting expectations, training internal staff accountants and developing training modules and templates.

- Filing all finance related documents and collection of data for Invoicing.

- Perform bank statement reconciliation to ensure accurate bookkeeping.

- Conduct credit card reconciliation and manage expense tracking to ensure accuracy and compliance.

- Manage asset depreciation, including depreciation schedules and reporting.

Requirements:

- Bachelor or Masters in Accounting or Finance or related degrees.

- 5 - 7 years of relevant work experience.

- Strong knowledge of corporate finance and other accounting theory, principles and practices to include GAAP, SaaS accounting, prepaid expenses & accrued revenue.

- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with complex data sets.

- Ability to analyze information, identify gaps in information and frame the resulting at risk dependencies, into an options analysis briefing for management, that provides enough analytical information about the budgetary and management options, to enable Business

- Managers and Directors to make a management decision to overcome the challenge identified in your analysis.

- Comfort in the startup environment (i.e., sometimes chaotic and lacking structure) and able to create structure and foundational accounting processes.

- Strong priority management skills.

- Proven experience leading, managing and hiring a team.

- Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

- Experience with procurement and asset management.

- Expertise in use of accounting softwares. Expert Technical knowledge on Microsoft Office and ERP (SAP, Salesforce, Hyperion, BPC, Workday, etc)

- Result-oriented work approach with the ability to work quickly from concept creation to the implementation of project programs.