Senior Manager - Finance - NGO

The Senior Manager will be an integral part of a team that works on designing, building and implementing solutions that address customer needs in the field of Finance, Taxation, and other laws related to the development sector. In this role, you will be a part of projects by working hand in hand with the team in problem solving, working with multiple stakeholders, and contributing to research based insights.

Occasional travel to locations like Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and within Mumbai.

Management qualities

- Able to work independently, assume ownership, and responsibility of the work

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Soft skills including spoken and written English

- Experience in managing multiple clients

- Prior experience with guiding, motivating, and managing a team/juniors/client staff in their day-to-day work

- Ability to establish and maintain harmonious working relationships with co-workers, staff, and external contacts, and to work diligently in a professional team environment

- Communicating with multiple stakeholders viz. leadership, auditors, donors, program staff, other consultants, etc

- Process-driven and able to manage a team

Compliance and Financial Management

- Responsible for managing clients' compliances, viz. FCRA, TDS, PT, IT, GST, etc.

- Responsible for preparing/reviewing clients' financial statements, reports/MIS, and books of accounts up to audit closure

- Reviewing donor utilisation reports, tracking over/under-utilisation of donor funds and suggesting ways to optimise usage of funds; reviewing donor proposals based on client budgets and donor criteria

- Reviewing monthly payroll as per donor allocations and Management plans for optimising usage of funds

- Preparing organisational budget and tracking actual expenditure and variances periodically

- Reviewing agreements from a legal and financial perspective

Skills & Experience:

- Fair understanding of Excel and Tally

- Logical thinker, ability to connect the dots

- Willingness to learn

- Preferable to have working knowledge on Income Tax, FCRA & GST laws and leadership qualities