Accountant – Roles and Responsibilities
- Accounting Operations: Manage day-to-day accounting activities, including sales, purchases, receipts, payments, and journal entries.
- Financial Records: Maintain accurate books of accounts, general ledgers, subsidiary ledgers, and other financial records.
- Accounts Payable: Verify supplier invoices, reconcile supplier accounts, monitor outstanding payments, and coordinate payment processing.
- Accounts Receivable: Monitor customer outstanding balances, verify receipts, follow up on overdue payments, and maintain accurate customer accounts.
- Bank Reconciliation: Prepare bank reconciliation statements and investigate discrepancies between bank statements and company records.
- Cash Management: Monitor cash transactions, maintain cash books, verify cash balances, and ensure proper documentation of receipts and payments.
- GST Compliance: Verify GST invoices, reconcile purchase and sales data, prepare GST workings, and coordinate timely filing of applicable GST returns.
- TDS Compliance: Calculate applicable TDS deductions, verify deductions and payments, prepare TDS workings, and coordinate timely filing of TDS returns.
- Tax and Statutory Compliance: Ensure accounting records and supporting documents are maintained for applicable statutory and tax compliance requirements.
- Ledger Reconciliation: Reconcile customer, supplier, bank, advance, and other ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies.
- Expense Management: Verify expense claims, supporting bills, purchase invoices, and payment documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with company policies.
- Payroll Accounting: Verify salary-related accounting entries, employee reimbursements, statutory deductions, and payroll-related financial records.
- Inventory Accounting: Reconcile inventory-related records with accounting data and coordinate with the stores and production departments to resolve discrepancies.
- Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly financial statements, expense reports, outstanding reports, and other accounting reports for management review.
- Month-End Closing: Complete monthly account reconciliations, verify journal entries, and support the timely closure of accounts.
- Audit Coordination: Coordinate with internal and statutory auditors and provide the required financial records, schedules, explanations, and supporting documents.
- Budget and Expense Monitoring: Assist in monitoring departmental expenses, comparing actual expenses against budgets, and identifying significant variations.
- Documentation and Filing: Maintain accounting vouchers, invoices, tax records, bank statements, and other financial documents systematically for easy retrieval.
- Accounting Software: Maintain accounting entries and financial records using the company's accounting software and Excel.
- Internal Controls: Follow established accounting procedures, verify supporting documents, and ensure proper authorisation of financial transactions.
- Management Support: Provide accurate financial information and accounting details to the Accounts Manager for review and decision-making.
- Other Duties: Perform other accounting and finance-related activities as assigned by the reporting manager.
Reporting to: Accounts Manager
Job Types: Full-time, Walk-In
Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹35,000.00 per month
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
