Accounting & Finance Associate

As an Accounting & Finance Associate at Beforest located in Hyderabad, you will play a crucial role in building a world-class finance function in a high-energy, purpose-driven environment. Your responsibilities will include integrating and maintaining financial records in Zoho Books, reconciling accounts, and ensuring audit-ready books. You will collaborate with the CFO to create live financial dashboards, prepare MIS reports, and support statutory filings and compliance. Additionally, you will assist in financial planning and strategy by working on financial models & forecasts, tracking budgets vs actuals, and structuring data for investor and lender reporting. Your role will involve liaising with operational teams, field managers, and sister entities to ensure real-time financial inputs and seamless coordination between on-ground realities and financial tracking. You will also contribute to building a high-performance finance function, driving process improvements, and supporting Beforest's mission of ecological restoration through finance that aligns with systems thinking. To excel in this position, you should have 5 to 7 years of experience in accounting, finance, or audit roles, proficiency in Zoho Books or similar cloud-based accounting systems, and a strong command over Excel/Google Sheets. Experience with dash-boarding tools is a plus. You should be comfortable with handling complexity, proactive in driving process improvements, and aligned with Beforest's mission of long-term ecological and social regeneration. Having experience in startups, social enterprises, or mission-driven organizations, a background in impact reporting, ESG finance, or sustainable development, and exposure to fundraising support or investor relations would be advantageous. By joining Beforest, you will be part of a pioneering organization creating a new model for living and working with nature, work with a passionate, collaborative, and diverse team, have the opportunity to grow into a leadership role in finance, and shape systems that support real-world ecological transformation.,