Assistant, Finance

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of ~5000+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.

We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We’re committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.

The Finance Assistant will perform accounting operating functions associated with finance and accounts, checking reimbursement statements and clearing them as per the relevant policy, recording accounting entries in Financial System i.e. tallying and carrying out ancillary functions like bank reconciliation, tax payments, and answering queries by Internal and External Stakeholders.

The Finance Assistant shall report to the Senior Manager, Finance. The team is currently headed by the CFO and comprises 1 Finance Assistant, 3 Finance Associates and 1 Senior Manager.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining and recording entries in the books of accounts regularly.
• Assisting in developing financial reports as per donors’ requirements and submission of the reports to donors on time.
• Maintaining appropriate files/records / and supporting documents towards meeting legal and statutory requirements.
• Preparing and maintaining of Asset register for internal and external purposes.
• Processing and disbursing reimbursements/Vendor payments on time.
• Reconciling the ledgers.
• Preparing bank reconciliations.
• Complying with statutory and tax regulations and making timely tax and other payments.
• Handling the finance-related queries raised by internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities:

• To assist in the finalising of books of accounts and handle audits-related concerns.
• To provide support to all verticals.
• To perform any other ancillary task as directed by the Finance Manager.
• To assist in Secretarial matters, correspondence and filing.

• Graduate in Commerce with 0-4 years of relevant experience.
• Mastery over Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Knowledge of Accounting Concepts and Applied Accounting.
• Working Knowledge of ERP.
• Good Communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build meaningful relationships with diverse & ensure better collaboration.
• Commitment to excellence, accuracy, attention to detail.
• High on integrity, accountability and drive.

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.