Finance & Accounts Manager - NGO

Role: Responsible for overall financial & accounting operations including

inventory and expense control, Ledger scrutiny, internal controls, support in tax

assessments, budgeting, MIS and Statutory Compliances

Responsibilities:

● Supervise of all financial transactions in ERP (income, purchases, expenses)

● Ensure accuracy of project codes /cost centres while recording transactions and

apportioning techniques for jointly incurred expenses by two or more projects

● Ensuring proper processes & controls in place for all fees, purchases, expenses

● Payroll processing along with attendance

● Ensure proper controls in place for consumable & fixed assets and stock records

maintenance

● Monitor student fee receivables, grants

● Ledger scrutiny / receivables & payables reconciliation

● Lead the annual budgeting process. Work with project managers to ensure the

annual budget and annual reforecast is complete, timely and accurate

● Prepare monthly variance analysis reports (budget vs actual) for each

project/division and consolidated report for the organization as whole; interpret

the variance and prepare reports highlighting the major deviations with

explanatory comments

● Support in liaison with University, state govt. agencies and local authority as

required for all compliance matters

● Provide all information, reports, cost data as required by stakeholders

● Assisting Auditor/Consultants in IT scrutiny matters and Charity

Commissioner related matters

● Drive improvement in policies, processes, systems and internal control

environment of the Trust operations

● Ensure that all activities comply with various legal provisions, ethical standards

and industry best practices

Skills, Knowledge and Experience :

● B.Com / M.Com plus CA Inter / Final with 8 years of accounting experience

● Knowledge of MS office & Tally ERP 9

● Knowledge of Direct Tax & applicable Statutory taxes

● Command over English and Gujarati is required.

● Effective communication (both verbal and written), influencing and negotiation

skills with the ability to maintain high level relationships across a range of

stakeholders including peers, senior management

● Methodical with very high level of attention to detail

● Strong analytical and problem solving skills

● Team player with ability to be flexible and adaptable in the face of changing

organisational priorities and ambiguous environments

● Very high level of commitment and integrity