Senior Accounts Manager

Roles and Responsibiliies

Bookkeeping The core of the role.

• Verify entries in Tally — journal, purchase, sales, payment, receipt, contra — entity-wise, with correct ledger grouping, cost centres and narrations
• A clean, consistent chart of accounts across entities so they can be compared 
• Inter-company transactions — funds moved between entities identifiable and matched on both sides at all times
• Fixed asset register; depreciation under both Companies Act and Income Tax methods
• Rental and property income; investment transactions including the data needed for capital gains 
• Month-end provisions, accruals and prepaid amortisation
• Books kept permanently audit-ready — any entry traceable to its supporting document within minutes

Reconciliations

• Bank reconciliation for every account of every entity, closed in the first week of the following month
• Vendor and customer ledger reconciliations — differences resolved, not carried forward
• GSTR-2B vs purchase register, with vendor follow-up on mismatches
• 26AS / AIS vs books for TDS credits
• Inter-company balance matching, monthly
• Zero suspense or unadjusted balances at month end

GST

• GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B preparation and filing for all registered entities
• Input tax credit management — eligibility, blocked credits under section 17(5), reversals, 2B matching discipline
• Reverse charge identification and payment
• E-invoicing and e-way bills where applicable
• GSTR-9 / 9C data preparation with the CA firm
• Notices and departmental queries, with proper working papers

Direct taxation

• TDS — correct sections and rates, monthly challans, quarterly returns (24Q, 26Q), Form 16 and 16A, correction statements
• Advance tax computation and payment on schedule
• Income tax returns — data preparation for all entities, and the founder's personal return, coordinated with the CA firm 
• Tax audit data and schedules 
• Workings that support every position taken, so an assessment can be answered without reconstruction

Compliance calendar

• Own and drive the compliance calendar across every entity. No due date should ever be tracked by the founder
• Professional Tax, PF and ESIC coordination as applicable
• LLP annual filings (Form 8, Form 11) and company filings, prepared in-house and filed with the CA firm

Reporting

• Monthly reporting pack by an agreed date — entity-wise P&L, balance sheet, trial balance, supporting schedules
• Debtor and creditor ageing, with items needing attention flagged
• Cash flow tracker — actual receipts and payments recorded accurately, statutory outflows scheduled in advance
• Audit schedules, and first point of contact for statutory and tax auditors
• A short note each month on anything that looks wrong. This is not optional

Requirement

• Proven history of independently maintaining a full set of books rather than doing data entry under someone else's review.
• Personally prepared and filed GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B rather than just preparing data for someone else to file.
• End-to-end TDS handling including correct sections, rates, thresholds, monthly challans, quarterly returns (24Q, 26Q), and Form 16/16A.
• Hands-on experience with bank, vendor, GSTR-2B, and Form 26AS reconciliations.
• Working proficiency in Excel lookups, pivot tables, and SUMIFS formulas.
• Experience with property accounting, rental income, TDS u/s 194-I, and Capital Work in Progress (CWIP).
• Experience with investment accounting, individual ITR preparation, and specific LLP compliance like Form 8 and Form 11.
• Experience taking books up to finalisation with complete audit schedules.
• Operates with a systematic, trackable approach to managing due dates and consistently closing books to a strict monthly deadline.
• Absolute commitment to ethical, fully-audited, on-the-books accounting practices with complete transparency.
• Clear written and spoken English for writing vendor emails and replying to departmental notices, working knowledge of Marathi and Hindi, and practical habits regarding financial confidentiality.
• Proactive mindset evidenced by a history of building tracking systems, templates, or SOPs, and cleaning up messy inherited books.
• Receptive to feedback, comfortable having work reviewed by the founder and external CA firms, and willing to document and hand over processes.
• Average tenure of 18+ months across the last three roles, with a clear motivation for seeking an execution-focused, stable, long-term ownership role rather than an FP&A or CFO track