Senior Manager - Accounts - Infrastructure/Energy

CA / CMA with 8 - 10 years of post-qualification experience, preferably from Infrastructure, EPC, Renewable Energy or Manufacturing background.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Closure & Reporting:

• Manage monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual financial closure within defined timelines.
• Ensure accurate preparation of standalone and consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable accounting standards and statutory requirements.
• Review general ledger balances, schedules, provisions, accruals, and period-end adjustment entries.

Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Coordination:

• Coordinate statutory audit, internal audit, tax audit, limited review, and other financial reviews.
• Ensure timely submission of schedules, reconciliations, supporting documents, and management responses, and facilitate closure of audit observations.

Direct & Indirect Tax Compliance:

• Oversee income tax computations, advance tax, tax audit, income tax returns, TDS compliance, and responses to tax notices and assessments.
• Ensure timely and accurate GST returns, reconciliations, input tax credit review, and coordination for notices, assessments, and refunds.

MIS & Management Reporting:

• Prepare and review periodic MIS, profitability reports, cost statements, variance analysis, and management dashboards.
• Provide accurate financial information and actionable analysis to support management decision-making.

Expense Booking & Provisions:

• Review and control accounting of non-PO expenses, recurring expenses, month-end provisions, prepaid expenses, and accruals.
• Ensure expenses are booked under appropriate cost centres, projects, departments, and ledger heads with adequate supporting documentation.

Petty Cash & Employee Reimbursements:

• Supervise petty cash accounting, verification of vouchers, periodic cash counts, and timely reconciliation.
• Review employee reimbursement claims for policy compliance, proper approvals, supporting documents, and timely accounting.

Payroll & Employee-Related Accounting:

• Ensure accurate and confidential accounting of salary, incentives, reimbursements, employee recoveries, payroll provisions, and full-and-final settlements.
• Reconcile payroll records with the general ledger and coordinate with HR for resolution of differences.

Balance Sheet Reconciliations:

• Ensure periodic reconciliation and ageing review of vendors, customers, advances, deposits, inter-company balances, statutory liabilities, and other balance sheet accounts.
• Drive timely resolution of long-outstanding and unreconciled items.

Fixed Assets & Capital Expenditure Accounting:

• Oversee capitalization, asset tagging, depreciation, transfers, disposals, physical verification, and maintenance of the fixed asset register.
• Review capital work-in-progress and ensure timely capitalization based on project completion and supporting documents.

Inter-Company & SPV Accounting:

• Manage accounting and reconciliation of inter-company transactions and balances.
• Oversee books of account, financial closure, taxation, and compliance support for Solar Park and Special Purpose Vehicle entities.

Internal Financial Controls & Process Improvement:

• Ensure adherence to accounting policies, delegation of authority, maker-checker controls, and document retention requirements.
• Strengthen accounting processes through standard operating procedures, ERP controls, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Team Management & Cross-Functional Coordination:

• Lead and develop the accounts team, allocate responsibilities, monitor deliverables, and ensure timely completion of critical activities.
• Coordinate with Finance, Taxation, Procurement, Projects, HR, Legal, Secretarial, and other functions for accurate and timely accounting and compliance.