Reports To: General Manager Finance / Dealer Principal
Location: Dealership
Position Summary The Assistant Accounts Manager / Accounts Manager is responsible for managing the dealership's accounting operations, ensuring statutory compliance, financial reporting, taxation, budgeting, internal controls, cash flow management, and coordination with OEMs, banks, auditors, and various business departments. The role ensures accurate financial records while supporting business profitability and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Accounting
- Maintain books of accounts as per applicable Accounting Standards.
- Ensure accurate accounting of vehicle sales, service, spare parts, accessories, insurance, and other dealership revenues.
- Review journal entries, payment vouchers, receipts, and accounting transactions.
- Conduct monthly and annual ledger scrutiny and reconciliation.
- Ensure timely month-end and year-end financial closing.
1. Receivables Management
- Monitor customer receivables.
- Reconcile OEM incentive receivables.
- Follow up on finance company receivables.
- Monitor insurance claim receivables.
- Review outstanding debtors and aging analysis.
- Ensure timely collection of outstanding balances.
1. Payables Management
- Verify vendor invoices.
- Process vendor payments.
- Monitor due dates.
- Reconcile vendor statements.
- Maintain supplier aging reports.
- Control advance payments.
1. Banking & Cash Management
- Monitor daily cash flow.
- Perform daily bank reconciliation.
- Verify cash deposits.
- Monitor online transactions.
- Coordinate with bankers.
- Manage loan disbursements and repayments.
1. Taxation & Statutory Compliance
- GST Return Filing.
- GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-9 reconciliation.
- TDS deduction and filing.
- Income Tax compliance.
- Professional Tax compliance.
- Labour Welfare Fund compliance.
- ROC compliance (where applicable).
- Audit coordination.
- Respond to notices from statutory authorities.
- Statutory Audit.
- Internal Audit.
- GST Audit.
- Income Tax Assessment.
- OEM Financial Audit.
- Bank Audit.
1. Team Management
- Lead and mentor accounts executives.
- Allocate responsibilities.
- Conduct performance reviews.
- Provide training on accounting systems and compliance.
- Ensure departmental productivity.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Monthly Closing completed within 5 working days.
- 100% GST & TDS compliance.
- Bank reconciliation completed daily.
- Debtor aging maintained within approved limits.
- Vendor payments made as per agreed timelines.
- Zero major statutory non-compliance.
- Clean internal and statutory audit reports.
- Accurate OEM account reconciliations.
- Budget variance maintained within approved thresholds.
- Robust cash flow and working capital management.