Position Title: Manager - Accounts (Payments & Taxation)
- Department: Finance & Accounts
- Location: Corporate Office, Mumbai
- Disbursement Oversight: Manage the end-to-end accounts payable (AP) cycle, verifying that all payments (vendor, payroll, utility, and capital expenditures) are accurate, fully supported by documentation, and properly authorized.
- Cash Flow Management: Collaborate with the Treasury team to monitor daily cash balances, project weekly/monthly cash outflows, and optimize working capital.
- Banking Operations: Supervise banking transactions, including bank reconciliations, managing payment gateways, processing wire transfers, and maintaining robust banking relationships.
- Internal Controls: Implement and enforce strict payment control policies, ensuring segregation of duties and prevention of fraud or payment leakages.
2. Taxation (Direct & Indirect)
- Compliance Management: Ensure 100% timely compliance with all applicable tax laws across all AFPL group companies.
- Indirect Tax (GST/VAT):
- Manage and oversee the timely,
accurate filing of monthly/quarterly GST returns, including GSTR-1 (Statement of Outward Supplies) and GSTR-3B (Summary Return and Tax Payment).
- Actively utilize GSTR-1A for mid-month invoice amendments and corrections before filing the monthly tax liability to avoid interest or penalty liabilities.
- Conduct rigorous monthly reconciliations between GSTR-1/1A and GSTR-3B to identify and fix any discrepancies in tax liabilities.
- Oversee the deep reconciliation of GSTR-2B with internal purchase books to maximize eligible Input Tax Credit (ITC) claiming.
- Proactively follow up on, address, and resolve invoice mismatches and non-compliance issues directly with vendors to secure tax credits.
- Direct Tax (Income Tax & TDS):
- Manage timely computation, deposition, and filing of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS) returns.
- Assist in the calculation and payment of Advance Tax, Corporate Income Ta