About the role :

Time-Rich Accountants is an accounting operations firm working with clients in Canada and the US. We are hiring an Assistant Manager to lead the day-to-day accounting work for a portfolio of client accounts.

You will report directly to a Chartered Accountant with Canadian work experience. This is hands-on exposure to Western accounting practice and client expectations, with direct feedback on your work.

This role covers accounting operations only, bookkeeping, reconciliations and month-end close. There is no tax preparation or tax filing involved.

Preferred candidate profile

- 3 to 6 years of hands-on accounting experience. Experience with international or offshore clients is an advantage.

- B.Com or M.Com. CA Inter is welcome but not required.

- Strong working knowledge of QuickBooks, or a similar cloud accounting platform you can transition from quickly.

- Has independently owned a month-end close, not just prepared entries within one.

- Excel is where most of this work happens. You should be fast with pivot tables, lookups and large data sets but what we actually want is someone who reaches for a better tool when the manual approach starts breaking down.

- Power Query experience strongly preferred. If you have built queries to clean and combine data from multiple sources, describe what you built. VBA is an additional advantage.

- Thinks about the process, not just the task. When something takes longer than it should or keeps going wrong, we want you to step back and ask why, rather than doing it the slow way for the twelfth month running.

- Willing to teach.



You will review junior work and bring people up to speed, and that means explaining the reasoning, not just correcting the output. If you find training tedious, this is not the right role.

- Takes notes and keeps track of their own work. You should be writing things down as you go, keeping your own list of what is outstanding, and following up without being chased. Much of our training is recorded video, you should be comfortable watching a walkthrough, taking notes from it, and coming back with specific questions rather than asking to be shown again.

- Careful about File organisation. Everything lives in shared folders, and consistent naming matters, including capitalisation. If a file is named wrongly, someone else cannot find it.

- Can write a clear, professional email to a client or colleague without needing it rewritten. Using Claude or ChatGPT to draft is fine and encouraged, but you must read what comes back, check it against the facts, and fix what is wrong before it goes out. We have no interest in someone who copies and pastes.

- Clear written English. Most communication is over email and chat, so writing matters more than speaking. Internal calls are in Malayalam,



so you do not need to be a confident English speaker, but your written English needs to be robust.

- Comfortable working remotely with structure you will manage your own day within two fixed windows and are expected to flag issues early rather than sit on them.

- Available for the full schedule long term: 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM and 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM IST, Monday to Friday. Occasionally, during a busy close or when work has slipped, you may need to work a Saturday or Sunday, you take a weekday off in exchange. This is not routine, but it does happen.

- Interest in learning Western accounting practice matters more to us than the length of your resume.

- This is a full-time role. We are not looking for candidates who are actively preparing for CA, CMA or other professional exams alongside the job the schedule does not leave room for it, and exam leave and study commitments are not something we can accommodate.

Perks and advantages

- Direct reporting to a Chartered Accountant with Canadian work experience, you get feedback on your actual work, not just task assignments

- Hands-on exposure to Canadian and US accounting practice and client standards, which is difficult to get from a local role at this level

- Fully remote, based out of Kochi, no commute, no relocation

- Fixed hours, not on-call. You know when your day starts and ends

- Real ownership of client accounts rather than a narrow slice of the process

- Structured, documented training, recorded walkthroughs you can revisit, not one-time explanations

📌 Assistant Manager - Accounting Operations (Kochi)
🏢 Time Rich Accountants Alappuzha
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