Responsibilities

- Manage operations of the assigned projects with a direct team size of 40-50 team members.

- Lead a team of Deputy/Assistant Project Leaders, along with a team of Finance Leaders, Accountants, Tax Professionals and Financial/Secretarial Compliance Officers.

- Allocate resources and manage milestone deliveries client collections.

- Ensure all accounting activities and internal audits comply with generally accepted accounting principles.

- Recommend cost-optimization solutions.

Requirements and skills

- Entrepreneurial mindset with a client servicing attitude and a general commercial awareness.

- Able to manage Business verticals independently and handle PL responsibility with prior reporting experience to internal senior management.

- In-depth understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation and bookkeeping.

- Hands-on experience with financial planning/budgeting, project risk management, data analysis and forecasting.

- Proficiency in accounting software/ERPs.

- Contemporary Leadership qualities with a lead-by-example approach. Solid analytical and decision-making skills.

- Prior experience in managing client finance operations, society accounting, society compliances and/or operations modelling will be a plus.

Detailed Job Profile

I. Billing AR Management:

- Planning Publishing regular Billing Dashboard.

- Resolve client queries with the help of project teams.

- Responsible for providing timely confirmation on issuance of bills to clients.

- Intimation to the accountant for change in tariff due to surplus/deficit in quarterly/half yearly/annually financials after approval of the officer bearers on the client side.

II.

Booking

Accounts:

- Review of Accounts.

- Passing of Journal entries as and when required.

- Managing client relationships independently.

- Publishing regular Accounting Dashboards.

III.





Withholding

Tax matters:

- Tracking of Monthly TDS for all Portfolios publishing the Dashboard.

- Ensuring the filing of relevant returns within the due date.

- Validate the reconciliation of TDS return with Tally data.

- Any Notice/assessment from dept. needs to be handled/coordinated.

IV. Goods and Service Tax:

- Responsible for providing relevant inputs/workings to enable timely filing of relevant returns.

- Validate the reconciliation of GST returns with Neo/tally data (GSTR1, GSTR2b, GSTR3b).

- Any Notice/assessment from the GST department needs to be appropriately communicated to the seniors of the organization with the right inputs and support to resolve those queries.

V.

Income

Tax:

- Prepare and verify income computation.

- Plan and track Advance Tax Payments.

- Publish the Dashboard ensure timely filing of Income-tax Returns.

- Provide relevant inputs for the computation of income-tax (COI) and passing appropriate entries in the books to give effect to the COI inputs.

- Any Notice/Assessment from the Income-tax department needs to be appropriately communicated to the seniors of the organization with the right inputs and support them to resolve those queries.

VI. Financial MIS:

- Closing Financial Statements (PL, Balance Sheet, Cashflow).

- Weekly publication of Dashboard listing open items for all the Portfolio Accountants.

- Share All MIS needs with clients within established timelines, along with observation reports.

- Budget CAM working preparation.

- Budget vs. Actuals - providing a variance analysis.

VII. Other:

- Virtually connect with Clients on urgent matters.

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📌 Senior Project Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 Zipgrid
📍 Mumbai