HIRING IMMEDIATELY | Assistant Manager – Accounts & Finance
Location: Gurgaon — full-time, office-based
Experience: 5–8 years in accounting, including independent responsibility for company books
Joining: Immediate preferred; candidates available within 15 days encouraged to apply
Compensation: Commensurate with relevant experience and demonstrated capability
About Hostie
Hostie manages a curated portfolio of holiday homes, villas, farm stays and serviced apartments across multiple destinations. Our business involves direct and OTA bookings, property-owner revenue-sharing arrangements and operations across multiple GST registrations.
We are looking for an experienced accounting professional to take ownership of our in-house accounts function, manage Zoho Books and deliver accurate, timely financial reporting.
About the role
This is a hands-on position covering daily bookkeeping, reconciliations, monthly closing, property-level reporting and compliance coordination.
Key responsibilities
1. Daily accounting and bookkeeping
- Independently maintain complete and accurate books of account in Zoho Books.
- Record sales, purchases, receipts, payments, expenses, credit notes and journal entries.
- Verify supporting documents, ledger classifications, property allocation and applicable tax treatment.
- Maintain vendor, customer, property-owner, employee and loan ledgers.
- Account for accruals, prepaid expenses, advances, deposits and other month-end adjustments.
- Collect missing information proactively and maintain a clear register of unresolved items.
2. Banking, payments and reconciliations
- Reconcile bank accounts, credit cards, payment gateways, cash and staff imprest accounts.
- Identify missing entries, duplicates, incorrect postings and unexplained differences.
- Prepare payment schedules and supporting documentation for management approval.
- Maintain accurate receivable and payable ageing reports.
- Track collections, outstanding advances and upcoming payment obligations.
3. Hospitality and property accounting
- Reconcile direct bookings and OTA settlements against booking records.
- Account for OTA commissions, deductions, refunds and settlement differences.
- Track guest advances, security deposits and cancellations.
- Prepare and reconcile property-owner revenue-share statements and balances.
- Allocate revenue and expenses accurately to properties and relevant locations.
- Coordinate with reservations and operations teams to resolve documentation and booking differences.
4. GST, TDS and compliance coordination
- Prepare GST and TDS workings and supporting schedules.
- Maintain appropriate GSTIN, tax-code and transaction mapping in Zoho Books.
- Reconcile tax ledgers with workings, filed returns and payments.
- Coordinate with the Chartered Accountant to resolve differences and meet compliance deadlines.
- Support GST input-credit reconciliation and TDS reconciliation, including relevant portal records.
- Post reviewed compliance adjustments into the books.
- Gradually take greater responsibility for routine compliance preparation and filing.
5. Monthly closing and MIS
- Complete monthly closing within agreed timelines.
- Prepare the profit and loss account, balance sheet and supporting schedules.
- Produce property-level financial reports and consolidated MIS.
- Report owner dues,
receivables, payables, statutory liabilities and cash requirements.
- Explain material variances and accounting exceptions to management.
- Ensure financial MIS reconciles to Zoho Books.
Qualifications and essential skills
- Post graduate or an equivalent qualification in accounting or finance. CA (Inter) preferred.
- Preferably 5–8 years of relevant experience, with demonstrated independent ownership of books and monthly closing.
- Hands-on Zoho Books experience is mandatory, preferably at least two years of regular use.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, ledger scrutiny and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Practical experience preparing GST and TDS workings.
- Robust Excel skills, including lookups, SUMIFS, pivot tables and reconciliation of large datasets.
- Ability to investigate differences and resolve incomplete records.
- Clear communication and disciplined follow-through with internal teams and external advisers.
- Willingness to take ownership of both routine entries and complex reconciliation issues.
Additional qualifiers
- Experience in hospitality, holiday rentals, travel, or another business with multiple locations.
- Tally experience and involvement in an accounting-system migration.
- Experience working with multiple GST registrations.
How to apply Apply through LinkedIn with your CV and a short note stating:
1. Total accounting experience and years of hands-on Zoho Books use.
2. Whether you have independently managed company books and monthly closing.
3. Your experience preparing GST/TDS workings.
4. Current location, earliest joining date and expected compensation.
5. One example of an accounting discrepancy or backlog you successfully resolved.
Interested can reach @(phone hidden) or drop resume to
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