Company The Dessert Republic is an experiential dessert café brand under UNiK Dessert World LLP, founded by Nikesh and Urvi Gala. Work close to the founders in a growing house of dessert brands, with accounting exposure across cafés, cake shops, and production operations.

Role Overview

- Own the flow from Petpooja, Zomato, and Swiggy reports into accurate accounting records.
- Reconcile sales, settlements, bank receipts, purchases, and expenses so every difference has an explanation.
- Prepare GST and TDS workings, coordinate with the CA, and track filings through completion.
- Work with the founders, café teams, and purchase/production teams to collect records and close accounts.
- Turn the numbers into clear reports that help the founders manage collections, costs, cash flow, and profitability.
- Salary Range - Rs. 25,000 to 40,000
- Only with prior experience

Perks

Proposed role opportunities:

- Direct exposure to the founders and the decisions behind a growing dessert business.
- Practical learning across café, production, and related brand accounting.
- Ownership of reconciliations, reporting, and improvements to accounting processes.
- Scope to take on broader finance responsibilities as performance and business needs develop.

Key Responsibilities

- Extract all required sales, tax, payment-mode, discount, cancellation, refund, and settlement reports from Petpooja, Zomato and Swiggy; retain organised source files by outlet and period.
- Clean and map reports into the agreed accounting structure, using controlled imports or approved integrations; check totals, duplicates, outlet tags, and ledger mapping.
- Reconcile POS and aggregator sales without counting the same order twice; explain differences between order dates, settlement periods, and bank receipt dates.




- Match Zomato and Swiggy settlements to sales, commissions, discounts, refunds, advertising charges, taxes, withholdings, and bank credits, as applicable.
- Maintain an exception tracker for missing settlements and disputed deductions, with evidence, owner, ageing, and follow-up through resolution.
- Reconcile bank, cash, card, and UPI receipts; investigate shortages or unmatched transactions with café teams and payment partners.
- Maintain accurate purchase, expense, vendor, customer, and journal entries, with supporting documents and explicit outlet or brand allocation.
- Check invoices, approvals, duplicate requests, vendor details, and payment legitimacy before preparing payment schedules for authorised approval.
- Own GST data preparation, purchase and sales reconciliations, and GSTR-1/GSTR-3B workings; coordinate CA review and complete filing where authorised.
- Prepare TDS workings, track payment and return status with the CA, and maintain a compliance calendar, supporting records, and filing acknowledgements.
- Support income-tax return preparation, annual accounts, and audits by supplying reconciled schedules and resolving CA queries.
- Close monthly books against an agreed checklist, reconcile key balances, and flag missing documents or unresolved items before sign-off.
- Prepare concise weekly sales, collections, outstanding settlement, payable, and cash summaries,



plus monthly outlet/brand revenue, cost, and profitability reports.
- Improve report templates, document accounting routines, and coordinate with operations.

Candidate Requirement

- Required: hands-on accounting experience covering bank reconciliation, ledger scrutiny, and monthly closing; 2-5 years is suggested for this scope.
- Required: ability to extract, clean, compare, and reconcile transaction-level reports rather than only enter totals.
- Required: working knowledge of GST and TDS preparation, supporting documents, and coordination with a CA.
- Required: practical Excel or Google Sheets skills, including lookups, duplicate checks, and exception lists.
- Required: confidence using online accounting software and learning the company's workflows.
- Preferred: experience with Petpooja reports or another POS system, and Zomato/Swiggy settlement reconciliation.
- Preferred: café, restaurant, retail, food manufacturing, or another business with multiple outlets and payment channels.
- Commerce education is useful; equivalent practical accounting experience is welcome. A CA qualification is not required for the proposed scope.
- Ability to explain financial differences simply, keep records confidential, and retain a clear trail of imports, approvals, and corrections.

What We Are Looking For

- Follow every unexplained difference through to a documented resolution.
- Flag missing records, delayed settlements, and filing risks early, with a practical next step.
- Check the evidence behind payments and entries, even when the request is urgent.
- Keep agreed reporting commitments and communicate delays before the cutoff.
- Accept corrections, own mistakes, and improve the process that caused the

📌 Accountant (Mumbai)
🏢 The Dessert Republic®
📍 Mumbai