Senior Accountant
Role Overview
Hands-on leadership role responsible for operational and financial activities, including MIS, customer order management, accounting, audits, internal controls, and departmental coordination.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Hands-on leadership role responsible for operational and financial activities, including MIS, customer order management, accounting, audits, internal controls, and departmental coordination.
Operations and order management
- Manage daily business operations and prepare daily, weekly, and monthly management reports and KPI dashboards.
- Monitor orders, inventory, purchasing, dispatches, receivables, payables, expenses, and performance; identify issues and take corrective action.
- Coordinate across sales, procurement, warehouse, logistics, accounts, and management; improve workflows and reporting.
- Own the customer order cycle from confirmation through dispatch, invoicing, delivery, and payment follow-up.
- Communicate order status, verify order and commercial details, resolve discrepancies, delays, returns, complaints, and escalations.
Accounting, audit, and leadership
- Supervise accounting, invoicing, collections, vendor payments, banking, reconciliations, and general ledger entries.
- Monitor cash flow, working capital, budgets, expenses, margins, and profitability; prepare monthly and annual financial reports.
- Ensure tax, statutory, and regulatory compliance; coordinate with banks, consultants, vendors, customers, and authorities as needed.
- Manage audits, prepare supporting documentation, coordinate with auditors, establish internal controls, and resolve audit observations.
- Lead and develop operations and accounts teams, assign work, review performance, and support management decisions.
Candidate profile
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Substantial experience in accounting, operations, MIS, audits, and customer order management; previous experience in a senior accountant, operations manager, finance manager, or general management role.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial controls, reconciliations, and audit requirements.
- Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with accounting, ERP, or order-management software.
- Strong customer communication, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills; able to manage priorities independently.
- Integrity, accuracy, confidentiality, accountability, and a hands-on, solution-oriented leadership approach.
- Professional accounting qualification or relevant certification is preferred.
Performance measures
Measures include accurate and timely MIS, on-time order processing and delivery, customer satisfaction, accurate accounting, timely collections and statutory filings, successful audits, and improved cash flow and operational controls.
Pay and benefits
- Pay is ₹20,000–₹80,000 per month.
- Benefits include health insurance, life insurance, and Provident Fund.
Work location
- Work location is in person.
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