Sr Manager - Finance & Accounts

Job Summary

The Senior Manager - Finance will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Finance Accounts function, ensuring sound financial management, strong governance, compliance, and timely and accurate reporting across the organisation.

The position will serve as a key finance partner to senior management and programme teams, providing financial insights, analysis, and recommendations to support informed decision-making and effective resource utilisation.

The role will also lead and strengthen the Finance Accounts team, drive process improvements and control effectiveness, and ensure robust financial systems and practices that support DA s growing portfolio of sustainable development programmes.

Responsibilities

Financial Management, Accounting Controls

• Lead and oversee the Finance Accounts function, ensuring accuracy, compliance, transparency, and timely reporting.
• Oversee AP, AR, payments, collections, employee claims, statutory liabilities, and advances.
• Review general ledger, accounting adjustments, provisions, accruals, and financial closing.
• Ensure proper accounting classification, cost allocation, documentation, and audit trails.
• Strengthen internal controls, segregation of duties, and authorization processes.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, SOPs, DoA, accounting standards, and applicable regulations.

Treasury, Cash Management Banking

• Provide oversight of treasury, cash-flow, investment, and banking operations.
• Manage banking relationships, bank accounts, mandates, payments, fund transfers, and banking documentation.
• Oversee bank reconciliations and review interest income, bank charges, foreign exchange transactions, and currency gains/losses.
• Ensure strong controls over banking access, payment authorization, and fund transfers.

Donor Grant Financial Management

• Oversee financial management of grants, donor funds, and restricted project funds.
• Ensure project expenditure complies with approved budgets, donor agreements, funding restrictions, and approved cost categories.
• Ensure appropriate and consistent allocation of shared, personnel, administrative, and operational costs to projects.
• Review donor financial reports, utilization statements, expenditure reports, and other financial submissions.
• Support program teams in effective budget management and financial compliance.
• Oversee financial closure of projects, including advances, liabilities, unutilized funds, and donor balances.

Financial Reporting MIS

• Lead the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of:
  • Balance Sheet
  • Statement of Income Expenditure / Profit Loss
  • Cash Flow Statement
  • Trial Balance
  • Project-wise financial reports
  • Budget vs. Actual reports
  • Donor financial reports
  • MIS and management dashboards
• Analyze financial performance, trends, risks, variances, and key financial indicators.
• Present significant financial matters and recommendations to senior management.
• Ensure reports are accurate, complete, consistent, and adequately supported by documentation.

Taxation Statutory Compliance

• Oversee compliance with applicable direct and indirect tax laws and statutory requirements.
• Ensure timely and accurate TDS/TCS, GST, and other applicable statutory compliances.
• Review tax calculations, statutory reconciliations, payments, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with tax consultants and advisors on tax and statutory matters.
• Oversee responses to tax notices, assessments, enquiries, and audits.
• Monitor changes in applicable laws and advise management on their financial impact.

Audit, Risk Management Compliance

• Lead and coordinate statutory, internal, donor, tax, and special audits.
• Act as the key finance contact for auditors, advisors, donors, and other external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely submission of audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documents, and financial information.

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