Chartered Accountant - Finance & Accounts

Wah! Foods · West Bengal, India

We're Hiring: Accountant - Finance & Accounts

Location: Kolkata

Experience: 0-2 years post qualification

Company: Wah! Foods

️ Industry: QSR / Food & Beverage / Retail

About Wah! Foods

Wah! Foods is building one of India's first organized street-food QSR chains through its brands Wah! Puchka and Wah! Litti.

Our mission is to bring India's most loved street foods into a hygienic, standardized, scalable, and trustworthy format-without losing the authentic taste and emotions attached to them.

About the Role

We are looking for a Accountant with 2-5 years of experience to strengthen our finance, accounting, compliance, taxation, MIS, and financial-control functions.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who wants to work closely with founders and business teams in a fast-growing QSR environment.

Key Responsibilities

Manage monthly and annual books closure across outlets and business entities

Review accounting entries, ledgers, reconciliations, expenses, receivables, and payables

Ensure timely GST, TDS, income-tax, and other statutory compliances

Coordinate with auditors, tax consultants, banks, and regulatory authorities

Prepare monthly MIS, outlet-wise profitability, cash-flow reports, and management dashboards

Monitor food cost, outlet expenses, gross margins, contribution margins, and operational variances

Strengthen internal controls for purchases, inventory, cash, billing, refunds, discounts, and vendor payments

Conduct outlet-level financial reviews and identify revenue leakage or cost-control opportunities

Support budgeting, forecasting, fundraising due diligence, and financial modelling

Review vendor agreements, payment terms, taxation implications, and commercial documentation

Support implementation and improvement of accounting, POS, inventory, and ERP systems

Ensure proper documentation and audit readiness across all outlets

Assist the leadership team in evaluating new outlets, cities, formats, and expansion opportunities

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Strong understanding of accounting standards, GST, TDS, taxation, and statutory compliance

• Good command over Excel, financial modelling, MIS, and data analysis

• Experience in QSR, food and beverage, retail, hospitality, FMCG, or multi-outlet businesses is preferred

• Exposure to inventory accounting, food costing, outlet profitability, or POS reconciliation will be an advantage

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led organization

• Strong ownership, attention to detail, commercial thinking, and problem-solving ability

• Willingness to work hands-on and visit outlets whenever required

Why Join Wah! Foods?

Work closely with the founders during a high-growth expansion phase

Help build financial systems for a growing multi-city QSR chain

Gain exposure to outlet economics, expansion planning, fundraising, and strategic finance

Be part of our growth across Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, and future markets

Help build nationally recognized street-food brands from the ground up.