Account Manager

Senior Accounts Manager
Department: Finance & Accounts
Reporting To: Management / Directors
Experience: Minimum 10 years of managerial experience
Location: In Office, in New Delhi 
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Senior Accounts Manager to lead the Finance & Accounts function of the company. The ideal candidate should go beyond routine accounting and operational responsibilities and have a proactive, business-oriented approach to financial management.
The person will be responsible for ensuring strong financial controls, accurate and timely reporting, statutory compliance, cash-flow management and providing management with meaningful financial insights to support business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Accounting & Reporting
- Overall responsibility for day-to-day accounting and financial operations.
- Supervise and ensure accurate and timely sales and expense entries in Tally.
- Prepare and review the monthly Profit & Loss Statement.
- Prepare and monitor monthly cash-flow statements and cash-flow forecasts.
- Analyse revenue, expenses, margins, working capital and profitability.
- Provide management with financial insights, trends and early warnings on potential financial issues.
- Ensure proper accounting controls and timely closure of monthly accounts.
- Stock reconciliation and management
2. Banking & Treasury Management
- Manage all banking activities and relationships with banks.
- Monitor bank balances, fund requirements and daily cash position.
- Plan cash flows and ensure adequate liquidity for business operations.
- Manage bank reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.
- Coordinate with banks for payments, collections, facilities and other banking requirements.
- Maintain strong control over company cash and banking transactions.
3. GST & Statutory Compliance
- Oversee GST compliance, reconciliations and timely payments.
- Coordinate with the Chartered Accountant for GST return filing and related compliances.
- Handle and coordinate responses to GST notices, queries and assessments.
- Ensure timely Income Tax deposits and return filing in coordination with the Chartered Accountant.
- Manage TDS compliance, including deductions, payments, reconciliations and returns.
- Ensure timely PF and ESIC compliance and payments.
- Monitor all statutory deadlines and ensure there are no avoidable penalties or compliance lapses.
4. Payroll Management
- Process and supervise monthly payroll.
- Ensure accurate calculation of salaries, deductions, TDS, PF, ESIC and other applicable components.
- Coordinate with management and employees regarding payroll-related matters.
- Ensure timely salary processing and statutory deposits.
5. Accounts Payable & Vendor Management
- Overall responsibility for Accounts Payable.
- Monitor vendor liabilities and payment schedules.
- Ensure payments are made in accordance with agreed terms and available cash flow.
- Maintain appropriate controls over vendor balances and supporting documentation.
- Work closely with the Junior Accounts Manager for purchase-related accounting.
6. Coordination with Chartered Accountant
- Act as the primary internal finance contact for the company's Chartered Accountant.
- Provide financial data, schedules, reconciliations and documents required for statutory compliance.
- Coordinate for GST, TDS, Income Tax and other statutory filings.
- Ensure timely resolution of accounting and taxation queries.
- Coordinate and assist in the resolution of GST and Income Tax notices and other departmental matters.
7. Management Reporting & Financial Planning
- Present meaningful financial information to management on a regular basis.
- Identify areas of unnecessary expenditure, leakage and financial inefficiency.
- Monitor profitability and margins and highlight significant deviations.
- Assist management in budgeting, financial planning and forecasting.
- Develop systems and controls that improve financial discipline and reduce financial risk.
- Provide proactive recommendations rather than merely reporting historical numbers.
Strategic Expectations
This position is not intended to be purely an operational accounting role.
The successful candidate should:
- Think like a Finance Manager/Business Partner, not merely an accountant.
- Have a strong understanding of the company's overall financial health.
- Proactively identify financial risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Understand the relationship between sales, margins, expenses, working capital, receivables, payables and cash flow.
- Provide management with actionable insights rather than simply preparing reports.
- Anticipate cash-flow and working-capital requirements in advance.
- Establish and strengthen financial processes, controls and reporting systems.
- Question discrepancies and unusual trends rather than simply recording transactions.
- Be comfortable interacting directly with senior management and providing financial recommendations.
Team Structure
The Senior Accounts Manager will lead the Accounts function and be assisted by a **Junior Accounts Manager and Billing Assistant ** who will be responsible primarily for:
- Accounts receivable/outstanding follow-up and reporting
- Purchase entries
- Goods returns
- Credit notes
- Debit note
- Account reconciliations with buyers and sellers 
- Invoicing and Eway billing 
- Making proformas for sales teams and sending sales orders to warehouse 
- Supporting day-to-day accounting activities
The Senior Accounts Manager will supervise, review and integrate this work into the overall financial reporting and control system.
Candidate Profile
- Minimum 10 years of relevant managerial experience in Finance & Accounts.
- Strong experience in accounting, taxation, GST, TDS, payroll and statutory compliance.
- Excellent working knowledge of Tally.
- Strong understanding of Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and working-capital management.
- Experience in handling banking and financial institutions.
- Experience coordinating with Chartered Accountants and tax professionals.
- Experience handling GST and Income Tax notices will be highly preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger business picture.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to independently manage the Finance & Accounts function.
- Should be proactive, commercially aware and strategically minded.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who can take ownership of the company's financial health, not someone who simply records transactions and completes routine accounting tasks.
The ideal candidate should be able to answer questions such as:
Where is the company's money going? Where is it getting stuck? How profitable are we? What will our cash position look like next month? What financial risks are emerging? Where can costs be controlled? And what can management do to improve profitability and cash flow?
A candidate with a strong combination of accounting expertise, commercial understanding, financial discipline and strategic thinking will be preferred.