Finance, Accounts

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of daily accounting, compliance, and financial operations for the Indian entity.

• Manage bookkeeping, vendor and customer invoicing, GST/TDS filings, payroll compliance, and statutory filings, including ROC, PF, and PT.

• Conduct bank, vendor, and intercompany reconciliations, utilizing systems that identify exceptions.

• Oversee the month-end closing schedule, journal entries, accruals, and reporting packages.

• Handle AP/AR operations, encompassing invoice processing, payment runs, collections follow-up, and expense management.

• Collaborate with auditors, tax consultants, and the company secretary.

• Ensure documentation is consistently audit-ready.

• Recognize and automate repetitive finance workflows using existing tools, AI, and no-code automation.

• Accelerate close timelines and automate or use AI assistance for recurring finance tasks.

• Concentrate on variance analysis, compliance risks, and vendor negotiations instead of data entry.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in accounting/finance operations.

• Ideally, experience at a startup or rapidly growing company; SaaS experience is highly advantageous.

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

• Practical experience with accounting systems such as Zoho Books, Tally, QuickBooks, or similar platforms.

• Exposure to ERP systems, including NetSuite, is a plus.

• Capability to independently manage the entire close cycle.

• Proficiency with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or similar for communication, policy summaries, compliance research, financial modeling, and analysis.

• Ability to develop or configure spreadsheet/AI-assisted workflows to automate recurring finance tasks.

• Experience with, or a willingness to learn quickly, low-code/no-code tools like n8n, Zapier, or Google Apps Script.

• Skill in connecting finance systems, including accounting software, Gmail, Google Sheets, and Slack.

• Competence in utilizing AI for reconciliation and variance analysis.

• Proven history of automating or optimizing a manual process in a previous role.

• Required to describe one automated or streamlined manual finance process in the application.

• Must complete a practical automation-focused task during the interview process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full freedom to introduce AI and automation tools.

• Opportunity to influence the finance function as one of the initial finance hires.

• Engage with automation and AI tools at a rapidly growing AI-native company.