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Job Description
Associate Finance Accounts and Trust
Job title Associate - Finance
Function Finance and Accounts with responsibility for Trust and Foundation finance
Reports to Finance Manager and Management
Role focus Accurate accounting, timely compliance, controlled payments, reliable reporting and effective financial administration
Role Purpose
The Associate - Finance is responsible for maintaining complete and accurate financial records, delivering dependable management information, meeting statutory and tax obligations, and supporting controlled banking and investment transactions. The role also manages the financial reporting, budgeting, compliance and documentation requirements of the organisation's trusts and foundations.
Key ResponsibilitiesAccounting Bookkeeping and Financial Reporting
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date books of account, supporting schedules and financial records for all assigned entities.
• Complete monthly and periodic account closures within agreed timelines, ensuring that entries, provisions and balances are properly supported.
• Prepare monthly MIS reports covering financial performance, key movements and variance analysis for management review.
• Support the preparation and finalisation of financial statements, including the balance sheet, statement of profit and loss and related schedules.
• Reconcile ledgers and investigate discrepancies promptly so that reported balances remain reliable and audit-ready.
Direct and Indirect Taxation
• Prepare and file applicable direct and indirect tax returns accurately and within statutory due dates.
• Compute advance tax liabilities and provide timely inputs for payment and reporting decisions.
• Own end-to-end GST compliance, including data preparation, return filing, reconciliations and follow-up of exceptions.
• Perform TDS calculations, deposits, return filings and ledger or certificate reconciliations.
• Maintain complete working papers and compliance records to support audits, assessments and management review.
Payments Banking and Investment Operations
• Process approved vendor, statutory, investment and other payments accurately and on time, in accordance with authorisation controls.
• Execute investment-related transactions and maintain complete supporting documents, confirmations and transaction records.
• Prepare bank reconciliations at the required frequency, minimise unresolved differences and close exceptions promptly.
• Maintain appropriate control over banking access, transaction documentation and confidential financial information.
• Identify and implement practical improvements or automation in payment and banking processes to reduce errors and processing time.
Trust and Foundation Finance
• Maintain complete books, schedules and financial records for trusts and foundations and support timely finalisation of their financial statements.
• Manage trust-related TDS, statutory records, supporting documents and recurring financial compliance requirements.
• Maintain working knowledge of FCRA requirements and support compliant accounting, documentation and reporting wherever applicable.
• Prepare donor financial reports and utilisation or fund-based reports in the format and timelines agreed with stakeholders.
• Support annual and periodic budgeting, financial analysis, cash monitoring and management reporting for trust activities.
• Coordinate with auditors, consultants and internal stakeholders and provide accurate records and explanations for statutory and other reviews.
Teamwork Process Support and Administration
• Support the Finance Manager and other finance, office and trust team members with accurate and timely financial inputs.
• Help improve the efficiency and consistency of finance and administrative processes, procedures and records.
• Complete other finance-related or administrative assignments requested by management within agreed timelines.
• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, escalate material issues early and follow through until closure.
Good Communication Skills essential .
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