Senior Project Lead

Responsibilities

• Manage operations of the assigned projects with a direct team size of 40-50 team members.
• Lead a team of Deputy/Assistant Project Leaders, along with a team of Finance Leaders, Accountants, Tax Professionals and Financial/Secretarial Compliance Officers.
• Allocate resources and manage milestone deliveries client collections.
• Ensure all accounting activities and internal audits comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Recommend cost-optimization solutions.

Requirements and skills

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a client servicing attitude and a general commercial awareness.
• Able to manage Business verticals independently and handle PL responsibility with prior reporting experience to internal senior management.
• In-depth understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation and bookkeeping.
• Hands-on experience with financial planning/budgeting, project risk management, data analysis and forecasting.
• Proficiency in accounting software/ERPs.
• Modern Leadership qualities with a lead-by-example approach. Solid analytical and decision-making skills.
• Prior experience in managing client finance operations, society accounting, society compliances and/or operations modelling will be a plus.

Detailed Job Profile

I. Billing AR Management:

• Planning Publishing regular Billing Dashboard.
• Resolve client queries with the help of project teams.
• Responsible for providing timely confirmation on issuance of bills to clients.
• Intimation to the accountant for change in tariff due to surplus/deficit in quarterly/half yearly/annually financials after approval of the officer bearers on the client side.

II. Booking Accounts:

• Review of Accounts.
• Passing of Journal entries as and when required.
• Managing client relationships independently.
• Publishing regular Accounting Dashboards.

III. Withholding Tax matters:

• Tracking of Monthly TDS for all Portfolios publishing the Dashboard.
• Ensuring the filing of relevant returns within the due date.
• Validate the reconciliation of TDS return with Tally data.
• Any Notice/assessment from dept. needs to be handled/coordinated.

IV. Goods and Service Tax:

• Responsible for providing relevant inputs/workings to enable timely filing of relevant returns.
• Validate the reconciliation of GST returns with Neo/tally data (GSTR1, GSTR2b, GSTR3b).
• Any Notice/assessment from the GST department needs to be appropriately communicated to the seniors of the organization with the right inputs and support to resolve those queries.

V. Income Tax:

• Prepare and verify income computation.
• Plan and track Advance Tax Payments.
• Publish the Dashboard ensure timely filing of Income-tax Returns.
• Provide relevant inputs for the computation of income-tax (COI) and passing appropriate entries in the books to give effect to the COI inputs.
• Any Notice/Assessment from the Income-tax department needs to be appropriately communicated to the seniors of the organization with the right inputs and support them to resolve those queries.

VI. Financial MIS:

• Closing Financial Statements (PL, Balance Sheet, Cashflow).
• Weekly publication of Dashboard listing open items for all the Portfolio Accountants.
• Share All MIS needs with clients within established timelines, along with observation reports.
• Budget CAM working preparation.
• Budget vs. Actuals - providing a variance analysis.

VII. Other:

• Virtually connect with Clients on urgent matters.