Finance Lead (Gen)

## Key Roles & Responsibilities
1. Month-End Financial Closure
- Ensure timely completion of month-end accounting activities.
- Prepare and review monthly journal entries, accruals and provisions.
- Perform expense booking, prepaid expense accounting and depreciation entries.
- Ensure proper cut-off of income and expenses.
2. Books of Accounts Review
- Review day-to-day accounting entries and ledger postings.
- Verify accuracy and completeness of general ledger accounts.
- Review trial balance and identify unusual balances or discrepancies.
- Perform ledger scrutiny and ensure appropriate accounting classification.
3. Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- Prepare and review bank, vendor, customer and intercompany reconciliations.
- Reconcile balance sheet schedules and investigate outstanding items.
- Ensure supporting documents are available for key balances.
4. Financial Reporting
- Assist in preparation of monthly Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.
- Prepare monthly MIS reports and variance analysis.
- Highlight significant fluctuations and unusual transactions.
- Support management reporting requirements.
5. Statutory & Compliance Support
- Ensure accounting compliance with applicable accounting standards.
- Support GST and TDS reconciliations.
- Coordinate with internal and statutory auditors.
- Ensure proper maintenance of accounting records and audit schedules.

Required Skills & Competencies

- CA Inter qualification (mandatory).
- Good knowledge of accounting principles and financial statements.
- Hands-on experience in month-end closure and ledger scrutiny.
- Knowledge of GST, TDS and basic statutory compliance.
- Proficiency in MS Excel (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables).
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, Tally or other ERP systems.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
- Ability to meet month-end closure deadlines.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- Timely completion of monthly book closure.
- Accuracy of accounting entries and financial statements.
- Timely completion of balance sheet reconciliations.
- Reduction in unreconciled and aged outstanding balances.
- Timely identification and resolution of accounting discrepancies.
Preferred candidate profile: CA Inter with strong accounting fundamentals and practical exposure to month-end closing, ledger scrutiny, balance sheet schedules and financial reporting.