Assistant Manager Finance

About the Role:

We are looking for an Assistant Manager – Finance to oversee payroll accounting, statutory compliance, ESOP administration, revenue reconciliation, and accounts payable. The role involves ensuring accurate financial records, timely statutory filings, robust compliance, and effective financial controls. You will collaborate with HR, business teams, auditors, and external partners to streamline finance operations, strengthen reporting accuracy, and support process automation and audit readiness.

What You Will Be Doing

Payroll validation, accounting and reporting

Validate monthly payroll inputs and the payroll register before release; investigate variances.

Own TDS on salary (Section 192), Form 24Q filings and Form 16 issuance.

Post payroll entries and provisions (bonus, incentives, leave encashment, gratuity); reconcile payroll register, GL and bank.

Review full-and-final settlements and publish monthly payroll MIS.

Labour law compliance

Ensure timely payment and filing of PF, ESI, Professional Tax and Labour Welfare Fund.

Maintain labour registrations, statutory registers and a monthly compliance tracker.

Implement Labour Code changes and handle inspections and notices with HR and legal.

Salary structure review

Review CTC structures for compliance with the Code on Wages wage definition, minimum wages, PF, ESI, gratuity and bonus.

Advise HR on tax-efficient structures under the old and new tax regimes.

ESOP administration

Manage the ESOP tool: grants, vesting, exercises and forfeitures.

Reconcile ESOP records with the cap table and share registry.

Account for share-based payments under Ind AS 102 and deduct perquisite TDS on exercise.

Prepare ESOP disclosures and support IPO diligence.

Revenue-to-collection reconciliation

Reconcile payment gateway settlements to bank daily and collections to invoices.

Resolve unapplied receipts, refunds and chargebacks; reconcile platform revenue to books monthly.

Accounts payable review

Review AP booking, accruals, TDS (Form 26Q) and GST input tax credit against GSTR-2B.

Ensure MSME vendors are paid within 45 days and keep the vendor master clean.

Support the monthly close, MIS, audits, internal controls and finance automation projects.

What You Will Need

Semi Qualified Chartered Accountant with 4-6 years of experience or B.COM with 5-8 years of experience.

• Hands-on payroll experience, including TDS on salary, PF, ESI and PT.

• Experience with high-volume reconciliations, preferably payment gateway collections.

• Strong Excel skills; experience with Tally Prime or an ERP, a payroll system.