Role ; Account Officer
A little bit about who we are
At WOTR, we are committed to tackling the key causes of rural poverty by rejuvenating ecosystems and building the community's resilience to climate change by enhancing water availability, increasing land and agricultural productivity, diversifying livelihoods, empowering women, and strengthening the health and well-being of vulnerable rural communities.
WOTR brings together practitioners, academics, researchers, trainers, and policy makers to work collaboratively in building the resilience of rural communities. Our partners, including donors and government agencies stand resolutely behind us to enable this.
Together with our partners, we have worked in 10 states in 6,850 villages and impacted 6.58 million people in our 30 years of existence.
To know more about us, visit us at: www.wotr.org
Scope of Role
The accounts officer would be handling the accounting and book keeping for the region. He/ She would be handling the payments, maintaining all financial documents and ensuring that the records are audit ready. He/ She would be monitoring the expenditure of the project against the approved budgets and giving inputs to the Regional Head on the spending. He/ She would be preparing the financial reports and ensuring statutory compliances are up to date.
Job Deliverables:
- Maintain and update the books of accounts manually and digitally of all cash and bank transactions.
- Maintain Bank Book, prepare monthly Bank Reconciliation Statement, identify and explain differences between balance as per books and bank statements.
- Prepare monthly statement showing status of all outstanding advances and follow-up with employees/parties concerned to ensure that advances are settled in time.
- Maintain all financial documents (bills and vouchers, bank reconciliation statement, bank statement, monthly and quarterly project financial reports, salary sheets) in an orderly fashion & present for verification when required.
- Make payments to service providers such as vehicle providers, air and rail booking agents in accordance with approvals.
- Prepare monthly salary sheets based on approved consolidated time sheets; prepare cheques and bank transfer documents for review and approval
- Provide timely tax guidance to employees, obtain timely information to ensure appropriate TDS deductions, and provide employees with Form 16 in time.
- Prepare (or verify reports prepared by others) the monthly, quarterly, annual and final expenditure vs budget reports of each project/cost Centre.
- Prepare for periodic and annual statutory audit including preparing financial statements such as income and expenditure, receipts and payments, balance sheets, etc. required.
- Assist HoD/ Reporting Officer by preparing and maintaining all financial reports required for statutory submissions or by Management-.
- Any other task assigned by the organization from time to time
Qualifications Required:
- Graduate/ Post Graduate in Commerce
- 2 years of relevant experience.
- Proficient in budgeting and Tally Prime and any other accounting software.
Skills :
- Ability to multitask while meeting deadlines
- Attention to details, accuracy and organized
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with other stakeholders
