Financial Accounting Associate [Fixed Tenure]

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATE — 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

Designation: Finance & Accounting Associate — Fixed Tenure
Functional Area: Organisation Finance, Accounting, Taxation, Management Reporting & Corporate Compliance
Location: Delhi-NCR or Pune / Remote Acceptable
Tenure: 06 Months — Fixed Tenure
Compensation: Up to INR 15,000 / Month, depending on experience, demonstrated capability and education status
Probation Period: 15 Days — No-Pay Probation Period
Applicants with NO Exposure to Prior Internships or Jobs in Finance and Accounting wont be considered

Core Skills

Accounting, Taxation, GST, MIS Reporting, Management Reporting, Defence Client Accounting, Billing, Procurement, Payroll, Corporate Compliance, Imports, Investor Reporting, Financial Documentation, CA/CS Coordination, Financial Automation, Stochastic Systems and Generative Learning Tools.

Qualification

UG / PG with specialisation or relevant coursework in:

• Finance
• Accounting
• Commerce
• Taxation
• Corporate / Company Compliance
• Business Administration
• Economics
• Financial Management

Candidates pursuing or preparing for CA, CS, CMA, CAT, ACCA or equivalent professional qualifications are encouraged to apply.

INTRODUCTION

We are inviting applications for the Finance & Accounting Associate — Fixed Tenure position for 2026.

The role is intended for candidates who want hands-on exposure to the finance and accounting function of a technology-product organisation / startup, including accounting operations, taxation, defence-client billing, procurement, payroll, statutory compliance, investor reporting and corporate financial documentation.

This is a practical execution-oriented role. The selected candidate will work closely with the internal management team, external Chartered Accountants (CA), Company Secretaries (CS), auditors, financial advisors, clients, procurement stakeholders and other professional service providers.

The role may also involve working with Defence Organisations and Defence-related clients in Delhi-NCR, including documentation, accounting reconciliation, billing support, utilisation certification and related financial activities.

Candidates are expected to be comfortable working with spreadsheets, accounting software, financial records, documentation and structured reporting, while progressively adopting automation and modern computational tools.

IMPORTANT ROLE CHARACTERISTICS

This is not intended to be a purely clerical accounting position.

The successful candidate will progressively receive exposure to:

• Startup finance operations
• Management accounting
• Financial MIS
• Investor reporting
• Monthly financial updates
• Defence-client accounting
• Project / contract accounting
• Weekly Defence billing accounting
• Utilisation Certificates
• GST and taxation
• Payroll
• Procurement accounting
• Import-related documentation
• CA / CS coordination
• Corporate compliance
• Financial process automation
• Stochastic financial systems
• Generative learning systems and tools
• Financial data analysis and reporting

The candidate should be comfortable moving between transaction-level accounting and management-level financial reporting.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Accounting & Ledger Management

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date accounting ledgers.
• Record and reconcile income, expenses, purchases, receivables, payables and other financial transactions.
• Maintain supporting documentation for accounting entries.
• Perform bank and ledger reconciliations.
• Track outstanding receivables and payables.
• Assist with month-end and period-end closing activities.
• Maintain organised financial records suitable for internal review, CA review and statutory requirements.
• Identify accounting discrepancies and coordinate corrective action.

2. Defence Client Accounting & Billing

• Support accounting and documentation for Defence Organisation / Defence Agency clients.
• Maintain client-specific billing and accounting records.
• Perform weekly accounting and reconciliation of specific Defence billing activities.
• Track invoices, billing milestones, receipts, deductions, advances and outstanding amounts.
• Maintain documentation supporting Defence-related billing and expenditure.
• Assist with reconciliation of purchase orders, work orders, invoices, payments and contractual documentation.
• Prepare financial schedules required for client reviews and internal management.
• Participate in Defence Organisation / client visits in Delhi-NCR when required.
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure billing documentation is complete, accurate and submitted within required timelines.

3. Utilisation Certificates & Defence Financial Documentation

• Assist with preparation and maintenance of Utilisation Certificates (UCs) for specific Defence-funded / Defence-related activities.
• Reconcile expenditure supporting Utilisation Certificates with accounting records, invoices and underlying documentation.
• Maintain expenditure schedules by project, activity, cost category and applicable funding / contract requirement.
• Coordinate with the CA / authorised professionals for review and certification where required.
• Maintain an auditable trail linking: Contract / Sanction → Budget → Expenditure → Invoice → Accounting Entry → Supporting Document → Utilisation Certificate.
• Support responses to financial documentation queries from Defence clients, auditors, CA/CS professionals and management.

4. GST, Taxation & Statutory Filings

• Assist in preparation and maintenance of GST-related records.
• Support GST return preparation and filing activities in coordination with the CA / tax professional.
• Maintain tax invoices, purchase records, input-tax-credit documentation and related reconciliations.
• Assist with TDS and other applicable taxation requirements.
• Track tax payment and filing deadlines.
• Maintain statutory tax documentation.
• Assist in responding to tax-related information requests.
• Develop practical understanding of applicable Indian taxation and compliance requirements.

5. Payroll & Employee Accounting

• Maintain monthly payroll records.
• Assist with salary calculations, deductions, reimbursements and employee-related accounting.
• Maintain payroll supporting documentation.
• Coordinate payroll information with the CA / payroll service provider.
• Assist with applicable statutory payroll requirements.
• Reconcile payroll-related accounting entries.

6. MIS & Management Reporting

• Prepare recurring Management Information System (MIS) reports.

• Develop monthly management reporting packs covering, as applicable:

  • Revenue
  • Billing
  • Collections
  • Receivables
  • Payables
  • Cash position
  • Expenses
  • Procurement
  • Payroll
  • Project / contract economics
  • Tax liabilities
  • Working capital

• Produce weekly and monthly financial dashboards / reporting schedules.

• Identify material changes, exceptions and unusual movements in financial data.

• Assist management in understanding financial performance and cash requirements.

• Maintain reporting consistency across accounting periods.

7. Investor Reporting & Fundraising Documentation

Support preparation and maintenance of investor-facing financial documentation, including:

• Monthly Investor Updates
• Investor MIS
• Financial performance summaries
• Revenue and billing updates
• Cash and runway summaries
• Accounts receivable / payable schedules
• Monthly expense summaries
• Budget vs. actual reporting
• Financial projections
• Use-of-funds reporting
• Project / contract financial updates
• Capex / equipment expenditure reporting
• Fund utilisation schedules
• Supporting financial schedules for investor discussions
• Data-room financial documents
• Due-diligence financial schedules
• Management reporting required for fundraising processes

The candidate should understand the importance of accuracy, consistency, traceability and confidentiality in investor-facing financial information.

8. Procurement & Purchase Management

• Maintain purchase and procurement records.
• Support vendor onboarding and documentation.
• Track purchase requests, quotations, purchase orders, invoices and payments.
• Reconcile procurement documentation with accounting entries.
• Maintain vendor ledgers.
• Assist in monitoring procurement budgets and outstanding commitments.
• Coordinate with technical and operational teams regarding procurement documentation.
• Support import-related financial documentation where applicable.

9. Imports & International Transactions

• Assist with accounting and documentation associated with imports.
• Maintain records relating to purchase orders, commercial invoices, shipping documentation, duties, taxes and payments.
• Coordinate relevant financial information with logistics, procurement and CA / professional advisors.
• Assist with reconciliation of import-related expenses and accounting entries.
• Develop an understanding of foreign-currency transactions and related accounting treatment.

10. CA / CS Coordination & Corporate Compliance

Work closely with the organisation's Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary on:

• Periodic accounting review
• GST and tax compliance
• Statutory filings
• Corporate compliance
• Annual financial statements
• Corporate records
• Board / shareholder documentation where applicable
• Regulatory documentation
• Audit preparation
• Financial certifications
• Statutory registers and supporting documentation
• Compliance calendars
• Investor / corporate due-diligence documentation

The candidate should be capable of preparing the underlying financial schedules and documentation required by CA / CS professionals rather than merely forwarding raw accounting data.

11. Company Certifications & Compliance Management

• Maintain a central compliance calendar.
• Track statutory and corporate filing deadlines.
• Maintain documentation required for company certifications.
• Prepare supporting schedules for professional certifications.
• Maintain records required for audits, due diligence, banking and investor processes.
• Assist in maintaining corporate financial documentation.
• Track action items arising from CA / CS / auditor reviews.
• Maintain version-controlled compliance records and evidence.

12. Financial Automation

The candidate will be encouraged to identify repetitive finance processes suitable for automation.

Potential areas include:

• Ledger reconciliation
• Invoice processing
• MIS generation
• Expense classification
• Data validation
• Payment tracking
• Receivable ageing
• Tax data preparation
• Compliance calendars
• Payroll schedules
• Investor reporting
• Financial dashboards
• Document classification
• Exception reporting

Experience with Excel / Google Sheets automation, macros, Python scripting or other automation tools is advantageous.

13. Stochastic Systems & Generative Learning in Finance

The organisation is progressively exploring Stochastic Systems and Generative Learning Systems for finance, accounting and corporate-compliance workflows.

The candidate may be expected to:

• Understand basic concepts of stochastic financial systems, probabilistic modelling and uncertainty.
• Support implementation of stochastic models for financial forecasting, cash-flow analysis, risk analysis, receivable behaviour, scenario analysis or financial planning.
• Use Generative Learning Systems and tools for structured financial-data analysis, report generation, document classification, reconciliation assistance and workflow automation.
• Develop repeatable workflows for generating financial summaries and management reports from structured accounting information.
• Assist in creating systems that identify anomalies, inconsistencies or unusual accounting patterns.
• Use computational tools to support document review, compliance tracking and financial-data preparation.
• Validate generated outputs against source accounting records and applicable financial requirements.
• Maintain human review, accounting controls, data confidentiality and auditability when using such systems.

Generative Learning tools are to be treated as engineering / productivity systems and not as substitutes for professional accounting, tax or statutory judgment.

14. Financial Planning & Investment Roadmapping

• Assist management with financial planning and investment roadmapping.
• Prepare cash-flow projections.
• Support budget preparation.
• Track actuals against budgets.
• Assist with runway calculations.
• Prepare scenario-based financial schedules.
• Support analysis of planned capital expenditure.
• Assist in evaluating financial implications of product-development and procurement plans.
• Prepare financial information required for strategic planning and investor discussions.

SKILLS

Accounting & Finance

• Practical understanding of accounting principles.
• Ledger management.
• Bank reconciliation.
• Accounts payable / receivable.
• Billing and invoicing.
• Expense accounting.
• Payroll accounting.
• Financial reporting.
• Management accounting fundamentals.
• Working-capital understanding.

Software & Tools

Working knowledge of one or more of:

• Tally
• Zoho Books / Zoho Finance
• QuickBooks
• Microsoft Excel
• Google Sheets
• Financial dashboards / reporting tools

Advanced spreadsheet skills are strongly preferred.

Automation & Programming

Knowledge of:

• Excel / Google Sheets automation
• Macros
• Python scripting
• Data manipulation
• Report automation
• Reconciliation automation
• Structured data processing

Programming experience is not required at software-engineer level, but the ability to automate repetitive finance processes is strongly valued.

Tax & Compliance

• GST fundamentals
• TDS fundamentals
• Indian taxation fundamentals
• Basic corporate compliance
• Basic audit concepts
• Understanding of financial documentation
• CA / CS workflow familiarity

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION DEVELOPMENT

Candidates who are:

• Preparing for CA
• Preparing for CS
• Preparing for CMA
• Preparing for ACCA
• Pursuing relevant Finance / Accounting professional qualifications

are encouraged to apply.

Professional examination preparation should complement — not replace — the candidate's ability to perform practical accounting and finance work.

REQUIREMENTS

• Previous experience in technology-product startups, MSMEs, engineering organisations or rapidly growing companies is preferred.
• Practical accounting / finance execution experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to work with accounting software and spreadsheets.
• Ability to maintain accurate and confidential financial records.
• Ability to work with CA / CS professionals and external advisors.
• Ability to prepare structured MIS and financial reports.
• Willingness to support Defence client accounting and Defence Organisation visits in Delhi-NCR.
• Willingness to perform weekly accounting and reconciliation for specific Defence billing activities.
• Willingness to support Utilisation Certificates and related Defence financial documentation.
• Willingness to work with investors / management on financial reporting and monthly updates.
• Willingness to learn new finance technologies, automation methods and computational tools.
• Self-manageable, detail-oriented and motivated to succeed in a rapid-learning product-development environment.
• Strong integrity and discretion when handling financial, investor, Defence and corporate information.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

The role will operate across:

Delhi-NCR / Pune / Remote, depending on business and project requirements.

The candidate should be prepared for periodic in-person interaction with:

• Internal management
• Product and engineering teams
• Defence clients / organisations
• CA / CS professionals
• Auditors
• Vendors
• Procurement stakeholders
• Investors / investor representatives
• Financial and legal advisors

Defence Organisation visits in Delhi-NCR may be required as part of the role.

WHAT WE VALUE

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

Accuracy over approximation.
Execution over theory.
Financial discipline over administrative routine.
Traceability over unsupported numbers.
Automation over repetitive manual work.
Confidentiality over convenience.
Learning velocity over static knowledge.

The successful candidate should be able to move comfortably between a ledger entry, a GST reconciliation, a Defence billing schedule, a Utilisation Certificate, a monthly MIS, an investor update and a management-level financial analysis.

APPLICATION

Please submit:

1. Resume / CV
2. Cover Letter
3. Relevant Finance / Accounting Case Study or Work Sample, where applicable
4. Details of relevant startup / MSME / Defence-client accounting experience
5. Details of CA / CS / CMA / ACCA or equivalent professional qualification preparation, where applicable

Please mention the relevant JOBID in your application.

Send applications and supporting documents to:

[email protected]

Incomplete applications may not be considered for further evaluation.