Senior Accounting and Compliance Manager

IDinsight

Senior Accounting and Compliance Manager

Location: Delhi, India

About IDinsight

IDinsight helps leaders combat poverty worldwide by designing, deploying and promoting evidence-generating tools. We tailor the best methodologies to partner needs and constraints to fuse evidence with action. We serve governments, NGOs, foundations and social businesses across Africa and Asia in all major program areas including health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, finance, energy and governance. As a non-profit, we are laser-focused on enabling maximum social impact to improve millions of lives. Our approach rests on four pillars: 

• Rigorous: We develop and use a wide-range of cutting-edge data and evidence tools, including experimental evaluations, monitoring systems, data analytics and visualization, process evaluations, machine learning and more.
• Cost-effective: Every dollar spent is justified by expected impact. If funds could be better used in another way, we say so. 
• Timely: Actionable information is delivered in time for client decision-making deadlines. 
• Demand-driven: We deploy solutions tailored to partner contexts and needs with no competing agendas.

Our diverse, growing team of outstanding colleagues operate in nearly two dozen countries around the world.  

About the Senior Accounting and Compliance Manager role

The Senior Accounting and Compliance Manager is responsible for overseeing all accounting and compliance functions for the IDinsight group, which includes operations in 8+ countries.  This is a hands-on role, and the candidate should expect to execute some processes directly, in addition to managing a small team.  We anticipate this individual will grow with the organization as we expand our operations worldwide. This position will report to the Finance Director based in Nairobi, Kenya and will also work closely with the various regional and country leaders, the CFO based in the United States, and the Accounting team based in Delhi.

Responsibilities

The Senior Accounting and Compliance Manager’s responsibilities include, but will not be limited to: 

People Management

• Directly manage the accounting and compliance team
• Responsible for ongoing team performance monitoring and reviews
• Recruit and develop additional team members as the function grows

Management of the Accounting function

• Own and ensure implementation of accounting policies and internal controls
• Own the accounting system, including managing the accounting software and the chart of accounts
• Ensure accurate quarterly consolidation of financial results
• Oversee regular reconciliations of all balance sheet and intercompany accounts 
• Approve / review journal entries
• Upload batch reports to the accounting system
• Assist the team in preparing financial entries and prepare accounting and financial reports as needed
• Update internal financial management tools on a monthly basis and review the integrity of those tools
• Ensure processes and documentation are in place to support all compliance requirements

Compliance Strategy

• Ensure that our organization and operational structure are optimally set-up to accomplish our mission while minimizing tax and compliance costs where possible
• Ensure we are compliant and prepared for any audits that may occur
• Monitor the impact of ongoing changes in regulation on IDinsight, and respond with adjustments as necessary
• Liaise with legal and accounting firms in understanding the main legal strategic compliance issues that IDinsight entities face, the risks involved, and measures to be taken to correct those issues
• Manage the relationship with any compliance related vendors to ensure timely processing of routine compliance issues and to understand new compliance issues as they arise

Compliance Execution, Monitoring and Audit 

• Coordinate across multiple functions to ensure compliance and appropriate documentation
• Act as the main point of contact for the annual audits in each of IDinsight’s country offices
• Coordinate response to tax audits, including acting as the main contact, coordinating responses from others, and directly participating in preparing and reconciling information requested for auditors 
• Act as the main point of contact on IDinsight project audits
• Ensure compliance payments are timely and accurate

Other 

• Coordinate across other functions to ensure compliance related projects and ongoing actions are completed on a timely basis, including regular tracking and updates to senior management
• Support donor and client due diligence needs related to financial compliance
• Support other global financial, accounting, and related tasks, as and when required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Commerce, Financial Management, or other relevant area required. Masters degree in one of the above fields helpful, but not required.
• Professional qualification - CPA/ACA/ACCA part II or equivalent required.
• 12+ years of work experience in accounting and compliance for a mid-size (or larger) organization
• Experience managing an accounting team carrying out core accounting functions
• Experience coordinating and monitoring financial compliance in India
• Experience with international affiliates and transfer pricing agreements strongly preferred.
• US GAAP experience desirable but not required
• Skills and attributes:
• Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills
• Strong problem solving and communication abilities; is organized and efficient
• Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things
• Proven ability to meet deadlines in high-paced work environment
• Strong Project Management skills and ability to coordinate work of cross-functional teams
• Proactive and works with minimal supervision
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel and QuickBooks (or other similar accounting software)
• Willingness to take on all kinds of tasks and areas of responsibility, including at short notice

Professional Development

Skill and career development are core to IDinsight's values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted highlights of teammates’ experiences. IDinsighters receive significant mentorship from IDinsight leadership, support from talented peers, and are given considerable autonomy when ready. They maintain professional development plans and are given "stretch" opportunities designed to strengthen a variety of skills. Real-time feedback is embedded in our culture and formal, structured enable maximum professional growth.

Nuts and Bolts

Compensation will be dependent on relevant experience and background but will be competitive with similar roles in the social sector. The preferred start date is as soon as possible. Applicants who can start quickly will be prioritized. 

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