Key Responsibilities

Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Maintain complete and accurate accounting records using Tally ERP.
• Lead the monthly accounting close process and ensure all transactions are recorded within the correct reporting period.
• Prepare monthly management accounts, including Profit & Loss Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Reports, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain and review the general ledger, journals, cost centres, and project-wise accounting records.
• Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, depreciation, provisions, and other month end adjustments.
• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations and ensure outstanding items are investigated and cleared promptly.
• Ensure income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and project costs are correctly classified and allocated.
• Maintain accurate supporting schedules for key balance sheet and Profit & Loss accounts.
• Prepare periodic financial reports and analysis to support management decision making.

Accounts Payable & Supplier Management

Accounts Receivable & Collections

Project Accounting & Cost Control

• Maintain accurate project-wise cost accounting for all civil engineering projects.
• Ensure expenditure is allocated to the correct project, cost centre, and expense category.
• Prepare project cost reports showing budgeted costs, actual expenditure, committed costs, and variances.
• Monitor actual project expenditure against approved budgets and BOQs.
• Review project expenses and identify abnormal expenditure, cost overruns, duplicate charges, incorrect allocations, or expenditure outside approved budgets.
• Monitor project advances, site expenses, retentions, outstanding certificates/invoices, and other project related balances where applicable.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Procurement, Stores, and site teams to reconcile project expenditure and material costs.
• Highlight significant project cost variances and financial risks to management.
• Support management in evaluating the financial performance and cost position of individual projects.

Budgeting, Cash Flow & Financial Planning

Tax & Statutory Compliance

Fixed Assets & Company Records

Audit & Internal Controls

Qualifications & Experience

The ideal candidate should have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.
• CPA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification, or advanced progress towards completion, is highly preferred.
• Minimum 5–7 years of relevant accounting experience.
• At least 3 years in a senior accounting role or a position with a similar level of responsibility.
• Strong practical and hands-on experience using Tally ERP is essential.
• Previous experience working in a construction, civil engineering, contracting, engineering, building-materials, or project-based company will be strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, management accounts, budgeting, taxation, cash-flow management, and accounting controls.
• Practical experience in accounts payable, accounts receivable, supplier reconciliations, and bank reconciliations.
• Strong experience in month end and year end closing procedures.
• Good understanding of accruals, prepayments, depreciation, provisions, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Experience preparing and analysing management accounts, budgets, cashflow forecasts, and variance reports.
• Good understanding of project accounting, cost-centre accounting, and project cost control.
• Experience preparing or reviewing accounts payable and accounts receivable ageing reports.
• Experience coordinating external audits and preparing audit schedules.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience supervising or reviewing the work of junior Accounts staff will be an added advantage.