Job Description

Zubaan has often brought forward the voices of marginalized communities through its publishing work, focusing on women, queer and trans experiences, and in the recent past, has also shifted its focus to research and action work. With prior work chronicling the women’s movement through Poster Women, Zubaan is also currently engaged in working on multiple projects focusing on cultural and knowledge production, partnering and collaborating with women’s unions, collectives, grassroots activists, etc. across the region

Zubaan is an equal-opportunity employer and is attentive to issues of social exclusion of groups and individuals. It is our constant endeavour to address this in both the content we produce and our hiring policies.

Website: https://zubaanprojects.org/

Position: Finance Officer

Location: New Delhi (Hybrid)

Budget: INR 8 L pa (Negotiable for Best-in-class candidates)

Purpose of the Role: To ensure efficient financial management and the overall health of the organization, and to oversee its daily accounting needs.

Role & Responsibilities:

Organization’s Finances, Budgets, and Financial Accountability

• Assessment of the organization’s financial requirements, updating and alerting for changes in requirements to relevant personnel regularly.

• Preparation of organizational budget, before the start of the Financial Year, with feedback from the Managing Trustee, Programme and Finance Heads, etc. and implementing the same.

• Assessing the financial needs of each new project in consultation with Programme Heads and Finance Head and Managing Trustee.

• Preparation of budgets for new and existing projects, in consultation with Programme Heads.

• Preparation of Financial Reports as required by funders, whether quarterly/half yearly/annual and on completion of any project.

• Monitor programme expenditure and regularly update Programme Heads and individual project leads to track expenditure on individual projects and ensure seamless functioning between project and finance departments.

• Develop, implement, and maintain robust financial and compliance processes to ensure accurate financial reporting, adherence to regulatory requirements, and operational efficiency.

Day-To-Day Accounts

• Oversee the preparation of accounting entries and reconcile general ledgers

• Ensure that the Organization’s Cyclical Accounting Processes are followed

• Ensure that the data on expenses incurred on all projects and general expenses in Zubaan are fed into the accounting software Tally

• Provide detailed analysis and explanation of transactions?

• Work on the Organization’s Accounts Payable functions- Vendor Invoice Payment, ensure accuracy and timeliness of payments and manage vendor contracts, consultants, payments and claims

• Review monthly financial and various detailed analysis

• Review of quarterly TDS data

• Review monthly bank reconciliation

• Oversee preparation of payroll and tax reports, as well as, answering and processing vendor services

Auditors And Audited Reports

• Liaising with auditors for timely preparation of balance sheets and filing audited accounts

• Ensuring that all required material for the audit is submitted to auditors in time.

• Keeping track of changes relating to NGOs in income tax rules and communicating these to the Managing Trustee, Finance and Programme Heads in writing keeping implementation deadlines in mind.

Location: Delhi

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Zubaan
• About Organization:Registered in 2003, Zubaan is a charitable trust based in Delhi. It follows in the footsteps of its parent NGO, Kali for Women, and has been an active participant, chronicler and publisher of the women’s movement since 1984. It works to increase the body of knowledge on women with a special focus on South Asia and India. Zubaan’s work in the past few years has been to achieve this goal through the publication of books and pamphlets, creation of archives (www.posterwomen.org), organizing literary festivals and encouraging the exchange of authors from under-represented regions and communities, meetings and workshops to bring together multiple feminist perspectives. Zubaan has often brought forward the voices of marginalized communities through its publishing work, focusing on women, queer and trans experiences and in the recent past, has also shifted its focus to research and action work. With prior work chronicling the women’s movement through Poster Women, Zubaan is also currently en
  
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