Job Opportunity for Senior Manager – Accounts at Breakthrough India in Delhi

Breakthrough is looking for a Senior Manager – Accounts for its Operational Support Team, a sub-unit of Breakthrough Trust’s Finance and Operations Centre.

S/he shall report to the Director, Finance & Operations or her/his designate and shall be expected to manage a team of accounting staff as would be assigned to her/him from time to time.

Key Responsibilities:

A) All accounting and compliance related processes for Breakthrough Trust. These responsibilities shall include –

Accounting and Banking:

• Ensuring timely and accurate accounting of all transactions that have an impact on the financial position of Breakthrough Trust.
• Implementing strong internal controls for monitoring and settlement of receivables and payables.
• Assist for the preparation of annual financial statements for Income Tax and Foreign Contribution Regulations Act (FCRA) and facilitation of audit thereof.
• Monthly Reviewing of books of accounts and ensure closing according to BT’s closing parameters.
• Ensuring the compliances related to withholdings in case of both payroll and non-payroll transactions.
• Preparation of financial reports of donor supported programs/projects from time to time and facilitation of audit thereof, if required.
• Ensuring operational level compliance with applicable provisions of the Income Tax Act, FCRA and other applicable laws.
• Ensuring that all banking relationships are current with regard to Know Your Customer (KYC) norms and that all operational level internal controls such as cheque registers, rtgs/neft trackers, bank reconciliations and similar are adhered to.

Project Allocations and Budgeting:

• Ensure that expenditures and receipts are accurately recorded against the various Programs/Projects.
• Preparation of various budgets including centre budgets and program/project budgets.
• Support other centre by providing them spend progress again their project implementation program on a quarterly basis.
• Assist in monitoring and managing cash flows, both institutional and program/projects.
• Review documents, budgets, line items and costs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance of the proposal submitted by vendors, partner organisations and staffs.
• Keeping a track of all the active grants like grant period, restrictions, reporting period and corresponding control over books in terms of these grants.

B) Coordinate with the other sub-units of the Finance & Operations centre and with the Human Resource Management centre for all institutional matters such as procurement and inventories, facilities management, payroll and similar.

*Any other task that may be assigned from time to time.

Specific Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required

• Bachelor of Commerce/ CA (inter) / ICWA (Inter) or M. Com or any other relevant degree with 10-12 years of experience with the last 5 years in the accounting function.
• Sound working knowledge of Tally & MS-Office (specially Excel) is essential.
• Experience in utilizing finance data to track and give inputs into programme planning and implementation.
• Good working knowledge of FCRA and Income Tax is desirable.
• Prior experience working with non-profit organizations is desirable
• Excellent organizing and coordinating skills with high multi-tasking abilities
• Strong team working spirit and work cooperatively with people at various levels
• Good communication skills are desirable
• Prior experience of managing a team is desirable.
• “Can do” and problem solving attitude is desirable.

About Breakthrough:

Breakthrough was founded in 1999 with the mission of using arts and culture to bring human rights issues — especially violence and discrimination against marginalised groups — into mainstream conversation and inspire critical mass of people to take action for change. Its award-winning music albums and campaigns have won innumerable awards and have stirred unprecedented discussion across India about women’s rights and brought the problem of domestic violence out from behind closed doors. Earlier partnerships with the Ministry of Women and Child Development for dissemination of our media and IEC products which ensures that the messaging reaches large numbers as can be seen by the Bell Bajao campaign that reached 130 million in Phase I and 110 million in Phase II. The support was received pro-bono and is estimated to be worth INR 150 million. The Ministry has adopted Breakthrough’s MissionHazaar campaign on preventing sex selection under its flagship “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” campaign and is disseminating the TV spots, curriculum and communication guide in 12 Indian languages.

Breakthrough’s current work spans across 5 states on transforming gender norms to prevent Violence against Women & Girls, and exploring the interlinkages between its various manifestations. Breakthrough makes innovative use of media, arts and technology including digital and mobiles, leadership development and community mobilisation to activate critical mass of people who will deliver the culture change needed to make violence against women and girls unacceptable. Centre to this is a gender equity curriculum, called Taron ki Toli that builds gender equitable views among adolescents 11-18 year olds, in school and in the community. Breakthrough uses leadership development to build capacities of 15-25 year olds to transform themselves and recruit others to make violence against women and girls unacceptable. It also works in the community with influencers and gatekeepers to shift norms to prevent violence and build values for girls and women. Media and arts infuse all our work and building evidence is a strong focus. Strategic partnership with governments are key – currently partnering with the Department of Education, Government of Punjab to apply gender lens to middle school curriculum across government schools. Currently reaching 573,000 adolescents and their communities to prevent violence against women and promote a culture of human rights, Breakthrough plans to reach 2 million adolescents over the next few years.

Breakthrough Values:

The position holder will be expected to work in line with organisational values which are:

• Dignity
• Integrity
• Equity

Breakthrough is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, caste, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, economic status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to child safeguarding.

To know more about Breakthrough, please visit – www.inbreakthrough.org

Please submit your resume accompanied by a cover letter, giving reasons in support of the suitability for the position and mentioning the current/expected salary. Send it by email to jobs@inbreakthrough.org by or before 16th Oct, 2022.