Job Opportunity for Finance Manager at Leadership for Equity in Pune

About Leadership For Equity (LFE)

Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as Leadership For Equity, LFE), is a non-profit (NGO) based out of Pune, Maharashtra. 

We envision Public Education Systems That Refuse To Let Children Down

APPROACH: In our two-fold approach to change, we build the capacity of government system leaders and we influence system processes. In partnership with the local and state education bodies, we co-create programs that shift teaching-learning practices and improve student learning and well-being. This work coupled with our research and advisory support to influence policies, we hope to create an effective government education system.

Over the last 5 years, LFE has built the capacity of 2100+ system leaders, and 40,200+ teachers to impact 8 million students across Maharashtra. Additionally, LFE has recently expanded its operations and started working in another 3 states of India including Haryana, Tripura & Andhra Pradesh. In Maharashtra, LFE works with 5 districts (Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Satara & Akola), 3 municipal bodies (Pune MC, Pimpri Chinchwad MC & Nagpur MC) & 5 state level education bodies (School Education Dept, SCERT, Samagra Shiksha, Tribal Development Dept, & TRTI). In Andhra  Pradesh, LFE works closely with the Samagra Shiksha Office, SCERT & The World Bank on a multi-year strategic project to improve the quality of learning across 13 districts of the State. And lastly in Haryana & Tripura, LFE works with SCERTs of both states in setting up targeted program management units (PMUs) to strengthen delivery of large-scale academic programs. 

BELIEF: We believe Public Education Systems are the gatekeepers of social EQUITY, especially when India’s 120 million poorest-of-the-poor children continue to go to government-run schools. A multi-layered, complex, and systemic problem of educational inequity, will require a solution rooted in the SYSTEMS CHANGE approach. We believe that a COLLECTIVE effort by forging partnerships with governments, like-minded philanthropists, corporates, donors, nonprofits and grassroot organisations will help bring scalable and sustainable social change.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Management qualities

• Able to work independently, assume ownership, and responsibility of the work
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Soft skills including spoken and written English
• Prior experience with guiding, motivating and managing a team/juniors/client staff in their day-to-day work
• Ability to establish and maintain harmonious working relationships with co-workers, staff and external contacts, and to work diligently in a professional team environment
• Communicating with multiple stakeholders viz. leadership, auditors, donors, program staff, other consultants, etc
• Process driven and ability to manage a team

Compliance and Financial Management

• Responsible for managing compliances, viz. FCRA, TDS, PT, IT, GST, etc.
• Handling day-to-day accounting tasks in Tally, including but not limited to journal vouchers, sales, purchases, bank reconciliation, petty cash, filing of documents, raising and verifying invoices etc. and working in payroll software like keka etc
• Responsible for preparing/reviewing financial statements, reports/MIS and books of accounts up to audit closure
• Preparing donor utilization reports, tracking over/under-utilization of donor funds and suggesting ways to optimize usage of funds; reviewing donor proposals based on budgets and donor criteria
• Reviewing monthly payroll as per donor allocations and Management plans for optimizing usage of funds 
• Preparing organizational budget and tracking actual expenditure and variances periodically
• Reviewing agreements from a legal and financial perspective

Requirement: Education & Experience

• Inter-CA/ MBA Finance
• Fair understanding of Excel and Tally
• Logical thinker, ability to connect the dots
• Willingness to learn
• Preferable to have working knowledge on Income Tax, FCRA & GST laws and leadership qualities

Location and Compensation

Location: Pune. Will involve travel across to districts in MH (need based)

Compensation: Expected to be around 4.80 – 5.4 lakh INR per annum based on experience.

Leadership For Equity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. We do not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.