Accounting Manager (India)

Arango; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arango is seeking an Accounting Manager (India) for its Hyderabad office. You will lead daily financial operations, payroll processing, and statutory compliance, while coordinating with HR and international teams to support audits and regulatory filings.

The role requires a Chartered Accountant with 5+ years of accounting experience, strong knowledge of Indian GAAP/Ind AS, GST, and tax compliance, and fluency in English and Hindi.

Qualifications

• CA with 5+ years of accounting experience, ideally in tech/startup or multinational context.
• Strong knowledge of Indian GAAP/Ind AS, GST, Income Tax, TDS, payroll compliance.
• Proficiency with Excel, Google Workspace, payroll systems, and ERP.
• Fluency in English and Hindi (verbal and written).

Responsibilities

• Manage daily financial operations: general ledger, payables, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, and employee expenses.
• Oversee monthly payroll and ensure statutory compliance (PF, ESI, PT, LWF).
• Partner with HR to streamline payroll updates and onboarding/offboarding.
• Handle direct and indirect taxation calculations and compliance.
• Maintain secretarial compliances, records, registers, annual returns, and board resolutions.
• Monitor changes to Indian regulations (Companies Act, FEMA, RBI) for ongoing compliance.
• Act as liaison with government authorities for audits and notices.
• Collaborate with international finance teams to prepare documentation for audits.

Skills

GAAP/Ind AS knowledge

GST

Payroll compliance

Excel

Google Workspace

ERP software

English

Hindi

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Tools

Payroll systems

Accounting ERP

Job description

Accounting Manager (India)

About Arango:

Arango delivers a unified, natively multimodel contextual data platform that powers AI agents, assistants, and applications with the unified, current, and trusted business context needed to reason, decide, and act at scale.

The Arango Contextual Data Platform connects fragmented enterprise data with LLMs, copilots, and AI agents through a simplified architecture delivered out of the box. By combining graph, vector, document, key-value, and search capabilities in a single platform, Arango eliminates the complex stacks many organizations build to operationalize enterprise AI.

Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, the London Stock Exchange, PSI CRO, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, Transient.AI, Matpriskollen, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program. Learn more at arango.ai, LinkedIn, and G2.

Location: Hyderabad, India (new office), hybrid

Reports to: Director of Accounting & Tax

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage daily financial operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, and employee expense tracking in line with accounting standards.
• Manage the monthly payroll and ensure statutory adherence to regulations including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund, and other employee-related mandates.
• Partner with HR to streamline payroll updates, employee onboarding, and exit procedures.
• Handle calculations and compliance for both direct and indirect taxation.
• Maintain all secretarial compliances, corporate records, statutory registers, annual returns, and board resolutions.
• Monitor modifications to Indian corporate regulations, including the Companies Act, FEMA, and RBI guidelines, to ensure continuous compliance.
• Act as the organizational liaison with government authorities for audits, notices, and official assessments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the international finance team to prepare and provide documentation for annual audits.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Experience: Certified Chartered Accountant with over 5 years of professional accounting experience.
• Expertise: Strong baseline knowledge regarding Indian GAAP/Ind AS, GST, Income Tax, TDS, Payroll Compliance, the Companies Act, and ROC filings.
• Tools: Exceptional proficiency utilizing Excel, Google Workspace applications, payroll systems, and accounting ERP.
• Languages: Full professional fluency in both English and Hindi (verbal and written); additional command of the office location's local regional language is highly advantageous.
• Execution: Proved capability to balance multiple operational priorities independently with absolute accuracy and minimal guidance.

Context:

• Previous background handling financial workflows for a fast-growing tech startup, an international corporation, or a foreign subsidiary is strongly preferred.

What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

• Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
• Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
• Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.