Accounts & Compliance Manager

Antony Gomez Associates; Kollam; On-site; INR 446,000 - 614,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of function

Cross-border Gulf client exposure

Professional development support forCA

Firm celebrating 10 years

Direct reporting to Founder

Job summary

Antony Gomez Associates in Kollam, Kerala, is hiring a Manager – Accounts & Compliance to lead end-to-end accounting and tax compliance for a diverse client portfolio including MSMEs, partnerships, LLPs and private limited companies.

You will finalise accounts, review junior staff work, manage the filing calendar, and handle income tax matters and GST/TDS returns. Reporting to the Founder & CEO, with Company Secretary handling ROC work.

Qualifications

• CA Inter or CMA Inter with completed articleship, or CMA/CA qualified.
• 5+ years in a professional practice (CA firm, audit firm or accounting consultancy).
• Ability to finalise accounts independently, without a reviewer above you.
• Working knowledge of GST, TDS and Income Tax, with current changes.
• Experience reviewing and correcting the work of junior staff.
• Proficiency in Tally and Excel; Zoho Books is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Finalise accounts independently across proprietorships, partnerships, LLPs and private limited companies.
• Review and sign off GST returns, TDS returns and income tax computations before filing.
• Own the compliance calendar and ensure deadlines are met.
• Handle income tax computations, returns and notices.
• Support tax audits under section 44AB.
• Allocate work across the accounting team and set turnaround expectations.
• Guide and develop junior accountants and be the escalation point for the team.
• Prepare and review MIS and management reports for clients.
• Identify and resolve technical issues before they become client problems.

Skills

GST & TDS knowledge

Accounts finalisation

Reviewing junior staff

Tally & Excel

Zoho Books

Malayalam & English

Education

CA Inter or CMA Inter or CMA/CA qualified

Tools

Tally

Excel

Zoho Books

Job description

Manager – Accounts & Compliance

Antony Gomez Associates | Kollam, Kerala

Full-time, on-site | 1 position

About us

Antony Gomez Associates is a business advisory, compliance, accounting and management consultancy firm based in Kollam, completing ten years this November. We work with businesses across Kerala and with clients in Kuwait, and we are establishing a Dubai presence.

We are looking for someone to take charge of our accounting and tax compliance practice.

The role

This is a lead role, not a senior executor role. You will own the accounting and compliance function end to end — the quality of what leaves the firm, the deadlines it leaves by, and the development of the team that produces it.

You will finalise accounts independently, review the work of junior staff before it reaches a client or a portal, allocate work across the team, and be accountable for the filing calendar across a portfolio of individual, MSME, partnership, LLP and private limited clients.

You will report to the Founder & CEO. Company law and ROC work is handled by our Company Secretary associate.

What you'll do

• Finalise accounts independently across proprietorships, partnerships, LLPs and private limited companies
• Review and sign off GST returns, TDS returns and income tax computations prepared by the team before filing
• Own the compliance calendar and ensure filing deadlines are met without prompting
• Handle income tax matters including computations, returns, and responses to notices
• Support tax audit under section 44AB
• Allocate work across the accounting team, set turnaround expectations, and hold them
• Guide and develop junior accountants; be the person the team escalates to
• Prepare and review MIS and management reports for clients
• Identify and resolve technical issues before they become client problems

What we're looking for

Essential

• CA Inter or CMA Inter with completed articleship, or CMA/CA qualified
• 5+ years in a professional practice — a CA firm, audit firm or accounting consultancy. In-house industry experience alone is not a fit for this role.
• Demonstrated ability to finalise accounts independently, without a reviewer above you
• Working knowledge of GST, TDS and Income Tax, and current with recent changes
• Experience reviewing and correcting the work of junior staff
• Proficiency in Tally and Excel; working knowledge of Zoho Books an advantage
• Malayalam and English

Preferred

• Experience managing a portfolio of clients across multiple entity types
• Exposure to income tax assessments, notices and departmental correspondence
• Project report and CMA data preparation
• Experience with Gulf or NRI client matters

What matters most to us

• Ownership. When a deadline is at risk you raise it early, not afterwards.
• Review discipline. You catch the error before the client does.
• The willingness to tell a junior their work isn't good enough, and then show them why.

What we offer

• Salary: ₹40,000 – ₹55,000 per month, based on qualification and demonstrated capability
• Genuine ownership of a function, reporting directly to the Founder
• Exposure to cross-border and Gulf client work — UAE corporate tax, NRI advisory and cross-border structuring, which is difficult to access outside a metro
• A firm completing ten years and expanding into a third market
• Structured professional development, including support for those continuing CA or CMA studies