Accounts Payable Associate

Skillventory; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillventory in India seeks a Chartered Accountant with 3-7 years of experience in GST, TDS, and vendor-payments tax compliance. The role involves close collaboration with the Tax team to prepare, validate, and submit GST/ TDS returns, and to manage notices and audit requirements.

The candidate will monitor reconciliations, maintain SOPs, and ensure timely tax reporting while tracking regulatory changes that impact vendor payments.

Qualifications

• CA with 3-7 years of India GST and TDS exposure.
• Hands-on with vendor-payment tax compliance and reversals.
• Tax reconciliations and regulatory knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Monitor GST and TDS compliance for vendor payments.
• Coordinate GST/ TDS returns, challans, and schedules with Tax team.
• Handle GST notices and audit-related queries for vendor payments.
• Perform GST input credit and TDS reconciliations to minimise gaps.
• Track regulatory changes and update processes and controls.

Education

Chartered Accountant

MBA or Postgraduate

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Monitor and manage GST, TDS / withholding tax and related India tax compliances associated with vendor payments, including validation of tax codes, tax rates, vendor tax details, and statutory timelines.
• Partner closely with the Tax team for timely preparation, validation and submission of GST returns, TDS returns, tax schedules, challan details, reconciliations and supporting workings.
• Handle GST notices, TDS queries, vendor tax clarifications and audit requirements related to vendor payments by working closely with Tax, AP, outsourced service provider, vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure logical and timely closure.
• Perform and review GST input credit reconciliations, GSTR-2B purchase register matching, withholding tax reconciliations, tax GL reconciliations, and exception follow-up to minimise tax leakage, interest, penalties and compliance gaps.
• Support implementation of tax-related process changes such as input service distributor, reverse charge mechanism, invoice management system, lower deduction certificates, PAN-Aadhaar /
• Section 206AB checks, and other regulatory amendments impacting vendor payments.
• Monitor performance of the outsourced service provider against agreed SLA, with specific focus on accuracy and timeliness of GST, TDS, vendor tax validation, tax reporting and compliance deliverables.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation for AP-owned accounts, including GST receivable / payable, TDS payable etc.
• Maintain SOPs, trackers, control checklists and audit evidence for GST, TDS / withholding tax and other tax compliance activities handled by the AP team.
• Keep track of changes in India GST and withholding tax regulations impacting vendor payments and ensure required process updates, controls and stakeholder communications are completed.

Preferred candidate profile

• Chartered Accountant with 3-7 years of experience, preferably with hands-on exposure to India GST, TDS / withholding tax and vendor-payment tax compliance.
• MBA or Postgraduate with strong Accounts Payable tax operations experience, especially GST, TDS, tax reconciliations and vendor- payment compliance, can also be considered