Articled Assistant

GRAD & COMPANY; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

GRAD & Company invites applications for articled assistants in Coimbatore. You will work on audit, tax and advisory engagements from your first year, with a partner reviewing your work throughout the process.

The role is based at 3A, Haven Radhakrishna Enclave, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore 641 045, aligned with ICAI regulations and training guidelines. Successful candidates will clear both CA Intermediate groups and join the firm’s structured learning path.

Qualifications

• Cleared both groups of CA Intermediate.
• Eligible for CA Articleship under ICAI regulations.

Responsibilities

• Audit, tax and advisory engagements from your first year.
• Work under a partner who reviews your work.
• Learn ICAI training requirements and ICAI regulations.

Education

CA Intermediate (both groups cleared)

Job description

G R A D & Company is taking articled assistants at its Coimbatore office. You will work on audit, tax and advisory engagements from your first year, and a partner reviews your work.

• Position: Articled assistant (CA)
• Location: 3A, Haven Radhakrishna Enclave, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore 641 045
• Eligibility: Cleared both groups of CA Intermediate
• Reporting to: Head-in-Charge (HIC) of your department, under the partner who owns that service line
• Training period: As prescribed by ICAI regulations

Role summary

G R A D & Company is taking articled assistants at its Coimbatore office. You will work on audit, tax and advisory engagements from your first year, and a partner reviews your work.

• Position: Articled assistant (CA)
• Location: 3A, Haven Radhakrishna Enclave, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore 641 045
• Eligibility: Cleared both groups of CA Intermediate
• Reporting to: Head-in-Charge (HIC) of your department, under the partner who owns that service line
• Training period: As prescribed by ICAI regulations

About the firm

G R A D & Company is a firm of chartered accountants, founded in Coimbatore in 2021. Its clients range from SMEs and startups to multinationals.

Each partner owns a service line, and Heads-in-Charge run the departments under them. Audit staff and articled assistants carry out the engagements and are deployed across them. The service lines are assurance, direct tax, GST, transactions and valuation, virtual CFO, accounting and systems, and corporate compliance.

How you will learn

You learn in three ways: from review of your own work, from structured L&D sessions, and from a half-yearly appraisal that ends in a development plan.

Review of your work

A partner reviews your work and explains the reasoning behind the changes. Because every file passes from preparer to manager to partner, you see how two more experienced people would have handled the same problem. Read the review notes closely; they show you exactly what a reviewer expected.

L&D sessions

Sessions run online, you attend from your own login, and every session is recorded. The faculty shares notes, and you keep your own notes alongside them.

Technical sessions cover the Act, rules and case law, expert interpretations, recent news and upcoming changes with their effect, and where practice departs from the Act.

Practical sessions take a real-life scenario and show how to close it. They give references to the Act, rules and forms, share shortcuts and formulae, and end with a question on how the task could be simplified.

Every session ends with a problem from the faculty. You get one week to solve it. Answers are rewarded on quality, on how quickly you reply and on depth. Workings from each session are saved in a shared folder, so the firm builds a library you can use later.

Appraisal and development

You are appraised every six months. The reviewing manager or HIC assesses five things: technical competence, quality and timeliness of your work, client feedback, conduct and values, and L&D participation. A partner approves the rating.

The discussion runs both ways. It ends with written goals and a development plan for the next six months.

Conduct and confidentiality

Client data is privileged under the ICAI Code of Ethics and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The firm treats a breach of confidentiality as serious misconduct.

What this means for you:

• Never carry one client's data into another client's work. Templates and training use illustrative or redacted data.
• Open identifiers such as PAN, Aadhaar, GSTIN and bank details only when your task needs them.
• Keep client data on firm systems only. Nothing goes to a personal device, personal email, personal cloud storage or an unencrypted drive.
• Use your own login, never share a password, and use multi‑factor authentication on Google Workspace, ERPCA, CompuOffice and the cloud server. Lock your screen when you step away.
• Check any request to change payment details or send data through a second channel before acting.
• Report a suspected breach or lost device to the Partner, Information Systems, straight away.
• Do not post client or firm information on social media. Your personal views are your own and are not attributed to the firm.
• Do not take on private client work, or accept gifts or fees from clients, without written partner approval.

Your confidentiality obligations continue after your articleship ends.

If something is wrong at work, raise it with your HIC first. If it is not resolved, it goes to the Partner, Operations, and then to the partnership. You can also report suspected fraud or unethical conduct directly to any partner in confidence. Complaints of sexual harassment go to the firm's Internal Committee under the POSH Act, 2013. Good‑faith complaints are protected from retaliation.

Who we are looking for

You have cleared both groups of CA Intermediate and meet ICAI's requirements to start practical training.

The firm hires for competence, integrity and fit. In practice, these are the qualities your reviewers and your appraisal will look for:

• Care with evidence: you tie every figure back to its source and record what you checked.
• Reliability: you meet the due dates set in ERPCA and flag early when you cannot.
• Discretion: you keep client information inside firm systems and inside the engagement.
• Curiosity: you attempt the L&D problems and ask why a reviewer changed your work.
• Clear writing: your notes, observations and draft replies can be read without you in the room.
• Comfort with software: you pick up ERPCA, CompuOffice, Auditors Desk and Google Workspace quickly.

All of this sits on the five principles of the ICAI Code of Ethics: integrity, objectivity, professional competence and due care, confidentiality, and professional behaviour.

Terms

Your articleship letter sets out your role, reporting line, confidentiality and notice terms.

• Leave: as stipulated by ICAI.
• Policies: you work under the firm's policy manual and acknowledge it on joining.
• Notice: as set out in your articleship letter.
• Completion or transfer of articleship: under ICAI regulations. Before you leave, you hand over live tasks, files and pending matters in ERPCA, and return firm devices and documents.

Life at the firm

The year runs on filing and audit seasons, with holidays, outings and offsites planned around them.

Seasons: the busiest periods are the assurance season, the GST audit and tax audit seasons, TDS filing and monthly GST filing. Staffing for each season is planned in advance, and the holiday list includes firm closure days for the tax and statutory seasons.

Holidays: the firm publishes a holiday list each calendar year. It covers national holidays and regional festivals such as Pongal, Uzhavar Thirunal, Tamil New Year, Ganesh Chaturthi, Vijayadashami and Diwali.

Team time: a team outing, such as a movie night or dinner, twice a year; a one‑day offsite once a year; and a two‑day offsite with an overnight stay once every two years.

Expenses: the firm reimburses work travel, lodging on outstation work, and meals when you work past 9 p.m., on a Sunday or holiday, or outstation. In‑office refreshments are provided. You claim on Form GRAD-01 with receipts by the 26th of each month, and reimbursements are paid once a month. Claims older than two months are not paid.

Applications are kept for 12 months.