Finance & Accounts

Drivetrain; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Drivetrain is hiring a Finance & Accounts professional for our India entity to own day-to-day accounting, compliance, and financial operations. This role goes beyond bookkeeping, requiring you to build lean, self-operating processes with AI tools and automation to minimize manual work.

You'll manage GST/TDS filings, ROC filings, payroll compliance, month-end close, AP/AR, and audit readiness, while designing systems that flag exceptions and accelerate reconciliation.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in accounting/finance operations.
• Strong knowledge of Indian tax and compliance (GST, TDS).
• Hands-on with an accounting system; ERP exposure a bonus.
• Comfortable owning the full close cycle independently.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day bookkeeping, invoicing, GST/TDS filings, payroll compliance, and statutory filings for India entity.
• Manage bank, vendor, and intercompany reconciliations with automated controls.
• Own month-end close, journal entries, accruals, and reporting packages.
• Handle AP/AR operations including payments, collections, and expense management.
• Coordinate with auditors and consultants; keep audit-ready documentation.
• Identify and implement process automation using AI/no-code tools.

Skills

Accounting principles

Automation mindset

AI tools fluency

Variance analysis

Tools

Zoho Books

Tally

QuickBooks

NetSuite

Job description

We're hiring a Finance & Accounts professional to own day-to-day accounting, compliance, and financial operations for our India entity. This isn't a traditional bookkeeping role. You'll be expected to run a lean, largely self-operating finance function — using AI tools and automation to eliminate manual, repetitive work, and spending your own time on judgment calls, exceptions, and analysis instead. We'd rather hire someone who can build a system that does 80% of the reconciliation for them than someone who reconciles quickly by hand.

What You'll Own

• Books & Compliance: Day-to-day bookkeeping, vendor and customer invoicing, GST/TDS filings, payroll compliance, and statutory filings (ROC, PF, PT, etc.) for the India entity.
• Reconciliations: Bank, vendor, and intercompany reconciliations — ideally with a system in place that flags exceptions rather than requiring line-by-line manual matching.
• Month-end close: Own the close calendar, journal entries, accruals, and reporting packages; work toward shrinking close time quarter over quarter.
• AP/AR operations: Invoice processing, payment runs, collections follow-up, and expense management.
• Audit & compliance readiness: Coordinate with auditors, tax consultants, and company secretary; maintain audit-ready documentation continuously rather than scrambling at year-end.
• Process automation: Identify manual, repetitive finance workflows and either configure existing tools or use AI/no-code automation to remove yourself from the loop.

What We're Looking For

• 2-5 years of experience in accounting/finance operations, ideally at a startup or fast-growing company (SaaS experience is a strong plus).
• Strong working knowledge of Indian accounting standards, GST, TDS, and statutory compliance.
• Hands-on experience with an accounting system (Zoho Books, Tally, QuickBooks, or similar); ERP exposure (NetSuite) is a bonus.
• Comfortable owning the full close cycle independently, not just executing assigned tasks.

AI & automation fluency (this matters as much as the accounting knowledge)

• Use AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) fluently for drafting communications, summarizing policies, researching compliance questions, and building financial models or analyses.
• Build or configure spreadsheet/AI-assisted workflows that automate recurring tasks — e.g., auto-categorizing transactions, flagging reconciliation mismatches, generating draft journal entries, or summarizing vendor statements.
• Work with (or be willing to quickly learn) low-code/no-code automation tools like n8n, Zapier, or Google Apps Script to connect finance systems (accounting software, Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack) so routine tasks run without manual intervention.
• Use AI to accelerate reconciliation and variance analysis — e.g., feeding bank statements and ledgers into a tool to auto-match entries and surface only genuine exceptions for human review.
• Show a track record (even informal) of having automated something in a past role — a reconciliation macro, an auto-generated report, a Slack/email alert for overdue invoices, anything that reduced manual effort.

How we'll evaluate automation-mindedness

Expect a practical exercise during the interview process: we'll walk through a real (anonymized) recurring finance task and ask how you'd approach automating or AI‑assisting it, not just how you'd execute it manually.

What Success Looks Like In 6 Months

• Close timelines shortened, with reconciliations largely self-flagging exceptions rather than requiring manual review of every line.
• At least 2-3 previously manual, recurring finance tasks automated or AI‑assisted end‑to‑end.
• Clean, audit-ready books maintained continuously, not reconstructed at deadline time.
• You're spending most of your time on judgment-heavy work (variance analysis, compliance risk, vendor negotiations) rather than data entry.

Why Join Drivetrain

You'll be one of the first finance hires shaping how a fast-growing AI-native company runs its own finance function — with full latitude to bring in the same kind of automation and AI tooling we sell to our customers.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.