Finance Associate

**Evidence Action - India Program**

**Position Overview**

**Job Title: Finance Associate**

**Employment Status: Regular Full Time**

**Position Location: New Delhi
**About Evidence Action**

Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs, including in India. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source. These serve as just two examples of the work Evidence Action is undertaking.

In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, intending to double our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator.

Evidence Action has a presence across 7 countries, with major offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.

In India, Evidence Action’s technical partner EAII Advisors provides technical assistance to select state government’s ministries of health, education, and women and child development to implement the school and Anganwadi based National Deworming Day program and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation program to improve children’s health, education, and long-term development. In the long term EAII Advisors aims to expand to provide technical support to more state governments and on other public health & nutrition issues too.

**About the Position**:
Reporting to the Manager - Finance, the Finance Associate (FA) will work closely with other team members for appropriate functions. FA will provide support in accounts and finance related work. Key responsibilities include maintain books of accounts accurately, reconciliation of expenses and review of invoices/travel expense reports and assist in processing payments. As for all staff, FA must possess a sense of collaboration and mutual understanding and a willingness to assist colleagues and work in a team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Carry out routine finance and accounting functions in line with company policy and procedures;
- Ensure implementation of financial procedures while carrying out routine functions to improve on various financial and accounting processes;
- Responsible for book keeping in Tally software, reviewing and processing vendor invoices and employee’s reimbursement by ensuring all internal and statutory compliances including support in preparation of monthly expense report and any other financial reporting under the supervision of the Manager-Finance;
- Ensure taking appropriate reviews/approvals from concerned teams before processing invoices for payment from all office locations of the organization;
- Check the supporting documents of all monthly expense reports received from different office locations including Delhi and ensure to its correctness and accuracy;
- Record vendors’ account details and support in entering/updating of vendor information into accounting software on routine basis under the guidance and supervision of the Manager-Finance;
- Review TDS and other tax compliances from employees, vendors and other payments and ensure that the statutory deductions have been made on time as required;
- Ensure and support in compliance of Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax, Provident Fund & ESIC, Professional Tax, MSME and any other applicable laws;
- Keep track of employee’s/ Consultant’s advances and reconciliation with expense report on a monthly basis or such other frequencies as may be decided from time to time for all office locations;
- Ensure the vendor reconciliation, maintenance of Fixed assets Register and GST Input Tax reconciliations and follow up vendors for GST Input tax Credit.
- Assist the Manager-Finance in preparing finance related reports as per requirements as and when required (monthly, quarterly and annual);
- Ensure and upload invoices as per Payment Approval List on accounting software and maintain the records of invoices and appropriately maintain the filing of such documents;
- Ensure and maintain effective relationships and coordinate with concerned at state teams and ensure fulfilment of requirements;
- Assist Manager-Finance in handling day to day accounting activities an