Job Description
Job title
Accounts Coordinator
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka (1 position)
Project/Department
Finance
Reporting to 
State Programme Director. Dotted line reporting to Manager -
Accounting & Compliances 
Reporting from
Accounts and Admin Officer
Contract Duration
31st March 2026
Context:
Jal Seva Charitable Foundation (JSCF) is registered in India as a not for profit company under Chapter 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. JSCF, is an associate member of WaterAid International and uses the brand name ‘WaterAid’ in India.   
WaterAid India seeks to improve access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene for everyone, everywhere.  
We started in 1986 because no non-profit like us existed. We are determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Only by tackling these three essentials, in ways that last, can people change their lives for good.  
In India, WaterAid works with communities in rural and urban areas. Thanks to our amazing supporters, we have reached millions of people with these three essentials – clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene – enabling communities to unlock their potential to break free from the cycle of poverty and to change for good.  
We will not stop. Not until clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene are a normal part of everyday life for everyone, everywhere.  
WaterAid India’s (WAI) country office is based in New Delhi with State Offices in Bhopal, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Patna and Lucknow. We currently work in 11+ states across the country.   
WAI’s Programme focus in the next five years is on ensuring that communities – especially low-income families - are WASH secure i.e. with assured access to safe drinking water at the household level; with safely managed sanitation’ institutions such as anganwadi’s, schools and health care facilities with adequate and appropriate WASH infrastructure and with good hygiene behaviours. We seek to do this through demonstration and the provision of technical and knowledge support to governments at all levels who can facilitate this adoption on scale.  
Role & Responsibilities:
Planning & Budgeting
  • Assist the State Program Director to prepare budgets/plans for the region  
  • Support in preparation of budget in case of new proposal  
  • Uploading budget in SUN system as and when required  
  • Ensure compliance to donor conditions with respect to budget formulation / revisions   
State Accounts Management    
  • Review and closure of regional books of accounts as part of month end process.  
  • Regularly reviewing of transactions uploaded by District Accountants and approve in SUN System.   Check and confirm if all codes provided on the voucher related to grant information are correct  
  • Verifying the documentation on voucher before final payment.   
  • Review of partner, Debtor and Creditor balances on a regular basis.  
  • Review of monthly finance checklist and confirmation to HO.  
  • Ensuring appropriate tax is deducted on all the payments    
  • Ensuring TDS, PT challan and returns are filed before the due dates.  
  • Ensuring monthly bank reconciliation in place.  
  • Anchoring empanelment of vendor/consultant in procurement process.  
  • Facilitate partner disbursements, if applicable and verify fund requests received from partner and make   recommendations for disbursements;  
  • Forecast monthly funds flow requirement of the state and file timely funds transfer request with the Head Office
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual financial reconciliation and report   submission
  • Ensure procurement process as per organisation policy
Donor Reporting   
  • Prepare and submit on monthly/quarterly basis donor financial reports as per donor formats for review at HO;  
  • Ensure that all donor reports are always reconciled with books of account;  
  • Check and confirm that all the donor guidelines and reporting requirements have been complied with while compiling these reports;  
  • Provide assistance in ensuring that financial report is in sync with the narrative report   
D.) Miscellaneous  
  • Orient finance and non-finance team members on FCRA, Income TAX, MSME and CSR provisions;  
  • Set up and maintain an efficient document filing system;  
  • Prepare key compliance checklists as per donor contracts for high-risk/value grants;  
  • Assist at HO in proper closure of grant audits.  
  • Actively participate in partner pre-funding assessments, if applicable;  
  • Ensure compliance to financial policies of Jal Seva Charitable Foundation (JSCF)  
  • Assist the finance team during audits – Statutory / Internal / IFC / Grant audits;  
  • Any other duties as may be assigned by State Program Director /Head Office 
Eligibilities and Qualifications: Qualification/Experience:
 
Education
  • B. Com/M. Com/MBA (Finance) from reputed university/institute 
  • ii.Incumbent should have a minimum of 5-10 years of experience in the development sector organization and of this about 2 + years’ experience in a similar position/role  
Skills, Aptitude and Attitude:
  • Fluency in speaking, writing, reading English and Kannada.  
  • Incumbent should be well versed with provisions of FCRA, GST and Income Tax;  
  • Well versed with advance functions of excel and ERP accounting software. SUN system knowledge is an   added advantage  
WAI is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  

Women and the differently abled are encouraged to apply.    

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