Chartered Accountant – Finance & Accounts

🌮 We’re Hiring: Chartered Accountant – Finance & Accounts

📍 Location: Kolkata

💼 Experience: 0–2 years post qualification

🏢 Company: Wah! Foods

🍽️ Industry: QSR / Food & Beverage / Retail

About Wah! Foods

Wah! Foods is building one of India’s first organized street-food QSR chains through its brands Wah! Puchka and Wah! Litti.

Our mission is to bring India’s most loved street foods into a hygienic, standardized, scalable, and trustworthy format-without losing the authentic taste and emotions attached to them.

About the Role

We are looking for a qualified Chartered Accountant with 0–2 years of post-qualification experience to strengthen our finance, accounting, compliance, taxation, MIS, and financial-control functions.

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who wants to work closely with founders and business teams in a fast-growing QSR environment.

Key Responsibilities

✅ Manage monthly and annual books closure across outlets and business entities

✅ Review accounting entries, ledgers, reconciliations, expenses, receivables, and payables

✅ Ensure timely GST, TDS, income-tax, and other statutory compliances

✅ Coordinate with auditors, tax consultants, banks, and regulatory authorities

✅ Prepare monthly MIS, outlet-wise profitability, cash-flow reports, and management dashboards

✅ Monitor food cost, outlet expenses, gross margins, contribution margins, and operational variances

✅ Strengthen internal controls for purchases, inventory, cash, billing, refunds, discounts, and vendor payments

✅ Conduct outlet-level financial reviews and identify revenue leakage or cost-control opportunities

✅ Support budgeting, forecasting, fundraising due diligence, and financial modelling

✅ Review vendor agreements, payment terms, taxation implications, and commercial documentation

✅ Support implementation and improvement of accounting, POS, inventory, and ERP systems

✅ Ensure proper documentation and audit readiness across all outlets

✅ Assist the leadership team in evaluating new outlets, cities, formats, and expansion opportunities

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant
• 0–2 years of post-qualification experience
• Strong understanding of accounting standards, GST, TDS, taxation, and statutory compliance
• Good command over Excel, financial modelling, MIS, and data analysis
• Experience in QSR, food and beverage, retail, hospitality, FMCG, or multi-outlet businesses is preferred
• Exposure to inventory accounting, food costing, outlet profitability, or POS reconciliation will be an advantage
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led organization
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, commercial thinking, and problem-solving ability
• Willingness to work hands-on and visit outlets whenever required

Why Join Wah! Foods?

🚀 Work closely with the founders during a high-growth expansion phase

🏪 Help build financial systems for a growing multi-city QSR chain

📊 Gain exposure to outlet economics, expansion planning, fundraising, and strategic finance

🌆 Be part of our growth across Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, and future markets

🌮 Help build nationally recognized street-food brands from the ground up.