Job Description

Company Overview:

At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.

Porter is the fastest growing leader in this sector with Pan India presence with operations in multiple cities, a fleet size exceeding 1L registered and 30k active driver partners and a customer base with 3.5M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 150 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra group, LGT Aspada,Tiger Global and Vitruvian Partners.

We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. Were trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of last mile logistics including warehousing and LTL transportation. At Porter, were here to do the best work of our lives.

If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.

Role and Responsibilities

- Assists in day-to-day functioning of the tax and regulatory function within the finance team and work closely with the accounting team.

- Manage the on-going direct tax, indirect tax and regulatory compliances for the group companies in India such as TDS, TCS, Equalisation Levy, GST compliances, Form 15CA/ CB, RBI compliances, etc.

- Reconciliations of input tax credit under GST, TDS reconciliations other reconciliations required under different tax laws.

- Manage and comply with local, state, and central government reporting requirements and regulatory filings.

- Ensure compliance with local laws, labour laws and allied business laws applicable to the company.

- Work closely with the International teams - Finance, Accounting, Legal, Tax, etc.

- Provide support on tax and regulatory compliances of overseas companies on a need-basis.

- Support on review and negotiation of contracts from an overall tax, commercial, finance and regulatory perspective.

- Update and implement latest changes in laws as applicable on timely basis.

- Manage and comply with any other local, state, and central government reporting requirements and tax filings.

- Support requirements of business and operations team in day-to-day functioning and new business initiatives.

- Manage discussions and coordination with the external consultants, lawyers and tax & regulatory authorities including meetings and representations on behalf of the company.

- Coordinate with external auditors for statutory audits, tax audit, internal audits, transfer pricing certifications, etc.

- Collecting and analyzing various accounting / operational data to prepare periodical reports, reconciliations, etc.

- Provide support on month-end and year-end closure process.

- Assisting in financial /regulatory diligence/ audit by third parties.

- Identify and drive automation and process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and quick reference summary dashboards, etc.

- Support in implementation of ERP and internal processes.

- Analyze financial data and create financial and operating models for supporting decision making.

- Understand the economics, metrics and drivers of costs and share leads on potential opportunities to optimize costs.

- Design and administer internal controls over tax and financial reporting including process controls.

- Ensure processes are lean, agile and organized so as to enable relevant stakeholders to focus on making timely and accurate decisions.

Desired Skills:

- The person is expected to lead and execute activities in his/her areas with minimum supervision / monitoring or assistance.

- Should be a problem solver and take initiatives, should proactively reach out to stakeholders to solve deadlock / issues.

- The ideal candidate should have completed CA articleship training along with 3-5 years of working experience in tax, accounting and finance domains preferably in a Big4 firm.

- Should have in-depth knowledge of corporate tax, international tax, indirect taxes, accounting standards and IFRS.

- Working knowledge of PF, PT, ESI, MCA and RBI compliances.

- Excellent skills of MS-Office suite.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills.

- Integrity, with an ability to handle confidential information.

- Ability to multitask and manage expectations of relevant stakeholders from time to time.

- Should have a positive attitude, be a good team player, be willing to learn and be flexible to adapt into varied roles within the finance function.

- The person is expected to take hands on initiatives, lead and execute activities in his/her areas with minimum supervision /monitoring or assistance.

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