Urban Company - Senior Tax Manager - CA

Job Title : Senior Manager - Tax

Location: Gurgaon

About Urban Company :

Urban Company is a technology platform offering customers a variety of services at home. Customers use our platform to book services such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage therapy, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, painting etc., all delivered in the comfort of their home and at a time of their choosing. We promise our customers a high quality, standardized and reliable service experience. To fulfill this promise, we work closely with our hand-picked service partners, enabling them with technology, training, products, tools, financing, insurance, and brand, helping them succeed and deliver on this promise.

Urban Company started out as UrbanClap in Nov 2014, when its founders, Abhiraj, Raghav and Varun realized that the home services industry was predominantly unorganized, fragmented and offline. Customers found it difficult to avail quality services in a convenient manner, and service professionals were struggling to make ends meet, having to rely upon several middlemen, contractors, and local aggregators. The founders felt that the industry was ripe for disruption, and launched Urban Company, with three key principles in mind -

1. Customer love: Build a platform that offers truly delightful and differentiated services

2. Partner empowerment: Build a deep, full-stack partnership with service partners, helping improve their earnings and overall livelihood

3. Technology first: Bring innovation and technology to an age-old industry

As of May 2022, Urban Company had a presence in 56 cities across India, Australia, Singapore, UAE, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the USA. Since inception, the platform has delivered 36 million bookings to customers, and a highly trained fleet of 40,000+ service professionals. Today, Urban Company offers 50+ different types of home and beauty services through its mobile applications and website.

"Our Mission is to empower millions of service professionals by delivering services at-home in a way that has never been experienced before."

Service partners are the backbone of our platform. Our service partners are typically individual professionals working in one service category. We operate a full-stack platform to help them succeed and provide the following -

1. Training & Certification

2. Technology

3. Supplies and products

4. Insurance and Financing support

5. Market access and brand

Scale of Operations and Growth Outlook

Urban Company is present in the top 47 cities in India, and 9 cities internationally. The platform serves approximately 1.5 million+ customer bookings every month through a fleet of 40,000 highly trained service professionals, for a variety of home service needs. The business is growing rapidly at >75% YoY, and has demonstrated significant resilience in the last two years despite the COVID-19 pandemic (Urban Company was awarded The Economic Times Startup Award for COVID led business transformation in 2021, read more here).

The company has raised significant growth capital last year, which is still untouched and sitting in the bank, and has a very clear path to profitability for its India business over the next few quarters. Its frugal approach and years of secured runaway allows the UC team to build with a multi-year horizon in mind, while focusing on growth with profitability.

Our Commitment to Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

Urban Company is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We endeavor to -

- Provide equal and fair opportunities for employment to all qualified applicants.

- Maintain a work environment free from harassment based on age, colour, physical ability, marital status, parental status, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

About the Role:

The candidate should have 5-6 years of experience in tax (Direct Tax & Indirect Tax) regulatory & compliance services.

The role will be responsible for ensuring all taxation compliances are met on time with high standards.

What you'll do:

India

- Knowledge of laws applicable to ecommerce company;

- Undertaking compliances under the Goods and Service Tax (GST) laws;

- Research on various tax issues to resolve tax matters and queries of Finance Team;

-Evaluate positions for the Company on any new update/ amendment

-Liasion with CII/ DPIIT for necessary changes in the law

- Periodic reviews to ascertain compliance with various requirements of the GST laws;

- Support to oversight and prepare relevant workings for various tax assessments in indirect and direct tax

- Responsible for tax audit, filing of income tax returns

- Responsible for deferred tax workings and tax note disclosure in financial statements;

- Hustle and get things done attitudes.

International :

- Understanding of transfer pricing rules;

- Responsible for sales tax compliance in International geographies

- Responsible for tax filing in each geographies

- Responsible for WHT compliances in all geographies

- Evaluate tax positions at the time of launch of new geography/ amendments

- Taxability of ESOP in International geographies

What we'll need:

- 5-6 years' experience in Tax. Qualified Chartered Accountant only.

- Should be thorough with Direct and Indirect taxation - India and International.

- Knowledge of laws applicable to ecommerce company

- Good interpersonal skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) with all levels within the organization

- Unquestioned personal integrity with strong ethics and values consistent with UC culture

- Well-developed technical proficiency IT environment, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

What we'd love :

- Ability to run mandates autonomously and with minimum supervision.

- Ability to strategize and assess potential risk.

- Ability to coordinate with different business teams, senior management, and external counsel on multiple mandates.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills.

- Attention to detail.

- We're looking for extremely strong first-principles problem solvers, who have a maker / builder within them and want to bring to life consumer insights to revolutionize the service industry

What can you expect:

- A great work environment with massive ownership and growth opportunities.

- Work closely with the founding and the leadership team on key projects.

- Execute highly scalable applications & implement best.

- Latest tools and technology to get things done provided by the company

- Health insurance benefits for our employees and their family

- Growth opportunities within UC via our robust internal mobility program

- Competitive salary with bi-annual performance reviews