Finance Controller

As a visionary CFO at our fast-growing startup in the sustainability and waste management space, you will play a pivotal role in leading from scratch, designing custom Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring robust controls, and partnering in unlocking future growth. Unlike traditional marketplaces, we operate in a reverse supply chain, buying from unregistered sellers (households) and selling to B2B buyers, which requires building new systems altogether rather than relying on standard e-commerce SOPs. Working closely with the founder, tech team, and operations heads, you will be responsible for ensuring that every rupee and kilogram is traceable, compliant, and optimized. In this strategic and financial leadership role, you will build and lead the Finance, Accounting, and Compliance team from the ground up. You will create custom SOPs, budgeting frameworks, and internal controls tailored to our unique customer-to-business (C2B) model. Additionally, you will partner with the CEO to drive business planning, modeling, and capital allocation while overseeing unit economics, cash burn, and city-level contribution tracking. Managing accounting, taxation, and compliance aspects will be a key part of your responsibilities, including overseeing bookkeeping, GST, TDS, ROC, PF, ESIC, and monthly closings. You will build frameworks for taxation related to scrap purchases from households and ensure audit readiness across internal, statutory, and investor audits. Your role will also include fundraising, governance, and investor reporting tasks such as preparing and maintaining data rooms, Management Information Systems (MIS), board decks, and compliance documents. You will liaise with external consultants for legal, due diligence, secretarial matters, and ensure timely filings. Furthermore, you will focus on finance automation and tools, building cost-control systems across warehousing, fleet, labor, and technology. The qualifications we are looking for include a CA/MBA Finance/CFA preferred, 8-15 years of experience in VC-backed startups/e-commerce/logistics/recycling/fintech, and prior experience with ground-up finance setup, especially in asset-light or high operations-intensity businesses. Deep familiarity with Tally, Zoho, Excel automation, and investor reporting tools is essential, along with a strong understanding of Indian tax, compliance, Companies Act, and startup capital instruments. Experience managing reverse logistics, scrap, waste management, or commodities is a bonus. In return, we offer ownership in a first-of-its-kind impact-driven business, a direct seat at the leadership table working alongside the founder, backing from institutional investors with a clear growth roadmap, the opportunity to drive real-world environmental change, and a fast-paced, mission-driven team with a strong bias for action.,