Website Process Consultant

Level                    : Senior Consultant

Location             : Chennai

Experience         : 9 to 15 years

• Must be a seasoned IT Business Analyst
• Must have good experience in Payments domain
• Good Communication Skills
• Well versed with Agile and Scrum
• In depth understanding of agile methodologies

Company Description

We are an SF-based stealth mode AI startup, building AI agents and automation tools for Marketing use-cases. We are ex-Big Tech, currently bootstrapped and working with a few design partners/early customers. We will be starting a fundraise in Q3 2024.

Role Description

This is a part-time remote role for a Founding Engineer (first engineering hire). This is an equity-only role, meaning compensation will be in the form of equity rather than a salary.

This role will be 30% applied research and 70% product engineering. The expectation is that you will be able to commit 15 hours per week for this role to begin with.

You will -

• Experiment with the latest AI technologies and research and put them into implementation.
• Have the freedom and responsibility to design and own projects from start to finish.
• Have opportunities to directly talk with customers and solve their problems!

About you

• Love to keep up with and dive into latest technologies in AI
• Move fast, ship quickly, has high urgency
• Energized about going from 0 to 1
• Enjoy high ownership and responsibility
• Familiar with no-code tools and frameworks
• Excited about working on AI-native user experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field (Also open to university students for the right candidate)
• Knowledge of gen-AI systems (LLMs, model training/fine-tuning, agent frameworks, evaluation frameworks, vector DBs, RAG, etc)
• Experience in building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure
• Strong generalist, skilled with Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS).

What we offer

• Technical Ownership: You will own high level (and lower level) technical decisions for an early-stage startup, with mentorship from seasoned Engineering leaders from Silicon Valley.
• Equity: As a key initial hire, you will receive significant founding equity and ownership in the company.
• Growth: You will have a natural on-ramp to come onboard as a full-time, salaried Founding Engineer after a fundraise event.

Conduct lead generation, prospecting, and qualifying potential new clients. Research companies to create strategic communication plans. Proactively schedule calls with prospective clients via phone and email (including cold calling)

Develop new business via the established channels (telephone and help desk system) and mass communication such as email and social media to introduce the EstateMaster solutions and identify appropriate buyers within the target market.

• Follow up on leads and conduct research to identify potential prospects.
• Assessing the results of marketing campaigns
• Support sales team to improve performance, control, and maintenance of their leads.
• Identify key buying influencers within these prospects to determine the budget and timeline.
• Build and cultivate prospect relationships by initiating communications and conducting follow-up communications to move opportunities through the sales funnel.
• Work with the Regional Sales Managers and President to develop and grow the sales pipeline to consistently meet quarterly revenue goals.
• Assisting Marketing Director in writing reports and analyzing data
• Helping to drive leads and online traffic with web-based activities and programs
• Prepare and analyze marketing and sales pipeline reports and dashboards.
• Good knowledge about Blockchain and Crypto is added advantage.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Manage the day-to-day accounting operations of the e-commerce business, including accounts payable and receivable, general ledger entries, bank reconciliations, and payroll processing 

• Ensure timely and accurate recording of financial transactions in accordance with accounting principles and regulations

 • Perform monthly and year-end closing procedures, including preparing financial statements and reports, such as profit and loss statements and balance sheets 

• Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analysing account information

 • Work closely with the e-commerce team to provide financial insights and analysis for decision-making

 • Develop and implement financial controls to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures

 • Manage tax filings, including sales tax, use tax, and income tax

 • Assist with budgeting and forecasting processes, as well as financial modelling and analysis

• Collaborate with external auditors to provide necessary documentation and support for audits

   • Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.

Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field 

• 3+ years of experience in accounting, preferably in the e-commerce industry 

• CPA or CMA certification preferred 

• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles and regulations

 • Experience with accounting software and e-commerce platforms 

 • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams 

• Attention to detail and accuracy

 • Excellent communication skills

 • Proficient in Microsoft Office and accounting software

Reconciliation:

1. Bank Reconciliation: Reconcile the bank statements with the company's cash book to ensure that all transactions are recorded accurately.
2. Accounts Receivable Reconciliation: Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger with the general ledger to ensure that all accounts are accurate and up to date.
3. Accounts Payable Reconciliation: Reconcile the accounts payable ledger with the general ledger to ensure that all vendor accounts are accurate and up to date.
4. Intercompany Reconciliation: Reconcile transactions between different entities within the same company to ensure that all intercompany accounts are accurate and up to date.
5. Payroll Reconciliation: Reconcile payroll records with bank statements to ensure that all payroll transactions are recorded accurately.
6. General Ledger Reconciliation: Reconcile reconcile the general ledger with subsidiary ledgers to ensure that all accounts are accurate and up to date.
7. E-commerce Platforms Reconciliation: Reconcile all the entries of all B2B and B2C e-commerce platforms.

Job Description:

TeamExtn is looking for a passionate Senior Scala Engineer. It will be expected from you to build pragmatic solutions on mission-critical initiatives. If you know your stuff, see the beauty in code, have knowledge in depth and breadth, advocate best practices, and love to work with distributed systems, then this is an ideal position for you.

As a core member of our Special Projects team, you will work on various new projects in a startup-like environment. These projects may include such things as building new APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) for new products, integrating new products with core Carvana services, building highly scalable back end processing systems in Scala and integrating with systems backed by Machine Learning. You will use cutting edge functional Scala libraries such as ZIO. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Product, Experience and Software Engineering teams to deliver impact.

Responsibilities:

• Build highly scalable APIs and back end processing systems for new products
• Contribute in the full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists
• Drive scalability and performance within our distributed AI platform
• Full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists

Skills And Experience:

• 4+ years experience with Scala, Java or other functional language
• Experience with Akka and Lightbend stack
• Expert with PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL
• Experience in architecting, developing, deploying and operating large scale distributed systems and actor systems
• Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Solid understanding of computer systems and networks
• Production quality coding standards and patterns

BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience with functional programming in Scala
• Knowledge of ZIO and related ecosystem
• Experience with functional database libraries in Scala (Quill preferred)
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Elasticsearch
• Typescript, React and frontend UI development experience
• gRPC, GraphQL

• Define and execute the recruitment strategy for our India hub
• Directly source high caliber technical talent using tools like LinkedIn, GitHub, StackOverflow to name a few
• Manage the end of the end recruitment process from direct sourcing, interviewing, and offer negotiation 
• Partner with a variety of hiring managers to create robust interview processes
• Articulate company culture and values throughout recruiting process
• Use data and metrics to measure our performance and provide insights on how we can improve our recruiting efforts 
• Build talent pools of candidates for key disciplines like Engineering and Product
• Develop and implement a delightful candidate experience
• Partner with our global Talent Team and work on key strategic projects 

• You’ve got extensive experience as an internal recruiter in a high growth tech company/startup 
• You have strong knowledge of the talent market in India and know where to source high caliber candidates from 
• Proven track record in direct sourcing for candidates using a variety of tools
• You are confident managing and advising stakeholders on how to approach building their teams
• Experienced in building and utilizing a variety of recruiting tools and channels
• Strong ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Strong ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication

The interview process for this role is: 

• 30m interview with one of our Talent Team or Recruitment Partners
• 1h interview with Operations Lead
• Final interview with our Leadership Team

We can be flexible with the structure of someone's circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know! 

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.

Field Sales, Revenue 💵 - PagarBook
(Temporary Fulltime)

About Pagarbook:

1. Employee Management at your Fingertips. PagarBook - India's Best Payroll

and Attendance

2. Management tool for Small & Medium Enterprises. Using PagarBook, a

business owner can maintain all the records of their employees digitally

and can get insights around the same.

3. PagarBook is free & easy to use employee management, work & payroll

management software app where you can manage all your staff and

employee’s attendance, record the work done by your staff and employees

and their salary, payments & advances can also be recorded in this app.

4. Sms & WhatsApp notification to employees and staff about payments,

bonuses, daily work, attendance & leaves.

5. The Sales would be done for premium desktop version of the application

6. Benefits of desktop application:

a. Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web

b. Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend

c. Unlimited free upgrades for a year

About Sales team:

The field sales team at PagarBook is all about solving SME’s customer problems

and ensuring we deliver compelling value propositions.

On a typical day, the sales team:

● drives the adoption of a premium version of Pagarbook, sold at a

subscription fee per annum

● never-say-no attitude, and comes with a win-all attitude

● At the same time, a core ingredient of the DNA is customer empathy

● We should always ensure the customer is well informed of all the benefits of

the solution, before we close the sales.

Responsibilities and Duties of sales associate:

● You will pitch about PagarBook desktop solution on field to customers

● You will explain the benefits of PagarBook desktop solution to customers

○ Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web

○ Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend

○ Unlimited free upgrades for a year

● The users can register on the desktop for a free trial for 7 days first

● Sales associate would convert the customer into a paid customer

Mandatory requirements:

● Having your own bike is a must

● Field sales experience is a must (telecom, FMCG and financial sales

experience adds more weightage)

● Local language knowledge in the city of operations is a must

● Graduation in any field is sufficient

Benefits:

● Targets based incentives (extremely attractive)

● Petrol allowance ~upto INR 3,000 (on actual bills)

● Initial job posting would be for 3 months - based on good performance,

conversion to full time employment would be granted

Key Areas of Responsibility (KRAs):

● Onboarding of Customers

○ Meet 30 new clients a day (tracked)

○ Get free trial enabled for 20 clients a day

○ Get 3 sales (paid customers, 10% conversion) per day -

non-negotiable output

● Retaining customer accounts

○ While we build new businesses, cross-selling would be key

○ Customers should keep using PagarBook desktop beyond 30 days of

activation

● Grow customer basket size

○ Identify key SME clusters in the city and prepare an acquisition plan

○ Go aggressive and acquire

● Business acumen & key skills

○ Strong knowledge on PagarBook sales process, services and product

○ Local Market and competition knowledge and clear articulation of

PagarBook advantages

○ Strong negotiation and influencing skills to create win-win

○ Give continuous feedback to internal teams to improve our

customer service level

Finally, remember, you are the PagarBook brand ambassador on the ground! All

the best.

Requirements for field sales - Phase 1 (50):

● South:

○ Bangalore - 5 Associates

○ Coimbatore - 5 Associates