How this 29-year old CA entered the startup world and now Financial Controller at a funded startup

• I am Jigar Vachharajani, a Chartered Accountant and start-up enthusiast passionate about business innovations.
• After qualifying as a CA, I struggled for close to 2 months to find an opportunity in my desired profile, Direct Taxation.
• Through a turn of events, I got into Indirect Tax and a few years later I started my career at a growing funded startup.
• Here is my story of how my decision to quit a traditional MNC job and be a part of the startup world paid off.

Deciding to become a CA at a young age 

As far as the decision to become a Chartered Accountant is concerned, it was pretty much simple for me – My father was a practicing tax and accounting consultant and I have seen him working on multiple tax assignments since childhood.

Later on, he moved to the corporate world and was working as a Finance Director in one of the largest solar EPC Companies (A German-based MNC).

Watching him, I realized early in life that I wanted to pursue the Chartered Accountancy course and wanted to add the prefix CA before my name.