Chief Financial Officer - Retail Technology Firm

Chief Financial Officer - Retail Technology Firm

Responsibilities:

Financial operations:

- Oversee all financial operations, including accounting, budgeting, tax, and compliance.

- Bring in industry best practices for routine tasks

- Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.

- Manage cash flow, treasury, and banking relationships.

Analytics - Board and Function level MIS and Dashboards:

- Publish monthly MIS for the CEO and the Board - providing company and business unit financial KPIs.

- Design and set up business dashboards such as customer-level profitability, business unit-level profitability, etc

- Assess the ROI of new and ongoing investments and give inputs to the CEO/ Business Unit heads for future investment planning and any course corrections needed.

Annual budgeting and forecasting

- Lead the annual budgeting process and produce high-quality financial forecasts, by business unit to guide planning and investment decisions.

- Track budget vs actual performance and regularly report variances regularly to the CEO with suggested measures to improve metrics.

- Design systems to project financials and cash flows with a high degree of accuracy.

Pricing strategy:

- Review the existing pricing model and change prices or the entire structure in line with changing cost structures and competitive situations, in collaboration with sales, marketing and product teams.

- Incorporate inputs from the pricing meeting in the annual forecast and budgets and ensure healthy profitability across business units.

Risk Management and Compliance:

- Ensure compliance with financial regulations, and accounting standards, and establish internal controls.

- Statutory compliances and payments including but not limited to - TDS, GST, Income tax

- Handling audits and other secretarial processes

Team Leadership:

- Build and lead a high-performing finance team.

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Provide mentorship and development opportunities for finance team members.

Qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant / MBA - Finance

- 10+ years of experience in finance function

- Must have - At least ~3 years of leadership role in the finance function

- Good to have - Prior experience in an IPO process or a listed company as CFO/ Finance Head

- Good to have - Prior experience in software/ SaaS tech