Hiring: Head of Finance

"The financial conscience of the company - from first rupee to last mile."

Full-Time | - Competitive | Multi-entity & Multi-product | 8+ Years Exp | Full ownership

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are building across multiple products and entities simultaneously - and we need a finance leader who can hold the entire picture in their head while sweating every detail that matters. This is not a back-office role. You will be in the room when decisions are made, and you will be the one who ensures those decisions are financially sound.

As Head of Finance, you will own the financial health of the organisation end-to-end - across entities, product lines, and geographies. You will build the systems, the rigour, and the culture of financial discipline that lets us grow fast without bleeding cash.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN:

Financial Planning & Analysis:

- Own the annual operating plan (AOP) and rolling quarterly forecasts across all entities and product lines.

- Build and maintain a real-time financial model that gives leadership a live view of burn, runway, and unit economics.

- Drive the monthly business review (MBR) - surface insights, not just numbers, and make recommendations that influence decisions.

- Scenario-plan for fundraise, M&A, new product launches, and geographic expansion.

Cash & Treasury Management

- Manage cash flow across all entities - ensure we never face a liquidity crunch and always know our runway to the day.

- Optimise idle capital through short-term instruments, FDs, and treasury products without taking

undue risk.

- Set up inter-company lending and transfer pricing structures where applicable.

- Own banking relationships and negotiate facilities, limits, and rates proactively.

Spend Optimisation & Leakage Reduction :

- Audit and rationalise vendor spends, SaaS subscriptions, cloud costs, and operational expenses across entities.

- Build a zero-based budgeting mindset - every rupee spent needs a justified return.

- Identify and plug financial leakages: billing gaps, unbilled services, unreconciled accounts, and margin erosion.

- Implement procurement controls and approval workflows that prevent overspend without slowing the business.

- Track and reduce cost of revenue (COGS) and improve gross margins across product lines.

Accounting, Compliance & Controls:

- Oversee accurate and timely books of accounts across all entities (Ind AS / IFRS as applicable).

- Lead statutory audits, internal audits, and tax filings (GST, TDS, corporate tax, transfer pricing).

- Design and enforce internal financial controls - SOPs, approval matrices, and maker-checker frameworks.

- Ensure compliance with RBI, MCA, SEBI, and any sector-specific regulations.

- Manage relationships with auditors, tax consultants, company secretaries, and legal advisors.

- Multi-entity & Multi-product Finance

- Maintain consolidated and standalone financials for each entity - ensure intercompany eliminations are clean.

- Allocate shared costs across products and entities fairly and transparently, enabling accurate P&L per product.

- Track entity-level burn and performance against budget, flagging variances early.

- Support entity-level structuring decisions - new entity formation, mergers, wind-downs, or restructuring.

Strategic Advisory to Founders

- Act as a financial co-pilot to the founding team - translate data into strategic decisions.

- Model and stress-test fundraising scenarios: dilution, valuation bridges, and term sheet economics.

- Advise on pricing strategy, margin architecture, and the financial implications of product and market decisions.

- Prepare board packs, investor reporting, and due diligence data rooms.

- Build and lead the finance team as the company scales - hire, mentor, and structure the function.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 8+ years of progressive finance experience - at least 1 of which in a leadership role at a high-growth startup, PE-backed company, or multi-entity group.

- Proven track record of owning end-to-end finance: from MIS and compliance to board reporting and fundraise support.

- Experience working across multiple legal entities and/or business lines simultaneously.

- Deep expertise in Indian accounting standards, GST, TDS, and corporate tax - international exposure is a strong plus.

- CA (preferred) or MBA Finance from a premier institution. Strong operators without these credentials will still be considered if their track record speaks loudly.

- Hands-on with finance tools - Tally / Zoho Books / QuickBooks, Excel/Sheets modelling, and at least one FP&A or BI tool.

- You communicate with clarity: a complex cash flow problem becomes a one-slide summary when you present it.

- High integrity, low ego - you protect the company's money like it's your own and you raise flags early, not late.

WHAT YOU GET

Real Ownership: You are not a reporting function. You will have a seat at the table for every major decision the company makes.

Scale & Complexity: Multi-entity, multi-product finance work that most finance leaders only see after 15+ years. You'll get it from day one.

Compensation & ESOP: Competitive fixed pay benchmarked to the market, plus meaningful equity that grows with the company.

Remote-First: Work from wherever you do your best thinking. We care about outcomes, not office hours.