The Finance leader will serve as a strategic business partner, responsible for driving profitable scale across JSW One Homes business and project-based businesses. The role combines enterprise-level financial leadership with deep project-level financial control, ensuring strong unit economics, disciplined capital deployment, and robust governance as the company scales across cities, formats, and customer segments.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Strategy & Value Creation in a Project-Led Business

- Define and steward the companys financial strategy for a capital-intensive, project-driven real estate business.

- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and Business Unit Heads, shaping growth priorities, profitability pathways, and capital deployment.

- Ensure alignment between project economics, scale ambitions, and long-term value creation across geographies and formats.

2. Project Economics, Unit Viability & Capital Discipline

- Own and govern the economic model for homes and projects, ensuring clear visibility into contribution margins, returns, and cash profiles.

Establish investment and return benchmarks for:

- New projects and city expansion

- Format and product innovations

- Capacity and capability investments

- Enforce disciplined capital allocation and return thresholds across the project lifecycle.

3. Cash Flow, Working Capital & Liquidity Stewardship

- Lead enterprise-wide cash flow and liquidity strategy, recognising the long gestation and milestone-driven nature of real estate projects.

- Shape customer payment structures, vendor cycles, and funding strategies to minimise cash lock-up and execution risk.

- Anticipate funding needs across projects and growth phases, ensuring balance sheet resilience.

4. Risk, Governance & Execution Oversight

Define and oversee a comprehensive financial risk framework covering:

- Cost escalation (materials, labour)

- Execution delays and contractual exposure

- Customer disputes, cancellations, and refunds

- Regulatory and tax risks

- Ensure strong governance, internal controls, and transparency appropriate for a scaled real estate platform.

- Provide the Board with clear, independent perspectives on project risk exposure and downside scenarios.

5. Ecosystem Economics & Partner Sustainability

- Provide financial leadership across the vendor, contractor, and partner ecosystem critical to real estate execution.

Shape commercial and contractual frameworks that balance:

- Cost competitiveness

- Delivery reliability

- Long-term partner sustainability

- Monitor concentration risks and financial dependencies within the execution ecosystem.

6. Performance Intelligence & Decision Enablement

- Build finance into a decision-intelligence function for a multi-project, multi-city real estate platform.

- Ensure timely, forward-looking insights into project performance, returns, and capital efficiency.

- Create a unified performance narrative linking strategy, execution progress, and financial outcomes.

7. Institutional Readiness & Finance Leadership

- Lead the company toward institutional-grade financial governance, audit readiness, and compliance.

- Build a finance organisation capable of supporting scale, complexity, and future capital-market engagement.

- Serve as a trusted financial leader to the Board, investors, lenders, and regulators.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Experience:

- 12 to 15 years of progressive experience in finance roles.

- Prior experience in Real Estate, EPC, Construction, Infrastructure, or project-led businesses strongly preferred.

- Experience in high-growth, multi-city operations with complex vendor ecosystems.

Qualifications:

- MBA with specialization in Finance

- Chartered Accountant (CA) + MBA preferred.

- CFA is an added advantage.

Key Competencies:

- Strong commercial and strategic mindset.

- Deep understanding of project economics and unit-level profitability.

- Ability to partner with business leaders and influence outcomes.

- High integrity, governance orientation, and execution discipline.