Head of Finance

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing, technology-led company building AI-powered customer engagement and sales infrastructure for large enterprises.

Its platform helps consumer businesses improve customer conversations, sales conversion, operating efficiency, and customer experience through automation, intelligence, and multilingual capabilities.

The company works with several leading enterprises across financial services, consumer internet, mobility, commerce, and other consumer-facing sectors. It is backed by established institutional investors and has built a sizeable team of technology, product, operations, and business professionals.

The organization places a strong emphasis on ownership, trust, thoughtful execution, and long-term outcomes. Its culture values substance over optics, autonomy over micromanagement, and the ability to build meaningful careers without prescribing a single model of leadership or growth.

About the Role

We are looking for a Head of Finance who will own the company’s financial foundation and build a scalable, well-governed finance function for its next stage of growth.

This is a finance leadership role with a strong emphasis on:

• Controllership
• Financial reporting
• Compliance and taxation
• Audit and governance
• Cash and treasury management
• Finance systems and internal controls
• Business finance and strategic planning

The ideal candidate will be a strong finance operator who can ensure clean books, accurate reporting, robust controls, timely audits, strong compliance, and reliable management information.

The person will also partner closely with the founders and business leaders on planning, profitability, cash flow, commercial decisions, and strategic initiatives.

The role requires someone who can introduce financial discipline and governance without slowing down business momentum, while building a finance function that is both control-oriented and commercially aware.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process, ensuring timely, accurate, and audit-ready financial reporting.
• Lead the preparation and review of financial statements, management information systems, P&L statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements, reconciliations, provisions, accruals, and management reports.
• Establish and strengthen financial controls, governance frameworks, approval matrices, maker-checker processes, documentation standards, and audit trails.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and all statutory and regulatory requirements, including GST, TDS, income tax, transfer pricing, ROC filings, and other applicable regulations.
• Lead statutory, internal, tax, and investor audits while partnering with auditors, consultants, banks, and external advisors to ensure timely compliance and issue resolution.
• Drive high-quality financial reporting for the leadership team, Board, and investors, ensuring accuracy, consistency, transparency, and strong financial governance.
• Own treasury operations, cash-flow forecasting, working-capital management, banking relationships, and liquidity planning.
• Strengthen controls around revenue recognition, accounts payable, payroll, reimbursements, procurement, collections, and expense management.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement across accounting, reporting, finance operations, and ERP systems to build scalable and efficient finance processes.
• Lead and mentor the finance team across controllership, accounting, taxation, treasury, reporting, and audit.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, integrity, and operational excellence within the finance function.
• Partner with founders and business leaders on budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, business reviews, commercial decisions, and profitability analysis.
• Support fundraising, financial due diligence, Board reporting, investor communication, and other strategic finance initiatives through robust financial data and governance.

Candidate Profile

• Chartered Accountant qualification is mandatory.
• 15+ years of post-qualification experience, including meaningful finance leadership experience.
• Experience working in a high-growth startup, technology company, SaaS or AI business, fintech, marketplace, technology-enabled services company, or operations-led business.
• Strong controllership experience across accounting, financial reporting, monthly close, audit, taxation, compliance, internal controls, MIS, governance, and cash-flow management.
• Proven experience leading statutory audits, tax compliance, investor diligence, financial reporting, and Board-ready finance processes.
• Experience managing finance for a business operating at meaningful scale. Exposure to organizations with annual revenue of approximately ₹300 crore or more is preferred.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition, collections, working capital, gross margin, contribution margin, customer-level profitability, and business-unit reporting.
• Exposure to FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, business partnering, Board reporting, fundraising support, and investor communication.
• A combination of Big Four and startup experience is strongly preferred but not mandatory.
• Proven ability to build scalable finance processes, controls, reporting systems, and teams in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to influence founders, business heads, auditors, investors, consultants, and cross-functional leaders.
• High ownership, integrity, attention to detail, sound business judgment, and the ability to balance governance with speed.

Logistics

Further details regarding location, compensation, reporting structure, and working model will be shared with shortlisted candidates.