What you will own

1. Business Finance & Unit Economics

- Decide where the company should invest money for the best returns.
- Understand which markets/businesses are profitable and which are not.
- Improve margins across the business.
- Build processes to prevent margin leakage.
- Create the overall finance strategy and build a strong finance team.

2. Decision Support

- Work closely with the Founder and business leaders.
- Help them make decisions on:
- New market entry
- Inventory purchases
- Discounting
- Pricing
- Brand spending
- Build financial models that guide these decisions.

3. Margin & Leakage

- Identify where the company is losing money.
- Examples: cancellations, no-shows, supplier penalties, refunds, excess discounting, forex losses and uncollected commissions.
- Improve unit economics and reduce financial losses.

4. Cash, Treasury & Working Capital

- Own the 13-week cash flow forecast.
- Manage working capital, supplier payments and customer advances.
- Handle multi-currency exposure and hedging.
- Improve corporate collections and reduce receivable days.

5. FP&A;

- Own annual planning and financial forecasts.
- Track actual performance vs plan.
- Explain why numbers are changing.
- Improve forecast accuracy.

6. Controllership & Compliance

- Ensure smooth monthly closing.
- Manage reconciliations across high transaction volumes.
- Oversee GST, TCS, TDS, audits and statutory compliance.

7. Build an Efficient Finance Team

- Lead the existing finance team.




- Restructure and improve the team as the business grows.
- The expectation is to increase efficiency and not keep increasing finance headcount with business growth.

How we want it done The company wants an AI-first and automation-first finance leader.

The expectation is

- Remove manual work instead of hiring more people.
- Automate payment matching, invoice matching, refunds, reminders, invoicing and bank reconciliations.
- Use AI/agents for complex work such as:
- Supplier reconciliation
- Commission recovery
- Collections
- Detecting financial leakage

The ideal mindset: If you see a manual finance process, your first instinct should be to automate it.

Who we're Looking For

- Chartered Accountant with 9–15 years of experience
- Stronger in Business Finance and FP&A; than pure controllership/accounting.
- Should have experience owning and discussing the P&L;, not just preparing it.

Strong knowledge of:
- Unit economics
- Costing
- Contribution margins
- Fixed vs variable costs
- Cash flow
- Personally experienced in managing tight cash situations.
- Has automated finance processes and can show measurable impact.
- Comfortable using contemporary data tools and AI.
- Has experience scaling a business while keeping the finance team lean.
- Can work with a fast-moving Founder
- Should be comfortable challenging the Founder with numbers and difficult insights.
- Stable career history is preferred.

📌 Financial Director (Chennai)
🏢 Soch Street
📍 Chennai