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.
Robust 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 modern 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