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 Effective 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
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📌 Financial Director (Chennai)
🏢 Soch Street
📍 Chennai