Role & responsibilities The CFO will be a strategic advisor to the CEO and leadership team, responsible not only for financial governance but most importantly for driving growth, profitability, revenue enhancement, transformation and long term value creation for Group in a agile, consumer-facing environment. The role demands a commercially sharp leader with deep understanding of evolving consumer behavior, margin pressures, and retail economics, digital enablement, while building strong investor confidence and enabling scalable, tech-led finance operations.

Preferred candidate profile

1. Strategic s Business Leadership

- Act as an advisor to the CEO and Board on business strategy, growth planning, and transformation initiatives.
- Translate business strategy into robust financial roadmaps, and long-term value creation plans.
- Identify and proactively address margin pressure arising from changing consumer behaviour, input costs, channel mix (E com/MBO/EBO), discounting and inventory management.

2. Revenue Enhancement s Margin Improvement

- Own PsL, balance sheet, and cash flow management across channels (EBO, MBO, LFR s online retail).
- Drive gross margin improvement through pricing strategy, cost optimization, sourcing efficiencies, and inventory productivity.
- Build strong revenue enhancement levers category profitability, channel mix optimization, markdown control, and sell-through improvement. Deep dive into product pricing strategy, discount management, channel profitability, product mix, and inventory management.
- Partner with Sales, Supply Chain,



and Merchandising teams to unlock hidden margins.

1. Financial Management s Governance

- Manage overall ownership of financial planning, budgeting s forecasting, MIS, and statutory compliance.
- Ensure robust financial controls, risk management frameworks, and governance standards.
- Closely monitor accounts receivables, implementing strategies to improve cash flow.
- Drive accuracy, timeliness, and insight-led reporting for management and Board.

4. Cost Optimization s Efficiency

- Lead and drive cost optimization initiatives across Indirect, Direct revenue s Support functions, Production, sourcing, logistics s supply chain, retail operations, and back-end functions and lead process improvement.
- Manage cost discipline without impacting brand or customer experience.
- Drive productivity improvements through process redesign and automation.
- Ensure financial alignment during periods of change and scale.

5. Banking, Fund Raising s Investor Relations

- Lead fund raising initiatives aligned with growth and expansion plans.
- Own investor relations, including presentations, updates, and strategic communication.
- Build credibility with investors, banks, and financial institutions.
- Negotiate and optimize working capital lines, loans, and treasury instruments. Ensure optimal cash flow management and liquidity planning.

6. IT s Finance Automation

- Oversee finance digitization and IT automation (ERP, BI dashboards, forecasting tools).
- Use data and analytics to enable real-time decision-making and predictive insights.

📌 Chief Financial Officer II Leading Luxury Retailer (Mumbai)
🏢 Bridging Talents
📍 Mumbai