Company description

Mohawk Realty is the core platform of Mohawk Group, a real estate development and hospitality group headquartered in SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab. The group runs real estate, hospitality and investment-raising businesses across multiple states in North India, with investor relationships in India and overseas.

Role description

We are looking for a CA-qualified Chief Financial Officer who has led finance for real estate and hospitality projects, including multi-state RERA compliance, and who can raise and structure capital. The CFO will own the group's numbers, funding and compliance, and will work alongside the Managing Director on every major financial decision. The role reports to the Managing Director and is based in Chandigarh, with travel to project sites in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

Key responsibilities:

- Set the group's financial strategy across real estate, hospitality and capital-raising businesses.
- Structure project funding across equity, debt, joint venture and joint development capital, investor platforms and NRI inflows.
- Lead financial discussions with banks, NBFCs, funds, hotel brand partners and large investors.
- Advise on entity structuring, project viability, pricing and capital allocation across group companies.
- Maintain separate books for each project and entity (LLPs and private limited companies), and track construction costs against budget, including contractor bills, retention, mobilisation advances and escalation claims.
- Run monthly cost-to-complete and cash-flow forecasts for each project.
- Manage RERA registrations, quarterly updates,



annual audited statements and designated project account controls across multiple states.
- Oversee hospitality accounts, including outlet revenue, F&B; costing, POS/PMS reconciliation, and pre-opening budgets and capex for upcoming resorts.
- Own GST, TDS, income tax and ROC/MCA compliance, plus land-related stamp duty, registration and approval-fee accounting, and coordinate with statutory auditors.
- Manage banking relationships, project loans, escrow arrangements and investor accounting, including FEMA reporting for NRI and foreign inflows.
- Deliver monthly MIS to the Managing Director, and build approval matrices, purchase controls and inter-company reconciliations.
- Build and lead the accounts team.

Compensation will be based on profile and experience.

Qualifications

- Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAI). CFA or CMA is an advantage.
- 10+ years of post-qualification experience, including at least 3 years as CFO.
- Hands-on experience with RERA filings for at least two projects.
- Real estate or construction project accounting experience gained within a developer, not only through audit.
- Proven experience raising and structuring capital with lenders and investors.
- Strong Tally and/or ERP skills, and the ability to build project cash-flow models in Excel unaided.
- Uncompromising integrity and a solid command of the numbers when presenting to investors, lenders and boards.

Good to have:

- Hotel accounting experience (familiarity with USALI).
- Exposure to land and approval processes in Himachal Pradesh.
- Experience with FEMA and NRI investment compliance, and with accounting for joint development agreements.

📌 Chief Financial Officer (CFO) (Chandigarh)
🏢 Mohawk Realty
📍 Chandigarh