Head of Finance

Overview

Head of Finance to build and own the finance function end-to-end, covering close, compliance, margin engineering, FP&A, and treasury.

What you'll do

• Own monthly close, including revenue recognition for usage-based and contracted plans.
• Handle statutory audit, AR, and collections.
• Run multi-entity finance across the US and India, including intercompany, transfer pricing, and consolidation.
• Manage compliance for GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, FEMA and RBI filings, and ESOP administration and perquisite tax.
• Partner on gross margin engineering by working on infra spend, cloud commitments, and cost per ingested GB.
• Own FP&A deliverables including annual operating plan and rolling forecast.
• Develop cash and treasury planning, including 13-week cash flow and USD/INR exposure.

What you'll need

• CA with 8–12 years post-qualification.
• Personally owned monthly close and statutory audit (not just supervised).
• Built a financial model from operating drivers and can discuss learnings.
• Working fluency in Indian startup compliance: GST, TDS, ROC, FEMA, and ESOP taxation.
• Comfort with messy, incomplete data and willingness to ship a defensible answer.
• Strong communication to explain margin problems and burn scenarios to technical and board audiences.

Details

• Location: India.
• You will report to the CEO.
• Build role (constructing systems as revenue and data evolve).