Chief Financial Officer

About Company

A worldwide digital marketplace that helps students secure reliable long-term living spaces close to academic campuses, offering verified listings and tailored options to match individual needs.

About the Role

You will own finance end to end: the numbers we run the business on, the story we tell, and the controls and structures that hold a multi-country operation together. You will work directly with the founders and the leadership team.

Responsibilities

1.Strategic finance and FP&A.

• Own the annual operating plan, the long-range model and the monthly forecast, and hold the business accountable to them
• Build the unit economics view of the business: contribution margin by market, channel and supply type, cohort behaviour, payback and LTV/CAC
• Partner with Growth, Supply and Product on pricing, commission structures and market entry decisions, with the financial case behind each one
• Run capital allocation: where we spend, what we stop, and what returns wehold each function to
• Run any potential M&A transactions

2. Fundraising and investor relations

• Run the fundraise round whenever comes end to end: model, narrative, data room, diligence, and support on term sheet negotiation
• Own the board pack, the quarterly investor update and the relationship with existing investors between rounds
• Build and maintain the debt and working capital options that suit the business and manage banking relationship

3. Controllership, tax and global structuring

• Own accounting, monthly close, statutory reporting and the internal control environment across all entities
• Manage a multi-entity, multi-currency structure: transfer pricing, cross-border flows, FEMA and RBI compliance, and international tax exposure across our operating markets
• Own direct and indirect tax compliance, assessments and litigation, in India and in overseas jurisdictions
• Run treasury: cash flow, FX exposure, payment rails across markets, and the controls around all of it
• Coordinate statutory and internal audits, and hold clean, timely closes as a standard rather than an achievement

4. Team and systems

• Lead a finance team which is already in place
• Whenever required hire and develop the finance team across FP&A, controllership and accounts

Qualifications

• CA with 10+ years of experience, including at least 4 years leading a finance team
• Experience in a high-growth environment
• Strong command of corporate finance and investor relations, with real exposure to fundraising and diligence
• Depth in direct and indirect tax compliance, and comfort with multi-entity and multi-currency operations
• Analytical strength: you build the model yourself and can defend every assumption in it
• Clear communication with founders, board members, investors and auditors