Our Client, an Indian conglomerate, is seeking an interim CFO for one of their luxury retail businesses. The professional will lead the complete financial agenda of the business, driving governance, profitability, compliance, and strategic growth.
This role requires strong experience in managing finance for premium or luxury consumer brands, handling investor reporting, and building scalable systems in an entrepreneurial but rapidly formalizing environment.
Key Responsibilities
:1. Financial Strategy & Planning
- :Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning
- .Establish financial governance aligned with the conglomerate's reporting standards
- .Drive capital deployment, cashflow planning, and funding requirements for expansion (new ateliers, stores, international markets)
.
2. Business Finance & Commercial Excellenc
- e:Build rigorous cost controls, SKU-level profitability, sourcing efficiencies, and margin optimizatio
- n.Partner with design, merchandising, and retail teams to drive pricing strategy, discount policies, and inventory contro
- l.Analyse sales performance across bridal, couture, diffusion lines, online channels, and exhibitions
.
3. Financial Operatio
- ns:Oversee accounting, payables, receivables, treasury, and monthly MIS closu
- re.Implement robust internal controls, SOPs, and process automation (ERP, POS integration, production costing system
- s).Strengthen stock audits, vendor management, and supply chain finan
ce.
4. Stakeholder Managem
- ent:Manage consolidated reporting to the investing conglomerate: MIS, dashboards, compliance packs, variance analy
- sis.Ensure transparency, discipline, and alignment with group finance polic
ies.
5. Compliance, Risk & Govern
- ance:Ensure compliance with GST, TDS, company law, transfer pricing (if global sourcing), labour & retail
- laws.Oversee statutory audits, internal audits, and risk manage
- ment.Strengthen financial governance for high-value celebrity/bridal custom ord
ers.
6. Strategic Pro
- jects:Support scalability: new factory/atelier setup, retail footprint expansion, global foray (Middle East, UK/US bridal mar
- kets).Lead profitability improvement projects: cost rationalisation, outsourcing decisions, vendor consolid
- ation.Build dashboards for design-to-delivery cycle time, production costing, and wastage co
ntrol.
Skills R
- equiredStrong commercial acumen & good understanding of fashion/luxury business eco
- nomics.Ability to operate in a founder-led creative environment while bringing structured governance. Hands-on with ERP, POS systems, and analytics
- tools.High integrity, confidentiality, and stakeholder mana
- gement.Strategic thinking with ability to execute at detail
-level.
Qualifications & Exp
- erience:CA / CPA / MBA Finance from a reputed inst
- itution.10–15 years of experience; strong preference for consumer/retail/luxury/fashion/e-commerce back
- grounds.Proven track record of managing finance for a brand or multi-unit retail b
- usiness.Experience in investor-backed or PE/strategic-invested businesses is an ad
vantage.
