Finance Director

Soch Street; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Soch Street, Chennai, seeks a Chartered Accountant with 9–15 years in Business Finance and FP&A to lead the finance function. You’ll drive unit economics, margin improvements, cash flow planning, and annual budgeting, partnering with founders to scale operations.

You’ll automate repetitive processes, build dashboards, and optimise capital allocation while guiding a 25-member finance team in a fast-paced, venture-backed environment.

Qualifications

• CA with 9–15 years in Business Finance and FP&A.
• Strong expertise in unit economics, costing, contribution margins, and P&L management.
• Hands-on experience in cash flow forecasting, working capital, and financial planning.
• Proven experience automating finance processes with measurable improvements in headcount, efficiency, or turnaround time.
• Experience scaling finance operations while maintaining or reducing team size.

Responsibilities

• Lead and transform a finance team of around 25 members, improving efficiency while scaling business operations.
• Own annual planning, rolling forecasts, budgeting, and monthly performance reviews.
• Automate repetitive finance processes using technology, rule-based automation, and AI agents.
• Deliver measurable improvements in finance operations, margins, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Unit economics

P&L management

Cash flow forecasting

Automation

Leadership

Education

CA

Job description

• Business Finance & Unit Economics: Drive profitability, improve margins, optimise costs, and guide capital allocation decisions.
• Decision Support: Build financial models and provide insights to support decisions on pricing, market expansion, inventory, and marketing spend.
• Margin Improvement: Identify and reduce revenue leakage, cancellations, refunds, discounting, and supplier-related losses.
• Cash Flow & Working Capital: Manage cash flow forecasting, treasury, working capital, foreign exchange exposure, and collections.
• FP&A: Own annual planning, rolling forecasts, budgeting, and monthly performance reviews.
• Controllership & Compliance: Ensure timely financial closures, reconciliations, GST/TDS compliance, audits, and statutory filings.
• Team Leadership: Lead and transform a finance team of around 25 members, improving efficiency while scaling business operations.

How You’ll Drive Impact

• Automate repetitive finance processes using technology, rule-based automation, and AI agents.
• Reduce manual intervention, improve productivity, and scale transaction volumes without proportionately increasing headcount.
• Build efficient systems for reconciliation, collections, commission recovery, and leakage detection.
• Deliver measurable improvements in finance operations, margins, and cost efficiency.

Who We’re Looking For

• Chartered Accountant (CA), preferably cleared in the first attempt or close to it.
• 9–15 years of experience, primarily in Business Finance and FP&A.
• Strong expertise in unit economics, costing, contribution margins, and P&L management.
• Hands-on experience in cash flow forecasting, working capital, and financial planning.
• Proven experience automating finance processes, with measurable improvements in headcount, efficiency, or turnaround time.
• Experience scaling finance operations while maintaining or reducing team size.
• Comfortable working with a fast-paced, demanding founder and business leaders.
• Stable career history with experience in well-managed, financially disciplined organisations.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience in travel, hospitality, e-commerce, marketplaces, or transaction-heavy businesses.
• Exposure to multi-currency transactions, supplier prepayments, and commission accounting.
• Experience managing finance across multiple business units.
• Ability to build dashboards and reporting systems for business leaders.
• Experience with fundraising, financial due diligence, or profitability improvement.