Group Chief Financial Officer – CA HRnext

The Corporate Institute; Nagpur District; On-site; INR 6,375,000 - 8,625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

75 LPA including variable

CXO seat with direct promoter access

Build finance function from scratch

Long horizon commitment

Nagpur cost of living benefits

Job summary

The Corporate Institute in Nagpur invites applications for Group CFO – a senior, hands-on finance leader taking ownership of the group’s financial strategy, controls and capital planning. You will build the function from the ground up, reporting directly to the promoter, and drive governance, tax, and statutory compliance across entities.

This is a rare CXO opportunity to shape long-term value, lead an ERP-backed finance transformation, and mentor a lean team in a promoter-led family group based

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant is mandatory.
• MBA in Finance is an added plus.
• 25–30 years of progressive finance leadership experience.
• Experience with governance, taxation and structuring.

Responsibilities

• Own the group’s financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning across all entities.
• Build the finance function with ERP-backed processes and monthly MIS.
• Lead treasury, funding, working capital management and debt structuring.
• Own taxation, regulatory and compliance across entities.
• Consolidate assets, liabilities, investments and cash flows across the group.
• Institute governance discipline, board packs and delegation of authority.
• Partner with the business on pricing, margins and investments.
• Recruit and mentor a lean, high-quality finance team.
• Act as promoter’s financial sounding board with evidence-based input.

Skills

Chartered Accountant

Finance leadership

CFO experience

Governance

ERP systems

Education

MBA in Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Group CFO – Nagpur (25-30 yrs Experience) – CA

About the role:

A well-established, family-owned business group headquartered in Nagpur is appointing its Group Chief Financial Officer. The group has grown on the strength of promoter instinct and long-standing relationships. It is now at the point where it needs institutional financial leadership someone to build the systems, controls and financial discipline that will carry it into its next phase and into the hands of the next generation. You will report directly to the Promoter. There is no layer above you and no incumbent finance leadership to inherit. You are being hired to build the function, not to maintain one. This is a role for a senior professional who wants their next decade to be about ownership, influence and building something durable and, very often, for someone who has been waiting for the right reason to come home to Nagpur.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the group’s financial strategy budgeting, forecasting, capital allocation and long-range planning across all group entities.
• Build the finance function from the ground up a single chart of accounts, ERP-backed processes, monthly MIS with a common language of numbers, internal controls and a disciplined audit and statutory calendar.
• Lead treasury, banking and funding working capital management, debt structuring, lender relationships and cost of capital.
• Own taxation, regulatory and compliance across entities direct and indirect tax, statutory filings, and clean, defensible group structures.
• Consolidate and structure the family’s holdings bring a single, consolidated view of assets, liabilities, investments and cash flows across the group; support holding-structure, succession and next-generation planning alongside the family’s legal and tax advisors.
• Bring governance discipline to a promoter-run group board packs, review cadence, delegation of authority, and objective frameworks for where the group’s next rupee should go.
• Partner the business, not just report on it pricing, margin, cost and investment decisions taken with the CFO in the room.
• Recruit, mentor and lead a lean, high-quality finance team.
• Serve as the promoter’s financial sounding board including the ability to disagree, respectfully and with evidence. That is a core requirement of this job, not a bonus.

Candidate profile:

Must have:

• Chartered Accountant non-negotiable. An MBA in Finance alongside is welcome.
• 25 to 30 years of progressive finance leadership, including meaningful time in a CFO, Deputy CFO, Divisional CFO or Head of Finance seat owning a full balance sheet.
• Proven strength in financial control, governance, taxation and structuring someone who has genuinely built systems, not only operated inherited ones.
• The maturity to work in a promoter-led, family-owned environment: comfort with informality, with relationships that predate you, and with earning influence rather than being handed it.
• Willingness to relocate to and settle in Nagpur. Please apply only if this is genuinely acceptable to you and your family this is not a hybrid or fly-in role.

Preferred:

• Exposure to family-owned or promoter-driven groups.
• Experience with ERP implementation or a finance transformation delivered end to end.
• Exposure to fundraising, due diligence, M&A or investor reporting.
• Roots in or an existing connection to Nagpur / Vidarbha / Central India.

What we offer:

• 75 LPA including variable.
• A true CXO seat direct access to the promoter, no layer above, and real authority over how the group deploys its capital.
• The chance to build a finance function from scratch and define how a growing group makes its financial decisions.
• A long horizon. We are not hiring for a two-year fix.
• Nagpur: a materially lower cost of living, an hour's flight from anywhere in India, and for many of the people this role is written for home.