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Custom CFO Resume, CFO Board Profile Development

A document made for the role in front of you, not one general CV sent to everyone.

₹30,000 a document, or ₹75,000 for 10, plus GST.

50 CV designs for finance leadersFrom CFO and Group CFO to Head of Finance. Every person and company on them is fictional.

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First page of Notes to the Accounts, a CV design for a Group Chief Financial OfficerNotes to the AccountsGroup Chief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Three-Way Settlement, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Three-Way SettlementGroup CFOFirst page of The Unfunded Tranche, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe Unfunded TrancheChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Adjustment Register, a CV design for a Finance Director on the boardThe Adjustment RegisterFinance Director on the boardFirst page of Above the Limit, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerAbove the LimitChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Accretive Offer, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Accretive OfferGroup CFOFirst page of The First Call Date, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe First Call DateChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Two Currencies, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Two CurrenciesGroup CFOFirst page of The Cash Within Reach, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Cash Within ReachGroup CFOFirst page of The Sale Above Book, a CV design for a Finance Director on the boardThe Sale Above BookFinance Director on the boardFirst page of The Same Book, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Same BookGroup CFOFirst page of The Unserved Months, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe Unserved MonthsChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Admission Price, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe Admission PriceChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Sculpted Loan, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Sculpted LoanGroup CFOFirst page of The Clearing Price, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Clearing PriceGroup CFOFirst page of The Profit at the Gate, a CV design for a Group CFOThe Profit at the GateGroup CFOFirst page of The Last Cheque, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe Last ChequeChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Fifth-Year Risk, a CV design for a Finance Director on the boardThe Fifth-Year RiskFinance Director on the boardFirst page of The Second Root, a CV design for a Finance Director on the boardThe Second RootFinance Director on the boardFirst page of The First Claim, a CV design for a Chief Financial OfficerThe First ClaimChief Financial OfficerFirst page of The Closing Friday, a CV design for a Deputy CFOThe Closing FridayDeputy CFOFirst page of The First Paid Copy, a CV design for a SVP FinanceThe First Paid CopySVP FinanceFirst page of The Returned Carry, a CV design for a Deputy CFOThe Returned CarryDeputy CFOFirst page of The Charge Counted Twice, a CV design for a Deputy CFOThe Charge Counted TwiceDeputy CFOFirst page of The Earlier Payment, a CV design for a EVP FinanceThe Earlier PaymentEVP FinanceFirst page of The Fare Receipt, a CV design for a EVP FinanceThe Fare ReceiptEVP FinanceFirst page of The Lucky Forecast, a CV design for a SVP FinanceThe Lucky ForecastSVP FinanceFirst page of The Rebate Cliff, a CV design for a EVP FinanceThe Rebate CliffEVP FinanceFirst page of The Revised Estimate, a CV design for a EVP FinanceThe Revised EstimateEVP FinanceFirst page of What the Kiln Consumed, a CV design for a SVP FinanceWhat the Kiln ConsumedSVP FinanceFirst page of The Next Lot, a CV design for a VP FinanceThe Next LotVP FinanceFirst page of The Acceptance Date, a CV design for a Financial ControllerThe Acceptance DateFinancial ControllerFirst page of The Local Premium, a CV design for a VP TreasuryThe Local PremiumVP TreasuryFirst page of The Replaced Head, a CV design for a Financial ControllerThe Replaced HeadFinancial ControllerFirst page of Before the Afternoon Credit, a CV design for a VP TreasuryBefore the Afternoon CreditVP TreasuryFirst page of The Cost That Stayed, a CV design for a VP FinanceThe Cost That StayedVP FinanceFirst page of The Price of Service, a CV design for a VP FinanceThe Price of ServiceVP FinanceFirst page of The Recourse Slip, a CV design for a VP Corporate FinanceThe Recourse SlipVP Corporate FinanceFirst page of The Reset Window, a CV design for a VP TreasuryThe Reset WindowVP TreasuryFirst page of The Right in Four Shares, a CV design for a VP Corporate FinanceThe Right in Four SharesVP Corporate FinanceFirst page of The Change Drawer, a CV design for a Head of FinanceThe Change DrawerHead of FinanceFirst page of The Clean Draw, a CV design for a Head of FinanceThe Clean DrawHead of FinanceFirst page of The Unvoted Shares, a CV design for a Head of Investor RelationsThe Unvoted SharesHead of Investor RelationsFirst page of The Comparable Year, a CV design for a Head of Investor RelationsThe Comparable YearHead of Investor RelationsFirst page of The Earlier Deadline, a CV design for a Head of TreasuryThe Earlier DeadlineHead of TreasuryFirst page of The Guarantee Room, a CV design for a Head of TreasuryThe Guarantee RoomHead of TreasuryFirst page of The Half-Finished Batch, a CV design for a Director FinanceThe Half-Finished BatchDirector FinanceFirst page of The Reinvested Dividend, a CV design for a Head of Investor RelationsThe Reinvested DividendHead of Investor RelationsFirst page of The Second Voucher, a CV design for a Director FinanceThe Second VoucherDirector FinanceFirst page of The Unpaid Claims, a CV design for a Head of FinanceThe Unpaid ClaimsHead of Finance
  • 120+CFO placements by our practice, across a decade
  • Since 2010an executive search firm, on the side of the table that reads these
  • 50 templatesfinished resumes for the finance stream, listed on this page
  • Nothing inventedevery claim comes from your record, and is yours to defend

The same career

Your record is not the problem. The way it is told may be.

A general CV describes a job. A reader deciding on a seat wants to know what you did in it. Here is one CFO, on the same facts, told both ways.

The opening

A general CVSeasoned finance professional with over 20 years of experience across accounting, treasury, taxation and compliance.

Written for this seat

Group CFO who runs reporting across 14 entities and has held a listed board’s confidence for five years.

The reader knows the size of the seat from one line.

The work

A general CVResponsible for the finance function, including consolidation, budgeting, MIS and audit.

Written for this seat

Brought 14 entities into one reporting close, and cut it from 19 days to 6.

The reader can see what changed, and by how much.

The board

A general CVRegularly interacted with the Board and the Audit Committee.

Written for this seat

Standing invitee to the Audit Committee since 2019. Held a AA- rating through a ₹1,200 crore acquisition.

The reader can see how far the board and the market trusted the numbers.

A fictional CFO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

Choose a reader

One career. Four CFO mandates. Four different pages.

The record stays the same. The person reading it does not, and neither does what they look for first. Choose a reader, and watch the page change.

Nandini Rao

Group Chief Financial Officer, Mumbai

Written forthe PE board and the bankers

Finance leader who prepares a private company for public-market scrutiny.

Selected results

  • Prepared Meruline Pharma for its DRHP: three years of restated accounts in seven months, with a new audit committee in place.
  • Led the investor and banker conversations for a ₹850 crore pre-IPO round.
  • Brought 14 entities into one reporting close, and cut it from 19 days to 6.
  • Held a AA- rating through a ₹1,200 crore acquisition, and took every analyst call for five years.

Career

  • 2019 to date
    Group CFO, Tessara Industries

    Listed group, ₹6,400 crore revenue, 14 entities

  • 2014 to 2019
    CFO, Meruline Pharma

    Private-equity backed, pre-IPO

  • 2009 to 2014
    Head of Finance, India, Halvorsen Group

    Global capability centre, 1,800 people

  • 2003 to 2009
    Finance Controller, Kestrel Foods

    Family-owned, ₹700 crore revenue

Further down, for this reader: routine cost programmes

A fictional CFO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

What we prepare

Three documents, each for a different reader

Everything comes from your record. We change what leads and what steps back. We do not invent anything.

  • Nandini Rao

    Group Chief Financial Officer

    Group CFO who runs multi-entity reporting and holds the board’s confidence.

    Selected results

    • Brought 14 entities into one reporting close, and cut it from 19 days to 6.
    • Held a AA- rating through a ₹1,200 crore acquisition, and took every analyst call for five years.
    • Built a 140-person shared-services centre, and a group FP&A cycle the operating heads now run on.
    • Prepared Meruline Pharma for its DRHP: three years of restated accounts in seven months, with a new audit committee in place.

    Career

    • Group CFO, Tessara Industries
    • CFO, Meruline Pharma

    Custom CFO Resume

    Read by the people hiring for the seat

    Built around the role you are applying for, and designed to read well in a minute: an opening written for that seat, the record that matters to that reader first, and the rest in its place.

  • Nandini Rao

    Board profile

    Twenty years of reading risk through a company’s numbers, and five of telling an audit committee what it needed to hear.

    Governance

    • Standing invitee, Audit Committee, since 2019
    • Finance lead to the Risk Management Committee

    Auditors and regulators

    • Two statutory-auditor rotations, no qualification
    • Led the response to a related-party disclosure query, closed without action

    Judgement calls I owned

    • Advised against a ₹900 crore acquisition after reading its receivables. The board agreed.

    CFO Board Profile

    Read by a nomination committee

    Your record as a board reads it: governance, committees, your dealings with auditors and regulators, and the judgement calls you owned.

  • Nandini Rao

    Finance leadership for a first listing

    For promoters and private-equity boards, in the 24 months before a company lists.

    What I doAudit committee, restated accounts, and the first investor conversations
    For whomCompanies between ₹500 and ₹3,000 crore
    The proofMeruline Pharma: DRHP readiness in seven months

    Consulting deck

    Read by your clients

    Your offer laid out for clients, if your next move is advisory: what you do, for whom, and the work that proves it.

A fictional CFO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

CFO resume templates

50 CFO resume templates for the finance stream

Each one is a complete two-page resume, so you can judge how it reads as well as how it looks. Start at your seat, open any of them, and read both pages. Choose one and we build your record into it, or leave the choice to us.

20 templates for CFO and Group CFO

  • Notes to the Accounts

    Annual report · leads with investors

    A Group CFO or CFO whose story is capital: leverage, ratings, refinancing, monetisation, and who wants lenders and audit chairs to feel at home on the page.

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  • The Three-Way Settlement

    Bold colour · leads with the board

    A group CFO seeking a board mandate to change intercompany treasury arrangements while protecting subsidiary consent and bank-level controls.

    Order

  • The Unfunded Tranche

    Bold colour · leads with the board

    A growth-company CFO seeking a founder board that must choose between upfront dilution and an attractive headline round with a funding condition.

    Order

  • The Adjustment Register

    Portrait-led · leads with the board

    A finance director seeking a leveraged industrial board that needs defensible covenant reporting and a capital plan capable of surviving a smaller earnings denominator.

    Order

  • Above the Limit

    Portrait-led · leads with the board

    A finance chief explaining property protection, premium expense and liquidity for a board whose assets sit in a few large depots.

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  • The Accretive Offer

    Classical · leads with investors

    A group finance director who must persuade shareholders to decline an earnings-enhancing offer when the consideration exceeds the standalone cash value.

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  • The First Call Date

    Classical · leads with the board

    A chief financial officer deploying temporary project cash who must defend both yield and the availability of principal on a fixed expenditure date.

    Order

  • The Two Currencies

    Data-led · leads with the board

    An export finance chief seeking a board that needs to govern purchase and sale currencies independently while leaving room for uncertain future orders.

    Order

Samples, with fictional people and companies. Your own record replaces them, and the figure each page is built around is redrawn from your numbers.

Your document

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Choose the one that sounds like you, and we set your order to match.

  • One document: ₹30,000 plus GST, with 3 revisions
  • 10 documents: ₹75,000 plus GST, to use over 12 months
  • Any document can be a resume, a board profile or a consulting deck
  • Choose a template, or leave the design to us
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How it works

From your record to your hands

  1. Choose one document or the pack

    No account is needed. Your GST invoice comes to your email.

  2. We take your record and the role

    We contact you within one working day.

  3. We prepare the document

    Written for the people who will read it first.

  4. You review it

    3 revisions on a single document, until it reads right.

What we need from you

  • Your full record: roles, scope, numbers and dates
  • The role you are applying for, and the job description if you have one
  • Any figures you are not free to share, so that we leave them out
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Why an executive search firm

We read these on the other side of the table.

Gladwin International has been an executive search firm since 2010. Its CFO practice, led by Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar, has made 120+ CFO placements across a decade-long practice. Knowing what a committee reads first is our everyday work.

  • Your record stays with us

    It is used only to prepare your documents. It is not circulated to any hiring side.

  • Your limits are respected

    Tell us the figures you are not free to share, and we leave them out.

What it does not do

  • It does not get you a role, and no one can promise one
  • It does not put you on a shortlist for our retained searches
  • It does not add achievements you do not have. Every claim must be yours to defend

Before you decide

The questions we are asked first

What should a CFO resume include?

A CFO resume should open with a line written for the seat you want, then lead with what that reader looks for first: reporting and consolidation scale, capital raised, your record with boards, auditors and investors, and results with numbers. Everything else steps back. An IPO board and a global treasury read the same career differently.

How much does a CFO resume or board profile cost?

One document is ₹30,000, with 3 revisions. 10 documents over 12 months are ₹75,000. Both are plus GST.

What is the difference between a CFO resume and a board profile?

A resume sells you for an executive role, so it leads with what you ran and delivered. A board profile is read for governance and judgement, so it leads with committees, your dealings with auditors and regulators, and the calls you owned.

How does the 10-document pack work?

You have 12 months from purchase to use all 10. Bring us a role you are applying for and we prepare the document for it.

Can the pack include board profiles and decks?

Yes. Each of the documents can be a resume, a board profile or a consulting deck.

Who sees my record?

It is used only to prepare your documents. It is not circulated to any hiring side.

Does this get me a role?

No one can promise a role, and we do not. Buying a document does not put you on a shortlist for our retained searches.

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One career, read by very different people.

₹30,000 a document, or ₹75,000 for 10, plus GST.