
Banking, Financial Services & Insurance CFO Search · Pune · 2026
Top CFO Executive Search Firm in Pune for BFSI — 2026
Retained CFO and finance-leadership search for Pune's financial-services economy — cooperative and small-finance banks, NBFCs and lending, fintech, and insurance and broking. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a BFSI CFO seat in Pune actually demands
Pune's financial-services economy has a distinctive character — a deep base of cooperative and small-finance banks rooted in western India, NBFCs and consumer-lending businesses, a growing fintech scene tied to the city's technology talent, and insurance and broking operations. The BFSI CFO seat here is demanding and scrutinised. The finance chief of a bank, NBFC or insurer owns capital adequacy or solvency, asset-liability management, expected-credit-loss provisioning under Ind AS 109, treasury, regulatory returns and the relationship with auditors, rating agencies and the regulator; in fintech, the CFO must build institutional-grade finance and controls while managing burn, unit economics and a venture cap table. The defining scarcity is the CFO who pairs deep regulated-finance technical depth with the standing to withstand scrutiny and partner a demanding board and audit committee.
Compensation tracks the model — established banks and NBFCs are cash-led with performance-linked and deferred variable pay and clawback in regulated entities; fintech leans equity-led. The brief codifies the construction. The stakeholder map runs from the board and its audit, risk and nomination committees to the regulator, rating agencies and major investors. References reach to audit and risk chairs, regulators and auditors, because in finance soundness shows only under that lens.
Representative BFSI CFO mandates in Pune
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Bank / small-finance-bank CFO
A cooperative, small-finance or regional bank needing a CFO fluent in capital adequacy, ALM, provisioning, treasury and regulatory reporting, with the standing to hold a regulated finance role.
NBFC / lending CFO
An NBFC or consumer-lending business requiring a finance chief fluent in capital adequacy, ALM, Ind AS 109 provisioning, treasury and funding markets.
Fintech / insurance CFO
A fintech, insurance or broking business needing a CFO who can build institutional-grade finance and controls, or run solvency and regulatory finance, with the standing to withstand scrutiny.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Regulated-finance technical depth — capital adequacy or solvency, ALM, treasury and provisioning
- →Public-market and regulatory standing — regulator and rating-agency credibility
- →Risk and controls partnership — a sound second line within a scrutinised environment
- →Capital and funding command — capital raising, funding markets and investor relations
- →Audit-and-risk-committee governance — credibility with a demanding board and auditors
Compensation shape
BFSI CFO compensation in Pune tracks the model — established banks and NBFCs are cash-led with performance-linked and deferred variable pay and clawback in regulated entities; fintech leans equity-led. We benchmark and codify the construction in the calibration brief.
Led by Pune's top CEO and CFO search consultants
The Pune bfsi CEO and CFO practices are led personally — board chemistry, slate calibration and the close sit with a named, accountable consultant.

Anandh Shanmugaraj
Founder of Gladwin International and India's leading CEO search consultant. He leads every Pune bfsi CEO and Managing Director mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar
Director & Managing Partner of Gladwin International and head of its Global CFO Practice — India's leading CFO search consultant. She leads the finance-leadership mandates that pair with these CEO appointments, from CFO to IPO-readiness finance chiefs.
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Firm-level listing. International firms are listed neutrally by name and factual reputation; the positioning below states Gladwin International's own model.
Gladwin International
India-rooted, research-driven retained CFO search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Pune's bfsi economy, and confidential by default. 120+ CFO placements across the Global CFO Practice. Boards looking for a specialist CFO recruiting firm in Pune for bfsi retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Pune for BFSI
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi NCR; deep BFSI finance-leadership coverage with scaled assessment.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; CFO succession and finance-leadership evaluation for banks, NBFCs and insurers.
Spencer Stuart
Tier-1 global board and CFO-succession specialist with strong India presence; financial-officer and audit-committee appointments.
Russell Reynolds Associates
Global firm with an India practice; governance-anchored BFSI CFO and audit-committee work for regulated entities.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; fintech, NBFC and PE-backed financial-services CFO mandates.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Chennai; established BFSI finance coverage.
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