Regional Chief Financial Officer — Fintech Service Entity Expansion

The mandate

A fintech services platform is building regional operations through three companies with different investor and local reporting obligations. Product adoption is advancing, but entity funding requests and shareholder information have grown independently of the regional business plan. The CFO will make expansion financially accountable: each company's funded ambition, capital rights and reporting responsibilities must be understood before a promising new market becomes a recurring unsupported call on group cash.

The role is open-ended employment with a first twenty-four-month agenda covering regional finance standards, disciplined capital deployment and a dependable shareholder reporting calendar. Twenty-three staff report through entity finance leads. Mumbai anchors the appointment, with scheduled visits to Singapore and UAE operations. The business supplies software and services to financial institutions; deposit-taking, credit underwriting and custody of customer settlement money are not part of this CFO's assigned operating perimeter.

Delegation includes regional planning, release of approved entity funding within documented conditions and the design of finance controls. New equity instruments, amended shareholder rights and material cross-company guarantees remain board decisions with legal advice. Local qualified advisers retain jurisdiction-specific tax and statutory interpretation. The CFO must connect these boundaries in a practical decision record, so an entity manager cannot treat a regional budget as permission to make a capital commitment outside its own authority.

Regional success should be visible in complete capital records, reconciled entity accounts and investment requests whose implications are clear to existing and prospective shareholders. The appointment excludes product architecture, regulated compliance officer duties and arranging personal investments for directors. It includes responsibility for accurate financial communication: forecasts must identify which milestones are funded, which need new capital and which assumptions are still dependent on commercial evidence. The permanent leader remains accountable for that discipline after the initial market-entry agenda is complete.

What you will own

• Establish a regional capital and obligations register covering share instruments, funding commitments and information rights, reconciling legal records to the finance calendar so no entity's obligations depend on informal executive memory.
• Govern staged entity funding against approved operating milestones and available group resources, distinguishing a justified revision of the business case from additional spending caused by weak original assumptions or unapproved commitments.
• Lead regional accounts and financial controls through the entity managers, preserving local accountability while creating a common reconciliation and escalation discipline for balances that affect group capital decisions.
• Prepare shareholder information that connects regional performance, cash consumption and funded milestones, testing material claims against verified accounts before they enter investor presentations or external financial communications.
• Evaluate proposed regional financing structures with global treasury and legal specialists, explaining dilution, maturity, guarantee and control implications rather than presenting the nominal amount raised as the only measure of success.
• Require financially complete market-entry cases that include local setup costs, recurring compliance support and downside sales timing, making the release conditions and decision owner clear before operational recruitment begins.
• Develop entity finance leads who can defend funding requests, maintain auditable capital records and surface uncertainty promptly, reducing the risk that local commercial momentum outruns the region's actual financing authority.

Candidate qualifications

• Bring at least 28 years in finance with executive responsibility in fintech, outsourcing, shipping or another multi-geography service platform. Demonstrate CFO-level ownership of accounts, funding and senior stakeholder communication across a defined business perimeter. An independent consulting phase is compatible with the appointment where prior leadership shows sustained operational accountability rather than advisory participation alone.
• Have practical experience raising debt or equity and translating financing terms into usable finance controls. Explain an instrument or shareholder condition whose consequences were not obvious from the headline proceeds. Your evidence should identify how dilution, guarantees, repayment rights or information obligations changed the recommendation, and which conclusions appropriately required legal or tax specialists.
• Demonstrate financial modelling, valuation and investor communication that reconcile to underlying financial statements. Show how you corrected a persuasive growth claim or made an unfunded milestone explicit. Recognised finance education or equivalent senior competence is required; jurisdiction-specific certifications are not presumed. You must know when local accounting or statutory expertise is necessary and preserve its conclusions within the regional decision process.
• Have led finance managers through entity setup or expansion, including clear funding delegation and reliable reporting calendars. Evidence should show what happened when a local business requested resources beyond its approved case. Direct engagement with regional teams, discretion around shareholder information and the willingness to report an uncomfortable financing constraint candidly are essential parts of the role's continuing executive responsibility.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 12 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-221.