SaaS and IT-Product Capital Structure — Interim CFO

The mandate

The interim will occupy the executive finance seat across SaaS and IT-product economics, ensuring financing choices are supported by a coherent operating plan. The immediate gap is accountable capital and cash prioritisation, not merely presentation of growth forecasts or guaranteed access to investors.

The finance bridge opens on 19 October 2026 for twelve months while permanent recruitment proceeds in parallel. Hyderabad is the primary base, with onsite executive and close reviews and remote international finance discussions where authorised. The first quarter establishes capital and covenant dependencies; the final quarter requires the permanent CFO to lead funding and portfolio finance reviews independently.

Handover must leave a reproducible capital and liquidity model, supported product assumptions and accounting judgements with explicit owners. The successor must explain downside covenant headroom and decide a representative capital-use tradeoff without undocumented lender or investor context. Open transaction, tax and policy dependencies remain visible rather than being described as solved because a central forecast shows adequate funding.

The CFO may direct finance leaders, allocate approved capital budgets and authorise budgeted operating commitments up to ₹50 lakh. New borrowing, equity issuance, acquisitions and permanent executive appointments require retained board approval. Covenant waivers, material accounting-policy changes and restructuring terms cannot be settled through unilateral CFO judgement outside the signed delegation.

Out of scope are product architecture, customer growth execution and transaction origination. Finance will supply decision evidence and challenge funding assumptions without promising commercial or financing outcomes. Five days weekly are priced by the day, with exceptional travel separately reimbursed. Extension requires a specific unfinished executive gap and successor plan; no annual salary equivalent or automatic conversion is attached.

What you will own

• Establish the capital and covenant decision register linking existing facilities, product assumptions and approved commitments, identifying retained board or specialist approvals before finance priorities are reconsidered.
• Decide authorised capital allocations through downside liquidity and product economics, refusing plans that assume the same uncommitted funding source can support several competing commitments or operating contingencies.
• Approve executive finance and reporting packs after reconciling product performance, cash and capital obligations, retaining explanations where management metrics differ from accounting or covenant definitions.
• Challenge financing and restructuring alternatives with treasury and authorised specialists, preserving board approval of new terms rather than treating an urgent cash requirement as implied execution authority.
• Direct finance governance of material transaction and tax dependencies through accountable owners, keeping unsupported estimates and specialist reliance visible instead of absorbing them into a central forecast.
• Escalate product-investment and funding tradeoffs with viable alternatives and stop conditions, avoiding promises of commercial growth or investor access that finance does not control.
• Transfer the CFO seat through successor-led covenant stress, portfolio capital and reporting reviews, with accepted working papers and a signed register of unresolved retained-board decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate genuine CFO or equivalent executive finance authority in SaaS, IT products or a comparable technology-led business. Provide a capital or funding decision personally signed and identify retained board approval. Explain how you monitored the resulting obligations against product demand and cash generation, and which change in evidence required a revised funding or expenditure decision.
• Show practical capital structure, treasury and reporting competence connecting cash, accounting and covenant definitions. Explain a forecast that overstated headroom because definitions or funding assumptions were inconsistent. A professional finance qualification or equivalent senior practice is relevant, while legal, valuation and specialist tax conclusions must remain with their authorised owners and be recorded faithfully.
• Evidence business-finance leadership across technology products with a capital choice changed after economic challenge. Bring a redacted downside case and identify assumptions that failed. Candidates must work constructively with product and commercial leaders without pretending to own architecture, customer adoption or guaranteed financing outcomes outside the executive finance seat.
• Establish twenty-one years of relevant experience and a tested transfer of CFO decisions to another leader. Show lender context, product dependencies and approval limits retained honestly in the handover. Provide a successor's reproduction of the liquidity view after a changed product assumption, including an unresolved covenant or capital commitment requiring continued board or lender attention.

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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-37.