Chief Financial Officer, Captive Technology Delivery Company

The mandate

A captive technology delivery company is establishing its first full entity CFO seat as local operations move beyond finance supervision by the parent. The company employs approximately 350 people and provides defined services to related businesses. Its immediate financial need is clear ownership of cost recovery, payment timing and controls, not a broad corporate finance structure designed for a much larger independent group.

Employment is permanent and open-ended. The initial eighteen-month agenda starts with understanding the service agreements, finance control perimeter and cash dependencies. It then builds a reliable operating finance rhythm that can support additional delivery capability without allowing receivables from related parties to substitute for usable local funding. The CFO will lead a small hands-on team and remain closely involved in material reconciliations and decisions.

Cost recovery must be based on the authorised service arrangement and evidence of the underlying expenditure. New skills, temporary idle capacity and infrastructure commitments can change the economics even where the agreed commercial method appears straightforward. Qualified tax and legal owners determine the policy and agreement requirements; finance maintains reliable records, explains deviations and obtains approval before introducing a treatment that changes the entity's obligations.

The executive controls finance operations, payment prioritisation and local financial recommendations within the entity delegation. Permanent capital commitments, changes to related-party agreements and material borrowing require parent and entity-board approval. The CFO does not determine transfer-pricing policy independently, own technical delivery performance or promise that parent funding will arrive without a documented commitment and an operationally workable payment route.

By the end of the first year, management should understand the company's cash runway, recovery position and significant service-cost variances without reconstructing several parent reports. At eighteen months, the team should maintain reliable closes, agreed controls and clear escalation of funding exceptions. Continuing CFO accountability then supports entity growth while preserving the hands-on financial judgement appropriate to the company's bounded operating scale.

What you will own

• Establish the entity finance control register with named evidence owners, making banking, close and related-party reconciliation duties clear before increased delivery activity creates dependence on informal parent support.
• Decide the local cash prioritisation and escalation rhythm within approved delegation, distinguishing authorised funding commitments from anticipated parent receipts that cannot yet support a payment instruction.
• Reconcile service-cost recovery to the approved agreement and underlying expenditure, documenting differences that require specialist policy review rather than correcting them through an unexplained intercompany adjustment.
• Build a delivery-capability finance case covering recruitment ramp, infrastructure commitments and unused capacity, enabling management to seek approval for the real local funding need before expanding services.
• Govern related-party receivable and settlement reviews with parent counterparts, recording disputed items, payment evidence and accountable resolution dates so reported recovery does not obscure deteriorating cash access.
• Develop proportionate close and payment controls for the small finance team, preserving segregation and review coverage without introducing unnecessary processes that cannot be sustained at the entity's scale.
• Present the entity board with a concise financial stewardship pack covering control exceptions, recovery economics and funding dependencies, maintaining transparent ownership of material decisions throughout the growth agenda.

Candidate qualifications

• Applicants should have at least seven years of finance experience with substantive senior responsibility in a captive, technology services or multi-unit operating environment. Show personal ownership of finance decisions, team supervision and control design rather than relying on title alone. A recognised chartered or management accounting qualification should support the technical accountability of this entity CFO seat.
• Practical understanding of related-party service finance is required, including cost recovery, settlement reconciliation and the distinction between policy ownership and operating records. Describe a recovery difference you investigated, the source evidence used and the specialist advice obtained before treatment changed. The role needs disciplined implementation of authorised arrangements, not independent tax opinions outside the finance leader's qualifications.
• Evidence of hands-on liquidity and financial control leadership must include a situation where expected funding did not equal available cash. Explain how you prioritised obligations, escalated the exposure and preserved a verifiable decision trail. Applicants should understand the operating consequence of intercompany delays and avoid treating a related-party receivable as inherently reliable merely because the counterparty belongs to the same group.
• Successful candidates will have built small teams capable of maintaining reliable controls under competing operating demands. Provide a finance process you simplified, the review retained and a leadership decision that improved accountability. Clear communication with local management and parent specialists is essential, especially when a service expansion creates financial obligations that neither side has explicitly accepted.

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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-206.