Group Chief Financial Officer — Consumer Glass Manufacturing

The mandate

A consumer-glass manufacturing group is approaching a significant capacity cycle while carrying several product families with different yields, energy demands and route-to-market economics. Its four entities have competent local finance teams, but group decisions do not yet connect furnace commitments, product profitability and capital structure consistently. The CFO will own that connection as the senior finance executive, giving the board a reliable basis for investment and performance judgement.

This is open-ended permanent employment. The first twenty-four months should establish a consolidated cost and control framework, a funded capacity plan and stronger accountability for investment outcomes. Sixty-two finance professionals report through plant and functional leaders. The CFO is based in Mumbai and will spend meaningful time at manufacturing sites, reviewing the financial implications of production evidence with engineering and operating leaders rather than interpreting every variance from headquarters.

Within approved budgets and delegation, the CFO determines finance policy, funding execution and control requirements for expenditure. The board retains authority over major furnace investments, acquisitions, structural borrowing and material asset disposals. Engineering owns furnace design and operating safety. Finance must challenge investment assumptions with its own evidence while avoiding a false claim that the CFO can independently judge the technical reliability of a production configuration.

The enduring agenda is financial integrity and capital discipline in a continuous-process business. The role must make energy, breakage, inventory and utilisation consequences visible in product and capacity choices, while qualified specialists retain tax and legal interpretations. Plant operations and commercial leadership are not absorbed into finance. The CFO will nevertheless require reconciled information and accountable assumptions before supporting a growth plan whose funding or profitability depends on uncertain operating performance.

What you will own

• Establish consolidated manufacturing economics that reconcile plant results with product yield, energy consumption and inventory movements, identifying where local costing conventions prevent the board from comparing capacity choices reliably.
• Recommend a funded furnace investment sequence with downside cash scenarios, separating technical assumptions supplied by engineers from finance conclusions about affordability, return and the consequences of delaying a commitment.
• Decide group finance policies and delegated controls that preserve local accountability, setting approval and review standards for material expenditure, inventory valuation and intercompany transactions without centralising every routine plant decision.
• Lead banking and capital-structure discussions with the chief executive, presenting covenant, liquidity and security consequences to the board before executing facilities within its approved borrowing authority.
• Present consolidated performance and risk papers that distinguish recurring manufacturing economics from exceptional adjustments, ensuring the audit committee receives supported explanations for material estimates and unresolved control weaknesses.
• Develop plant finance leaders and group specialists through clear succession and review routines, building the ability to challenge operating assumptions and maintain a reliable close without dependence on the CFO's personal intervention.

Candidate qualifications

• A Chartered Accountant background with a 22–28-year career and substantive CFO responsibility in manufacturing is required. Demonstrate personal ownership of a consolidated finance perimeter, including board reporting and financial control. Glass, tableware or other continuous-process consumer manufacturing experience is especially relevant; candidates must explain the operating economics rather than rely on the prestige of a previous executive title.
• Show how you have connected manufacturing costing to a capital decision. Evidence should include yield, energy or capacity assumptions, reconciliation to actual results and an example where the investment recommendation changed after operational scrutiny. You are not expected to replace engineering judgement, but must recognise when a financial model rests on unverified technical performance or conceals a material funding dependency.
• Bring hands-on capital-structure, cash and banking leadership appropriate to a multi-entity manufacturing group. Explain a facility or investment sequence you changed to protect resilience under downside demand or ramp-up. The selection discussion will examine your approval boundaries, alternatives and treatment of uncertainty, not only the eventual financing announcement or growth in reported capacity.
• Have led plant finance and group teams through difficult performance or control issues, with clear delegation and development of managers. Audit committee communication must include candid unresolved risks and supported material estimates. The CFO needs disciplined site engagement, the ability to challenge senior operators constructively and a demonstrable method for maintaining financial integrity when production or commercial pressures favour convenient accounting conclusions.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-111.