Acquisitive Software India Finance Leadership — Interim Head

The mandate

The India software finance function requires a single owner for reporting decisions across established and recently integrated products. The interim head must hold the functional seat while preserving the distinction between operational subscription metrics and accounting outcomes. Finance continuity cannot depend on acquisition teams explaining their own adjustments whenever the regional CFO asks a question.

The contract begins on 19 October 2026 and runs for twelve months. A permanent appointment is pursued concurrently, with Bengaluru attendance around close and integration governance sessions. Remote regional reviews are part of the working rhythm. The opening quarter establishes the acquired-product issue baseline, while the final quarter includes successor-led reporting and integration exception reviews.

At handover, revenue and cost bridges must distinguish organic performance, acquisition effects and accounting-policy alignment. Material integration judgements must be documented with source evidence, alternatives and retained regional approval. The permanent head must reproduce a product finance pack and resolve a representative exception without the interim reconstructing undocumented decisions from email threads.

The head can direct existing finance teams, reject unsupported integration adjustments and approve budgeted operational finance expenditure up to ₹25 lakh. Acquisition approval, valuation, financing and new regional accounting policies remain with authorised executives. Permanent leadership recruitment is not delegated, and the interim cannot settle a purchase-accounting disagreement by changing local reporting definitions without approval.

The remit excludes product roadmap decisions, customer sales ownership and transaction origination. Finance will quantify integration and recurring-revenue consequences, not promise commercial outcomes. The proposed rate includes five weekly days and normal regional coordination; exceptional travel is separately approved. An extension must be tied to a named unfinished gap rather than indefinite support for acquisition activity.

What you will own

• Establish the acquired-product finance issue register, separating policy alignment, source-data gaps and performance explanations that need regional rather than local approval before reporting release.
• Approve recurring-revenue reporting bridges after reconciling operational subscription measures with ledger recognition, cash collection and the effects of acquisition-related changes in product ownership.
• Decide routine integration finance priorities within budget, documenting which adjustments cannot proceed until valuation, policy or authorised transaction-accounting specialists have supplied their conclusions.
• Challenge product profitability forecasts using renewal, support and integration cost evidence, avoiding apparent improvement produced by inconsistent allocation or omitted shared-service obligations.
• Direct close and consolidation preparation through accountable owners and review gates, retaining the calculation and approval history of material integration-related reporting positions.
• Escalate integration capacity conflicts to the regional CFO with cash and reporting consequences, rather than accepting transaction deadlines as automatic authority to bypass controls.
• Transfer the finance seat through successor-led product reviews, tested recurring-revenue bridges and an accepted residual register of regional decisions still awaiting resolution.

Candidate qualifications

• Show finance-head or director-level responsibility in B2B software or a comparable recurring-revenue business, with personal ownership of integration reporting judgement. Bring a redacted example identifying what you decided and what remained regional. Acquisition participation without continuing responsibility for the resulting finance operations does not establish suitability for this interim seat.
• Demonstrate qualified accounting depth in subscription revenue, consolidation and policy alignment, including the reconciliation of management metrics to financial statements. Explain a product measure that was useful commercially but unsuitable as a direct accounting proxy. Candidates must preserve the distinction between revenue operations, valuation specialists and delegated finance reporting authority.
• Provide evidence of finance integration leadership across differing entities or acquired products, including one adjustment rejected or deferred. Show how source weaknesses and timeline pressure were managed without unsupported balancing entries. Supply the source-to-consolidation bridge, review ownership and residual issue log showing how regional stakeholders agreed a defensible reporting treatment while purchase-accounting or product-data questions remained open.
• Establish twenty-two years of relevant career evidence and a successful transition of methods to another finance leader. Describe controls, unresolved judgements and review rights handed over, including a recurring-revenue case the successor reproduced. Show how the successor traced an acquired-product reporting change to approved accounting treatment and escalated a disputed integration assumption without compromising close deadlines.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-26.