Chief Executive Officer, Valuation Services

The mandate

A confidential multidisciplinary valuation platform is appointing a Chief Executive Officer to lead the strategy, P&L and development of its valuation-services business. The organisation operates in a regulated professional-services environment and brings together registered valuation professionals, domain specialists, industry experts and experienced financial advisers across complex assignments.

The CEO will set the business plan, deepen senior client relationships and expand the firm's domestic and selected international opportunity base. Growth must be matched by disciplined engagement acceptance, realistic resource commitments and dependable delivery. A valuation mandate should not be accepted merely because it is commercially attractive if its independence, scope, evidence, timetable or professional-authority requirements cannot be met.

The role owns portfolio-level delivery oversight rather than every technical conclusion. It will require visible milestones, appropriate staffing, conflict assessment, methodology governance and early escalation across accepted assignments. Registered valuers and other designated specialists retain the professional opinions and signatures assigned to them. The CEO may challenge assumptions, require more evidence or stop inadequately governed work, but may not alter a professional conclusion to secure revenue or satisfy a client.

Based in Mumbai, the role will build a multidisciplinary leadership bench, act as executive sponsor for significant relationships and represent the firm in relevant professional and market forums. Commercial commitments, senior appointments, investments and material exceptions remain subject to the organisation's delegated authority. Cross-border opportunities must be accepted only after jurisdiction, reliance, local professional requirements and signing responsibility are understood.

What you will own

• Translate the Group's direction into an annual strategy for valuation services, selecting priority markets, client segments and routes to growth across India and carefully chosen international opportunities.
• Own the business P&L and planning cadence, connecting pipeline conversion, pricing, delivery capacity, cost commitments and profitability while escalating material variances and investment choices to the Group Chairman.
• Build a disciplined origination engine through senior relationships with corporates, law firms and other relevant market participants, personally leading important pursuits and qualifying the underlying client need.
• Govern engagement acceptance so that scope, independence, conflicts, evidence availability, timetable, staffing and professional-authority requirements are understood before a commercial commitment is made.
• Act as executive sponsor for significant clients, establishing expectations and working with execution leaders to resolve scope changes, delayed inputs, emerging risks or service concerns before trust deteriorates.
• Oversee the accepted portfolio through visible milestones, documented review points and early escalation of technical, resource or timetable constraints rather than relying on late-stage recovery by individual experts.
• Protect the defensibility of valuation delivery by requiring consistent methodology governance, assumption review, evidence retention and report review while leaving regulated conclusions and signatures with qualified professionals.
• Recruit, develop and retain a multidisciplinary leadership bench, clarifying commercial, technical and execution accountabilities and creating an environment where specialists can challenge assumptions without commercial retaliation.
• Give the Group Chairman concise visibility into pipeline quality, forecast, capacity, delivery exposure and significant client developments, distinguishing confirmed evidence from judgement and optimistic expectation.
• Develop international work selectively, confirming jurisdictional requirements, reliance expectations, delivery responsibilities and signing authority before the firm accepts an engagement or represents its capability externally.

Candidate qualifications

Bring at least fifteen years of substantial valuation-services experience, including progressively senior responsibility for a practice, business unit or material engagement portfolio. Your evidence should show how personal decisions affected growth, profitability, delivery quality and institutional capability, not only how you executed individual assignments.

A graduate degree with a strong finance foundation is required. Advanced finance, accounting, valuation or other relevant professional preparation is advantageous. Personal registration under the applicable valuation regime is not stated as mandatory unless the employer separately confirms that this office will exercise regulated signing authority.

Demonstrate deep working knowledge of valuation principles, engagement governance, relevant standards and the regulatory environment. You must be able to interrogate scope, assumptions, methods and evidence while recognising when a conclusion belongs to a registered valuer or another designated authority.

Show a proven record of originating valuation mandates, developing senior client relationships and retaining confidence through difficult engagements. Existing corporate and financial-sector access should be evidenced by relevant outcomes, not merely by the size of a contact list or broad claims of influence.

Evidence direct P&L leadership, including business planning, forecast discipline, pricing, resource prioritisation and intervention when performance moved away from plan. You must be willing to protect independence, reject unsuitable work and lead difficult client conversations even where short-term revenue is at stake.

Demonstrate the ability to build and lead multidisciplinary professional teams, communicate with senior stakeholders and undertake regular travel. International business exposure is advantageous, provided you can show how local professional requirements and reliance conditions were addressed before accepting work.

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 hiring panel in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions above 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 hiring panel reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which keeps the process consistent for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 19 October 2026. Mandate reference ARC-PER-2026-IND-003.