Regional CFO, India and Southeast Asia — CPaaS Finance Bridge

The mandate

The regional CFO role oversees cloud-communications growth, capital needs and operating cash across India and Southeast Asia. Local finance can report results, but carrier commitments, customer economics and transaction options need an executive arbiter who understands their combined funding effect. The role holds regional CFO accountability without presuming group-wide capital or local statutory powers.

The eighteen-month appointment starts on 19 October 2026 in Mumbai, with five-day executive availability. India reviews are onsite as needed, while Southeast Asia collaboration combines remote finance meetings and planned, approved travel. A permanent regional CFO search runs in parallel; the final three months are reserved for successor participation in operating, treasury and capital reviews. The fixed term has no automatic extension.

Handover requires a reconciled regional growth and cash plan, a capital-decision register and controlled reporting that explains carrier, customer and entity dependencies. Success includes repeatable downside reviews and a successor-led funding discussion, not simply a closed transaction or stronger headline revenue. The incoming CFO must receive unresolved acquisition, facility and restructuring matters with their approvals and evidence histories.

The CFO may approve regional finance controls, planning assumptions and cash use within sanctioned budgets and facilities. New equity, borrowing, guarantees, acquisition approval, permanent restructuring and commitments above ₹60 lakh outside plan require group or board authorisation. Local statutory and regulated-signatory responsibilities stay with appointed officers. Regional finance leadership cannot create cash mobility or legal authority through a management-reporting assumption.

The bridge excludes product engineering, telecom network operations and an unrestricted acquisition-execution mandate. It includes strategic finance, treasury and investor-evidence discipline for communications-platform economics. The leader should distinguish profitable volume growth from growth that consumes unfunded carrier or customer working capital, leaving retained finance able to support regional decisions with reproducible assumptions rather than a temporary executive's personal deal judgement.

What you will own

• Approve regional growth-to-cash plans that connect customer economics, carrier commitments and entity funding limits before executives treat platform revenue expansion as financeable growth.
• Resolve budgeted capital and treasury priorities using downside liquidity evidence, escalating new facilities, equity or guarantees through group and board approval rather than assuming availability.
• Set transaction and restructuring finance registers showing options, approved commitments and unresolved dependencies so strategic activity remains visible alongside the normal operating plan.
• Challenge investor and management narratives against controlled financial and operating evidence, separating volume growth, contribution and cash effects across the regional communications portfolio.
• Authorize finance review standards for local reporting and cross-market adjustments, preserving statutory ownership and the documented basis of entity differences or intercompany treatment.
• Transfer the regional CFO cycle through successor-led growth, treasury and capital reviews, including reproducible stress assumptions and ownership of remaining transaction or funding conditions.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate twenty-two or more years in finance with genuine CFO or equivalent regional executive responsibility, including technology, communications platforms or related cross-market services. Present a capital or cash decision you personally held, the regional constraints and the realised outcome. Candidates must distinguish regional authority from group CFO or local statutory powers.
• Show strategic-finance and treasury judgement connecting growth economics, carrier or supplier commitments and customer cash timing. Explain a case where a profitable operating forecast could not support expected funding, and show how you revised the plan or financing sequence within approved authority.
• Bring substantive M&A, fundraising or financial-restructuring exposure supported by personally authored decisions and evidence. Describe an assumption that changed a transaction or investor narrative, the specialist input required and how you kept controlled reporting separate from deal advocacy. A completed deal alone does not establish the quality of finance judgement.
• Prove leadership across regional finance teams and practical successor transfer. Explain how another CFO reproduced your capital or downside cash review, understood local constraints and took ownership of unresolved commitments. The appointment requires the specified executive availability and approved India/SEA review cadence; broad multisector experience must translate into credible communications-platform finance.

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 PCT-INT-2026-IND-59.