Platform Chief Financial Officer, Analytics Ventures

The mandate

A platform owning three analytics and AI ventures needs a CFO who can make financing choices depend on product evidence rather than an aggregate growth story. Each venture has a credible proposition, but customer acquisition, implementation effort and continuing support obligations vary materially. Platform finance must distinguish the businesses that can scale economically from those whose current revenue depends on expensive exceptions.

This is open-ended permanent employment with a twenty-four-month initial agenda. The executive will establish common financial controls and investment discipline while allowing different product maturity stages to retain appropriate measures. Early work clarifies cohort economics and cash runway; later stages align investor funding, product investment and the conditions attached to further platform capital. The seat includes ongoing finance accountability across the controlled ventures.

The analysis must separate recurring product value from delivery work necessary to obtain or retain a customer. A favourable subscription headline can conceal onboarding effort, bespoke features and service costs that rise with every new account. Finance will work with product and operating owners to establish reliable definitions and trace the cost evidence, without claiming to decide technical roadmap priorities independently of their accountable executives.

The CFO controls financial reporting, platform cash deployment and finance hiring within approved limits. New funding rounds, venture disposals, material equity grants and capital commitments outside delegation require the Investment Committee or board. Legal securities advice, valuation opinions requiring independent specialists and product engineering remain separately owned. The financial case should expose uncertainty rather than borrow confidence from a fashionable technology label.

Within twelve months, directors should see why each venture needs capital and which observable conditions justify releasing it. The second year strengthens investor evidence, funding alternatives and finance leadership in the businesses receiving scale investment. Success includes identifying when not to fund an initiative, documenting the trade-off and preserving resources for stronger opportunities. The appointment continues after those initial capital and control capabilities have been built.

What you will own

• Establish cohort profitability views that connect subscription receipts, onboarding work and ongoing support costs, requiring traceable definitions before growth claims are used to justify additional product or commercial investment.
• Decide finance reporting standards appropriate to venture maturity, preserving comparable cash and commitment information while preventing early research activity from being judged through measures designed for mature recurring revenue.
• Build a platform runway and capital release framework showing approved commitments, financing dependencies and downside options, enabling the committee to fund selectively instead of distributing resources through historical venture budgets.
• Challenge bespoke customer commitments through cost and repeatability evidence, documenting when a commercial exception creates a product obligation whose economic burden is absent from the proposed account margin.
• Govern fundraising financial materials through reconciliation to approved forecasts and controlled metrics, ensuring investor statements distinguish observed cohort performance from assumptions about future retention or scale efficiencies.
• Develop venture finance ownership and control routines proportionate to scale, protecting cash, reporting integrity and decision evidence without burdening small operating teams with unnecessary group process complexity.
• Present continue, revise or stop investment alternatives with explicit conditions, enabling directors to reconsider venture funding when operating evidence fails to support the case under which capital was originally released.

Candidate qualifications

• Candidates must show CFO or equivalent senior strategic finance responsibility in digital services, analytics, technology products or related growth platforms. Describe an investment decision based on customer or product economics rather than revenue growth alone, identifying the cost evidence, funding consequence and personal judgement that changed the resources committed to the business.
• Experience in debt or equity fundraising should include disciplined investor finance and a clear understanding of metric limitations. Provide an example where you revised a commercially appealing claim because the underlying cohort, recurring revenue or delivery evidence was incomplete. Explain how you maintained confidence through accurate disclosure rather than allow the financing narrative to outpace operating reality.
• A recognised finance qualification and strong financial control record are required alongside commercial fluency. Relevant proof includes managing multiple entities, establishing reliable reporting and evaluating development expenditure or shared costs with appropriate technical judgement. Applicants must separate their internal investment recommendation from independent valuation, legal or securities opinions that require qualified specialist responsibility.
• The role calls for leadership that can support entrepreneurial teams while making difficult capital choices. Show how you developed finance ownership, resisted a weak follow-on funding request and documented the decision without damaging essential operating cooperation. Clear accountability for runway and funding conditions is more relevant than an unsupported claim to have created value through every venture investment.

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 8 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-201.