Interim Chief Financial Officer — Mobility Platform Cash Control

The mandate

A reconciliation defect delayed driver payouts while a fleet-financing subsidiary breached a collection covenant, and the CFO resigned as lenders sought daily information. The platform has liquidity, but trip cash, incentives, vehicle collections and restricted facility accounts do not form one reliable view.

The interim must join within ten days for ten months, covering payout remediation, covenant reset and the next audit. A permanent CFO search begins once lenders approve a corrected forecast, with extension possible for six weeks if refinancing closes late.

Handover is complete when driver and fleet subledgers reconcile daily, aged payout differences are resolved, covenant waivers or replacement facilities are executed, twelve-month liquidity is funded under downside, the audit closes, and the successor signs one lender reporting pack.

The interim may prioritise cash, hold disputed payouts, negotiate facilities and deploy ₹8 crore of remediation spend. Borrowing above ₹150 crore, driver redress above ₹10 crore, fleet asset sale, permanent executive hiring and incentive-policy changes with material unit-economic impact require board approval.

Driver acquisition, ride pricing and fleet operations are outside scope. Finance will make their cash and economic consequences visible without assuming marketplace or vehicle-management responsibility.

Why this seat is open

The simultaneous payout and covenant events broke confidence in finance's aggregate reporting. Settlement and fleet-finance teams each reconcile within their own systems but not to group cash. A temporary CFO can establish one liquidity and obligation view before long-term succession.

What you will own

• Reconcile trip collections, platform fees, incentives, taxes, driver payouts and bank cash at transaction-cohort level.
• Reconstruct fleet receivables, vehicle obligations, restricted accounts and lender covenant calculations.
• Decide cash priorities and payout holds using legal obligation, driver harm, evidence and liquidity consequence.
• Negotiate covenant waivers, amendments or replacement funding with transparent downside and control conditions.
• Build a thirteen-week and twelve-month liquidity view covering platform and financing subsidiary dependencies.
• Close the next audit with indexed judgements for revenue, incentives, losses and restricted cash.
• Transfer lender commitments, settlement controls, liquidity triggers, audit positions and talent decisions to the permanent CFO.

Candidate qualifications

• Held CFO, treasury chief or finance director authority in mobility, fintech, marketplaces or asset-backed lending.
• Rebuilt high-volume partner or driver settlement from transaction data to bank cash.
• Managed covenant stress and facility negotiation in an asset-financing structure.
• Produced integrated liquidity across an operating platform and financing subsidiary.
• Led an audit involving incentives, restricted cash and expected-credit-loss complexity.
• Faced lenders and gig-economy partners during payout disruption with accountable communication.

Non-negotiables

• Available in Delhi NCR within ten days.
• No active relationship with fleet lenders, auditors or payment providers.
• Will not use driver payouts as discretionary liquidity.
• Must have held signing authority over lender covenant reporting.

1. 49 words maximum. Confirm availability and disclose any lender, mobility or payments conflict.
2. 49 words maximum. Describe a partner-payout reconciliation you repaired and the control unit used.
3. 49 words maximum. Which cash balance would you exclude first from a mobility runway calculation?