Chief Financial Officer - Internet/Online - CA

About Company: A worldwide digital marketplace that helps students secure reliable long-term living spaces close to academic campuses, offering verified listings and tailored options to match individual needs. Job Description: About the Role: You will own finance end to end: the numbers we run the business on, the story we tell, and the controls and structures that hold a multi-country operation together. You will work directly with the founders and the leadership team. Responsibilities: 1. Strategic finance and FP&A: - Own the annual operating plan, the long-range model and the monthly forecast, and hold the business accountable to them. - Build the unit economics view of the business: contribution margin by market, channel and supply type, cohort behaviour, payback and LTV/CAC. - Partner with Growth, Supply and Product on pricing, commission structures and market entry decisions, with the financial case behind each one. - Run capital allocation: where we spend, what we stop, and what returns we hold each function to. - Run any potential M&A transactions. 2. Fundraising and investor relations: - Run the fundraise round whenever comes end to end: model, narrative, data room, diligence, and support on term sheet negotiation. - Own the board pack, the quarterly investor update and the relationship with existing investors between rounds. - Build and maintain the debt and working capital options that suit the business and manage banking relationship. 3. Controllership, tax and global structuring: - Own accounting, monthly close, statutory reporting and the internal control environment across all entities. - Manage a multi-entity, multi-currency structure: transfer pricing, cross-border flows, FEMA and RBI compliance, and international tax exposure across our operating markets. - Own direct and indirect tax compliance, assessments and litigation, in India and in overseas jurisdictions. - Run treasury: cash flow, FX exposure, payment rails across markets, and the controls around all of it. - Coordinate statutory and internal audits, and hold clean, timely closes as a standard rather than an achievement. 4. Team and systems: - Lead a finance team which is already in place. - Whenever required hire and develop the finance team across FP&A, controllership and accounts. Qualifications: - CA with 10+ years of experience, including at least 4 years leading a finance team. - Experience in a high-growth environment. - Strong command of corporate finance and investor relations, with real exposure to fundraising and diligence. - Depth in direct and indirect tax compliance, and comfort with multi-entity and multi-currency operations. - Analytical strength: you build the model yourself and can defend every assumption in it. - Clear communication with founders, board members, investors and auditors. Good to have: - Experience taking a company through a Series B or later round. - Exposure to international entity setup, transfer pricing or overseas tax structuring. - Having built or replaced a finance system stack during a period of fast growth.