Company Description AppKhichadi DXP is a secure, scalable data infrastructure that enables seamless data sharing across businesses, platforms, and ecosystems in India. Built with a privacy-first and compliance-driven approach, it helps organizations exchange, enrich, and activate data in real time. The platform is designed to support high-volume data flows while ensuring interoperability between diverse systems. By powering advanced analytics, personalization, and monetization, AppKhichadi DXP serves as a foundational layer for India’s rapidly evolving digital economy.

Role: Chief Financial Officer

Experience: 15–20 years

Location: India

Engagement: Strategic / Leadership Role

Compensation: Equity / Stake-based only

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Chief Financial Officer to lead the company’s finance, compliance, governance, fundraising, investor relations, taxation, and strategic financial planning functions.

The CFO will work closely with the Founder / CEO and leadership team to build a financially disciplined, compliant, scalable, and investor-ready organization. This role is ideal for a senior finance leader who understands the Indian business ecosystem, startup funding environment, regulatory framework, and growth-stage financial operations.

Key ResponsibilitiesFinancial Strategy & Planning

Own the company’s overall financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning.
Build financial models for business planning, fundraising, valuation, unit economics, and profitability analysis.
Advise the Founder / CEO on capital allocation, cost optimization, revenue strategy, and business scalability.
Create financial dashboards and MIS reports for leadership, investors, and board-level reviews.

Fundraising & Investor Relations

Support fundraising strategy across angel, seed, VC, family office, strategic investor, and debt funding channels.
Prepare investor decks, financial projections, valuation models, due diligence data rooms, and funding documentation.
Manage communication with investors, lenders, financial institutions, and external stakeholders.
Evaluate term sheets, investment structures, dilution impact, and shareholder-level implications.

Compliance, Taxation & Governance

Ensure compliance with Indian statutory, regulatory, tax, accounting, and corporate governance requirements.
Oversee GST, TDS, income tax, ROC, MCA filings, audits, FEMA compliance, and other applicable regulatory obligations.
Work with company secretaries, auditors, tax consultants, legal advisors, and compliance partners.
Ensure board, shareholder, and investor reporting is accurate and timely.

Accounting & Financial Operations

Set up and supervise accounting systems, internal financial controls, expense approvals, revenue recognition, and cash-flow management.
Oversee monthly closing, bookkeeping, reconciliations, payroll finance, vendor payments, receivables, and payables.
Build processes for financial discipline, audit readiness, and transparency.
Implement scalable financial systems, ERP/accounting tools, and reporting frameworks.

Risk Management

Identify financial, operational, regulatory, taxation, and compliance risks.
Design risk mitigation frameworks, internal controls, approval matrices, and governance policies.
Support contract review from a financial, commercial, and risk perspective.
Ensure responsible cash management and runway planning.

Business & Commercial Support

Partner with business, product, sales, and operations teams to improve pricing, margins, collections, and profitability.
Track business KPIs including revenue, burn, runway, CAC, LTV, gross margin, EBITDA, working capital, and cash conversion.
Support strategic partnerships, M&A evaluation, vendor negotiations, and commercial decision-making.

Required Experience

15–20 years of experience in finance leadership, corporate finance, controllership, audit, fundraising, compliance, taxation, or strategic finance.
Prior experience as CFO, Finance Head, VP Finance, Director Finance, or senior finance leadership role.
Strong understanding of Indian regulatory and compliance environment.
Experience working with startups, growth-stage companies, technology companies, fintech, SaaS, data, digital, or platform businesses preferred.
Proven experience in fundraising, investor reporting, financial modeling, audits, taxation, and governance.
Experience dealing with auditors, company secretaries, tax consultants, banks, investors, and board members.

Qualification

CA strongly preferred.
MBA Finance, CFA, CPA, or equivalent qualification will be an added advantage.
Strong command over Indian accounting standards, taxation, Companies Act, GST, TDS, ROC/MCA compliance, and financial governance.

Compensation Structure

This is a stake / equity-based leadership opportunity. The final stake structure will be discussed based on experience, involvement level, value addition, time commitment, fundraising contribution, and long-term alignment with the company.

Possible structures may include:

Equity stake
ESOP allocation
Advisory equity
Performance-linked equity
Milestone-based vesting
Hybrid structure, if mutually agreed

Role Type

This role may be structured as:

Full-time CFO
Fractional CFO
Strategic CFO
Co-founder-level finance partner
Advisor CFO with defined deliverables and vesting milestones

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