Job Title: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Company: JSW One Platforms Ltd.

Location: Mumbai

Role Overview

The CFO will serve as a strategic finance leader and business partner, responsible for driving profitable scale across JSW One's platform-led and project-based businesses. The role combines enterprise-level financial leadership with deep project-level financial control, ensuring strong unit economics, disciplined capital deployment, and robust governance as the company scales across cities, formats, and customer segments.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Strategy & Value Creation in a Project-Led Business:

Define and steward the company's financial strategy for a capital-intensive, project-driven real estate business.
Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and Business Unit Heads, shaping growth priorities, profitability pathways, and capital deployment.
Ensure alignment between project economics, scale ambitions, and long-term value creation across geographies and formats.

Project Economics, Unit Viability & Capital Discipline

Own and govern the economic model for homes and projects, ensuring clear visibility into contribution margins, returns, and cash profiles.

Establish Investment And Return Benchmarks For

New projects and city expansion
Format and product innovations
Capacity and capability investments
Enforce disciplined capital allocation and return thresholds across the project lifecycle.

Cash Flow, Working Capital & Liquidity Stewardship

Lead enterprise-wide cash flow and liquidity strategy, recognising the long gestation and milestone-driven nature of real estate projects.
Shape customer payment structures, vendor cycles, and funding strategies to minimise cash lock-up and execution risk.
Anticipate funding needs across projects and growth phases, ensuring balance sheet resilience.

Risk, Governance & Execution Oversight

Define and oversee a comprehensive financial risk framework covering:

Cost escalation (materials, labour)
Execution delays and contractual exposure
Customer disputes, cancellations, and refunds
Regulatory and tax risks
Ensure strong governance, internal controls, and transparency appropriate for a scaled real estate platform.
Provide the Board with clear, independent perspectives on project risk exposure and downside scenarios.

Ecosystem Economics & Partner Sustainability

Provide financial leadership across the vendor, contractor, and partner ecosystem critical to real estate execution.

Cost Competitiveness

Shape commercial and contractual frameworks that balance:

Delivery Reliability

Long-term partner sustainability
Monitor concentration risks and financial dependencies within the execution ecosystem.

Performance Intelligence & Decision Enablement

Build finance into a decision-intelligence function for a multi-project, multi-city real estate platform.
Ensure timely, forward-looking insights into project performance, returns, and capital efficiency.
Create a unified performance narrative linking strategy, execution progress, and financial outcomes.

Institutional Readiness & Finance Leadership

Lead the company toward institutional-grade financial governance, audit readiness, and compliance.
Build a finance organisation capable of supporting scale, complexity, and future capital-market engagement.
Serve as a trusted financial leader to the Board, investors, lenders, and regulators.

Ideal Candidate 12-15 years of progressive experience in finance roles.

Prior experience in Real Estate, EPC, Construction, Infrastructure, or project-led businesses strongly preferred.
Experience in high-growth, multi-city operations with complex vendor MBA with specialization in Finance
Chartered Accountant (CA) + MBA preferred.
CFA is an added advantage.

Key Competencies

Strong commercial and strategic mindset.
Deep understanding of project economics and unit-level profitability.
Ability to partner with business leaders and influence outcomes.
High integrity, governance orientation, and execution discipline.

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