Who We Are

Paramverse Bio Pvt. Ltd. is building India's next great bio company, with a focus on biological agriculture. Founded in 2024 and part of Paramverse Group, it develops and sells indigenous microbial formulations under the DHARITRI SUTRA™ brand. The portfolio spans 21 registered products across three lines: RAKSHAK (bio-protection), POSHAK (bio-nutrition), and AMRITAM (export-grade compliance).

Every product is delivered through the "Doctor of Soil" model: a certified agronomist, a personalised prescription, and data to show whether it worked. Paramverse Bio is live across nine Indian states in Phase 1 (FY27), with 48 territories, institutional-grade manufacturing, and field-to-export traceability.

About the Role

The CFO owns Paramverse's finance function end to end — bookkeeping, compliance, and payroll as much as treasury, planning, and governance — in a lean, early-stage environment with no legacy processes to build on. This is a hands-on leadership role: the CFO personally builds the systems and controls a small team need, decides what to run in-house versus outsource, and reports directly to the founders as part of the core leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Recording & Reporting

Own bookkeeping, accounts payable/receivable and credit control, directly or through a lean outsourced team you manage tightly
Set up financial recording and reporting from day one — clean books are non-negotiable even at small scale
Run statutory and internal audits, and stay ahead of compliance rather than scrambling at year-end
Manage direct and indirect taxation, including startup-specific exemptions and filings
Run payroll accurately and on time as headcount grows
Build a document and records-management system the team can actually use, without needing a dedicated ops person

2. Corporate Financial Operations & Risk Management

Manage working capital and arrange project/growth finance as the business scales, with a bias toward capital-efficient structures
Oversee any international trade, forex exposure and cross-border payments, and support international partnerships
Manage company investments and cash reserves, prioritizing safety and liquidity over yield
Own cash flow monitoring and forecasting — in a startup, runway visibility is a weekly discipline, not a monthly report
Advise on corporate structuring (entities, subsidiaries, holding structure) as the business grows
Manage physical assets, property, equipment and infrastructure, including insurance, depreciation and valuation, kept as lightweight as the business allows.

3. Business Performance Strategy, Planning & Control

Contribute to business strategy formulation and governance, translating financial performance into clear recommendations for the founders
Build and manage budgets and forecasts that hold up under fast-changing assumptions, and revise them as the business learns
Track financial and business performance metrics, and explain — and close — the gap between plan and actuals
Own product/service costing, including unit economics, so pricing and margin decisions are made on real numbers
Stand up lightweight MIS, reporting, analytics and ratio analysis, and use them to generate insights, not just compliance paperwork.

4. Corporate Governance, Regulatory & Legal Management

Build and maintain the regulatory and compliance framework the company operates under, and keep it current as rules and the business change
Manage company-law compliance, board affairs and the cap table; prepare board decks and support effective board decision-making
Design and implement an internal controls and risk management framework sized for a startup — enough rigor to protect the business, without choking speed
Shape corporate citizenship and policy — the practical policies (expenses, approvals, data, ethics) a growing team actually needs.

5. Process Optimization & Technology Integration

Treat this as a core part of the role, not a side project: at our size, the finance stack you choose is the finance team
Select and implement accounting, payroll, expense and reporting tools that automate routine work rather than adding headcount
Continuously simplify processes — accounts, approvals, reconciliations, compliance filings — so they scale without breaking
Identify where technology can replace manual effort first, and where a human judgment call still matters.

Requirements

Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent qualification; MBA in Finance is a plus
12+ years in finance, with meaningful experience in a startup or fast-growing company where you personally did the work, not just reviewed it
Demonstrated range across accounting/compliance, treasury/cash management, planning & analysis, and governance — not a single narrow specialty
Experience setting up finance processes and systems from a low base, rather than only operating within an established function
Working knowledge of relevant corporate, tax and regulatory law; comfort working closely with legal/company secretarial matters
Fluency with modern finance and accounting tools, and a genuine interest in automating manual work.

Who Thrives in This Role

Builders, not just administrators — energized by creating a function from nothing rather than optimizing one that already exists
Comfortable with ambiguity and limited resources, and resourceful about getting things done without a big team or budget
High ownership: willing to personally do detailed, hands-on work alongside setting strategy
Pragmatic risk judgment — knows when to be rigorous and when “good enough for our stage” is the right call
Clear communicators who can translate finance for founders, investors and non-finance teammates

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