Position: Chief Financial Officer (CFO), India
Location: India
Reports to: Managing Partner
About Beverly Hills Polo Club (BHPC)
Beverly Hills Polo Club (BHPC) is an iconic global lifestyle brand with a strong equity across fashion, fragrances, and accessories.
With a heritage rooted in American luxury and aspirational living, BHPC has scaled across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. India represents a strategic growth frontier—an integrated platform spanning fashion, accessories, omni-channel retail, and digital commerce.
The India business is central to the brand’s next chapter of global expansion, with a clear mandate to institutionalize world-class financial governance, accelerate scale, and prepare the enterprise for the rigor of a potential public listing.
Role Purpose
The CFO will serve as the financial architect and strategic partner to the India leadership team. This role demands a seasoned finance leader who can balance board-level strategy with operational execution, ensuring robust governance while enabling ambitious growth in a fast-evolving fashion and retail landscape.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Financial Leadership
· Shape and execute the long-term financial strategy that underpins accelerated growth, market expansion, and global integration.
· Develop and deliver India’s financial roadmap, aligned with BHPC’s global growth vision and designed to meet the rigor of IPO-level expectations.
· Lead business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment prioritization, ensuring visibility across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons.
· Provide actionable financial insights to support market entry, category expansion, retail rollouts, and omni-channel growth.
· Serve as a trusted advisor to Partners and Board on capital structure, risk-return trade-offs, and strategic investment opportunities.
2. Financial Control, Compliance & Governance
· Institutionalize a robust financial control framework, covering accounting, reporting, and enterprise-wide risk management.
· Ensure full compliance with Indian statutory requirements (Companies Act, GST, Income Tax, Transfer Pricing, RBI regulations, etc.) while aligning with global reporting standards (IFRS/Ind-AS) and practices expected of listed multinational corporations.
· Drive best-in-class financial governance, reporting transparency, and investor-grade disclosures, laying the foundation for IPO-level readiness.
· Manage statutory, internal, and group audits, ensuring zero tolerance for compliance lapses and reinforcing financial credibility.
· Partner with auditors, advisors, regulators, and banks to safeguard financial integrity and market confidence.
· Embed ESG and governance principles, enhancing long-term enterprise value and aligning with stakeholder expectations.
3. Business Partnering & Performance Management
· Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Retail, and Supply Chain leaders to drive P&L ownership, sharpen unit economics, and ensure financial sustainability.
· Support category launches, retail store expansion, e-commerce scaling, and licensing models, structuring each for profitability and long-term scalability.
· Lead margin expansion initiatives across sourcing, vendor negotiations, pricing strategies, and channel mix optimization.
· Champion data-driven decision-making, designing KPIs, analytics, and dashboards that deliver real-time visibility across business verticals.
· Act as a proactive partner in shaping commercial strategy, ensuring investments and new models deliver ROI and enterprise value growth.
4. Cash Flow & Capital Allocation
- Manage working capital cycles, ensuring healthy liquidity and cash flow discipline.
- Optimize banking relationships, debt structures, and funding mechanisms to fuel expansion.
- Oversee foreign exchange management and ensure efficient capital deployment across new ventures.
- Lead capital investment evaluations, including store economics, distribution expansion, and e-commerce infrastructure.
5. Technology, Digital & Analytics Enablement
· Drive finance transformation through technology, ensuring ERP, BI, and automation tools deliver efficiency, accuracy, and foresight.
· Build strong analytics capabilities to generate insights for consumer, retail, and supply chain decision-making.
· Enable predictive analytics and performance dashboards that serve both operational teams and boardroom decision-makers.
· Champion a digital-first, data-driven culture, balancing intuition with evidence-based decision-making to support omni-channel growth and investor confidence.
6. Leadership & Organizational Development
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing finance team.
- Instill a culture of accountability, transparency, and agility.
- Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and global leadership team, providing independent judgment and strategic counsel.
Candidate Profile
Qualifications & Experience
- Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA, or MBA (Finance) from a reputed institution.
- 18+ years of progressive finance experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior finance leadership role (CFO/Head of Finance) within Fashion, Retail, FMCG, Luxury, or Lifestyle industries.
- Proven ability to scale businesses, manage multi-channel distribution, and handle complex financial structures.
- Strong understanding of Indian regulatory landscape as well as cross-border compliance in multinational organizations.
- Demonstrated success in managing investor, board, and external stakeholder relationships.
Skills & Competencies
- Strategic mindset with strong commercial and operational acumen.
- Hands-on yet capable of board-level influence.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Integrity, resilience, and the ability to thrive in high-growth, entrepreneurial environments.
- Tech-savvy with strong exposure to ERP, digital finance tools, and advanced analytics platforms.
What We Offer
- A pivotal leadership role in building the India arm of a global fashion and lifestyle powerhouse.
- Opportunity to shape the financial blueprint for a multi-category, omni-channel business.
- A dynamic, entrepreneurial environment with exposure to global best practices and cross-cultural teams.
- Competitive compensation, performance-linked incentives, and long-term growth opportunities.
