About the role
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Month-end close, reporting, and Audits:
- Run a fixed close calendar for every entity: standalone books, intercompany eliminations, consolidated MIS.
- Own Board and investor reporting: Board packs, monthly investor MIS, quarterly updates and SaaS metrics (ARR, NRR, burn, runway), on time and right first time.
- Meet every investor information right under the shareholders' agreement.
- Run statutory audits across every entity and close them on schedule with clean opinions.
Internal controls:
- Design a control framework that scales with Keka: delegation of authority, maker-checker, segregation of duties.
- Meet IFC requirements and close every audit observation on time.
- Every new entity goes live with controls on day one.
Global finance structure:
- Transfer pricing strategy: design how IP, revenue and costs flow between India, the US, MENA and the Philippines, with intercompany models that are tax-efficient and audit-proof.
- PE evaluation: assess permanent-establishment exposure as sales and delivery teams work across borders, and structure to stay ahead of it.
- New entities: incorporate and operationalise new subsidiaries end-to-end: setup, banking, tax registrations, intercompany agreements and controls.
Global taxation:
- Own Keka's global tax position: India direct and indirect tax, US federal and state, UAE and KSA corporate tax and VAT, Philippines.
- Optimise the effective tax rate: treaty benefits, foreign tax credit recovery on cross-border withholding, and incentive regimes in new markets.
- Defend and comply: lead assessments and litigation with advisors; zero missed filings across entities.
Payroll:
- Own payroll accuracy and payroll accounting for every country: India in-house, US, MENA and Philippines.
- Statutory compliances.
Accounts payable and receivable:
- Turn revenue into cash: own DSO, collections and bad-debt exposure in every market.
- Pay right, pay on time: a payables engine with zero errors and zero slippage on TDS/WHT and MSME payment timelines.
- Control FX: multi-currency books (INR, AED, SAR, USD, PHP) with exposure tracked and revalued monthly.
Cash and treasury:
- 13-week cash forecast across all entities and currencies.
- Banking relationships in every country; subsidiaries funded on time and FEMA/ODI compliant.
- Surplus cash and FX managed within board-approved policy.
Finance strategy with the CFO:
- Work directly with the CFO on AOP, pricing of new business lines and market-entry economics.
- Keep finance diligence-ready at all times for fundraises, audits and acquirers.
Automation and AI:
- Build an AI-first finance function: automate close, reconciliations, AP and collections so finance scales without headcount growing in step with revenue.
- Put AI to work on analysis, variance commentary, invoice and contract review, and reporting.
- Own the finance-systems roadmap: ERP, spend management, multi-entity reporting.
Team:
- Lead and grow the finance team in Hyderabad; set the bar on accuracy and turnaround.
- Hire or appoint country finance owners and manage outsourced accounting firms in overseas entities.
Requirements:
- Chartered Accountant with 10+ years post-qualification; at least 3 years of them as Financial Controller or Head of Accounts.
- Has worked in fast-paced, unstructured, high-growth companies. We blitzscale.
- Hands-on with consolidation, intercompany and transfer pricing, not only through advisors.
- Working knowledge of Indian direct and indirect tax; working command of cross-border WHT, foreign tax credit and PE.
- Has built controls from scratch (DoA, risk-control matrix, IFC) and cleared audits without material findings.
- Heavy AI user who enjoys building automations; we use NetSuite.
- B2B SaaS or subscription-revenue experience.