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Strategic financial leadership for growing businesses in India and abroad — full-time, fractional, or virtual.
A CFO does three things: keeps the business solvent, makes capital allocation decisions defensible, and gives the board enough information to govern. Many growing businesses need that capability before they can hire it full-time. Our CFO & Virtual CFO practice provides it on the engagement model that fits the business — virtual, fractional, or interim.
The practice serves businesses in India and businesses overseas that operate in India. For the international segment, the firm’s priority markets — in order — are the GCC (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman) and SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines) first, the UK next, and the US last. The order reflects working-day overlap with Indian Standard Time: GCC and SEA share a full IST working day; the UK shares an afternoon-IST window; the US is served by appointment in early-morning or late-evening IST slots.
The firm’s founder, with 42 years of professional experience including four decades of work alongside Indian and overseas businesses, leads or oversees every CFO engagement personally. The work is proprietor-led, not delegated.
What this covers
The bullets below describe what is typically in scope. Every engagement is scoped tightly in a written engagement letter before work begins.
Who it's for
Indian growth-stage businesses — typically post-Series-A or revenue-positive bootstrapped — that need a CFO function but do not yet need a full-time hire; founders who want their finance leader to be senior and accountable, not a junior consultant.
Indian subsidiaries of overseas companies (GCC, SEA, UK, US) that need a local financial controller running books in Indian standards and reporting to the parent in IFRS or US GAAP-aware format on the parent’s reporting calendar.
Overseas businesses with operations or plans in India — opening an entity, processing a remittance flow, hiring a first finance person, getting through year-one statutory audit — that benefit from an India-resident CFO with four decades of practice behind the firm and a clean working-day overlap with the home office.
Our approach
Every CFO engagement begins with a written scoping note: the question being answered (operational, strategic, capital, controls, or audit-readiness), the cadence (weekly, monthly, project-based), the deliverables (MIS pack, board pack, model, policy, fundraise materials), and the proprietor accountable. The work runs to a fixed monthly close calendar so the board, investors, and lenders see numbers on the same date each month. Indian books are kept under Indian Accounting Standards or Ind AS as applicable, with a parallel reporting pack in the parent’s framework where the client is a subsidiary. We coordinate with statutory auditors, tax advisors, and regulators on the client’s behalf, and we document positions taken in writing so the next round of stakeholders can pick up the file. For international clients, we commit a named time-zone window — GCC and SEA get the full IST working day, UK clients get the afternoon-IST overlap, US clients are served by appointment — and we honour it.
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Engagements often combine two or three of these. Speak with us to scope the right mix.
Strategic advisory for growth, structuring, valuations, due diligence, and deal support.
Cross-border tax, FEMA compliance, and structuring for inbound and outbound transactions.
Day-to-day accounting, payroll, and back-office support so the client can focus on the business.
Get in touch
Whether you're an Indian business scaling past the founder-as-CFO stage, an Indian subsidiary of an overseas parent, or an overseas company entering India — we'll respond within one working day. CA Anil Arora oversees every engagement personally.