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Industries We Serve

Finance Hiring Reads Differently in Every Industry

A Financial Controller at a Series A startup and one at a listed manufacturer share a job title and almost nothing else. We hire against the industry, not the title.

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The Title Is the Same. The Job Is Not.

A startup's first finance hire is building a function from nothing, usually alone, usually while the business changes shape underneath them. A GCC finance lead inherits a mature process and is measured on running it consistently across time zones. A BFSI controller works inside a regulatory perimeter that dictates half of what the role can do.

Same title. Entirely different work, different pressure and different failure modes — which means a shortlist that ignores industry is a shortlist of people who read well on paper.

The Industries We Cover

Six industries where we have placed enough finance professionals to know what the role actually demands.

Startups

First finance hires, fundraise readiness and building a function from zero.

GCCs

Global capability centres scaling from shared services into strategic finance.

BFSI

Banking, financial services and insurance, where regulation shapes the role.

Manufacturing

Cost accounting, plant finance and working capital in asset-heavy businesses.

Technology & SaaS

Revenue recognition, ARR reporting and metrics investors actually read.

PE, VC & Family Offices

Portfolio finance, fund reporting and the diligence-ready close.

How We Evaluate

One Framework, Calibrated by Industry

The seven dimensions are the same everywhere. The benchmark on each one is set by the industry — which is the part a generalist search gets wrong.

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7dimensions
Technical CompetencyIndustry ExperienceCareer ProgressionBusiness UnderstandingLeadership CapabilityCommunication SkillsOrganizational Fit

What Changes Between Industries

Four things move whenever the industry does. Each sector page works through them for that industry specifically.

The technical bar

Ind AS depth for a listed manufacturer, ASC 606 for SaaS, IRDAI or RBI reporting for BFSI. Different ground, not a different level.

The compensation benchmark

The same seniority is priced differently across industries and cities. Benchmarking against the wrong one loses the candidate at the offer stage.

The talent pool

Some industries hire from within themselves; others draw from consulting or Big Four. Where you source from decides who you can reach.

What derails the hire

Pace at a startup, process discipline at a GCC, regulatory judgement in BFSI. The failure mode is industry-specific and worth testing for.

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StartupsGCCsBFSIManufacturingTechnology & SaaSPE, VC & Family Offices

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions clients ask most before starting a finance search. If yours isn’t here, we’re one call away.

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Six in depth: startups, global capability centres (GCCs), BFSI, manufacturing, technology & SaaS, and private equity, venture capital & family offices. We take mandates outside these, but these are where our talent mapping and compensation benchmarks are deepest.

Yes. The six listed are where we hold the deepest market maps, but we run mandates across other industries. Where we do not have depth, we say so on the scoping call rather than after the search has run.

Yes — from a first India-based finance hire through to a full shared services or centre-of-excellence team. Where no Indian entity exists yet, the early hires can run through our Employer of Record structure while entity formation completes.

Because the same finance title carries different work in different industries. Revenue recognition at a SaaS business, cost accounting at a manufacturer and regulatory reporting at an insurer are distinct technical skills, and the compensation benchmarks, talent pools and common failure modes differ with them.

Yes. Compensation benchmarking by industry, seniority and city is part of the mapping stage on every search, and we share it before sourcing begins so the offer stage is not the first time expectations are tested.

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