Head of Accounts & Commercial Operations

Head – Accounts & Commercial Operations | Design-Led Architecture & Interiors Practice

This isn't a CFO seat, and it isn't a back-office one either. It's the space in between – someone with genuine command over Tally, GST, and compliance who also has the maturity to sit across the table from a Group Leader, read a contract, and turn "payment is stuck" into a resolved case.

You'll inherit an accounts function ready to be built into a system: an outstanding invoice tracker that needs real owners and deadlines, monthly reports that need to hold up under partner scrutiny, and a new ERP rollout that needs someone willing to hold ~15 senior colleagues accountable for clean data entry.

What you'll actually own

• Run day-to-day accounts, GST, taxation, and Tally-based compliance with zero hand-holding
• Rebuild the outstanding invoice tracker into something with real owners, next actions, and deadlines
• Read contracts at a working level and connect billing milestones to project deliverables
• Lead the ERP implementation — including the harder part: getting ~15 people to actually enter clean data
• Own client-side commercial coordination on payment realisation — structured escalation across a ~35-project portfolio, not volume calling
• Delegate to and develop a small in-house accounts team
• Convert every recurring finance mess into a checklist, tracker, or process that doesn't need you to repeat yourself

What gets you shortlisted

• 10–12+ years in accounts/finance operations, ideally with CA / CA Inter / equivalent depth
• Real command over Tally, GST, and taxation — not just review-level familiarity
• Comfort translating money into language a designer or architect will actually act on
• A track record of turning fragmented, manual systems into structured ones
• Written English sharp enough to hold a firm, professional payment conversation without sounding transactional

This is a full-time, in-studio seat — five days, with dedicated deep-work time carved out so focus isn't a fight. If you need remote or hybrid flexibility to do your best work, this isn't that role.

Not a fit if: you're chasing a CFO-level strategy mandate, you've only ever worked back-office without client contact, or your idea of collections is 30 calls a day rather than a system that makes most of them unnecessary.

Delhi based. If building the finance backbone of a design-led practice – not just running its books – sounds like your next chapter, we'd like to talk.