Advisory · Virtual CFO
A CFO for your India entity,
without the headcount.
A virtual CFO gives your India entity senior finance leadership — monthly board reporting, cash flow and budgeting, FP&A, controls, and tax oversight — on a fixed monthly retainer instead of a full-time hire. For foreign-owned subsidiaries, it also means FEMA-compliant funding and repatriation, handled by an in-house team on the ground.
Your India subsidiary needs someone who owns the numbers — not just records them. We give you CFO-level reporting, forecasting, and decision support a few days a month, so HQ gets clean, board-ready visibility without the cost and risk of a full-time India CFO.
- Monthly MIS
- Board-ready reporting
- In-house CAs
- On the ground in India
- No full-time CFO
- Senior finance, on tap
The gap after setup
Your India entity is live. But who owns the numbers?
- Visibility
Can you see your India numbers the way HQ needs them?
Local books rarely map cleanly to parent-company reporting. Without someone translating India financials into the format your board expects, you're flying blind between audits.
- Cash & runway
Who's watching India cash flow, burn, and funding needs?
Repatriation rules, FEMA limits, and local working-capital cycles make India cash harder to manage from abroad. A missed forecast can strand capital or trip a compliance line.
- Decisions
Who pressure-tests pricing, hiring, and India budgets?
A bookkeeper records what happened. Growth decisions — headcount, transfer pricing, capex — need a finance owner who can model the trade-offs before you commit.
- Cost of a hire
Do you really need a ₹50L+ full-time India CFO yet?
A senior in-house CFO is expensive and hard to hire for a young subsidiary. Most foreign-owned entities need CFO-level judgment a few days a month — not a full salary.
Incorporating in India is the easy part. The harder question is who owns the financial picture afterward — turning local books into board-ready reporting, watching cash and FEMA-bound capital, and bringing senior judgment to the decisions that actually move the business.
What's included
What your virtual CFO actually owns.
Everything a CFO would own for your India entity — reporting, cash, controls, compliance oversight, and strategy — delivered by one in-house team.
Monthly MIS & board reporting
We turn your India books into clean, parent-ready management reports — P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and the KPIs your board actually tracks — delivered on a fixed monthly cadence.
- Parent-format management accounts
- KPI dashboard & variance analysis
- Consolidation-ready for HQ
Cash flow, budgeting & forecasting
Rolling cash-flow forecasts, annual budgets, and scenario models for your India operation — so you always know runway, funding needs, and the impact of the next decision.
- 13-week & rolling cash forecasts
- Annual budget & re-forecasts
- Scenario & headcount modelling
FEMA, repatriation & funding flow
We plan how capital moves in and out — share capital, ECB, dividends, royalties — within RBI/FEMA limits, so funding your India entity and pulling profits back never becomes a surprise.
- Inbound funding structuring
- Repatriation & dividend planning
- FEMA-compliant capital flow
Financial controls & process
We put the day-to-day controls in place — approval workflows, vendor and payroll discipline, month-end close — so the books stay clean and audit-ready without HQ chasing them.
- Approval & spend controls
- Disciplined month-end close
- Audit-ready records year-round
Compliance & tax oversight
Your virtual CFO sits above the GST, TDS, ROC, income-tax, and transfer-pricing calendar — reviewing positions and risk, not just filing — so nothing slips and the parent stays protected.
- Compliance calendar oversight
- Transfer-pricing risk review
- Tax-position sign-off
Decision & investor support
When you raise, expand, or report to the group, you get senior finance in the room — pricing, unit economics, India due-diligence support, and the analysis your stakeholders ask for.
- Pricing & unit-economics analysis
- Fundraise / diligence support
- Group & investor reporting
How we work
From messy books to finance you can steer by.
We review your India books, current reporting, cash position, and compliance status, then agree the reporting cadence and KPIs your board needs.
We clean up the chart of accounts, build your MIS pack, budget, and cash-flow model, and put month-end close and controls in place.
Each month you get management accounts, a cash and runway view, variance commentary, and a working session with your CFO to act on it.
Ahead of fundraises, expansion, transfer-pricing reviews, and board meetings, your virtual CFO models the options and represents finance in the room.
FAQ
Virtual CFO services in India, answered.
A virtual CFO gives your India entity senior finance leadership on a part-time, retained basis instead of a full-time hire. The role covers monthly MIS and board reporting, cash-flow and budgeting, FP&A and forecasting, financial controls, oversight of GST/TDS/ROC and transfer-pricing compliance, and support on fundraising, pricing, and group reporting. For a foreign-owned subsidiary, it also means managing FEMA-compliant funding and repatriation so capital moves cleanly between the parent and India.
Get a CFO on your India numbers this month.
Tell us about your India entity and how HQ wants to see the numbers. We'll map the reporting, cash, and oversight your virtual CFO would own, and quote a clear monthly scope.
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