JSW Group - Finance Lead

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JSW One Platforms Ltd.

On-site

Posted 1 month ago • Apply by May 4, 2026

Job Description

Finance Leader - JSW Homes Overview

The Finance leader will serve as a strategic business partner, responsible for driving profitable scale across JSW One Homes business and project-based businesses. The role combines enterprise-level financial leadership with deep project-level financial control, ensuring strong unit economics, disciplined capital deployment, and robust governance as the company scales across cities, formats, and customer segments.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Strategy & Value Creation in a Project-Led Business
Define and steward the companys financial strategy for a capital-intensive, project-driven real estate business.
Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and Business Unit Heads, shaping growth priorities, profitability pathways, and capital deployment.
Ensure alignment between project economics, scale ambitions, and long-term value creation across geographies and formats.
Project Economics, Unit Viability & Capital Discipline
Own and govern the economic model for homes and projects, ensuring clear visibility into contribution margins, returns, and cash profiles.

Establish Investment And Return Benchmarks For

New projects and city expansion
Format and product innovations
Capacity and capability investments
Enforce disciplined capital allocation and return thresholds across the project lifecycle.
Cash Flow, Working Capital & Liquidity Stewardship
Lead enterprise-wide cash flow and liquidity strategy, recognising the long gestation and milestone-driven nature of real estate projects.
Shape customer payment structures, vendor cycles, and funding strategies to minimise cash lock-up and execution risk.
Anticipate funding needs across projects and growth phases, ensuring balance sheet resilience.
Risk, Governance & Execution Oversight

Define And Oversee a Comprehensive Financial Risk Framework Covering

Cost escalation (materials, labour)
Execution delays and contractual exposure
Customer disputes, cancellations, and refunds
Regulatory and tax risks
Ensure strong governance, internal controls, and transparency appropriate for a scaled real estate platform.
Provide the Board with clear, independent perspectives on project risk exposure and downside scenarios.
Ecosystem Economics & Partner Sustainability
Provide financial leadership across the vendor, contractor, and partner ecosystem critical to real estate execution.

Shape Commercial And Contractual Frameworks That Balance

Cost competitiveness
Delivery reliability
Long-term partner sustainability
Monitor concentration risks and financial dependencies within the execution ecosystem.
Performance Intelligence & Decision Enablement
Build finance into a decision-intelligence function for a multi-project, multi-city real estate platform.
Ensure timely, forward-looking insights into project performance, returns, and capital efficiency.
Create a unified performance narrative linking strategy, execution progress, and financial outcomes.
Institutional Readiness & Finance Leadership
Lead the company toward institutional-grade financial governance, audit readiness, and compliance.
Build a finance organisation capable of supporting scale, complexity, and future capital-market engagement.
Serve as a trusted financial leader to the Board, investors, lenders, and regulators.

Ideal Candidate 12 to 15 years of progressive experience in finance roles.

Prior experience in Real Estate, EPC, Construction, Infrastructure, or project-led businesses strongly preferred.
Experience in high-growth, multi-city operations with complex vendor MBA with specialization in Finance
Chartered Accountant (CA) + MBA preferred.
CFA is an added advantage.

Key Competencies