Assistant vice president finance

Assistant Vice President Finance & Debt Raising

You report to the Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Or CFO who sets the capital strategy you raise against. This is the seat that goes to the lenders.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

The debt strategy and the lender map. Which lender for which asset, at which stage, at what tenor and what cost. Construction finance, term loans, lease rental discounting, structured and mezzanine debt, non-convertible debentures, and the refinancing that follows. The public sector and development finance channel. Na BFID under its Transport and Logistics mandate, IIFCL, HUDCO, SIDBI and NABARD where the asset qualifies, and the project finance and infrastructure desks of the public sector banks. This channel is long-tenor, lower-cost and under-used by developers of our size, and building it is a stated objective of the seat rather than an afterthought. The private channel alongside it. Private and foreign banks, housing finance companies, infrastructure finance companies and NBFCs, insurance and pension money for long-tenor paper, private credit and alternative investment funds, and offshore and development finance institution lines where they price better than domestic. Every term sheet, from first approach to disbursement. Structuring, negotiation, security creation, covenants, conditions precedent and subsequent, inter-creditor arrangements, and the discipline of never signing a covenant the asset cannot live with. Treasury. Cash flow forecasting across special purpose vehicles, drawdown scheduling against construction progress, surplus deployment, banking relationships and mandates, interest rate and currency exposure, and the controls that keep all of it clean. The credit story. Rating agency engagement with CRISIL, ICRA and CARE, the information memorandum, the lender pack, and the quarterly reporting that keeps a lender comfortable between drawdowns. Lender diligence and covenant compliance, run as a discipline rather than a scramble. Technical, legal and financial diligence coordinated by you, with the answers ready before the question.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

12 + years, with the recent part of it raising debt for real estate, warehousing, industrial or infrastructure assets. Borrower-side experience is essential. A lender-side career alone does not qualify, and a career that has only ever been lender-side will not clear this seat. If you have been both - credit or project finance at a bank or an NBFC, then corporate finance at a developer or a platform - that is the profile we want most. Closed transactions you can name and size. Construction finance, lease rental discounting, structured debt or NCDs, with the tenor, the pricing and what you negotiated out of the term sheet. Direct experience with at least one public sector or development finance institution - Na BFID, IIFCL, HUDCO, SIDBI, NABARD, or a public sector bank's project finance or infrastructure group. This is the channel we intend to build and we would rather hire someone who has already walked into those rooms. Treasury run in practice, not in theory: cash flow forecasting across multiple entities, drawdown discipline against construction milestones, and banking mandates you owned. CA, MBA in Finance, or CFA. An engineering first degree alongside any of those is an advantage in this sector, not a requirement. Advanced Microsoft Excel, and financial models you built yourself rather than inherited. Experience with SAP, Oracle or an equivalent treasury or ERP platform. Weekly use of AI tools, and the judgement to know when they are wrong.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

It is not fund raising from limited partners. Institutional capital and investor relations sit with the Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, this seat's reporting line, and fund-side relationships sit with the investment manager. It is not accounting or controllership. The books, the close and project accounting sit in finance and accounts. It is not a relationship-management seat at a bank in a developer's clothing. You are on the borrower's side and you are expected to argue.