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Director - Accounting & Taxation

Director - Accounting & Taxation

Searce IncPune, Maharashtra, India
8 days ago
Job description

Accounting & Taxation | Director

A revenue-owning, outcome-delivering solver responsible for leading Searce's finance function, driving profitable growth from first principles, and continuously modernizing operations with AI-powered insights .

Your Mission : The Role

You're not just a finance leader; you're the chief architect of our financial future and an innovation leader for our revenue engine. You lead by doing : optimizing processes, building robust reporting, and scaling financial infrastructure that powers real business outcomes. You'll be hands-on defining foundational financial architecture, evolving our operational finance DNA, and unlocking new capabilities for AI-powered insights and automation.

You'll head all core Finance functions (FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Compliance) and champion the Intelligent Financial Insights (IFI) team . Using first-principles design, you'll create predictable growth and drive net-new revenue streams. We need a Head of Finance who dives into data integrity, whiteboards optimal cash flow strategies, and thinks automation-first. A relentless improver, ruthless cost-optimizer, and defender of profitable velocity, you'll be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for financial health, integrity, innovation, and finance team performance.

Your Responsibilities

This isn't a "manage the accounting team" role. You're the architect reimagining "what's next" for Searce's financial landscape and redefining "how" our financial operations evolve. Your mission : define the future of finance at Searce, build scalable financial platforms, and translate financial excellence into compounding business advantage.

Here's how you'll make your mark :

  • Set the Financial North Star — Strategy & Vision : Architect Searce's financial future. Define the 3-year roadmap for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, capital allocation, global tax strategy, and robust compliance frameworks, directly linking them to growth objectives and our AI-native mission. Own the P&L to drive profitability, revenue growth, margin expansion, and client ROI (targeting ≥30% uplift).
  • Robust Accounting Compliance Frameworks : Establish and maintain strong internal controls and a comprehensive compliance framework. Ensure adherence to all accounting standards (e.g., IFRS, GAAP) and local regulations in every country where we operate. Manage internal and external audits effectively.
  • Tax Strategy & Optimization : Develop and implement a proactive global tax strategy that accounts for the complex tax landscape of digital services, intangible assets, and international operations. Manage transfer pricing policies to ensure compliance and optimize the intercompany flow of funds across different legal entities. Identify and capitalize on tax incentives and credits related to R&D and AI technology development in various jurisdictions.
  • Lead with Intelligent Insights — Data & Analytics : Head the Intelligent Financial Insights (IFI) team . Guide development and leverage of advanced analytics, BI dashboards, and predictive models to identify top accounts, optimize revenue forecasting, and derive actionable insights. Implement and optimize accounting and tax software to improve efficiency and accuracy. This includes evaluating and integrating new AI-powered tools for tasks like automated data entry, invoice reconciliation, and real-time reporting.
  • Grow the Finance Talent & Ecosystem : Elevate talent. Hire, coach, and retain world-class finance professionals and financial data experts ("solvers"); aim to double internal promotion rates YoY. Set the bar by codifying financial standards, reporting principles, compliance protocols, and tax management best practices that scale globally. Partner deeply with financial institutions, audit partners, tax advisors, and relevant tech providers to enhance Searce’s financial infrastructure.

Welcome to Searce

We're a ' process-first ', AI-native modern tech consultancy rewriting the rules. As an engineering-led consultancy, we relentlessly improve real business outcomes. Our solvers co-innovate with clients to futurify operations, making processes smarter, faster, and better. We build alongside clients for transformation, embedding lasting competitive advantage, not just vanity metrics. The result? Modern business reinvention, built on math, tech, and clarity of purpose.

Functional Skills

  • Engineering-Minded Accounting Ownership : Designs, evaluates, and evolves end-to-end financial systems, reporting frameworks, tax processes, and operational procedures to drive profitable business outcomes.
  • Platform Scalability & Reliability : Balances performance, technical debt, and cost to scale financial systems reliably, ensuring 99.9% accuracy in reporting, robust controls, and global tax compliance.
  • First-Principles Financial Builder : Applies an "evlos-style" mindset to build, evolve, and optimize financial processes, prioritizing impact over established patterns.
  • Strategic & Cross-Functional Influence : Simplifies complex financial insights into clear narratives for all stakeholders, adeptly navigating strategic trade-offs and fostering a "solver" culture.
  • Global Tax & Regulatory Acumen : Possesses deep expertise in international tax laws, transfer pricing, and financial reporting standards (e.g., IFRS / GAAP) across key operating regions (India, US, Australia).
  • Tech Superpowers

  • Full-Stack Financial Systems Thinker : Understands and can guide implementation of modular, reusable financial services across ERPs, reporting tools, data pipelines, tax engines, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Distributed Financial Processes Savant : Crafts resilient, low-coupling financial architectures that survive burst transaction volumes and ensure data integrity across multiple global entities, with robust intercompany and tax implications management.
  • Security & Privacy Guardian : Embeds zero-trust, privacy-by-design, and ethical guardrails into every financial process and data pipeline, ensuring compliance with data protection and financial regulations.
  • Multi-Agent Orchestrator : Engineers hybrid human-AI workflows and adaptive learning loops within financial operations for greater efficiency and accuracy, including automated compliance checks and tax calculations.
  • Solver @ Heart (Finance) : Drives continuous improvement in financial operations; proves designs with real-world financial benchmarks, not just theory. Business-first, tech-second, outcome-focused financial leader.
  • Experience & Relevance

  • Scale & Leadership : 15+ years leading high-growth finance organizations, ideally in a global, tech-centric, and / or consulting environment; built and scaled finance teams while preserving velocity and culture.
  • Financial Transformation & Execution : Led 0$\to1and1\to$100 deliveries in financial system implementations, process automation, or advanced analytics rollouts (e.g., in FP&A, Treasury, Revenue Operations, Taxation, or Compliance initiatives).
  • Cross-Functional Business Impact : Proven ability to bridge finance with R&D, product, sales, and GTM to deliver quantifiable ROI improvements; trusted by founders and Fortune-500 execs for financial and strategic advice.
  • High-Stakes Decisioning & Influence : Navigated trade-offs in mission-critical financial decisions (e.g., funding, M&A, large capital allocation, complex tax planning); converts complex financial data into board-level clarity.
  • Pedigree Credentials : Advanced degree (MBA, Master's in Finance) and / or professional certifications (e.g., CA / CPA - First Attempt / Rank holder) with a proven record of driving financial discipline and growth; combines strategic financial thinking with a builder’s execution bias. Experience with multi-jurisdictional tax compliance (especially US, India, Australia) is highly preferred.
  • Join the ‘ real solvers ’

    Ready to futurify? If you're excited by the possibilities of what an AI-native engineering-led, modern tech consultancy can do to futurify businesses, apply here and experience the 'Art of the possible'. Don't Just Send a Resume. Send a Statement.

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