Searce - Director - Accounting & Taxation

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).

- Build the Financial Engine Operations & IP: Engineer for efficiency.

- Lead design and implementation of modular, automated financial processes (AR, AP, GL, payroll, statutory reporting, tax filings), targeting 99.9% accuracy.

- Maintain a "Prototype > Manual Process" rule, reducing iteration loops by 40% via intelligent automation.

- Embed robust internal controls, financial security, tax compliance, and ethical AI guardrails; track financial health via real-time dashboards.

- Drive Profitable Growth Commercial Impact: Collaborate deeply with Sales, Solutions Consulting, and Alliance teams to support deal structuring, pricing, and contract negotiations ensuring profitable growth and client success.

- Champion accurate, compliant, and timely revenue recognition from complex global engagements.

- Own working capital, strategizing cash flow, treasury, and liquidity to fuel Searces rapid growth.

- Proactively manage tax planning, optimize structures, and ensure compliance across all operating jurisdictions (India, US, Australia, etc.

- 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.

- Be the Chief Translator, turning complex financial data into plain-speak narratives for all, enabling data-driven decision-making.

- 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 Searces 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 Financial 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.

- Product-Aware Systems Thinking: Aligns financial architecture with business impact, usability, and extensibility, ensuring every financial decision contributes to ROI and client value.

- 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:

- AI-Native Financial Architect: Reimagines core finance with modern AI and data technologies for automated processes, insightful analytics, and real business value, including tax optimization and compliance automation.

- 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.

- Product-Minded Financial Technologist: Balances financial rigor with operational impact; ties every process improvement or tech investment to measurable ROI for the finance function and wider business.

- Pragmatic Tool Picker (Finance): Chooses the simplest tech that compounds financial scalability; fluent in modern ERPs, advanced spreadsheet modeling, and BI tools, with an understanding of programming languages (e.g., Python for data automation).

- 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 01 and 1100 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 builders execution bias.

Experience with multi-jurisdictional tax compliance (especially US, India, Australia) is highly preferred.

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