About the role
This role offers the opportunity to own and scale Kheyti’s finance function during a phase of rapid growth. You will build resilient systems and teams, ensure audit-ready and compliant financial operations, and provide decision-quality financial insights to leadership. You will partner closely with business and operations to enable execution at scale, while working in close alignment with the leadership on priorities, trade-offs, and escalations.
Job Type & Location: Full-Time (WFO) & Hyderabad
Level: Senior Manager
Reporting to: VP - Finance & Operations
About Kheyti
Kheyti is an agri-tech that helps farmers double incomes and be climate resilient and sustainable. We democratize access to hi-tech agriculture solutions by making them farmer-centric, low-cost and by bundling end-to-end services. Our vision is to see every farmer climate-smart.
Key Responsibilities
• End-to-End Finance Ownership: Own core finance operations with accountability for accuracy, timeliness, and decision-readiness; ensure predictable closes.
• Reporting & Financial Analysis: Lead the AOP preparation and rolling forecasts; prepare decision-oriented MIS; drive variance analysis, and highlight risks, trade-offs, and corrective actions.
• Working Capital & Cash Management: Manage cash flows, receivables and payables; ensure working capital discipline, and proactive planning to support execution.
• Audit, Tax & Regulatory Compliance: Lead statutory and tax audits end-to-end across India and the US; ensure timely, accurate compliance with applicable laws, grant requirements, and regulatory filings.
• Finance Systems, Controls & Scalability: Build and scale finance systems and controls that grow with the organisation; strengthen data integrity, reduce manual interventions, and ensure processes are repeatable, auditable, and fit for scale.
• Automation, Efficiency & Execution Discipline: Operate with a systems-first mindset; continuously identify opportunities to automate routine work, optimise
workflows, and shift finance from reactive execution to predictable, tech-enabled operations.
• Team Leadership & Accountability: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing finance team with clear roles, ownership, and capability upgrades; act as the
single point of responsibility for finance outcomes.
• Business, Legal & Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with cross functional and Leadership teams; provide finance oversight on key business agreements;
coordinate with legal counsel and secretarial partners to ensure end-to-end closure and governance hygiene.
Must-Haves
• CA with 5-7+ years of post-qualification experience and end-to-end ownership in fast-growing organisations
• Proven experience leading audits and statutory compliance independently
• Experience building and leading finance teams
• Strong analytical capability with advanced Excel skills
• Hands-on experience driving process improvements, automation, or system implementations in finance (reducing manual work and improving reliability)
Nice-to-Haves
• Experience working with multi-entity or multi-country structures (especially India-US)
• Strong working knowledge of Zoho Books & related finance tools
• Exposure to AOP ownership, forecasting, or cash planning in growth-stage organisations
Skills Required
- CA with 5-7+ years of post-qualification experience and end-to-end ownership in fast-growing organisations
- Proven experience leading audits and statutory compliance independently
- Experience building and leading finance teams
- Strong analytical capability with advanced Excel skills
- Hands-on experience driving process improvements, automation, or finance system implementations
- Experience working with multi-entity or multi-country structures (especially India-US)
- Strong working knowledge of Zoho Books and related finance tools
- Exposure to AOP ownership, forecasting, or cash planning in growth-stage organisations
What We Do
NextHire Consulting is an AI-driven recruiting platform that streamlines the hiring process for companies. By leveraging AI agents for sourcing, screening, and interviewing, the platform enables teams to focus on pre-qualified finalists. It provides data-driven insights into candidate soft skills and behavioral styles, aiming to disrupt traditional recruitment models with efficient, automated, and science-based talent acquisition solutions for businesses of all sizes.
