Head of Finance

Reporting To CEO / Managing Director

Qualification Chartered Accountant (CA)

Experience 15–20 years (5+ years senior leadership) in IT Product companies with global presence

Industry / Domain IT Product, BFSI Technology

Location Hyderabad

The Head of Finance leads and drives the Finance & Accounts department. The role ensures statutory compliance, financial governance, risk management, and robust financial planning across India and global entities, supporting sustainable growth and long-term financial health.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of our growth journey and contribute directly to shaping the future of banking technology.

Financial Leadership & Strategy

Support CEO in financial strategic decisions; contribute to organizational strategy; facilitating business growth and profitability.

Financial Planning & MIS

Lead budgeting, forecasting, MIS; develop dashboards and KPIs; present reports to Board and leadership

Compliance & Risk Management

Ensure statutory compliance (India & overseas)- all legal and regulatory requirements; deploy internal controls; identify and mitigate risks

Accounting & Audit

Oversee accounting and consolidation; manage statutory & tax audits with the auditors; ensure timely reporting

Treasury & Investments

Process Excellence

Implement SOPs, drive automation and system improvements.

Development of a financial and operational strategy, KPIs

Team Leadership

Build and lead high-caliber finance teams; ensure governance, discipline, and integrity. Presenting accurate MIS dashboards /Financial reports to the board and CEO.

Strong business acumen and executive presence.

Excellent communication & decision-making skills

Lead, guide and provide direction to the team.

Ensure building of a high Caliber team.

Highly Disciplined with excellent analytical skills

Exceptional communication skills

Results-oriented, strategic thinker and planner

Leadership skill with unwavering resolve and personal integrity

Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative financial technology company that powers the lending operations of global banks and financial institutions - HDFC, Bajaj Finserve, LIC HFL, Godrej HFL, RAK Bank, QNB to name a few. Its suite of future ready lending products and solutions offer banks composable features and scalable capabilities to deliver differentiated loan origination, servicing and collections experiences for their

customers. Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions in Asia, Pennant’s award-winning lending platform has managed more than 10 million loans and facilitates 100 Million loan transactions per year.

Pennant is HQ in Hyderabad and have offices and/ business operations in India, ME, Saudi, Australia, Philippines and UK. We are aggressively expanding across the geographies and adding to our 450+ workforce, spread across multiple locations. Visit us at www.pennanttech.com

Banking is the biggest consumer of technology, and the share is simply growing. Banks generate maximum profits out of Lending operations hence it’s imperative for them to ensure they use the right technologies right from the customer onboarding, servicing till retiring the end customers. In the past few years FI’s have not been able to refresh lending tech stack and that’s leading to challenges, higher operational cost and customer dissatisfaction. Stupendous growth in lending activities across the segments, markets and LOB’s has created once in a decade business opportunity for Pennant. Do you want to be part of our growth story?