Virtual CFO services: a finance head for the hours you need.

Our professional fee starts at from ₹24,999 per month a month for 8 hours: a monthly finance review, a cash flow forecast and the inputs for your board pack. The Growth plan gives 20 hours a month and adds fundraise and investor reporting, budget versus actuals and finance processes. Larger scopes are quoted after a call. GST at 18% applies.

The first month covers a finance health check, a 12-month budget and the first cash forecast, so you have a runway date within four weeks. From the second month the cycle is routine: close review in week one, MIS in week two, board pack in week three. Most founders see the effect at the first board meeting we prepare.

Reads the closed books and updates the runway, writes the MIS commentary, prepares and attends the board or investor meeting, keeps the budget honest against actuals, and owns whatever finance project the month brings: a loan file, a pricing change, a vendor process or a fundraise workstream. The hours are agreed up front and reported.

Not within the CFO hours. The books are done by our accounting and MIS team or by your existing accountant, and the virtual CFO works from the closed numbers. Taking both from us means one team owns the close and the review, and the MIS lands sooner. Either way, clean monthly books are the precondition for useful CFO work.

Opening cash, less committed outflows by week for the next 13 weeks: payroll, statutory dues such as GST, TDS, PF and advance tax, rent, vendors and loan instalments, plus expected collections with a haircut for late payers. Divide the resulting cash by the average net burn to get the runway in months, and update it every month.

A one-page summary, the profit and loss against budget and last month, cash and runway, the metrics investors track for your business model, hiring against plan, risks and the decisions needed. Commentary on each variance. It goes to the board three working days before the meeting, so the meeting is about decisions rather than reading.

Before: the financial model, the metrics investors will test, a data room organised the way funds run diligence, and the cap table with the ESOP pool sized. During: answering diligence questions, reviewing the term sheet and modelling the dilution. After: the investor reporting rhythm the shareholders' agreement requires. The pitch deck itself is a separate service.

When the finance work fills a week, every week. That usually happens somewhere between a Series A and ₹30 to 50 crore of revenue, or earlier in businesses with heavy transaction volume or inventory. We tell you when we see it, help write the role and interview with you, and hand over the model and the processes so the new hire starts from a system, not from scratch.

We plan, and the specialist teams execute. The virtual CFO estimates advance tax each quarter, decides between the 25% regime and Section 115BAA with the tax team, keeps the ROC and GST calendars in view and flags what is due. The filings themselves are done through our annual filings, GST and TDS services, so the finance head is not also the person keying in returns.

Yes, with your say-so. We join board and investor calls, answer diligence questions, and speak to the bank's credit team on a loan file. Many founders prefer that the numbers conversation is handled by the person who built the numbers. You stay copied on everything, and we never commit the company to anything without you.

The ones that explain your business model, not a generic list. A subscription business tracks monthly recurring revenue, churn, acquisition cost and payback; a marketplace tracks gross merchandise value, take rate and repeat rate; a services firm tracks utilisation, revenue per person and receivable days. Every business tracks gross margin, net burn and runway. We agree the set in month one.

The plan sets the monthly hours, and we report the time used. A busy month, such as a fundraise or an audit, can borrow from a quiet one within the quarter. If the work is consistently above the plan, we say so and agree a change rather than surprising you with an invoice. Larger scopes are priced on a call.