Head — Corporate Finance & Investor Relations

Head — Corporate Finance & Investor Relations | Vantrock Real Assets Private Limited | Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Not a fund-raising seat. Raise the construction debt, run the treasury and hold the platform's lender and institutional relationships — deal by deal, asset by asset — for a real assets platform whose capital follows the deal. The fund's investors are served elsewhere; this seat serves everyone else who puts capital next to Vantrock's.
A note before you read on. The team structure, reporting lines, direct reports, seat titles and hiring entity described in this brief reflect the platform's current plan and may change as the platform builds out. Compensation and incentive structures are confirmed in the offer, not here.
REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer · EXPERIENCE: 12–18 years in real estate corporate finance, debt and institutional capital
ABOUT VANTROCK
Vantrock is India's independent, operator-led real assets platform — real assets only — with logistics and industrial as the first phase of its growth.
Founded by Anshul Singhal, Founder & CEO, who has built three institutional platforms from zero and is building the fourth on his own capital: 52 million sq ft delivered (32 million as developer, 20 million as contractor), 2,000+ acres acquired, 200+ buildings, two SEBI Category II funds run to a successful close, India's first domestic warehousing AIF and India's largest industrial real estate exit — delivered across the founder's three prior platforms.
THE FINANCE & ACCOUNTS TEAM
Vantrock keeps its books in-house. The finance function owns every number from the site to the board.
Twenty-one seats when fully built; sixteen live now, one of them already filled. Small enough that every person in it is known by name to the founder; large enough to run a platform properly. Every seat in the team is a builder's seat: the function does not exist yet in the form described here, and the people who join it now are the ones who will decide what it becomes.
CAPITAL FOLLOWS THE DEAL
Vantrock finances assets in a fixed order, and the order is the doctrine. The founder's own capital goes in first, at the land and approvals stage, before anyone else is asked to commit. Asset-level equity follows, deal by deal — the platform's own balance sheet alongside institutional partners, and, for assets that enter a strategy, the platform's proposed Category II AIF. Construction debt from banks and NBFCs comes last, against a de-risked, approved, often pre-committed asset. Capital follows the deal; the deal is never shaped to fit the capital.
WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS
Until now, the founder has raised every rupee of debt himself and has held every bank relationship personally. That worked for a platform in formation. It does not work for a platform breaking ground on 2 million sq ft in January with 10 million behind it, across four cities, with a lender pool that will need to be several institutions deep.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
1. The debt book. Construction and project debt for every asset the platform builds — sourced across banks and NBFCs, structured, negotiated to term sheet and documentation, drawn on schedule and reported on time.
2. The lender relationships. A pool of institutions that know the platform well enough to fund the next asset faster than the last.
3. Treasury. Cash positioned across every entity daily; the payment chain governed with the accounts team; surpluses deployed under a written policy; bank mandates, tokens and authorities never with a vendor and never with one person.
4. The drawdown machine. End-use certificates, drawdown files, lender monitoring reports, covenant compliance — produced with the FP&A team and the accounts team, filed before they are asked for.
5. Investor relations at the asset and platform level. The institutional co-investors, forward buyers and lenders who want to understand the platform: the pack, the data room, the quarterly conversation.
6. The team. Recruit, direct and develop the DGM — Debt Raising & Treasury and the Manager — Corporate Finance into a function that can run a facility from mandate to drawdown without you, and a treasury that closes every day.
7. The platform's readiness for its next capital chapter. Whatever the platform's balance sheet is asked to do in year three — a larger facility, a rated instrument, a listing pathway — the books, the relationships and the discipline to support it were built in year one, here.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
ESSENTIAL
– 12–18 years in real estate corporate finance, of which a meaningful part raising construction or project debt from Indian banks and NBFCs for a developer or an institutional platform. On your Debt Sheet, not adjacent to it.
– Facilities you personally led from mandate to drawdown — the lender conversation, the term sheet, the covenants, the documentation, the first drawdown — more than one of them, in real estate.
– Treasury run, not observed: cash management across multiple entities, payment governance, bank relationship management, surplus deployment under policy.
– Known, by name, at more than one lending institution in Indian real estate — and able to say which ones and why.
– Fluent in front of a credit committee and an institutional partner's investment team, with the platform's number and its risks.
– A Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance from a reputed institution. A verifiable debt record outranks the qualification.
– Based in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, or relocating before joining.
WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT
– Not a fund-raising seat. The fund's investors are served by the investment manager's capital-formation team. This seat raises debt and holds the platform's institutional relationships; it does not distribute a fund.
– Not a treasury-operations seat. The daily mechanics are done by the team; you own the policy, the relationships and the outcome.
HOW YOU WILL WORK
– Capital follows the deal. You will never be asked to shape an asset to fit a lender; you will be asked to find the lender the asset deserves.
– Everything runs on the platform's dashboards. The debt register, the covenant calendar, the treasury position and every lender file live on the operating layer, not in private spreadsheets.
COMPENSATION
Vantrock benchmarks compensation against the upper quartile for the role and market, weighted toward equity for candidates who want to build with us long-term. We discuss specific numbers in the first conversation rather than anchoring either side prematurely.
CULTURAL FIT
We're building Vantrock over a decade, not a funding cycle. We're looking for people who treat technology as the default answer rather than a supplement, who want to be co-builders of the platform rather than employees executing instructions, and who are comfortable saying "I don't know" and "I was wrong." If you want a defined role with defined edges, this isn't the right seat. If you want to help build an institution from zero, it might be.
AI proficiency is a standing requirement in every Vantrock seat. You work fluently with AI tools for research, modelling, drafting and analysis, and you build on the platform's dashboards rather than around them. A supervised AI Proficiency Test is part of the process for every seat, at every level of seniority, and we say so openly.
Partner command is the second standing requirement. The books are ours, but auditors, banks, the fund administrator, valuers, law firms and system vendors are commanded by this team — briefed, held to a standard, integrated — never deferred to. We hire for judgment and accountability.
HOW WE WILL ASSESS
Everyone who applies hears from us within two working days. It carries two links: a fixed set of six questions answered by AI interview — about forty minutes, and the first work sample; we review it before the CV — and the Vantrock AI Proficiency Test, which every hire takes at every level. From there:
1. The Debt-Sheet conversation. The facilities on your sheet, your role in each, the covenant that caused the most trouble and what you did about it. With the CFO — or, until that seat is filled, the Founder & CEO.
2. A 90-minute supervised case. A live-style project pack — approved land, a construction budget, a pre-lease — from which you produce the financing memo: lender universe, structure, quantum, tenor, pricing range, the three covenants you would resist and why. Defended to the Founder & CEO and the CFO once in seat.
Once we have received your application, your AI interview and your test, we will reach out with next steps. Your application is confidential: it is seen only by the Founder's Office and the hiring lead, and nothing is shared with your current employer or referenced without your consent.
TO APPLY
Write to careers@vantrock.com with the subject line "Head — Corporate Finance & Investor Relations — [your name]", and attach:
– Your CV. This is mandatory — a LinkedIn profile alone is not an application; we will read your LinkedIn as well.
– Your Debt Sheet — one row per facility you personally led: borrower type, asset class, lender type, instrument, quantum in ₹ crore, tenor, year closed and your role. The template is available on request. Closed facilities only; every row will be discussed.
– Your notice period and what you would need to see to move.
– One short paragraph: the covenant you would never accept on a construction facility for a pre-leased warehousing asset, and the one you would concede early to get the pr

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