Research-grade CFO intelligence

Anyone can find a CFO. Know which one to headhunt.

HeadhuntCFO is a CFO research and headhunting platform for India's listed companies. Search any company, see who runs finance there, and get the evidence you need before the first call — real performance and impact, current compensation, board influence, tenure impact, market credibility, and how likely that CFO is to move.

Who uses HeadhuntCFO

  • Executive search and CFO recruitment firms — run competitor and market mapping, benchmark compensation before you pitch, and build a defensible shortlist from filing-sourced evidence rather than a contact database.
  • Startups and pre-IPO companies — work out what a first CFO should cost at your stage, and identify finance leaders who have already taken a company through the transition you are facing.
  • Companies running a CFO search — go into the process knowing the market rate, who the credible candidates are, and which of them is realistically open to a move.

A research team takes three days. This takes about thirty seconds.

Building a CFO dossier by hand means reading an annual report, pulling the remuneration tables, cross-checking the governance report and piecing together a career history. That is roughly three days of an analyst's time for one person. HeadhuntCFO assembles the same dossier in around thirty seconds, across 3,000+ listed companies.

What is in a CFO dossier

  • Compensation — total remuneration, the split across fixed pay, variable pay, perquisites and equity, the year-on-year change, and the ratio to the median employee.
  • Flight risk — a read on how likely a CFO is to move, from tenure, recent pay shifts and market signals.
  • KPI drivers — the metrics this CFO is actually measured on, so your approach lands in their language.
  • Debt profile — the leverage and liquidity position they are managing today.
  • Board influence — governance role and statutory standing, as a signal of seniority and reach.
  • Career history — where they have been and what changed on their watch.

Sources are public: company annual reports and BSE/NSE filings, read and structured with AI. Every figure is tied to a stated financial year.

CFO profiles you can open right now

Every profile carries a compensation band, career history, KPI drivers, debt profile and board influence — built from the company's own annual report and exchange filings.

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