Treelife | Senior Associate / Manager - Delivery and Engagement: VCFO

Key responsibilities

• We're looking for the person who owns that experience: the plans, the deadlines, the team, and the client relationships behind them.
• Why this role matters: Our clients feel Treelife through delivery.
• You'll own delivery across the VCFO portfolio, lead the team behind it, and be the person clients know by name.
• Build real working relationships with founders, finance heads and their teams, so trust exists before you ever need it.
• Build and maintain a delivery plan per client: scope, recurring deliverables, owners, client inputs, review stages, TATs, due dates.
• Drive on-time delivery across monthly close, bookkeeping, MIS, financial reporting, tax/compliance handoffs, budgets and forecasts.
• Lead the delivery team day to day - build rapport, set the tone, and be the person they escalate to without hesitation.
• Own delivery queries and escalations end to end, coordinating across VCFO, accounting, tax and legal.
• Maintain one live view of all commitments: status, overdue items, client dependencies, escalation owners.
• Track and improve the numbers: on-time delivery %, TAT adherence, rework, overdue aging, escalation resolution time.
• Lead new-client transitions into VCFO: agreed scope, owners, reporting cadence, contacts, first-delivery plan.
• Working command of accounting and reporting cycles, MIS, month-end close, and tax/compliance coordination.
• Use calls to understand the client's business rhythm, upcoming pressures and unstated expectations - and feed that back into the delivery plan.
• Run client status reviews and onboarding calls; leave every conversation with clear decisions, owners and dates.
• Own delivery and timelines
• Set priorities, allocate work, watch capacity and backlog, remove blockers before they put a commitment at risk.
• Nothing reaches a client unreviewed or incomplete; you close out corrections and open items.
• Allocate work fairly across the team, spot overload early, and coach juniors on quality and turnaround habits.
• Run short, regular internal reviews: what's on track, what's stuck, who needs help.
• Keep the team aligned with client promises - everyone knows what was committed and by when.
• Raise risks early, with impact and a recovery plan - never announce a missed date after the fact.

Requirements

• Strong audit background - mandatory.
• Strong phone/video presence; genuinely enjoys client conversations, not just tolerates them.
• 6-8 years of experience in a similar field (VCFO services, CA/advisory firm, outsourced finance & accounting, or comparable client-facing finance delivery).
• Qualified CA preferred - but open to candidates with equivalent hands-on experience managing books at scale.
• Experience: 6 - 8 years

Treelife

Treelife is an employer hiring in India (sector: Audit / Consulting / Advisory).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Mumbai.

• Industry: Audit / Consulting / Advisory