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title: "Dhaval Mehta - Chief Financial Officer in Mumbai Metropolitan Region | Tal"
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# Dhaval Mehta on Tal

## Headline

CFO @ StampMyVisa \| Chartered Accountant \| NBFC & RBI Licensing \| Fundraising & Due Diligence \| FP&A, Controllership, Treasury \| ex\-Jupiter, ex\-Aerem, ex\-Centrum, ex\-EY

## About

A focused finance professional with extensive hands\-on experience spanning Fintech, Lending, Business Operations Management, Finance & Accounts, and Strategic Financial Planning\. Skilled in fostering partnerships with internal stakeholders and clients, resulting in the achievement of corporate objectives\. As the Financial Controller overlooking Procurement and Lending at Aerem, I am responsible for setting up and managing the fast\-growing Solartech company's overall finance function\. I leverage my skills in financial controllership, FP&A, and risk management to ensure compliance, treasury management, governance, and profitability\. I am passionate about leveraging fintech to create value and impact for customers and businesses\. Key Skill includes \* Finance & Commercial Operation \* Business Planning & Analysis \* MIS, Budgeting & Control\. \* Process & SOP formulation \* Compliance & Internal Audit \* Performance reviews

## Location

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

## Work experience

Chief Financial Officer at StampMyVisa, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, StampMyVisa is building the infrastructure layer for India's outbound travel\. B2B visa processing for travel agents and enterprises\. Venture\-backed by Unicorn India Ventures\. Building the finance function from zero • Set up the finance and tax functions from scratch: chart of accounts, accounting stack, close calendar, approval matrix, tax compliance and the reporting cadence the company operates on today\. • Worked directly with engineering to fully automate invoice generation and the invoicing workflow end to end, the process now runs with zero manual effort, against 2000 hours/month it would take\. Capital and investor relationship • Ran the full diligence process for the seed fundraise: data room, investor Q&A and financial substantiation through to close\. • Sourced and ran outreach to a new set of investors beyond the existing cap table, and supported the founders across the raise end to end\. • Built the company's business model and financial projections used in investor conversations\. Unit economics as an operating system • Built StampMyVisa's unit\-economics framework from first principles, contribution per visa application across destination, partner and channel and then drove adoption of it across every function, so pricing, ops and growth decisions are now argued in the same numbers\. Beyond finance • Taking on leadership of the StampMyVisa business with full P&L ownership from August 2026\.

Financial Controller at Aerem, Mar 2024 \- Jan 2025 · 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Aerem finances and distributes rooftop solar for Indian MSMEs\. Venture\-backed by UTEC, British International Investment \(BII\), SE Ventures and Blume Ventures\. Scope • Took over financial controllership for a three\-entity group spanning three distinct business models: technology, an NBFC, and solar trading each with its own accounting treatment, regulatory perimeter and reporting rhythm\. • Managed the entities with a lean team of 3 sharp individuals\. The NBFC • Managed finance for a lending book of \~₹150 crore AUM, funded by likes of SIDBI, SBI and Alteria Capital\. • Built the group consolidation approach across the NBFC and operating entities, and ran separate monthly and annual closures with entity\-specific statutory compliances\. The trading business \(\~₹300 crore topline\) • Owned finance for a ₹300 crore\-topline solar trading subsidiary, including inventory and working capital\. • Diagnosed the failure points in logistics and inventory management, and redesigned for better warehouse space utilization and clear accountability at every handoff in the value chain, the movement of goods stopped being a black box between purchase and sale\. • Arranged Letter of Credit and trade finance facilities from banks, and restructured the financing mix on the trading book to lift percentage profitability\. Business partnering • Built a key\-metrics tracker per business unit and used it as the accountability loop with business heads, surfacing drift against plan early rather than at quarter\-end\. • Gave management standing analysis of where the business was actually under stress and what to do about it, rather than reporting what had already happened\. ₹100 crore Series A • Led finance\-side diligence for the ₹100 Cr Series A round led by UTEC, with participation from BII and SE Ventures\. • Built and ran the data room; managed investor interactions and information requests through diligence\.

Associate Director \- Finance at Jupiter, Nov 2021 \- Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Jupiter is a consumer neobank backed by Peak XV Partners \(formerly Sequoia India\), Z47 \(formerly Matrix Partners India\), 3one4 Capital and QED Investors\. NBFC licence — owned end to end • Led Jupiter's NBFC licence application from filing to approval\. • Helped build the NBFC from a licence into an operating business: credit and finance policies, accounting practices, taxation framework, and the bank and NBFC partnerships underpinning the lending business\. Running the lending book • Scaled and managed an AUM of ₹100 crore\. • Owned treasury for the NBFC liquidity, ALM and deployment\. • Partnered with banks to raise debt lines to fund the growth of the lending book\. • Owned financial reporting, statutory audit, tax audit and ongoing tax and regulatory compliance for the NBFC\. Working inside the product • Worked hand\-in\-hand with product and engineering to build Jupiter's in\-house card stack and Loan Management System building the technology in a compliant manner matching industry standards while representing the finance team\. • Authored the base requirement documents the entire LMS was built on\. • Partnered with the product team on new launches, defining the financial, accounting and regulatory design before anything shipped\.

AVP Finance at Slate\.ac, Dec 2019 \- Nov 2021 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Slate\.ac created a tool allowing users to convert their Tally accounting data into a CXO worthy MIS, unlocking the potential of the software beyond the realms of accountants\. Joined initially as a consultant on direct customer services, came on board full\-time, and rose to AVP Finance ending up owning finance, admin and HR for the company\. What I owned • Ran the full finance function alongside administration and human resources a three\-hat role typical of a company at that stage, and the reason I now think about cost lines and people costs as the same conversation\. Where finance met product • Worked closely with the product and tech teams on feature definition advising on which features to build and taking them through to market, rather than costing them after the fact\. • Heavily involved in GTM strategy and in designing the SaaS business model\. • Built the unit economics for the model: defined the revenue required per application per month for the business to reach profitability, and used that number as the anchor for pricing and GTM decisions\.

Proprietor at D\.G\. Mehta & Associates, Apr 2016 \- Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos

## Education

CA, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor of Commerce \(B\.Com\.\), B\.com, S\.K\. Somaiya

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