Research & Insights
Compensation Report
The finance function in India is experiencing a significant transformation. Businesses are redefining the strategic value of finance roles, placing greater emphasis on leadership capabilities, market agility, and operational precision. Our Finance Compensation & Hiring Trends Report 2025 is an authoritative guide designed to help organizations navigate these critical changes and benchmark their finance talent strategies.
This comprehensive report equips CFOs, CHROs, and business leaders with strategic clarity, current market benchmarks, and in-depth talent insights. It serves as a critical resource whether you're building a high-impact finance team, preparing for leadership transitions, or developing competitive compensation strategies. The report provides:
Strategic Insights
Current trends and forward-looking expectations shaping finance leadership roles.
Compensation Benchmarks
Comprehensive compensation data across key finance specialisms.
Sectoral Analysis
Identification of top sectors driving finance talent demand.
Talent Mobility Trends
Insights on evolving candidate expectations, mobility drivers, and hiring dynamics.
Leadership Transitions
A curated overview of significant finance leadership moves that reflect broader industry trends.
This report is based on rigorous primary and secondary research conducted by Vahura’s Finance Recruitment Group. Our methodology ensures comprehensive coverage across a wide array of industry verticals, company structures, and key finance domains, providing accurate and actionable insights.
Our analysis includes:
- Extensive data from ongoing engagements and live mandates.
- Interviews and compensation discussions with finance professionals across leadership roles.
- Internal placement outcomes and publicly disclosed leadership transitions.
- Engagements with finance and HR leaders on mandate scoping and succession planning.
The finance hiring landscape in FY25 is characterized by strategic recalibration and precision hiring. Organizations are now prioritizing finance leaders with:
- Strategic advisory capabilities beyond traditional financial stewardship.
- Expertise in digital transformation, ESG alignment, and regulatory agility.
- A strong ability to lead through complex growth, IPO, or restructuring scenarios.
Our report offers actionable strategies to attract, engage, and retain high-impact finance professionals, such as:
- Structuring mandates around business outcomes rather than titles.
- Proactively aligning stakeholders before initiating talent searches.
- Designing roles for strategic influence and not merely execution.
- Leveraging interim and project-based finance talent to maintain agility.
GCC Ecosystem Spotlight
- The report includes a dedicated spotlight on strategic finance hiring trends within India's rapidly growing Global Capability Center (GCC) ecosystem, emphasizing opportunities for global exposure, strategic leadership, and career acceleration within multinational structures.
The report’s compensation data includes the annual fixed salary and variable bonuses (Average Total Compensation - ATC) across diverse experience levels and finance domains. Our figures serve as directional benchmarks to assist in strategic talent decisions.
Rishabh Chopra
Rishabh is a lawyer and MBA who is passionate about the business side of professional services. Having led and built teams across the legal search spectrum, Rishabh is scaling Vahura’s offerings to the CFO community, with a special focus on finance recruitment. Rishabh is also playing a lead role in developing the next set of offerings from Counselect.
Namita Agarwal
Namita is a CA, CS and a Lawyer heading the BFSI Growth vertical at Vahura where she is responsible for business development in the BFSI sector and recruitment of mid to senior level tax and finance professionals across sectors.
Juhi Chandwani
Juhi is a Managing Consultant at Vahura, where she is part of the Finance Recruitment Group and is a senior member of our Human Resources (HR) search practice. Based in Bangalore, she works with clients across India, the Middle East, and Southeast…
Janki Shah
As a Consultant in the tax and finance Recruitment practice, Janki focuses on recruiting tax and finance professionals across junior and mid-levels with corporate houses, family offices, funds, accounting firms and law firms in India.
Namrata Kaushik
Namrata is a Senior Consultant at Vahura, where she specializes in mid to senior-level hiring for finance professionals, including CFOs, Finance Controllers, FP&A leaders, and Tax Heads. With over eight years of executive search experience across…
Sheila Mary Albert
Sheila is a Senior Consultant at Vahura, where she focuses on mid to senior-level finance hiring. Based in Bangalore, she works with corporates, conglomerates, and multinational companies—particularly in the energy and oil & gas sectors—to build…
Sanjeet Dhandore
Sanjeet is a Research Associate with the Finance Recruitment Group at Vahura, based in Mumbai. He supports junior to mid-level finance hiring through research-led talent acquisition, market mapping, and candidate analysis. Working closely with…
