Ajit Hegde
Ajit has run finance at Recruise for nearly 10 years, and reads a business whose product is human judgement through its P&L.
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Ajit has run finance at Recruise for nearly 10 years, covering financial reporting, tax compliance, budgeting and audit, after earlier years in audit and accounting practice. He sees how a people business works from the numbers: which mandates move the P&L, what cost discipline it takes to hire well, and the 20% efficiency gain he got from automating the firm’s own processes.
He writes on finance inside a people business, on process change as it looks from the inside, and on the long view of a career in accounting.
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Compensation Index: IT & BFSI edition, Q2 2026
Band-by-band movement across senior IT and BFSI GCC roles, drawn from the placements we closed this quarter rather than survey aggregates.
What keeps senior talent: the levers beyond pay
The seat is won at the offer. It’s kept in the quiet quarter after, where scope, authority and charter decide whether a senior leader stays or churns.
Base, variable, ESOP, and the one most committees under-weight
At VP level the parent ESOP can carry more of the deal than the cash. If you’re competing without one, splitting the difference loses the candidate.
Pharma GCC pay is moving for a reason IT isn’t
While IT and BFSI bands have steadied, senior pharma roles are climbing. The driver is regulatory-side, not technology-side.
One hiring pattern worth knowing, every ten days.
The Mandate Desk is our read on the senior GCC talent market — one signal that moved, the read behind it, and one thing worth doing. Written from live placement data.