Leadership

Oversees financial statement integrity, timely reporting, governance and transfer pricing compliance, alongside IT finance initiatives and AI-driven transformation. Deep experience in audit closures, controls compliance, policy reviews, training and cost-saving programmes.

Expertise

• CFO and controllership services — general accounting, FP&A, reporting
• Risk and compliance — audit support, internal controls, policy reviews
• Systems — tools evaluation, implementation and optimisation
• Process improvement — automation and simplification
• Service delivery — customer-centric delivery, profitability, resourcing
• Shared services and BPO setup, global transition, stabilisation

Builds scalable, stable, profitable high-performance finance functions.

Led IT finance and planning globally at FLSmidth — budget versus actuals, IT finance governance, cost control, and forecasting alongside business and IT leaders — and drove finance excellence across the group, setting up the KPI and control environment and leading change management for 3,000 to 4,000 employees. Earlier, at Cognizant corporate finance, ran 360-degree process reviews and system redesign.

Expertise

• Change management — readiness assessment, stakeholder engagement, enablement
• Global transition and transformation, including steering-committee projects
• Lean Six Sigma and project management, with quality upskilling
• KPI and performance framework design
• Simplified training for all levels
• Sets up and stabilises any F&A tower — P2P, O2C, R2R

Implements structured processes with strong governance.