CFO Niti brings you a never-before-seen view of the Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO’s) office, and the people running India’s biggest Finance units. We bring to you the detailed stories of the CFOs of India’s largest corporates—their personal growth stories, insights into how the CFO’s office functions and their perspectives on the rapid evolution of the CFO’s office in the past decade. You will hear from the CFOs of Maruti Suzuki, Tata Steel, Amazon India, Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Unilever, and Aditya Birla Group.

CFO Niti breaks a lot of stereotypes associated with finance leaders. Traditionally seen as serious, introverted bean counters, you will be surprised to see the unconventional ways in which these leaders shaped their careers and the role they played in the exponential growth of their organizations.

If you are a finance professional or student who wants to one day be a CFO, or a leader who aims to create a more effective finance organization, this book brings you your own set of mentors who will inspire you on the journey of financial transformation. Welcome to your own personal ‘Board of Directors’ to guide you on your professional journey

PRAMOD BAGRI is a chartered accountant and data analytics professional with nearly two decades of experience in working with some of the world’s most renowned organizations across different facets of finance. As part of his role, he has been working with multiple CFOs to carve out and implement their digital finance agenda powered by automation, analytics and artificial intelligence. He has been engaged with finance students extensively and through this book would like to bring them lessons that he has been fortunate enough to learn directly from leading CFOs. A stock market enthusiast and a movie buff, Pramod spends his free time playing with his two sons and watching movies with his wife.

SANDEEP KUMAR is the Founder and CEO of Asia’s leading private investments platform Torre Capital. Sandeep earlier spent over a dozen years in Strategy and Digital Consulting with McKinsey & Co. and Accenture Consulting. He has advanced degrees from the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and Hindu College, Delhi University. A self-professed workaholic and high frequency trader, you can mostly find him poring over technical charts, giving expert opinions on topics he barely understands or playing badminton with his daughter in his free time.