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Maithreyi is a rank holding Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with almost 3 decades of experience. She is also a Social Auditor and has studied Oil and Gas Accounting from the UT Dallas. She is currently an independent consultant advising companies on ESG matters.
In the past she has been the Finance Director and CFO for India operations and Regional Finance Controller in leading Fortune 500 companies like Guardian Life and Fluor Daniel. Her experience spans in Energy, Construction and FinTech industries. She has worked in the public sector with Indian Oil early in her career and understands their internal processes thoroughly. She possesses strong leadership experience on domestic and international assignments. Her leadership experience includes the following:
- Managing P&L and project backlog of across multiple countries in APAC including China, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Managing transfer pricing and tax implications of cross-border business across associated enterprises.
- Managing acquisition and sale of business units/Joint ventures from start to finish.
- Developing tax and dividend strategies.
- Setting up governance structures for Boards.
- Driving internal control in diverse functions like procurement, risk, facilities management and administration apart from Finance, ethics and compliance.
- Delivering cost savings in adverse market conditions to ensure ROI is maintained.
- Managing and overseeing profitability on large complex projects .
- Optimising ERP systems to bring a system driven approach .
Implementing inception-to-maturity models for Finance shared services for developing Centers of Excellence .
- Commercial evaluation of bids and participating in client negotiations for large and complex projects.