Manish Poddar

About Manish Poddar

Working as Chief Financial officer and part of leadership team steering the delivery topline and bottomline objectives. Working in strategic business partnership ensuring structural and sustainable growth of the business keeping the compliances & regulatory framework and business ethics intact.Earlier worked as CFO for India Sub-Continent and later got additional role as Regional Controller – South APAC (India SC, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia & New Zealand) in Diversey, India a US MNC (Fully owned by globally respected PE - Bain Capital). Diversey is global leader in B2B hygiene business (Hotels, Restaurants, Hospitals, Office Spaces, F&B industry etc….). Before that, worked as Finance Controller of Consumer Healthcare business of Sun pharmaceuticals (earlier RANBAXY employee) with brands like REVITAL and VOLINI. Key member of the core team formed to build and grow (organic and inorganic) Consumer Healthcare business of India’s largest Pharmaceutical Corporate, working in tandem with cross-functional teams and adding tangible value.Exhaustive experience across finance functions be it Strategic (Business Partnership, Harmonisation), technical (Forex & treasury, Taxation, Corporate laws, Audit) and Operational (FP & A/ reporting, Manufacturing finance, AR/AP Management, etc.).Having interacted with people across functions, hierarchies & nationalities have inculcated the need to work as business enabler leading sustainable and healthy business growth.Let\'s connect @ 98••••••42 or m••••••••@rediffmail.comGlimpse of the journey as a successful professional-• Enriched experience through providing formal classroom training through executive programs on Information Systems Audit (2005), Forex & Treasury (2010), Business Management (2012), and IFRS (2016).• Varied Industry experience spread across sectors from B2C to B2B, Manufacturing to arbitrage, and Consumer to Industrial products• Exposure to diverse cultures across Private Equity, US, French & Japanese MNC to biggest Indian Corporates and have a proven growth trajectory notwithstanding the five M & As experienced in the career• Proven Stability record with just five organizations in over 20 years of work experience ensuring stability, consistency, and transformational growth

Experience

1. Group Chief Financial Officer

   Greaves Cotton Limited

   Mar 2026 — Present · Mumbai, IN

Education

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Treasury & Forex Management, Treasury & Fores

  2010 — 2010

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Master’s Degree, Master of Businesss Finance

• E&Y

  Diploma in IFRS

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  DISA, Information Systems Audit

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Mis
• Tax
• Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Process Improvement
• Foreign Exchange
• Auditing
• Management
• Banking
• Team Management
• Budgets
• Finance
• Cash Flow