PRADEEP's CV
PRADEEP BALAN
Chief Financial Officer | Financial Strategy
Profile summary
Strategic Chief Financial Officer with 30 years shaping financial strategy and corporate governance across international markets in the GCC. Multilingual professional fluent in 4 languages, directing financial systems, business expansion, and capital allocation. Committed to driving operational excellence and strengthening liquidity management across multinational enterprises.
Career highlights
ERP System Migration: Migrated enterprise resource planning from SAP to Oracle NetSuite, improving reporting accuracy and closing speed by 30%.
Financial Risk Management: Strengthened liquidity management, reducing foreign exchange risk exposure by 35% and ensuring optimal working capital efficiency.
Audit Management and Compliance: Coordinated internal and external audits with PwC and KPMG, reducing compliance issues by 35% while aligning reporting with global standards.
Financial Reporting Automation: Automated monthly reporting processes, reducing cycle time from 10 to 7 days across EMEA markets.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors, steering financial and operational strategy across manufacturing scale-up, supply chain, and capital allocation. Partners directly with executive leadership on market entry, risk management, and overall business governance.
- Co-founded and built the business foundation through entity setup, governance structuring, and capitalization.
- Manages end-to-end finance operations encompassing FP&A, treasury, and regulatory compliance.
- Directs digital transformation initiatives including ERP deployment and process automation.
- Builds and mentors senior leadership teams to establish performance management frameworks.
Shaped corporate finance, human resources, and compliance strategy, steering operations across seven international markets and directing financial systems.
- Led expansion into KSA, Egypt, India, and Vietnam, ensuring complete legal and tax compliance.
- Migrated enterprise resource planning from SAP to Oracle NetSuite, improving reporting accuracy and closing speed by 30%.
- Strengthened liquidity management, reducing foreign exchange risk exposure by 35% and ensuring optimal working capital efficiency.
Guided corporate governance, financial reporting, and operational structures across finance, audit, and human resources for a multinational joint venture.
- Managed regional P&L, improving profit margins by 12% through cost optimization and strict expense control.
- Launched performance framework, ensuring 100% compliance with annual reviews and appraisals.
- Coordinated internal and external audits with PwC and KPMG, reducing compliance issues by 35%.
Steered consolidation, reporting, and compliance oversight across EMEA markets, establishing alignment with IFRS and US GAAP standards for corporate stakeholders.
- Automated monthly reporting processes, reducing cycle time from 10 to 7 days.
- Coordinated with Big 4 auditors, ensuring full compliance and zero audit exceptions.
- Consolidated financial data from 20 countries, improving reporting accuracy by 25%.
- Executed system automation initiatives, cutting reporting timelines by 40% and reducing manual data errors.
- Implemented budget control mechanisms, decreasing cost variances by 15% across operational units.
- Established corporate legal entities and governance frameworks to secure structural compliance from inception.
- Structured initial capitalization frameworks to secure baseline funding for business operations.
- Earned second rank in the All India Higher Secondary Education Commerce Examination for the UAE Centre in 1996.
Education
Emerging CFOs
Finance & Strategy
Commerce
Commerce
- 2nd Rank in All India HSE Commerce Examination (UAE Centre)
Certifications
Languages
English · Professional
Arabic · Professional
Hindi · Professional
Malayalam · Professional