Rajesh Subramaniam

CFO | Listed manufacturing and industrial groups | IPO and post-merger integration

Singapore · https://www.findprimejobs.com/rajesh-subramaniam

Twenty-six years in finance leadership, most of it in businesses that were mid-transaction. Two IPOs, four acquisitions, one carve-out. Most useful when the numbers and the story have drifted apart and somebody needs to say so.

Experience

Chief Financial Officer

Ardennes Industrial Holdings

May 2017 – Present

• Took the group through a SGX main-board listing in 2019 and a subsequent secondary raise.
• Consolidated 9 finance functions across 5 jurisdictions onto a single close calendar, cutting the reporting cycle from 21 days to 9.

Group Financial Controller

Kesteven Manufacturing plc

Aug 2009

• Ran the carve-out of the automotive division, including the transitional services agreement and its eventual unwind.
• Rebuilt the treasury position after a covenant breach in 2011.

Finance Director, Asia

Harrowgate Chemicals

Jan 2003

• First regional finance hire; built the function from two people to nineteen.

Group Reporting Manager

Pellingham Foods plc

Apr 1999

• Statutory consolidation for 22 subsidiaries under the transition to IFRS.

Audit Senior

Whitcombe and Hale

Sep 1995

• Audit portfolio across manufacturing and distribution clients.

Graduate Trainee

Whitcombe and Hale

Sep 1993

• ACA training contract.

Skills

Financial Reporting · IPO Readiness · Post-Merger Integration · Treasury · IFRS · Investor Relations · Internal Controls

Education

MBA2002

London Business School

ACA1998

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Languages

English · Tamil · Hindi

Worked in

Singapore · Malaysia · United Kingdom · India

Links

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