Ms. Pinky Mehta

Biography

  Chief Financial Officer, Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd. (ABNL) Pinky Mehta is the CFO of ABNL, a USD 4.4 billion diversified conglomerate and one of the flagship companies of the Aditya Birla Group. Pinky is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 27 years of diversified experience. She joined the Aditya Birla Group in 1991, to become the first woman officer in the Group. As a key member of the Finance team at ABNL for about two decades, she handled many portfolios and made major contributions in the areas of Taxation, MIS, Accounts, Legal and Secretarial. She has played an active role in the area of Demergers, Mergers and Acquisitions since 1998 viz., demerger of Cement; Joint Venture with Sun Life for Life Insurance business; acquisition of Madura Garments, Transworks, Minacs and Apollo Sindhoori. Pinky has handled many complicated tax issues and has mastered the intricacies of tax laws. Pinky has led the Management Services Division (MSD) of the Aditya Birla Group for five years and has executed many high-impact projects aimed at achieving commercial excellence, knowledge integration & future forecasting and leveraging cost synergies and competitive advantage. Under her leadership, MSD expanded its services to new geographies and new businesses overseas including Pulp and Fibre, Trading, Overseas Spinning, Acrylic Fibre and Carbon Black in North America, China, South East Asia and Africa. She has also expanded MSD services to new areas such as renewable energy, GST, Benchmarking, Logistics Roadmap etc. She has the distinguished achievement of becoming the first woman CFO of an Aditya Birla Group company. In recognition of her versatile ability to handle multiple roles and accepting new challenges, she was conferred the Chairman’s Award for Exceptional Contributor in 2008.

Research Interest

 Taxation, MIS, Accounts, Legal and Secretarial, Trading, Overseas Spinning,