Growth Finance Guru

RS Garg, Chief Financial Officer Ramky Infrastructure Limited Hyderabad

There must be a clear correlation between hands-on experience in des­igning and running effective control systems, and organisational growth and profitability—and Ramky’s CFO embodies this relationship. A Char­tered Accountant and Company Secretary, Garg comes with more than three decades’ experience in ma­n­aging finance, accounts, legal, secre­tarial and com­mercial functions, and 20 years at the top industry echelons.

No wonder when Ramky envisioned a shared service centre for the group companies where in many services are being pooled for a better implementation and result oriented process, they assigned the framing and conceptualisation to Garg. The objective is to implement SAP ERP among the group companies in the first phase and expand it to outside group going forward as a BPO.

At Ramky, where Garg has worked for over a year now, he has to juggle a very high growth plan (already at a CAGR of 40 per cent over the last few years), keep the momentum, find funding for businesses—including a new business in west Africa—and ensure the BOT proj­ects find financial closure. With slowdown in policymaking, Garg says, this is quite a challenge.

Garg practises a combination of collaborative and hierarchical style  of management.