CFA Institute Live Webinars Presentation Recorded 13 Jul 2023
Career Insights: Corporate Treasury Management
Overview
Corporate treasury helps companies navigate the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, in which a once-in-a-lifetime financial market event has become the new normal. Treasury is the heart and pulse of any company because it deals with money and financial risk. From a cost centre, the treasury department has evolved to become a strategic business partner, making decisions around an organization’s financial activities. Corporate treasury offers a rewarding, exciting, and dynamic career, in which a professional has the opportunity to shape the future of an organization’s financial strategy.
In this webinar, Pranav Chudgar, CFA, shares the key trends and technology that has rapidly changed the treasury field, reasons for increasing demand for treasury professionals, and career options in this space.
Learning Outcomes
- Gain an overview of key trends shaping corporate treasury.
- Learn about traditional versus emerging roles.
- Review career options and career paths for treasury professional.
- Discuss skills, competencies, and personality traits.
This is the archived version of a live webinar that took place on 13 July 2023
About the Speaker(s)
Pranav Chudgar has more than 16 years of multifunctional treasury experience in the corporate, consulting, and banking fields and has worked in financial markets across India, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe. In his current role at Motherson Sumi, a $10 billion auto-ancillary group, with a presence in 41 countries, and more than 200 subsidiaries, he overseas treasury functions across fund raising, financial risk management, and liquidity management. In his previous role at EY, he worked with corporates and fintechs across the treasury value chain to implement large treasury transformation programs through process improvement and cost optimization. During his banking stint at ICICI, he advised corporates on foreign exchange risk management strategies to mitigate market volatility. He also handled Airtel and Adani’s treasury. Chudgar was exposed to the breadth of the treasury function while working in corporate and banking, and developed depth of the treasury function working in consulting as he served more than 50 clients in different geographies.
Litesh Gada is extremely passionate about equity investments and has almost 15 years of professional experience in private equity, investment management, direct tax (advisory), mergers and acquisitions (tax and regulatory), and corporate finance. He has rich and in-depth knowledge in valuation, investment structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and transfer pricing. Gada has hands-on experience in the entire investment process from deal initiation until disbursement of money to the companies. He has been responsible for monitoring and handholding portfolio companies on a regular basis. Gada’s core expertise is to assist midsize and small companies that have growth potential in raising funds and scaling operations. Gada is a CFA® charterholder, chartered accountant (CA), and company secretary (CS). He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in commerce from Mumbai University.