Mr Bibek Agarwala, a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary is currently engaged with Raymond Group as CFO for Lifestyle Business. He is a Business Transformation Leader with 20 years of rich experience in Corporate Finance & Strategy, Treasury & M&A Operations, GST & Taxation, Shared Services & Business Process Management, Procurement & Commercials, Technology and Digital Initiatives with well-known Manufacturing, Retail and Service Industries such as Dabur, Pernod Ricard and PwC.

His proven abilities in enhancing financial processes and systems, leveraging use of technology and automation across business functions have been well appreciated in the Organization. Distinction of designing and implementing internal control systems to make business processes more robust and customer centric has resulted great value for the organization. He has strong commercial acumen, contract management skills and is a hard negotiator. His thought leadership, team building capabilities and interpersonal skills are the key strength areas. He has well managed transition journey from Demonetization to GST implementation. For him VUCA world in not un-known and it’s a reality. He looks forward to the opportunities in challenging environment for Value Creation, Unlocking blocked Capital, Compliance & Controls and Automation & Robotics.

The academic background (Rank holder in CA & CS examination) and work-experience has helped in building skills in strategic management activities of a multidisciplinary nature. Bibek is an Enterprising Leader with a solid record of contributions leading to lowered risk, heightened productivity & enhanced internal controls. He believes in co-creating values for stakeholders.

Bibek has been Felicitated for Exemplary Industry Representation by GST Retailers Association of India (RAI) in Feb 2018. He has been honoured with The India CFO Award 2018 for Excellence in the use of Technology by IMA in Aug 2018 and has also won Gold Award 2018 for Excellence in Transformation by SSON, Singapore in Nov 2018.