Mr. P.B. Balaji is a global finance professional with over two decades of experience in the corporate sector. He is currently the Group Chief Financial Officer of Tata Motors Limited since November 2017, a $40bn enterprise in the automotive sector, and is also serving on the Board of several group Companies of Tata Motors Limited. He has helped shape the strategy to navigate the business of Tata Motors through the multiple disruptions facing the auto industry.
Prior to joining Tata Motors, Mr. Balaji was the Executive Director- Finance & IT and Chief Financial Officer of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL).
Mr. Balaji started his career with Unilever in 1993 as Management Trainee and has worked in number of roles in Finance and Supply Chain over a period of more than 20 years. Mr. Balaji was earlier the Vice President, Finance for Unilever America, Supply Chain, based out of Switzerland, responsible for financial aspects of an 18 billion supply chain. Prior to that, he was the Group Chief Accountant of Unilever worldwide based at London. Before moving to London, Mr. Balaji has served as the Vice President, Finance for the Home and Personal Care business in India and earlier as the Vice President, Treasury for the AAR region based out of Singapore.
Mr Balaji is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and has a post-graduate management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.