Inside The Mentoring Round CFO CFO Kabir Ahmed Shakir highlights the importance of business intimacy, functional skills, and diversity within his finance team.Additionally, he emphasizes the company’s focus on driving profitable, sustainable growth through margin expansion, operational efficiency, and strategic reinvestment. This approach has enabled Tata to fund acquisitions, such as Switch and Kalera, using internal resources. Shakir acknowledges that these investments temporarily impacted key financial metrics like return on capital employed and EBITDA, but he remains confident in the company’s plan to restore and exceed previous performance levels.
