Srikanth Balachandran


Srikanth Balachandran is one of the prominent NRIs in the United Kingdom. He is a Director with the Bharti Group, and is based in London. He has been with the Bharti Group for 10 years, and has served as Global CFO as well as Global CHRO in Bharti Airtel, the world's third largest mobile operator with more than 450 million customers across 16 countries.

Education

Srikanth has an undergraduate degree in commerce from Madras University. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant securing All India second rank in Nov 1984.

Career

Srikanth joined Hindustan Unilever Limited, a FMCG company in 1985. He worked in Unilever for 23 years taking positions including vice president, finance & commercial and head, global finance transformation at Unilever's head office in London.
In 2008, he joined Bharti Airtel as the CFO. In 2011, he took over the role of global CFO overseeing the financials of Airtel's operations in more than 17 countries across the globe. In August 2015, he became the Global Chief Human Resources Officer of Airtel. For 3 years in a row, in 2015, 2016 and 2017, Airtel was adjudged the Best Employer in Telecom by Business Today. In the latest 2017 rankings, Airtel continued to rank among the top ten employers in India, across all sectors. In 2017, Airtel was also adjudged the Aon Best Employer in India.
In September 2018, Srikanth relocated to London to take up a global responsibility with the Bharti Group.

Awards and Publications

In June 2014, Srikanth was recognized as the Best Telecom CFO by CNBC-TV18. Srikanth was listed as a Power Profile in India by LinkedIn in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, being amongst the most viewed professionals on LinkedIn.
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  2. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/start-up-within-airtel-passion-people-behind-srikanth-balachandran/
  3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-why-how-machine-learning-airtel-srikanth-balachandran/
  4. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teams-technologies-tectonic-shift-digital-play-srikanth-balachandran/
  5. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebrating-airtel-spirit-challenge-yourself-among-balachandran/
  6. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hyper-productive-hyper-connected-hyper-innovative-balachandran/
  7. https://www.peoplematters.in/article/lets-talk-talent/heres-how-airtel-engages-its-employees-15835
  8. https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/s/delivery_production/docs/FY16h1/doc20/661349-Oracle-whitepaper-AI-v01.pdf?elq_mid=90833&sh=0809181626130719252615262419261323092613292508261913&cmid=APMK170705P00017
  9. https://www.peoplematters.in/article/diversity/it-is-time-to-empower-women-at-workplace-17809
  10. https://www.peoplematters.in/article/building-hr-capability/how-to-build-a-rainbow-team-17965