New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited's (BHEL) Director (Engineering, Research & Development) Jai Prakash Srivastava with additional charge of Director (Finance), has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of BHEL. According to an order the company, Srivastava has been designated as CFO of the company with effect from May 25.

Srivastava is a 1985-batch Mechanical Engineering graduate from IIT Roorkee with a post graduate degree in Business Administration. Srivastava has subsequently also undergone an Advanced Management Programme from IIM, Calcutta.

Srivastava joined BHEL in 1985 as Engineer Trainee at Insulator Plant, Jagdishpur. He has about 38 years of diverse and extensive experience across all major functions viz. planning & development, marketing & business development, technology management, project management, project finance & control, capital & revenue budgeting, receivables management, financial forecasting & planning, production, procurements, quality, engineering, R&D, cost optimisation, human resource management, legal, digitalization, strategic & stakeholder management in various capacities across almost all product lines of BHEL while overseeing financial operations of units of FSIP Jagdishpur, CFP Rudrapur, HPVP Vizag & Corp R&D Hyderabad, Business sectors of Industry & International Operations including over two-year stint in the apex office as Strategic Adviser to CMD of BHEL.

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