Ricky Gupta - Finance Leadership & Business Transformation
DELIVERING OUTCOMES IN FINANCIAL STRATEGY, BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION, AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Ricky is a Finance leader with over 20 years of experience driving business transformation, strategic financial management, and operational performance improvement across ASX-listed companies, global manufacturers, and consumer businesses.
He brings a rigorous, hands-on approach to every engagement — from designing cross-functional budgets and delivering FP&A to developing business cases and leading complex change programmes through to completion.
With a career spanning manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, agribusiness, FMCG, retail, and aviation, Ricky has a rare breadth of sector experience combined with the depth of a senior finance leader. He is equally at home partnering with operational teams on the floor as he is presenting to boards — translating complex financial and non-financial matters into clear, confident decisions at every level of an organisation.
Areas of expertise
Finance leadership & FP&A: Leading finance functions across complex, multi-site organisations — setting financial direction, building cross-functional bottom-up budgets, and delivering APAC-level consolidation, forecasting, and reporting.
Business transformation & strategy implementation: End-to-end ownership of transformation programmes — from strategic design through practical implementation — with a consistent focus on durable financial and operational outcomes.
Commercial finance partnering: Serving as a trusted commercial partner to supply chain, sales, manufacturing, and operational leaders — embedding financial rigour into commercial decision-making and driving gross margin improvement.
Business case preparation & investment analysis: Building robust, well-structured business cases for capital expenditure, transformation initiatives, and strategic investments — enabling boards and executive teams to make high-confidence decisions.
CAPEX & supply chain finance: Specialist experience in capital expenditure planning, approval, and review across manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics — ensuring investment discipline and operational alignment.
Process improvement & continuous improvement: Identifying and eliminating financial and operational inefficiencies, redesigning reporting frameworks, and embedding continuous improvement practices across finance and business functions.
Proven Track Record
Global manufacturing leadership: Currently Head of Finance at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC — a global manufacturer of commercial vehicle components — navigating the financial complexity of international operations, supply chains, and multi-currency environments.
Agribusiness & FMCG: Senior Finance Consultant at Select Harvests Limited (ASX-listed), and over seven years at Nufarm — a leading global agricultural company — spanning Finance Manager and Senior Finance Business Partner roles across supply chain, industrial sales, CAPEX, and continuous improvement.
Retail & aftermarket distribution: Senior finance business partnering at Goodyear & Dunlop Tyres and Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has provided deep exposure to retail and aftermarket channel dynamics — including sales division finance, margin management, inventory and supply chain economics, and the financial complexities of businesses that operate across both consumer-facing retail and wholesale distribution networks.
Packaging industry foundations: Early career experience as an Accountant at Amcor — one of the world's largest packaging companies — grounding Ricky in the financial discipline of large-scale, complex manufacturing businesses.
Professional qualifications: CPA Australia, and a Master of Accounting and Financial Management from La Trobe University — underpinning a technically rigorous and ethically grounded approach to finance leadership.
Approach
Ricky combines analytical discipline with a practical, implementation-focused mindset — moving from insight to outcome with clarity and confidence. He brings a commercial partner's perspective to finance, ensuring that strategy is grounded in numbers, transformation is built to last, and decisions are made with the full picture clearly in view. His strength lies in building trust across all levels of an organisation — from the boardroom to the operational floor — and in being relied upon to efficiently handle and execute any assignment given to him.
