Charanjit Singh Attra, recently retired as the State Bank of India’s (SBI) CFO, and named the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Jio Financial Services (JFS).
JFS is the financial services division of Mukesh Ambani’s recently demerged Reliance Industries.
He had been the Chief Financial Officer at SBI for two years and eight months before joining JFS. A noteworthy lateral hire from the private sector to a C-suite position at a PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) lender was Attra’s appointment as CFO at SBI in October 2020.
Prior to joining SBI, Charanjit Singh Attra held important roles in illustrious companies and was a chartered accountant with knowledge of Indian GAAP, US GAAP, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) laws.
At the IT company 3i Infotech, he held the positions of Executive Director and Global CFO and CFO and Head of the Structured Finance Group at ICICI Securities.
Attra has over 12 years of experience working across a variety of fields at the ICICI Bank Group, including investment banking, finance (raising of stock and debt), commercial and retail banking, financial accounting, and operations, according to his LinkedIn page.
Additionally, he has been proposed for appointment to many committees of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He also served on the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, an organisation established by the Ministry of Company Affairs.
