A finance leader who builds. Ram has spent his career where finance and technology meet — re-engineering finance functions on modern systems, automation, and AI, and pointing them somewhere worth going.
Ram Kumar built CFO Steer on a simple conviction: a modern finance function is only as good as the technology and operating model underneath it — and most companies are forced to choose between someone who understands the numbers and someone who can build the machine.
His career spans both. He has led finance agendas — strategy, planning, capital, and tax — and the transformation work that makes them real: redesigning operating models, implementing ERP and analytics, bringing automation and AI into the finance function, and running operations at scale through finance BPM and global capability centers. On the tax side, he treats tax transformation and state & local tax as part of the finance agenda, not an afterthought at filing season.
CFO Steer is where that experience is put to work for growth-stage and mid-market companies — the ones that have outgrown spreadsheets and improvisation, but aren't ready to build a full finance, tax, and technology bench in-house. Ram leads each engagement personally, setting the heading and staying on the wheel until the course holds.
Strategy, FP&A, capital, and decision support from the CFO's seat — the judgment that comes from having owned the numbers, not just advised on them.
Redesign the operating model and modernize the systems and data that carry it — ERP, EPM, master data, analytics — with automation and AI woven throughout. Includes BPM and global capability centers.
Tax handled as part of the finance agenda — real-time and connected to the data — capturing state & local value instead of leaving it on the table.
No drive-by decks. Engagements are led personally, from diagnosis through execution, with accountability for the outcome.
The goal is a finance function your team can run without him. Every engagement ends with the wheel back in your hands.
Finance that leadership can read at a glance — where the business is, where it's going, and the next decision to make.
A 30-minute call with Ram to pressure-test where your finance function is and where the gaps are — no deck, no obligation.