Ashwani Ramachandran

Director - Fp & a @adidas

Chennai, IN

Heads a 21 member team supporting Europe FP & A operations across channels:> Oversee FP & A processes spanning across analysis, management reporting, month end close, forecasting & budgeting> Manage the relationship with the Europe Market FP & A heads & their teams, understanding their requirements to improve processes/scope, speed of outputs> Act as central point of contact for all FP & A related matters within the Europe FP & A Chennai team> Drive the organization build up by constantly re-evaluating the scope & capacities of the team to optimize the provided support> Lead & coach the team & the leads with clear operational & strategic guidance to ensure efficiency, effectiveness & strong business partnership> Spearhead effective Performance Management initiatives to identify issues & to re-allocate FTEs to improve business delivery> Lead harmonization, standardization, automation & process improvement efforts> Support key projects in collaboration with a wider team – S/4 Hana rollout, Power BI migration via data lake

National Institute of Business Management, Chennai

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Saraswathi Vidyalaya, Trivandrum

12th Grade

University of Kerala

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom