Tejaswini Yalam

About Tejaswini Yalam

I am a Chartered Accountant with over 9 years of experience in financial planning, analysis, strategic business partnering, and financial reporting. My career is built on a foundation of \"Big 4\" audit rigor at Deloitte combined with high-impact finance roles at global giants like Adidas and Diageo.I specialize in transforming complex financial data into actionable strategies that optimize business performance. Whether it’s building financial models, forecasting, margin and profitability analysis, managing CFIN migrations, or leading large-scale IPO services, my focus remains on creating value through revenue maximization, cost savings, and process improvements that makes an impact.Key achievements across my roles as follows:• Executed driver-based forecasting of outbound transportation costs, challenging drivers and deployment strategies that improved fill rates and reduced overall piece price by 6%• Performed detailed monthly carrier-by-carrier parcel rate analysis to detect billing anomalies and penalties, recovering €600K for incorrect billing• Analyzed special handling cost data across customer portfolio, flagging € 4mn in unrecovered service costs and partnering with Sales to implement revised pricing that improved profitability.• Built dynamic PEX forecasting model with sensitivity analysis across 100+ retail locations, supporting €180 mn operating expense planning and enabling data-driven resource allocation decision• Built a PBI productivity dashboard with various KPIs which helped the management to decide on the staff reallocation strategy for the retail stores.• Enhanced Retail Sales Power BI dashboard serving 120 finance and business stakeholders, implementing new drill-through capabilities and KPI metrics that enabled daily operational insights and improved data-driven decision-making• Improved quarterly forecast accuracy from 78% to 90% by identifying and rectifying flawed underlying assumptions in variable rent across 100+ stores• Successfully led an IPO engagement for a major hospitality chain with a total size of Rs.4,500 million, conducting detailed reviews of offer documents.• Identified industry specific risks and performed the internal controls testing and other audit procedures. • Advised clients on best practices in the areas of financial statements preparation, internal controls framework and accounting• Attended the audit committee meetings of clients and reported on the key audit and governance matters.

Experience

1. Manager - Fp & a

   阿迪达斯

   Apr 2023 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Developed end-to-end Excel forecast model for Go-in Margin and Standard Margin analysis, automating monthly margin forecasting and improved monitoring• Redesigned monthly transportation cost reporting framework with channel-wise and distribution center trend visualizations, proactively highlighting unusual piece prices to leadership and improving cost accountability • Conducted monthly actual vs. budget and forecast variance analysis, delivering executive-level waterfall bridge reports that clearly explained cost drivers and key business trends• Developed comprehensive outbound volume reconciliation between SCM and billing volumes implementing automated validation checks that saved reconciliation time by 10 hours monthly and improved reporting accuracy• Collaborated with IT team to diagnose and resolve critical master data and cost calculation issues in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning tool, preventing delays in quarterly forecast processes Key Achievements• Executed driver-based forecasting of outbound transportation costs, challenging drivers and deployment strategies that improved fill rates and reduced overall piece price by 6%• Performed detailed monthly carrier-by-carrier parcel rate analysis to detect billing anomalies and penalties, recovering €600K for incorrect billing• Analyzed special handling cost data across customer portfolio, flagging € 4mn in unrecovered service costs and partnering with Sales to implement revised pricing that improved profitability.

Education

• Acharya Nagarjuna University

  B.Com, Business/Commerce, General

  2012 — 2016

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant, Business/Commerce, General

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Taxations
• Auditing
• Microsoft Word
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Office