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Padmashree

Padmashree · FP&A & Financial Analysis

I build the models, and the tools that produce them.

Chartered Accountant and MS Finance, working in FP&A and financial analysis. I find the real problem in messy data and explain the answer in plain language.

Padmashree

The through-line

Finance that builds its own tools.

Most FP&A candidates report the numbers. I report the numbers and then build the pipeline, the reconciliation, and the metric that produced them.

When the business is moving fast, that is the difference between a number people argue about and a number they can act on.

Built
cost and forecasting models from a blank page

Financial modeling

Automated
the month-end close, now self-service

Process automation

Adopted
a reconciliation model that became the team standard

FP&A

Selected work

Playbooks, not slides.

Each one follows the same shape: the problem, what she found, what she built, and how it works. The interactive pieces use illustrative sample data, not any employer's actual figures, because the point is the method and that it rebuilds for any company.

Flagship analysis

Hours per unit: the denominator problem

Hours per unit swung from about 39 to 463 across the year. Was the line falling apart?

What she found: The swing was the denominator, not the crew. Every spike in hours per unit lined up with a trough in units built.

Drag the minimum weekly volume up. Weeks below the line drop out and the range recomputes. At 12 units it collapses from about 12x to about 2x.

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Minimum volume
0units/wk
HPU range
39 to 463
Spread
12.0x
Weeks kept
30/30

No minimum. Range about 39 to 463 hours per unit, roughly 12x, 30 of 30 weeks.

0 units (off)
01220

Raw, hours per unit runs from about 39 to 463 across the built weeks, a spread of roughly 12x. The spikes look alarming.

Hours per unit

0100200300400500

Units built

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug

Shown: total across all lines. The model also produces battery pack, EDU, general assembly, full vehicle, and HPC views, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

Battery packEDUGeneral assemblyFull vehicleHPC
View the weekly data
Week endingHours per unitUnits built
Jan 1745.230
Jan 2448.928
Jan 3138.635
Feb 752.326
Feb 1441.733
Feb 2157.824
Feb 2863.122
Mar 769.420
Mar 1474.618
Mar 2181.216
Mar 2879.014
Apr 476.513
Apr 1160.321
Apr 1855.025
Apr 2578.917
May 284.415
May 982.012
May 1650.127
May 23142.58
May 30168.06
Jun 6158.76
Jun 13205.44
Jun 20223.94
Jun 27n/a0
Jul 4271.63
Jul 11298.23
Jul 18187.35
Jul 25351.02
Aug 1462.82
Aug 8133.99
Aug 1596.511
Manufacturing FP&A2026

Hours per unit: the data-quality fix

Overlapping payroll exports left thousands of duplicated hours. The metric could not be trusted.

1,180 to 0
duplicated employee-days
2,040
conflicts logged, not hidden
Payroll dataExcelData qualityReconciliation
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Manufacturing FP&AFY26

OpEx and CapEx forecast, line by line

Build a $9.6M facilities plan that a director can actually steer.

$9.6M
planned across 240 lines
79%
of CapEx phased into H2
ExcelLease schedulesASC 842CapEx planning
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Manufacturing FP&A2026

Month-end close automation

The month-end GL report was pulled by hand and broke on merged cells every close.

135 to 25 min
per close
6 months
running live
ERPAutomationGoogle Apps ScriptMonth-end close
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MS Finance, Saint Mary's College2026

Markowitz efficient frontier

Allocate a $100M equity portfolio across five stocks at the right level of risk.

$100M
illustrative portfolio, five stocks
4 ratios
Sharpe, Treynor, Alpha, Information
Portfolio theoryMarkowitzMean-varianceIllustrative data
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MS Finance, Saint Mary's College2026

Equity valuation sensitivity: Dollar General

What is Dollar General worth, and how sensitive is that to a few assumptions?

DCF + RI
two methods, cross-checked
2 drivers
WACC and terminal growth, live
ValuationDCFResidual incomeIllustrative data
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MS Finance, Saint Mary's College2026

An equity-research skill that runs itself

First-draft equity research is repeatable work. Could an agent produce a defensible one, on free data, for a couple of dollars?

5 sectors
validated, methodology adapts per sector
~$2 · ~5 min
per report, under $10 for the project
OpenClawAI agent skillEquity researchDCF
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More work

Corporate FP&A2024

Financial close and reporting automation

Self-initiated Excel and Power BI automation of the checks, adopted as the team standard.

Team standard adopted across the team

ExcelPower BIReconciliation
Corporate FP&A2025

Multi-year cost allocation forecasting model

Historical, budget, and forecast views in one model, used in annual planning.

Multi-year driver-based model

ExcelDriver-based modelingForecasting
B.Com capstone2022

Power BI expense forecasting dashboard

A Power BI expense forecasting dashboard built for the capstone.

Capstone Power BI dashboard

Power BIForecasting

Experience

FP&A, audit, and a manufacturing ramp in between.

Expand a role for scope, the systems used, and the wins. Wins that became a playbook link straight to it.

  1. Harbinger Motors

    Finance Intern, FP&A (Production) · United States

    Jun 2026 to Aug 2026

    Supported the Production organization at an EV manufacturer through a US manufacturing ramp, building the cost models and decision tools operations leaders used for resource planning while the processes were still being invented.

    NetSuiteNetSuite Analytics WarehouseGoogle SheetsExcel
  2. NTT DATA

    Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist · Multinational

    Sep 2023 to Aug 2025

    Full-cycle FP&A for four business functions: KPIs across revenue, cost of sales, OpEx, and CapEx, rolling forecasts, annual budgets, headcount planning, and the automation that made them faster and cleaner.

    ExcelPower BIPower Query
    • Self-initiated Excel and Power BI automation of close validation and reconciliation, adopted as the team standard, materially cutting reconciliation exceptions and close time.
    • Built a driver-based multi-year cost allocation forecasting model from a blank page, presented across historical, budget, and forecast views and used in annual planning.
    • Owned the monthly rolling forecast for OpEx, CapEx, and headcount, and the annual budget with cross-functional leaders.
    • Presented executive-ready variance analysis and scenario analyses directly to senior business leaders.
  3. Sri Ramulu Naidu & Co.

    Articled Assistant, Audit and Accounting · Mangalore, India

    Sep 2019 to Sep 2022

    Three years of audit and accounting during the Chartered Accountancy articleship: complete financial statements for multi-entity clients under US GAAP and Ind AS / IFRS.

    TallyExcel
    • Prepared and analyzed complete financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) for multi-entity clients, reconciling accounts and analyzing cost structures and margins.
    • Reviewed revenue recognition and cost accounting, recommended adjustments, and presented findings to client CFOs and audit committees.
    • Managed concurrent engagements with hard statutory deadlines independently, delivering accurate work under pressure.

Skills and stack

Grouped, and provable.

Select a skill to see the playbooks and roles that used it. No five-dot meters; where the work happened is the proof.

Financial Planning and Analysis

Manufacturing and Operations Finance

Financial Statements and Accounting

Tools and AI

Select a skill to trace it to the work it produced.

Education and credentials

Chartered Accountant, and an MS in Finance to match the models.

Chartered Accountant (ICAI)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Jul 2023 · CPA equivalent
MS in Finance (STEM)
Saint Mary's College of California
Aug 2026 · Expected
B.Com
Mangalore University
Feb 2022

Contact

Looking for someone who builds the tools, not just the reports?

Sunnyvale, CA · open to relocation. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn or the contact form. No phone or address here, by design.