Teslim
Adeyanju, ACA

Financial Data Analyst for FP&A and commercial finance

Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) and ACA Chartered Accountant working as a Financial Data Analyst, BI Analyst, and Finance Systems Analyst — helping organisations turn complex financial data into trusted, decision-ready insights using Power BI, Databricks, SQL, Python, and Azure.

Power BI SQL Python Excel Financial Modelling
Teslim Adeyanju
TA
📊 Power BI Expert
📈 Financial Analytics

Measurable impact delivered

  • Month-end Close: 7 days to 3 days 57% reduction through automated reconciliation, structured Power BI reporting, and streamlined close procedures
  • Forecast Accuracy to ±8.5% Achieved on a £2.3M budget via rolling 13-week cash flow models, variance tracking, and scenario planning
  • Reporting Cycle Cut by 25%, Data Prep by 80% Delivered through ETL automation, Power Query transformation pipelines, and reusable SQL extraction scripts
  • £50K+ Annual Cost Savings Identified through margin analysis, cost centre reviews, and process optimisation across finance operations
  • 60% Drop in Manual Reporting Requests Enabled by self-service Power BI dashboards giving finance stakeholders direct access to live KPIs and variance reports
  • Board-Level Governance Treasurer at Asylos (UK Registered Charity), overseeing financial controls, budgeting, and compliance reporting to the board

Career

Experience that shaped my finance & data practice

2025 — Present

Founder & Independent Financial Data Analyst

Flagship Project

CoreInsight Financial Advisory Ltd · Hampshire, UK

Independently designs and delivers end-to-end financial data solutions, including a self-directed data migration project using a publicly available NHS dataset of ~2.1 million records across 206 trusts, and a published open-source Python package for financial data analysis.

Designed a normalised star schema MySQL database from raw, multi-format NHS source files; built a Python/Pandas ingestion layer to parse, validate, and load ~2.1M records with row-level audit logging; published fda-toolkit on PyPI — 67 production-ready functions, 1,000+ downloads; and reduced data cleaning cycle time from hours to minutes via a reusable ETL pipeline architecture.

May 2024 — Present

Treasurer (Voluntary Board Role)

Board Level

Asylos · UK Registered Charity

Directs financial strategy, long-term planning, and resource allocation; leads annual budget cycles with scenario modelling, and prepares Power BI board dashboards for trustees.

Enhanced reserve forecasting to detect funding gaps 6 months in advance, securing £12K in operational continuity funding; delivered board-approved budgets 60 days earlier, enabling timely allocation of £120K across 8 critical projects; managed £1M in donor contributions with zero delays across 12 fund categories; and maintained 100% audit compliance with zero material findings across 2 consecutive audit cycles.

Oct 2024 — Apr 2025

Financial Reporting Analyst

QS Dimensions · UK

Built cost models and rolling forecasts, led monthly reforecast cycles across 6 departments, and redesigned Power BI models onto star schema architecture with reusable DAX measures.

Improved budget accuracy from ±10% to ±8.5% on a £2.3M annual budget, removed 120 redundant columns to improve Power BI load times by 35%, reduced manual data requests by 60% through self-service dashboards, and delivered £50K in annual cost savings.

Jan 2019 — Sep 2022

Financial Data Analyst

Misadel Ltd · Nigeria (Remote UK Collaboration)

Designed automated ETL pipelines to consolidate financial data from Sage and legacy platforms, and built optimised Power BI semantic models covering sales, procurement, and receivables across 36 states.

Built and maintained 55+ interactive Power BI dashboards across 8 business functions and a library of 80+ DAX measures for revenue, margin, and collection performance, consolidated data from 4 disparate source systems into unified Power BI semantic models, and identified cost-saving opportunities across 85 supplier contracts and 1,200+ SKUs.

Apr 2013 — Dec 2018

Financial Accountant

CleanAce Solution Ltd · Nigeria

Led full-cycle monthly close and delivered financial statements to the Board, ran audit readiness activities with IFRS-compliant schedules, and supported capital expenditure tracking.

Achieved 100% on-time submission for 60+ board packs over 5 years (72 board meetings) with clean audit reports and zero material misstatements across 5 consecutive annual audits, completed year-end close 5 days ahead of schedule (17% faster), and supported £125K in annual savings (8.3% reduction from £1.5M baseline).

Jan 2010 — Mar 2013

Financial Business Analyst

MTN Business Partner Ltd · Nigeria

Managed financial controls and reporting across 35 branches spanning 6 regional zones, and performed intercompany reconciliations across 8 business units.

Reduced month-end close from 7 days to 3 days (57% improvement), eliminated 100% of critical reconciliation errors (from 12/month to zero), produced consolidated financials on time for 36 consecutive monthly cycles with 100% accuracy, and drove 8 cost optimisation initiatives delivering ₦8M in annual savings.

Qualifications

Education & Certifications

Academic excellence paired with current industry certifications across finance, analytics, and cloud platforms.

Teslim Adeyanju

MSc Finance and Investment Banking : Distinction

University of Hertfordshire, UK · 2022–2024

Top 5% of cohort · HBS Excellence Award 2024 · Student Representative

Grounded in CFA Levels 1 & 2 curriculum, the programme combined quantitative finance, investment analysis, and applied data analytics.

Also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance: University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2017–2018.

Professional Qualifications
  • Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA): Admitted Nov 2019
  • Associate Accounting Technician (AAT): Admitted Dec 2005
Data Analytics & Visualization
  • Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL‑300), 2026
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals, In Development
Cloud & Data Platforms
  • Databricks Accredited: Lakehouse Platform Fundamentals, 2026
  • HackerRank Certified: SQL (Advanced), 2026
  • SuperDataScience: Python for Data Analysis, 2025
Accounting & Finance
  • Financial Statement Analysis: Corporate Finance Institute (CFI), Aug 2021
  • Xero Certified Advisor: Cloud Accounting Platform, 2025

Technical Stack

Tools & Technologies

The tools I use to turn financial data into insight, and insight into decisions.

Business Intelligence: Power BI (PL-300), DAX, Power Query, Semantic Models, Star Schema

SQL & Databases: SQL, T-SQL, MySQL, Stored Procedures, ETL Pipelines, Data Modelling

Python & Data Engineering: Python, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy, PyPI Package Development

Finance Systems: Sage 50, Xero (Certified Advisor), QuickBooks, ERP Integration

Microsoft Excel (Advanced): Financial Modelling, Power Query, Pivot Tables, FORECAST.ETS

Cloud & Modern Data Platforms: Azure SQL, Databricks SQL, Azure Databricks, Git

Data Visualisation: Tableau, Dashboard Design, Interactive Reporting

AI & Automation: Azure OpenAI, Prompt Engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Claude API

Portfolio

Finance-focused case studies spanning classical analytics, Power BI, and modern AI.

NHS Financial Analytics

206 NHS trusts across 3 financial years · Python-to-MySQL ETL pipeline

Engineered end-to-end Python ETL pipeline ingesting NHS England financial data into MySQL star schema with analytical views, KPI metrics, and Power BI integration across 206 trusts.

Python MySQL Power BI NHS Finance

Financial Forecasting & Variance Analysis

Management Accounting · Forecasting · Variance Analysis

Designed forecasting models and variance analysis framework using Python — translating core management accounting skills into data-driven analytics with professional visualisations.

Python Pandas Variance Analysis

Stock Market Risk Analysis

GOOGL · AMZN · AAPL · MSFT · Monte Carlo Simulation

Full portfolio risk analysis framework: daily returns, volatility computation, Sharpe ratio calculation, and 30-year Monte Carlo simulation for informed investment risk modelling.

Python Monte Carlo Risk Analysis

Advanced SQL Analytics

CTEs · Window Functions · Data Quality Analysis

Advanced SQL analytics using CTEs, window functions, aggregations, and data quality frameworks — applied to student wellbeing analytics in Jupyter and MySQL.

SQL Python Window Functions

Financial Performance Analytics Model

29 DAX Measures · 5 KPI Domains · Enterprise Dashboard

Advanced Power BI model with 29 complex DAX measures tracking profitability, growth, efficiency, pricing, and risk metrics. Interactive dashboards with drill-through capabilities for business intelligence.

Power BI DAX Analytics

Financial Report Intelligence System

10-agent architecture · 21+ financial metrics · validated on Apple, Amazon & Colgate annual reports

Multi-agent AI platform that extracts and interprets financial statements — automated metrics and ratio calculation, evidence-linked risk and anomaly detection, and AI-generated executive commentary, with Python handling every calculation so results stay auditable.

Python Multi-Agent AI Power BI

HMRC Tax RAG Assistant

1,299 indexed sections · 5 HMRC internal manuals · source-linked answers

Retrieval-augmented Q&A system that grounds UK tax answers in official HMRC internal manuals instead of an LLM's memory — every response traces back to the exact GOV.UK source page, or the system declines to answer.

Python RAG Tax
View all 17 remaining projects
#ProjectFocusStack
02Financial Data PipelineETL · Forecasting · TradingPython
05UK Mutual Fund PerformanceFund Analysis · Performance
06ML Financial AnalysisRegression · Classification · Ensemble ModelsPython
07NHS Waiting List AnalyticsHealthcare · Trend AnalysisPython
08Diamond Price PredictionEDA · Feature Engineering · MLPython
09Superstore Sales PredictionRetail · Forecasting · MLPython
10Retail Marketing PredictionMarketing · Consumer BehaviourPython
11Salary Prediction (SHAP)ML · Explainability · SHAPPython
12Lead Conversion ModelMarketing · ClassificationPython
13YouTube Sentiment AnalysisNLP · Sentiment · TextPython
14UK Immigration Impact AnalysisPower BI · Geographic Data · PolicyPower BI
15World University RankingEDA · Data AnalysisPython
16AI Career CoachAI Agent · LLMHTML/JS
17AI News AutomatorAI · Streamlit · AutomationPython
18Email AgentAI Agent · AutomationPython
19Ollama Local AgentLocal LLM · AIShell
21MySQL Fundamentals to AdvancedCore SQL to Analytics · Python IntegrationMySQL + Python

Some links go to my second GitHub account, github.com/UthmanAdeyanju (Uthman is my other given name).

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