30+ Years
Finance & Transformation Leadership
GCC & Finance Transformation
Built, not theorized.
Trustellar Advisory helps CEOs, CFOs, and investors build high-performing finance organizations, launch and transform GCCs, and turn AI and automation into measurable business value.
90+ Countries
Global Finance / GBS Experience
44 Territories
Shared Services Leadership
6 Continents
Global finance landscape
Why Trustellar
Experience that comes from the operating floor.
Strategy matters. Execution matters more.
Three decades of building, transforming, and operating complex finance organizations shapes every recommendation. The work begins with the commercial outcome, and stays accountable through execution.
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Operator-led
Advice grounded in first-hand accountability for people, performance, and P&L.
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Outcome-focused
Every mandate is framed around measurable enterprise and investor value.
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Technology-enabled
AI and automation applied where they improve speed, insight, control, or cost.
Core Practices
What we build
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GCC & Shared Services Build
Feasibility, business cases, location selection, operating model design, captive setup, governance, scaling, and hybrid models.
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Agentic Finance & Automation
AI opportunity assessment, intelligent automation, agentic workflows, O2C/P2P/R2R transformation, close acceleration, and AI roadmaps.
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PE & Value Creation
EBITDA improvement, cost reduction, working capital optimization, finance productivity, and operating leverage.
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Fractional CFO & Finance Leadership
Strategic finance, FP&A, board reporting, cash flow, capital allocation, and transformation leadership.
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Board & Governance Advisory
Board advisory, audit and controls governance, transformation steering, CFO mentoring, and independent director readiness.
Signature Offerings
Start with a focused problem
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Discuss your situation
GCC Feasibility & Business Case
ProblemUnclear economics and risk
InterventionFact-based location and operating model assessment
OutcomeAn investable case and executable roadmap
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Discuss your situation
GCC Value-Uplift Diagnostic
ProblemA center that has plateaued
InterventionRapid capability, cost, and governance diagnostic
OutcomeA prioritized value-uplift agenda
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Discuss your situation
Agentic AI-for-Finance Opportunity Scan
ProblemAI ambition without a starting point
InterventionWorkflow-level value and readiness assessment
OutcomeA practical, sequenced AI roadmap
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Discuss your situation
PE Portfolio Company Finance Value Creation Sprint
ProblemValue thesis needs faster delivery
InterventionFocused finance and cash performance sprint
OutcomeVisible EBITDA, cash, and control levers
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Discuss your situation
90-Day Fractional CFO Engagement
ProblemA leadership or capability gap
InterventionEmbedded senior finance leadership
OutcomeControl, clarity, and momentum in 90 days
Built at Scale
Evidence over assertion
A career spent inside global businesses, owning complex mandates, transformation outcomes, and the operating detail behind them.
$2.5B
P&L Management
Business FP&A leadership
$50M
Pretax outperformance
Delivered in FP&A leadership
60%
Faster close cycle
Through global digitization and BPR
$160M
Captive-center P&L
Led at operating scale
$12M
Savings
Delivered through transformation
50%
Faster FP&A review
Reduction in review-cycle time
The person behind Trustellar
Rajesh K. Swami
Founder & Strategic Advisor
30+ years of Fortune 500 finance leadership, brought to the problem in front of you.
Rajesh has led finance, FP&A, shared services, transformation, and global capability organizations across developed and emerging markets. His perspective is shaped by the decisions operators face: building teams, governing risk, delivering savings, improving cash and performance, and converting transformation ambition into durable capability.
Chartered Accountant (CA)
Cost & Works Accountant (CWA)
Dip IFR (ACCA UK)
Six Sigma Green Belt
Independent Director
Selected career experience
Vialto Partners • Baxter • Syngenta • Aon • Agilent • GE • Nestlé • Siemens
Who We Serve
For leaders accountable for value
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PE & Portfolio Companies
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Venture Capital backed Scale-ups
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Multinational CFO Organizations
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GCC / GBS Leaders
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Boards & Investors
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Have a transformation problem worth solving?
Share the context. The first conversation will focus on the problem, the value at stake, and whether Trustellar is the right fit.