Deepa Rao Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

We offer career counselling and guidance services for school and college students, entry level and mid career executives. We provide unbiased career guidance services based on the individual's personality, interests, abilities and emotional intelligence, both in India and overseas. Our students have received acceptances from Harvard, LSE, UCL, Bath, Durham, Warwick, Purdue, Texas A&M, UT Austin, UT Dallas, NTU, NUS, SMU, U of T, Univ of waterloo, Mcgill, UBC, CMU, Ashoka, Flame, NMIMS etc We guide you to carve a unique path and embark on your journey.Strelitzia is a spectacular, unmistakable and the unchallenged Queen of the house plant world. It is a majestic and a royal flower which always makes a statement. Each individual is like the Strelitzia flower and has the innate ability to blossom into a majestic personality, given the right environment, skills and knowledge. We guide you to carve your own path and embark on a journey, unique to you!

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I am responsible for establishing a guidance curriculum for career exploration and college preparation for students from Grade 8 to 12. This includes:• Creating and delivering the careers program as part of the PSHCE framework, coordinating, and training the students on careers and preparation for university.• Conducting individual and group counselling sessions to advise and assist students with academic, vocational development, program selection• Scheduling and Conducting age-appropriate Career Orientation programs • Assisting students in all aspects of university applications (Resume, University research, essay reviews etc)• Ensuring effective communication with the parents and students on a regular basis through regular family meetings, one-on-one meetings, workshops, emails etc• Organizing University Fairs and visits in the school, Hosting workshops and panels to help students explore various careers• Administration of the school’s online university and careers platform• Handholding the tutors, as a key member of the IBDP team, by supporting them in their role in the University application process. • Training teachers to write effective Letters of Recommendation

Mumbai Area, India

Western Union - Project consultant with the AML Compliance Team- South Asia- Responsible for managing the Third Party Agent Oversight Process. - Managed the implementation of new processes and improvements in existing processes- Set up the internal controls and monthly audit process, formal training plan, Quality Checks, Management Information, Process Documentation and implementation within the regulatory framework and project timelines.Tata Power as a Project consultant. Successfully spearheaded and completed the following projects:- Study of existing internal audit practices and preparing the ground work for Quality Assessment.- Recommendations for improvement of existing processes benchmarked against globally accepted practices as per the project deliverables for Quality Assessment. - GAIN survey for global benchmarking of internal audit practice.- Control Self Assessment Checklists for the various functions/processes.Visiting faculty with Ruia College for teaching Financial Management

Mumbai Area, India

Entrepreneur - A firm specialising in organisational resource solutions, training and process solutions.

• Identifying strategic outsourcing opportunities for key Credit Card operations, conducting financial and operational feasibility, preparation of financial analysis reports and obtaining management approvals on business case.• Vendor selection and negotiation.• Process Improvement, Quality Checks and Process Documentation management.• Migration Planning and seamless migration of the processes.• Management of multifunctional project teams.• Implemented a unit costing methodology on vendor pricing post migration.Key achievements - Led a Project team of technical and operations resources for the first large scale BPO project for HSBC. Accomplished seamless migration of the credit card operations to a Third Party Service Provider profitably.

Mumbai Area, India

• New product launches, Product Planning, formulation of product policies, procedures and implementation of the same.• Preparation of risk reward programme and profitability analysis.• Formulation and Documentation of policies, procedures and business requirements.• Competition Tracking and implementation of timely product variants as per market requirements.• Management of Volume and profitability targets as envisaged in the annual operating plan Key Achievements - Launched the Unsecured Lending suite of retail asset products in HSBC, which includes Personal Loans, Professional Loans, Personal Line of Credit (FlexiFinance) and Overdraft on salary accounts.

Gurgaon, India

Leading a team of functional and IT Professionals for the extensive study of Business requirements, identifying and implementing the optimal IT Business solution. The method followed was the Six Sigma oriented SDLC process. The analysis & implementation was based around the core mainframe receivables system “Vision Plus”. In a nutshell, the responsibility included Business Requirement analysis, translation into functional specifications, management of technical and user teams, preparation of test plans and testing, Final implementation and support. Projects handled: Corporate Cards, Application Processing, Collections, Processing System for Jet Privelege (Jet Airways). Key Achievements - Led a team of functional and IT professionals to successfully implement the New accounts Processing System at GE-SBI which enabled the end to end automation of Credit Card application processing, following the Six Sigma methodology.

Mumbai Area, India, New Delhi

Was responsible for the implementation & business development of SunSystems, a high end Financial Management & MIS application. Key responsibilities • Business Process & Requirements Study, System Design & System Build, User Acceptance Testing and Training, Implementation, and Post implementation Support• Business Development• Conducting Pre-Proposal Studies and New Client Development• Relationship Management Key Achievements - Independently set up the Northern India practice of SunSystems. Some of the key clients bagged were Discovery Communications, Pearson Television.

Aca, First Attempt

Completed in First Attempt along with graduation at the age of 21

Master'S Degree, Counseling Psychology, Distinction

Certification In Global Career Counselling, Career Exploration/Awareness Skills

Certification In Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Counselling Psychology

Certification In Personal Counselling (Robert Carkhuff Method), Counselling Psychology

Pg Diploma In Investments And Tax Planning

Bcom (Hons)

Class Xii