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Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Built financial models, and market research reports for both Senior Management use and external clients on a daily, weekly, and ad hoc basis to support decision making, client engagement, and marketing
• Provided expert consulting in risk assessment and financial reporting related to commodities, foreign exchange, and derivatives products
• Organized a series of self-prepared workshops for a team of 5 traders to explain important economic concepts meanwhile maintaining an ambiance of active verbal communication to encourage productive discussion
• Developed and expanded predictive econometric models using financial data analysis and empirical research design while staying on top of market intelligence

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managed research studies across both public & private sectors across real estate, retail, healthcare, education, and financial services in the MENA region
• Developed expertise in demand-supply analysis, benchmarking analysis for retail assets, process improvement, opportunity assessment, business portfolio strategy, and budget planning
• Built financial models to analyze returns of potential projects and presented findings to management and clients

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Employed a range of self-prepared predictive and iterative mathematics models aimed to find trading opportunities to achieve a higher Return on Investment using software like E-Views and MS Excel
• Monitored results against forecast and analyzed variances to support decision making at various levels within the organization
• Conducted Macro-economic, political and Geo-political research analysis of G-7 countries on a daily basis and giving Buy/Sell recommendations for 10+ FX currency pairs and ensuring a minimum drawdown on the same
• Documented necessary research design to generate, enhance and evaluate systematic investment strategies; while understanding the connections between statistical significance and robustness of underlying economic.
• Proactively worked on areas of automation which had a direct impact on the firm’s operations and the process of strategic planning
• Wrote predictive daily and week ahead reports on Currency pairs highlighting key political, Geo-political and economic development

Delhi Area, India

• Executed comprehensive research studies including cost-benefit Analysis, segmentation analysis, and retail benchmarking across industries like Commercial Real Estate, Healthcare, Retail, and Education
• Involved in data analytics, qualitative & quantitative research, report writing, and data presentation to provide key insights into different mergers and acquisitions on the focal industry
• Performed 20+ special studies and developed data & information, assessment, and recommendations as per the client’s request while working on tight deadlines
• Developed waterfall and Agile business models to support research in forecasting sales figure and trend analysis
• Delivered advisory services including key aspects like program design and project management while showing flexibility in the undertaken approach to incorporate client’s business objectives
• Generated business through focus on active client engagement, prospect development, networking, and high-quality proposal writing

Noida Area, India

• Involved in forecasting the prices of commodities, involving an ‘Inflation Forecasting Models’ for a Fortune 500 client
• Worked on the periodical budget process to ensure minimum divergence of the forecasts from the actual figures
• Identified and extracted macroeconomic and commodity-specific quantitative data from various data sources and publications available openly
• Related market information, economic data and macroeconomic changes to the prices of specific commodities
• Responsible for conducting macroeconomic analysis using variables such as Manufacturing PMI, Housing starts, Current account deficit, retail sales, yield curve analysis, and CPI among others
• Built statistics and econometric models, with an accuracy of 95%, using quantitative techniques like regression analysis, time series analysis, ARIMA, VAR, seasonality, etc.

Calcutta

- Identified Scheduled Commercial Banks in India which were merged during 1990-2008 - Calculated and analyzed various capital ratios like Risk-Weighted ratio, Leverage ratio, Gross-revenue ratio, etc.- Conducted Regression Analysis using STATA and collected data from Bloomberg for a various variable to ascertain financial ratios of distressed Indian banks

Master'S Degree, Financial Economics

Activities and Societies: Cultural SecretaryResponsible for organizing several events at inter and intra-college level.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Volunteer Work.

High School, Commerce With Maths

Awarded “Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of.