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Berlin, Germany

Lead, mentor and manage a global team of 10+ data scientists, analysts and engineers to deliver actionable insights and recommendations to support strategic decision-making.Facilitated cross-functional teamwork to ensure effective collaboration between analytics and other departments, such as Product, Finance, HR and Operations. Oversee data governance policies and procedures, ensuring data accuracy, integrity and security across organization to support reliable analytics and decision making. Identified and implemented process improvements and best practices within the analytics function to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

Berlin, Germany

Set-up, lead and oversee the finance analytics team to provide data-driven insights for strategic decision-making.Developed and maintained financial models, dashboards, and reports to analyze business performance and trends.Monitor key financial metrics, identify variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve profitability and efficiency.Identified opportunities for process improvements and automation within the finance function, leveraging advanced analytical tools and technologies to enhance efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.

Central Singapore

Reporting to the Chief Customer Officer of the second largest telecom in Singapore and managing a team of 6 analysts in sourcing, creating and providing consistent and accurate reports for the management.Built a single data warehouse from multiple data sources to facilitate efficient reporting.Centralized, Automated, Transformed over 100+ excel reports in such a way that now it ishandled by the reporting which was earlier done by individual operational teams. This resulted in reduction of FTE and improved the accuracy of the deliverables.Investigate trends and customer behaviour to re-assess customer experience metrics and institute continuous improvement on process and delivery.Prepare and present the findings on customer insights to the senior leadership team.Own the 40M SDG divisional BudgetAnalyse division financials and highlight the key reasons behind variance is actuals vs BudgetAlso, prepare the division’s annual budget in line with the organisational strategy.

Singapore

Reporting to the Vice President of Finance and IT, responsible for FP&A and Financial Analytics COE at a regional level that comprises of 17 countriesResponsible for data integrity and master data management of Finance systemsResponsible for coordinating and consolidating end to end annual budgeting and forecasting activitiesPrepare in-depth and well-thought-out ad-hoc analysis to support management and recommend financial strategies for current and new business initiatives.Responsible for preparation and analysis of monthly management reports and forecasts to the senior leadership team and regional office for consolidation and performance management.

Bengaluru Area, India

Manage client accounts worth $ 4 million USD by providing end to end sales & marketing analytical solutions to some of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world.Responsible for leading, mentoring and developing a team of 20+ analysts with strong quantitative and analytic abilities to integrate and analyse dataManage project planning and resource allocation. Assist in setting overall project direction, including assessment of the skill levels and gaps for each team member. Ensure consolidated, focused, high-level engagement metrics

Bengaluru Area, India

Leading a team of 4 analysts who generate client specific reports, sales forecasts, prototypes and insights under various planned or optimal detailing assignments.Helped one of the client’s to build an Enterprise-wide Market Intelligence platform of various Primary and Secondary Assets that helped in a potential savings of about $160K/annum.Performing detailed analytical work that involves Market Analysis, Tracking Brand Performance, based on the Market and Macro-Economic Analysis.

Chicago, Illinois

Consulting with senior management to analytically solve a business problem.Transforming a business problem into an analytical problem and communicating the same to off-shore.Managed an off-shore team of 10 members, setting up mile-stones for the projects and overseeing key analytical tasks.

Chicago, Illinois

Developed analytical sales dashboard in MS Excel for one of the leading pharmaceutical firm in U.S.Analysed the effect of Sales Force “Vacancy”. The findings of the analysis helped in determining the potential loss of business due to vacancies and the cost involved in filling up the vacancySales and promotions tracking.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead an organization wide initiative to develop modular approaches for developing new dashboards.Interactions with on-site lead, understanding the business problem, process and analyse the data required to arrive at the solution, interpret the results and generate insights.Data processing and cleansing of sales data for weekly trackers which go out to the sales force of one of the largest pharmaceutical company in U.S.Travelled on-site (U.S.) during June 2009 – August 2009• The role involved managing a team of four business analysts’ off-shore and assisting them in creating analytical dashboards addressing business needs of the client.• Managed a centralized data mart consisting of different types of data from various data sources to improve data accessibility for various analytical projects.

Master'S Degree, Financial Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics