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Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Expertise in managing and driving business requirements for financial services industry and retail e-commerce • Manage project lifecycle phases of business case initiation, planning, execution, change management and closure. • Define product vision, strategy and prioritize features and enhancements. • Maintain book of work in JIRA, capture backlog items and incremental changes to digital journeys, working with business stakeholders to ascertain backlog priorities and timelines are met.• Experience of scoping projects in collaboration with UX, UI, strategy, QA and technical teams in agile environment.• Continuously evaluate and refine the product roadmap to ensure product is aligned with business goals.• Provide to the program management team reports on project status, identifying project risks and mitigating options to keep delivery on track.• Participate in regular stakeholder meetings with the x-functional delivery teams to track the progress of all in-flight initiatives.• Ensure that products are delivered on time, within scope and budget.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Part of EM's Financial Business Planning team.• Support Global Financial Planning Manager in achieving the financial goals that includes revenue, fixed/variable cost targets and gross profit. • Develop, Maintain & Circulate regular and ad-hock MIS Reports to VPs and AVPs presenting story of deep-dive cost financials and highlighting the root cause for plan vs actual cost deviations.• Responsible for monitoring Fixed Cost Financial trends for Polypropylene Business Unit across AP, EMEAF and AM region.• Single handedly delivered Corporate Financial Plan for up-coming year 2022 which projected fixed cost targets, and set cost budgets for Sales, Marketing and Product Management teams.• Mentor new hires to have them gain end-to-end perspective of the BU specific financial targets and help in weaving story with supporting data points in case of large variations between plan vs actual.• Keeping stakeholders informed about business financial risks after performing Regular and Ad-Hoc analysis of key business KPIs at different cuts of data. • Responsible for automating sales and product dashboards which follow standard operating procedures.• Prepare FAQ’s and training material for the use of learning and development.• Strategize key regions for relocation and positioning of global head counts to make sure Fixed Cost Plan targets are met.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Microsoft (Bing Search and Advertising Engine) – Team Biz Planning and Forecasting• Experience in Time Series Linear Regression analysis using advanced statistical models (ARIMA, SARIMA, T-BATS, Prophet) for predictive analytics.• Preparing financial outlooks at different cuts of data for different LOBs at Bing.• Maintain Rhythm of Business by performing deep dive data analysis to explain Variance to Forecast (VTF) to sales and finance teams. Also, identify possible risks and opportunities in case of large unexplained variations.• Study user search behavior with trend and seasonality patterns after visualizing in PBI and Excel dashboards.• Use data to optimize sales opportunities after performing external driver analysis (exogenous variables) to understand customer search behaviour.• Proficient in writing User Stories, preparing Workflow Diagrams, understanding client’s need and building advanced product dashboards using Power BI and Excel

Bengaluru Area, India

Analysing the utilisation of various modules of management dashboard used for multiple business decision making by Bosch Global-RBEI, using data visualisation tool, Tableau.

Pune Area, India

UBS Investment Bank – Team Global General Ledger & Financial Reporting • Providing Application Support and Incident Management - Primarily dealing with the feeds coming from multiple upstream of APAC,EMEA and AMER regions and successfully feeding it into the system. The end deliverable were the reports generated out of the loaded data which would be used for multiple decision making by business users.• Problem Management - Any JIRA raised or CR pertaining to the deliverable was handled by the team till complete execution and sign-off by business. • Production Readiness Process Control - Eying on the up-to-date banking production system and dealing with issues related to non-reconciliation of reports to serve for excellence.• Business Continuity Management - Making regular BCP’s quarterly and tracking it till complete execution and business sign-off. • Maintenance and Enhancement of Applications - Routine tracking of the internal applications and providing support in case of data discrepancies to the business users. Understanding the business impact of the issue and coordinating with different teams for getting it fixed with minimal system downtime and business impact.

Master In Business With Europe, Strategic Management

Completed second majors in Business with Europe at University of Applied Sciences(FHWS), Germany. Master Thesis: “Overcoming the Digital.

Master Of Business Administration, Lean Operations & Systems

Activities and Societies: Lead core committee member of 'External Fest Committee' at Christ University.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science With Specialisation In Cloud Computing And Virtualization Technology

Activities and Societies: Computer Society of India Association of computing machineryCGPA: 3.1/4

Education record

House Prefect and Scholar Badge Holder at School level.