SUMMARY

• To obtain a position within the strategic management group where my extensive experience, organizational leadership skills willbe fully utilized and further developed.
• MBA with 15 years of post qualification experience in Business Analytics, Data Analysis, Business Planning, Pricing, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Financial Planning & Modeling, Variance Analysis, MIS, Forecasting, Budgeting, Decision Support to the top Management, Competitive Analysis, Business case development, Quote to Order process, Six Sigma, GAAP, Service Level Agreement (SLA) Tracking, CMM level documentation and Team Management.
• Highly motivated, energetic professional team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with individuals at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Tableau
• SAS
• SAP BW
• BEX Analyzer
• SAP Business Objects
• Oracle
• Essbase
• Cognos
• Tivoli
• Siebel
• HP Service Manager Incident Management (HPSM)
• Maestro and SharePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Planning Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a part of business strategy and analytics team I involved in extracting large amounts of data from various sources to generate impactful insights that influence the organizational level strategy and operations.
• Primarily focused on data management such as financial, customer, sales, cost, margin, profitability and business analytics from all internal and external data sources to implement business plans, processes and procedures to achieve organization goals.
• Developed detailed portfolio analysis to determine strategic approach to improve profitable growth.
• Worked closely with cross functional teams in the organization to support the management.
• Responsible to meet the information demands of business users by delivering timely, accurate, meaningful, standardized data and generated organization level weekly, monthly reports as well as tracked status to meet operational targets for management also documented reports generation process and metrics for the team. Used Tableau for making charts, graphs and presentation.

Business Manager Finance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed commercial finance quote - to-order process for Asia Pacific region.
• Performed business planning and analysis, profitability analysis, margin analysis and forecasting future business and financial performance of the business also participated in UAT for new feature developments on quote to cash tools.
• Analyzed the transactional level impact of specific pricing methodologies across various segments (channel, product, customer Size, purchase type, and region).Extracted data from various sources & merged to prepare reports for decision making for top management.
• Worked on monthly & quarterly financial reports automation to reduce the time to complete by 50-60% and errors associated with manual/semi automated processes. Used Tableau for making charts, graphs and presentation.
• Used Tableau for making charts, graphs and presentation.

Manager Global Strategy

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Global Strategy and Analytics team to develop business strategy by understanding the market trends and created project estimates for new and existing projects, including pricing and margin analysis on proposed projects.
• Involved in portfolio strategy development for the organization by analyzing the various segments & verticals and business lines.
• Worked with SMEs, Product Managers, Business Managers and Services Offer Managers to gather organization level data for reporting requirements for offer simplification modeling, management reporting & MIS and formulation of SBU strategies for new business plans.
• Responsible for profitability analysis, sales opportunity review, strategy development, contract negotiation and renewals.
• Proactively created framework to expand opportunities, diversify and to improve business profitability.
• Responsible for Business Planning, Forecasting, and Budgeting, Business performance reviews & Business Analytics.
• Prepared Management presentations, scenarios and managed strategic initiatives.
• Designed new strategies and determining effectiveness of the old strategies.
• Analyzed and monitored price changes and current market conditions.
• Developed and implemented new business plans and strategies to increase revenue.
• Tracked monthly financial results analyzed differences between the actual Vs targets / estimated and delivered BU specific KPI dashboard indicating financial health of BU and automated day to day reports using SAP Business Objects.
• Conducted market basket analysis on order data to determine the product associations to bundle products in marketing offers.
• Developed automated tools/Dashboards and systems to support the business ensuring efficiency gains and improve the overall pricing and reporting processes.
• Prepared and analyzed business case for services offers and provided pricing recommendations to Offer Management based on financial impact, customer value and market opportunity.
• Determined new opportunities by analyzing business needs and tracking monthly progress of all initiatives.
• Created and provided financial projection formulas and financial analysis for the implementation of new or adjusted business plans and monthly financial planning and analysis.
• Allocated and scheduled tasks to team members as per project plan.
• Gathered data from various sources & merged to prepare reports for decision making also designed, developed and launched new reports & dashboards.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Business Intelligence/Financial Planning and Analysis worked on SAS Warranty Analysis for Confidential.
• I was responsible for new application development and improving existing applications to meet the changing needs of business specific assignments may include application design and development, coding for enhancements and fixes, testing, maintenance and support.
• Consolidated all data sources into a single repository using SAS ETL for tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Created and published reports using SAS Enterprise Miner and testing the reports functionality.
• Developed web based warranty dashboard to access the latest information on key warranty performance indicators, drill down to performance trends and disseminate strategic objectives and information across the organization also forecasting the potential cost of warranty issues.
• Automated high-level analytics reports for early warning alerts that sent to the appropriate person for further investigation and prioritization.
• Determined which combination of attributes are driving failures so that resources can be focused on the right issues in the right place atthe right time.
• Involved in preparing the project plan and technical specifications and responsible for In house training of the new batches.
• Prepared project management related document such as rapid development plan and risk management plan.
• Participated in SQA audits to track all the observations. I was responsible for meeting management performance standards, team supervision and performance management.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Business Analyst worked for Financial Planning and Analysis team, Confidential - UK, I have worked on mortality and morbidity analysis of the life insurance portfolio, market share report, persistency analysis, group personal pensions to improve the profitability growth of the company. Extracted required data and studied actual Vs expected claim rates against influencing factors such as demographics, duration, channel, also involved in quarterly document highlighting market trends by channel, product. Analyzed and validated the market share, top customers for the target lists.
• Extended Channel data for analyzing distributors to differentiate them based on the persistency mix of their business for actuarial reporting. Worked on commission paid out to the distributors dependents on expected profitability. Worked on pricing spreadsheet run for actual scheme composition to understand profitability (IRR and margin are used as metrics). Providing the logical solutions based on data analytics tools such as Excel, SAS, DCS, Glean and other BI tools.
• I was involved in various activities of the projects like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting
• functional and business requirements. As a part of Analytics Centers of Excellence involved in extracting data from various sources and creating, updating reports to primarily support the field management (e.g., Top Account, Business Trends, etc.). SAS and Excel, SQL was used for pre-processing data, data analysis, generating reports, graphics and statistical analysis also involved in developing marketing strategies, identifying trends and discovering opportunities.
• As a Market Research Analyst I involved in financial planning, interpreting data, formulating reports and making recommendations based upon the research findings. Worked with the internal/external clients to understand, define and document the overall company business objectives. Applied qualitative and quantitative techniques to interpret the data to produce substantiated recommendations. Involved in project planning, project coordination, data collection and client presentations using both primary and secondary data sources.