Devyani Arora
Strategy & Ops @ Swiggy | ISB Co’25
Bengaluru
4+ years of work experience
May 20251 y 3 moPresent
Bangalore
Oct 20221 yr 6 mosMar 2024
Led 5 member teams across 6+ industries focused on financial services and retail, driving ₹15Cr+ in savings for clients
Key Achievements
• Awarded 2 Above & Beyond (Top 1%), 1 Kudos (Top 5%) & exceptional ₹50K cash bonus for increasing risk assessment efficiency by ~20% by designing and launching Anti-Money Laundering Risk Assessment Tool
• Only Non-CA/MBA member nominated to work with KPMG UK for expertise in financial risk assessment
• Onboarded 7 clients, generating revenue of ₹1.5Cr, by evaluating emerging industries and formulating proposals and client pitches for 20 companies
Risk Management & Root Cause Analysis
• Media & Entertainment (SEBI Investigation): Uncovered ₹200Cr siphoned via fund diversion & false disclosures for a media conglomerate by mapping transactions across 28 related companies via financial analysis & promoter relationship mapping
• Retail: Uncovered ~₹2Cr losses for an Indian Fashion House by detecting kickbacks, inflated leases & fictitious broker schemes via analysis of 5K+ documents, mystery shopping, & identifying quid pro quo with 3 vendors
Due Diligence
• Insurance: Saved ~₹250Cr in potential fines for an insurance company by performing system audits & 8 employee interviews to identify gaps in SOP adherence and recommending enforcement of role-based data access and two-factor authentication
• Banking: Averted ~₹103Cr in regulatory penalties for a BFSI by identifying ~200 high-risk cases via assessment of
~500 retail clients' ownership structures, cash flows, and cross-border exposure, recommending AML policy enhancements
Process & Cost Optimization
• Banking: Saved ₹5Cr by increasing distressed asset recovery efficiency by ~7% for a Banking Company by developing a process rubric addressing collateral valuation, staff accountability & approval matrices
Jun 20211 yr 5 mosOct 2022
Jun 20203 mosAug 2020
Working at Centre for Incubation & Innovation (CIIE.CO), one of the largest not-for-profit venture and seed capitalists in India, established under IIM Ahmedabad, giving insights into entrepreneurship vertical.
Conducting secondary research to build a critical understanding of the start-up landscape, creating relevant content, copy writing and editing for the book - Startup Compass.
Jun 20192 mosJul 2019
Tasked to make daily vouchers and enter them into the computerized books of the company.
Cross - check all the payment entries with payment acknowledgement to facilitate the creation of the Bank Reconciliation Statement.
Devyani’s AI Stack
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Indian School of Business
20241 yr2025
Delhi University
20183 yrs2021
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