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Strategic Finance, Business Operations and Advanced Analytics | Driving Business Impact through Data-Driven Decisions | MBA, IIT Kharagpur

About

Hi, I am a generalist by nature and have enjoyed working in a number of domains throughout my career, viz. finance, operations and technology. I believe that this cross-functional exposure is what enables my holistic approach to problem-solving. My tenure at Volkswagen taught me how organisations plan their budget and implement financial control whereas the one at Benteler Automotive equipped me with hands-on experience of implementing impactful projects on the ground. Because of this, I was able to appreciate how different business functions work in tandem to create value for all the stakeholders. A desire to further expand the breadth and depth of my skills led me to pursue an M.B.A. at IIT Kharagpur - VGSoM. As part of the programme, I also completed an internship at Nissan Digital in data science domain. Post my MBA, I worked at PwC where I helped leading financial services organizations strategize and implement enterprise data management and business analytics solutions. Achievements during my time in this role include 2 awards and a promotion. As Manager - Special Projects in the CEO’s Office at Indofast Swap Energy, I conceptualized and implement strategic initiatives geared towards driving business outcomes. I currently work as Manager - Financial Analytics at Xebia where I lead the digital transformation of financial analysis and reporting by leveraging Power BI, Python and Generative AI. In my spare time, you'd find me reading about history/geopolitics/economics, researching investment ideas or watching sci-fi/fantasy/adventure related content. I like to connect with people from all walks of life, so please don’t hesitate to send me a message. Domain knowledge: Business Strategy, Managerial Finance, Operations Management, Business Research, Business Analytics

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

cursor

deepseek

Work experience

Manager - Advanced Analytics at Tredence Inc., Jun 2026 - Present · 4 mo, Bangalore

Manager - Strategic Finance & Analytics, COO's Office at Xebia, May 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, ▪ Led financial performance management by supporting annual planning, preparing forecasts, analyzing variance, identifying & controlling cost drivers, and delivering actionable insights to the senior management & the Board ▪ Designed & implemented dashboards & reports to strengthen BI effectiveness; drove digital transformation through automation (using Python) and GenAI tools (Cursor) to improve efficiency and accuracy Select Projects: ▪ Designed and implemented Power BI dashboards providing actionable intelligence into SG&A expenses (~$90 million) and automated data consolidation from 5 global hubs; thus, streamlining variance analysis, enabling data-driven decision making and saving 3 person-days of efforts per month ▪ Conducted deep-dive analysis of indirect employee & operating expenses, leading a cost-optimization initiative that reduced SG&A by ~$200k per month and structurally improved SG&A-to-revenue ratio over 6 months ▪ Implemented a standardized global rate card by defining pricing methodology for T&M and fixed-price projects; analyzed data for 3,000+ resources across 10+ countries and built a self-serve interface for business users, improving pricing consistency and turnaround time

Manager - Special Projects, CEO's Office at Indofast Energy, Oct 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, ▪ Worked with the CEO and senior management to identify strategic initiatives; conceived, managed and led special projects in analytics, finance, operations and strategy functions ▪ Program-managed critical business initiatives, including a demerger, asset assurance process and team setup, product fixes and improvements and JIRA implementation Select Projects: ▪ Revamped the Management Information System (MIS) by establishing single source of truth through 5 Power BI dashboards; led requirements gathering, formulated business logics for KPIs and managed implementation of automated reporting & analytics solutions to drive data-driven decision making ▪ Developed a data-driven pricing strategy for Battery-as-a-Service business by analyzing primary research findings, user behavior patterns & IRR; to improve asset utilization & profitability ▪ Redesigned & implemented the Asset Tracking Application used by 30+ business users, with in-built controls & automated audits to ensure accountability, data integrity and effective monitoring of assets worth $30 million ▪ Integrated sensitivity analysis into Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuation model to identify key factors affecting the financial performance of the company and their relative impacts

Senior Consultant - Data & Analytics at PwC India, Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 · 7 mos, Mumbai · Hybrid, ▪ Worked with 4 leading financial services organizations as a functional lead, to strategize and/or implement enterprise business analytics and data management solutions ▪ Assisted in successful business pursuits worth INR 1.7 Crores in revenue and contributed to thought leadership Select Engagements: ▪ Built Logical Data Model (LDM) for customer data mart by analyzing data from 6 source systems and understanding the sales and customer service landscape through business workshops; handled project governance ▪ Implemented a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool by identifying sources for data points and formulating business logics for metrics & KPIs; for a leading mutual fund

Consultant - Data & Analytics at PwC India, Oct 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Mumbai · Hybrid, Select Engagements: ▪ Helped define enterprise data & analytics strategy for a leading mutual fund (a.k.a. asset management company) and an overseas financial services conglomerate by conducting workshops with business functions to understand business processes, assess current state, gather requirements, and analyze gaps ▪ Delivered end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) transformation for a mutual fund’s Investment function -conducted requirement gathering workshops, designed LDM, prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for 25 reports & 3 dashboards, conducted UAT and sign-off

Summer Intern (Data Analytics), Global Data Science CoE at Nissan Digital India LLP, May 2019 - Jun 2019 · 2 mos, Thiruvananthapuram Area, India, Nissan Digital is a subsidiary of Nissan Motor Corporation, Japan and was established to transform its automobile business using Digital Technologies. Projects/Tasks: ▪ Identified macro-economic factors affecting passenger vehicle sales in a major overseas market, using statistical techniques ▪ Designed and developed statistical and machine learning based sales forecasting models; achieving accuracy of 94.6% ▪ Integrated the forecasting models developed in Python with Tableau for interactive visualisation ▪ Developed and implemented a Natural Language Processing based tool for automating an internal process using Python, resulting in time-saving of 84%

Executive Assistant to the Managing Director at BENTELER Automotive India, Nov 2017 - Jul 2018 · 9 mos, Pune, ▪ Helped steer business decisions by presenting key insights to the senior management, arrived at by analyzing data consolidated from various departments ▪ Planned and executed process improvement tasks in coordination with Continual Improvement Process (KAIZEN) department and conducted 5S audits of the shop floor Select Projects: ▪ Developed a dashboard for Plant KPI Report which summarized weekly enterprise operating performance ▪ Defined and implemented escalation matrix for timely communication of critical issues from machine operator to senior management in a progressive manner ▪ Implemented ANDON, a system for machine operators to notify any problem in production process, leading to 34% decrease in the time taken to respond to production line stoppage

Graduate Trainee - Finance at Volkswagen, Aug 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 y, Pune

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance and Operations, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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