Management Analyst

SWARANA RAVEENDRA

Plot No: ***, Flat: ***, Holy Palace,

Mob: 989-***-****

Share-E-Panjab, Andheri (E),

Email:

**************@*****.***

Mumbai- 400049

Business Analyst, Modelling and Planning & Strategy

Design and develop sophisticated models and analytics to achieve and impact

on Corporate Planning &Strategy, Operations, Business initiatives and

competitive performance.

Educational Summary

Highest Education

Level : Post Graduation

Field of study : Applied Economics

Major : Statistics, Math's, Econometrics and Financial

Economics

University : Pondicherry Central University

Located in : Pondicherry Duration: 2006-2008. CGPA: 67%

Second Highest

Education

Level : Graduation

Field of Study : Economics

Major : Micro and Macro Economics and Finance

University : SR&BGNR Collage/Kakateeya University

Located in : Khammam Duration: 2003-2006 CGPA: 64%

Currently Pursuing Associate fellow of CII (London), SAS Certificate and

Actuarial papers.

Career Objective

My goal is to work in management. I have an interest in innovation;

specifically in the change process, analytics, planning and strategy. These

interests are a reflection of my experience. My education and experience

have prepared me to use my diverse skills, experience and advanced

technical knowledge to develop innovative solutions and exceed unit goals

by optimising skills and procedural efficiency and Process Re-engineering

skills and experience to implement new projects and enhance existing

processes and procedures. I am looking for a challenging work environment

that provides mentorship and exposes me to the realities of today's dynamic

economy.

Professional Highlights

. 3+ year's hands on experience as statistical analyst using SAS and SPSS

statistical tools, it includes one year corporate planning and strategy

analyst.

. Experience in Corporate Strategic Planning and statistical analysis and

modelling.

. Built numerous statistical models like multiple regression, linear

regression to examine business (sales, marketing, and customer

relationship management (CRM))opportunities using SAS (Enterprise Guide,

Miner and Basic), making use of data mining tools such as neural

networks, decision trees, classification and prediction algorithms mostly

for Credit Risk Management.

. Actively established and active Editorial Board member of in-house

"SUNSHINE" news magazine in present organization.

. Worked as Budget committee co-ordinator and experience in preparing

annual budget for present organisation. Make recommendations for change

processes, procedures and functions.

. Experience in Time Series and Forecasting, Data Mining, Text Mining,

Linear Programming, Survival Analysis, Risk Analysis, Data Cleaning and

regression and multivariate statistics.

. Experience SAS Analytics, SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/ET, SAS/STAT,

SAS/GRAPH, SAS ANOVA & Regression, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Predictive

Modeling, SAS General Linear Models, SAS Cluster Analysis

. Strong exposure in Business and Data analysis, design and training of

users. Ability to work independently / in a team environment and ability

to absorb technical knowledge quickly.

. Experience on working with Eviews and SPSS, exposure on data analysis

using econometric models and statistical models.

. Good command on Statistical analysis using Analyst application on various

analyses like Regression, Correlation and ANOVA and Test of Hypothesis.

Currently Working

Organization : Universal Sompo General Insurance Co. PL

Position : Corporate Planning and Strategy Analyst, May

2010 to till date.

Roles and Responsibilities: As responsible for Corporate Performance

Management for B2C and B2B divisions I am leading the implementation of a

business intelligence environment which aims to turn information into more

accurate decision-making and higher operational performance. Involved in

documenting the business process by identifying the requirements and also

involved in finding the system requirements.

. Developing an in-depth understanding of the operations- the risks and

value drivers.

. Help define for the businesses and the organization, future business

strategy and direction. Assess industry trends, market size and

structure, competitor benchmarks, and perform value chain analysis.

. Working as strategy analyst to solve business oriented problem with SPSS

for Statistical Modelling, scorecard development, and cluster analysis

and market segmentation.

. Performing appropriate analysis on the information and trends - both

qualitative and quantitative.

. Performing regular analysis on routine MIS - historical business

performance - to assist the Managing Director in internal business review

meetings

. Responsible for co-coordinating the planning process including quarterly

forecasts, annual budgets and the annual long range planning process/es.

. Manage risk to the firm by adhering to the risk management policies and

procedures and ensuring significant risks are identified and addressed.

. Determined financial status and financial progress of company and

business units by comparing and analyzing plans, forecasts, actual

results and trends.

. Consulting in new system development to ensure that proper controls are

included in system designs and that the system meets business needs

. Responsible for performance analysis including the development of KPI

(Key Performance Index) reporting.

Employment Experience

Organization : ITC InfoTech, Bangalore

Position : SAS Analyst.

Duration : May 2008 - May 2010

Technology: SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS Cluster Analysis, SAS

Multivariate Analysis, SAS ANOVA and Regression.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed numerical data statistically. Carried out different studies

covering different statistical techniques.

. Prepared the studies outcome to be viewed in an easily

. Comprehensible and customizable presentation. Provide Programming in

the data manipulation techniques.

. Provide Statistical Analysis for designed analytical models.

. Provided Statistical results interpreting and Report writing.

Professional Strengths and Skills

Professional : Have experience in doing excellent documentation on

Strengths' business requirements and Strategic Planning and

Policy development, Statistical interpretation and

performance and profitability analysis.

Area's : Econometrics, economics, insurance and financial

specialization risk management

Statistical tools : SAS 9.1.3, SPSS, Eviews and MS Access.

Expert

Research : Financial Mathematics, Financial Risk Management,

Interests Statistics for Business and Economics.

Languages : Native Telugu

: Fluent English

: Business Hindi

: Basic Tamil

Project: 1 SAS Analytics

Analysis of Financial Services

Client : SunTrust Bank, Richmond, VA

Period : Dec 2008 to Feb 2010

Description: SunTrust Banks, Inc. is the ninth largest bank holding company

in the United States. Its primary businesses include deposit, credit, and

trust and investment services. Through various subsidiaries, the data

models incorporating factors like higher response rates reduced defaults

and decreased delinquencies among new customers for making better credit

card decisions. As a team member involved in development and implementation

of a pilot project reporting risk measures at user-specified levels of

aggregation such as: firm-wide, by location, by region using cross-

classification variables

Contribution:

. Prepared customized reports to help client provide a strong competency in

understanding risk and accordingly perform better customer selection and

customer satisfaction.

. Maintained of large data sets, combined data from various sources in

varying formats to create SAS data sets and by using Set and Merge for

generation Reports and Graphs.

. Prepared new Datasets from raw data files using Import Techniques and

modified existing datasets using Set, Merge, Sort and Update, Format,

Functions and conditional statements.

. Business Impact analysis.

Work Shop

Volatility modelling in Financial Data: I was attended volatility modelling

work shop using Eviews during 26th t0 30th January 2008 at Pondicherry

University. The workshop is designed to equip the participants with

knowledge to analysis financial data as well as modelling volatility with

GARCH models.

I, Swarna Raveendra do here by confirm that the information given above is

true to the best of my knowledge.

Place: Mumbai

Date: May, 2011

(SWARNA RAVEENDRA)

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