GAURAV SINGHAL

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A seasoned Fintech professional with a rich experience in Data, Reporting – Business Intelligence, data warehousing, Analytics. Have played many roles as Product owner, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Change Manager across technology domains.

MBA - FMS, Delhi & Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA), having 17 years of industry experience with Global Customers in Investment Banking, finance, retail and other domains. Contributed to the journey for global giants including Barclays, Macquarie, Fidelity, First Quench Retailing, Lexis Nexis, NCR Corp.

Brief Profile

Data Management and Projects.

Strong in data driven and Analytics domains. Very well versed with MDM, Data strategy, Data quality.

Delivered Data Projects in time on budget with good technical understanding on data centric architectures.

Played leading roles in building & designing data driven systems.

Experience in carving out data rationalisation strategies.

Stakeholder management

Anchored the collaboration with C-Suite leadership globally.

SPOC for multiple - Functions heads, Dy. CFO’s, CEO for business intelligence reporting of multiple geographies (APAC, EU- Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, UK, US).

Managed conflicting priorities among stakeholders with a good long-standing relationship

Partnered with Business – Finance (FC, PC, TAX, and Regulatory Reporting), Operation & technology teams.

Global – Data analytics and BI – AGILE Product Owner

Worked as a global Product Owner for Key Business Intelligence Reporting Platform in Oracle BI(OBIEE) and BI Apps.

Developed BI product vision with multiple stakeholders of APAC, European Region with key stakeholders

Played key role in setting up Scrum teams, prioritization boards

Project/Program Management.

Project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out /Handover, Production Support

Planning activities viz. scoping, tracking, risk management, delivery management & post Implementation support.

Responsible for delivery (AGILE) of all change programs from planning, agreeing with business stake holders, securing budgetary approvals, agreeing architecture/design, on boarding resources (internal and external)/technology vendor/SI partner, infrastructure delivery, build, test, operations acceptance and support handover.

Technology Skills

Large data warehouses, Data modelling, Informatica, Oracle Fusion, R12, Business Intelligence, Visualization, Data science Power BI, OBIEE(BI), Tableau, Python, Oracle Cloud, Data virtualisation, Alteryx

Data science – Machine Learning (supervised and unsupervised) with working knowledge of predictive modelling, statistical models and techniques like Regression (Linear, Logistic and Lasso), Time Series ARIMA, Decision tress, Support Vector Machine, quantitative methods and algorithms.

Training and Certifications

●Certified Business Analyst, UK computer society, 2012

●ITIL Foundation V3.0, 2010

●Steria mERIT – Managers engaged in Reengineering and Transformation

●ISO Certification in audit for Service Management Systems

Employment Summary & Key Projects delivered

Macquarie Global Business Services India Ltd (March 2019 - Current) - AVP

●Working the multiple business groups to map the function landscape with a focus on delivery, support of critical finance systems- Open pages, JIRA/Confluence, BCS, Blueprint, Tm1, MicroStrategy

●Leading TM1 prioritization board across functions.

●SPOC for multiple function owners related finance systems and technology

●Finance risk/audit reporting: Implementing Control standards across finance functions with audit teams to have clear view of the breaches and risk anticipation across the departments.

Fidelity Business Research India Pvt Ltd (November 2016 – March ‘19) – Project Manager

●Executive MIS – Sales and Assets: - AuM Reporting provides a detailed view of Sales and assets of Investment management based multiple dimensions like Region, Channel and Product hierarchies. It shows Top/Bottom deals by Funds and Clients. This is helpful for Investment Management, marketing and Fund Management teams.

Key Numbers - Net Revenue, New Net Revenue, redemptions, Sales Growth Variances, New Sales (YTD, MTD) market Movements, Funds in Focus. Tech Used: OBIEE, Informatica, Tableau

●Management Financials & Data Rationalization: Financials analysis to effectively manage the business. It leads the management of business planning cater C-Suite executives with analytical information on Profit and Loss, Expense lines, Cost, Revenue variance on actual and budgeted numbers. Tech Used: Data-warehouse (Oracle), Tableau

●Operational Data Store (ODS): ORACLE FUSION integration of all the inbound and outbound data interfaces P2p, A2r, R2r, payroll etc. From different system for FIL Canada. ODS being a strategic data source for all the future finance data needs caters as a data store for Oracle fusion ERP and as integration point for third party systems as well. - Python Data ingestion framework, OBIEE.

●Churn Prediction Model: The objective was to predict Churn for the customers of Fidelity Investments. Any customer with no activity in last two months is marked as churned. Churn prediction is done for all new customers registered with Fidelity

Machine learning Algorithm: Regression using Python

●Funds Revenue Forecasting: Machine learning Algorithm: Time Series ARIMA

Sopra Steria (April 2007 - November 2016) – Senior Consultant

●Delivery of Key Financial Dashboards – Business Intelligence, P&L, Cash (AP/AR), Offers and Clients

●Barclaycard - Retail Rewards at POS: Enabled the Rewards Programme for credit card customers to get instant rewards on the credit card usage

●Barclaycard – Anti Money Laundering: Enabled the regulatory requirement to introduce the AML framework with in guided regulatory timelines of FCA, UK

●First Quench Retailing: Implementation of SAP R/3 data integrations at middleware

●Barclaycard: Self-service Merchant invoicing system developed to facilitate paper less statement to have competitive advantage

HCL Technologies Software Engineer- Oct 2004- April 2007,

JK Techno soft - Jan 2003 – Oct 2004

Date Gaurav Singhal

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