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Vasanti Chafekar

Summary I am considered conscientious and entrepreneurial. Working in different multicultural environments has helped me better my interpersonal skills. I can work well independently and as a part of team. Primarily, I have worked with clients from financial services industry and helped them make business decisions based on insights generated through data analytics. Work experience

March 2018 –

August 2020

AnnoAnno, Denmark

Business Analyst

• Leading demand forecasting effort to achieve optimised inventory management.

• Develop Business Intelligence to highlight market trends and customer preferences.

• Drive customer relationship management.

• In charge of end-to-end customer order management: processing-expediting-invoicing.

• Responsible for management of online product portfolio.

• Sales and operations planning to achieve warehousing efficiency.

• Co-ordinating with IT to create and improve internal systems. May 2016 – June

2018

Voksen Uddannelsescenter Frederiksberg (VUF), Denmark

• Completed Danish language PD3 examination.

October 2014 –

January 2016

PricewaterhouseCoopers KSDC, India

Strategy Analyst- Team Lead Advisory (COE – AMS )

• Developed market expansion strategies.

• Facilitated key activities of proposal writing and related account planning workshops.

• Responsible for End to End Project and Account Management activities for key accounts.

• Established benchmarks to manage client requests according to high service goals.

• Drove revenue management for key clients.

• Successfully leveraged IT and internal as well as external benchmarking to achieve process optimisation.

• Assisted global client engagement teams with data driven intelligence.

• Achievements

Successfully targeted UK region to achieve above expected expansion of chosen portfolio.

Spearheaded optimisation of the procurement reporting process for one of the client teams and achieved 25% reduction in resource utilization without compromising quality.

Simplified complexities in work allocation and leave management process. July 2013 –

December 2014

Daiichi Language Centre, India

• Studied Japanese language and completed JLPT N3 level certification. November

2012 - June

2013

PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK

Client Service Administrator Tax (HRS FS IAS)

• Supported the client teams by providing administrative, finance, risk management and research services.

• Ensured progress of internal risk management procedures and documentation to achieve appropriate level of compliance.

• Planned and monitored actions to fulfil statutory as well as team deadlines.

• Developed and drove the debts management process. Mined and synthesised relevant data to advice the client teams to ensure debts recovery and client profitability.

• Achievements

Debts for managed portfolio of clients were reduced by 50% April 2011 -

October 2012

Barclays Bank, UK

Customer Service Advisor-(Rigour champion and Premier Manager Assistant)

• Responsible for end to end KYC and compliance procedures.

• Premier Manager Assistant –Support the manager in maintaining customer relationship. Holger Danskes Vej 27B, 4TH

Frederiksberg 2000

Denmark

Mobile: +45 5355 5278

EMAIL:

adf7ar@r.postjobfree.com

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• Responsible for design and execution of the training for new customer service advisors. October 2010 -

April 2011

Market Probe Europe Ltd., UK

Fieldwork Supervisor

• Managed market research projects for clients from various industries.

• Analyse and provide meaningful statistical summaries for management reports.

• Recruited and trained new market research interviewers. March 2010 -

September

2010

Global Power Source Europe Ltd., UK

Business Development Manager, Europe

• Developed a market penetration strategy for EU.

• Responsible for sales & marketing as well as import & export of the company products within EU.

• Analysed and proposed a tax-efficient scheme for managing the EU area business.

• Carried out market research for prospective clients in UK&I to develop pricing strategies which led to increased business.

March 2009-

December

2009

Market Probe Europe Ltd., UK

Market Research Interviewer

• Conduct market research for clients.

• Systematically collate results from detailed interviewee responses for further analysis. January 2004-

December

2006

Aurangabadkar&Co.(Chartered Accountants)

Junior Accountant (Part-time)

• Handled book-keeping and account management.

• Assisted in financial audits of various companies. Education Master of Business Administration Heriot-Watt University January 2007 – June 2009 Edinburgh, UK

Bachelor of Commerce Nagpur University

June 2003 – May 2006 Nagpur, India

IT Skills

Invoicing softwares GFS; Collaborati; Ariba; Tungsten; Uniconta; E-conomic

Client management softwares CRM; IRIS

Research softwares Factiva; Avention

Other softwares Microsoft office

Language Skills • English (Native); Danish (PD3 - Intermediate)

• Hindi (Native); Marathi (Mother tongue)

• Japanese (Intermediate: JLPT N3)

Interests and

activities

I like to travel and enjoy exploring new areas and meeting new people from different cultures. I enjoy reading and the arts. I like to follow International politics and business news closely for my own knowledge and interest.

References Available on request.

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