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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
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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.