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Benjamin Gelman

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EDUCATION

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York, NY Bachelor of Science in Business August 2015 - June 2019

• GPA: Cumulative: 3.96/4.0; Concentration: 4.0/4.0; ACT: 36/36

• Honors: Dean’s List (All Semesters), Summa Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma, Stern Economics Honors Society

• Leadership: Management & Organizations Lead TA; TAMID Consulting Project Manager; Hillel Community Building Fellow PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deloitte Consulting New York, NY

Business Analyst August 2019 - July 2020

CFO Program – an internal team tasked “To Make Deloitte the Preeminent Advisor to CFOs”; notable workstreams below CFO Transition Labs (TLs) –strategy workshops for Fortune 500 CFOs

• Managed 4 TLs by conducting stakeholder interviews, compiling prep documents, and drafting the client’s deliverable

• Developed and defined expectations for TL best practices by synthesizing data from 250+ TLs and crafting new templates

• Pitched a new Lab (for experienced CFOs), priced 15% lower and with potential to increase total Labs delivered by 20% CFO Signals – a quarterly benchmarking survey of 150+ CFOs

• Owned the Special Topics pages (30% of report), which included brainstorming quarterly topics, formulating questions, visualizing data, and writing key insights; 65% of readers site Special Topics as the most valuable portion of the report

• Drove QA efforts by standardizing pre-launch testing and implementing sprints for data review; reduced QA time by 20%

• Initiated a project to analyze 10 year of demographic data in an effort to increase participation and reduce industry bias Women Executives in Finance – a growth network for high potential females in finance

• Prepared 25+ agendas for touchpoint meetings and created hundreds of action items, disseminated throughout the team

• Wrote and published an advice article on behalf of the group’s Partner by analyzing 90+ interviews and extracting themes General/Misc.

• Managed and advised the group’s intern, who received a full-time return offer at the end of her 4-month internship

• Organized Monthly Leadership Meetings, including using CRM tools to build a pipeline of 45 speakers (10-15 months) and creating a “success stories” template to capture quantifiable impact, instrumental in securing a 5% budget increase

• Revamped the Global CFO Program website by defining success, interviewing users, and deploying UX/UI designers Future of Food – an “extracurricular” initiative, building Deloitte’s practice for sustainable agriculture

• Drove a market entry proposal deck for a >$20 billion seeds manufacturer by drafting a storyboard, managing 7 analysts, and presenting status reports to the partner, who used the deck to pitch a $10 million engagement to the CEO

• Co-authored an eminence paper on the impact of COVID-19 on the agricultural supply chain, published for external use SELECT INTERNSHIPS

Bank of Montreal Chicago, IL

Data Analytics Intern June 2018 - August 2018

• Researched alternative data and presented banking specific use-cases, specifically how graph databases can help identify corporate jet ownership and flight patterns, leading the group’s Partner to create a formal alternative data project

• Automated the monthly task of scanning 3,500 rows for discrepancies between BMO’s performance and the SLA's

• Built an interactive dashboard on Spotfire from an unstructured Excel spreadsheet, used to evaluate banking app usage ECCO Design New York, NY

Brand Strategy Intern June 2017 - August 2017

• Drafted a business plan for the CEO’s Internet of Things corporate spin-off, which detailed 25% cost saving synergies

• Spearheaded a rebranding strategy to target a more technology-enabled segment of the market; led to a website redesign SKILLS and INTERESTS

Skills: Agile Methodologies, Excel, Minitab, Tableau, PowerPoint, SQL, Wireframing; Hebrew (conversational) Interests: Animated Movies, Craft Beer, David Foster Wallace, Hiking, Mythology & Folklore, Philip Glass, Tennis

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