Data Science Financial Services

Sarika Singhal

Data Science

Discover Financial Services Data Science leader 2019 – Till Date

Discover Financial Services is leading provider of Financial and Banking Service.

• Designed & implemented high performing collection/recovery data to provide actionable insights to reduce charge off loss by identifying the customers with high chance of getting delinquent.

• Turned data into actionable insights, providing stakeholders with insightful recommendations to streamline business operations and improve customer experience.

• Implemented supervised machine learning algorithms like Logistic Regression, Decision Tree & XGboost and for Unsupervised learning algorithms like clustering, K-means and anomaly detection.

• Ensure proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating Data Lineage, Quality checks, classification, etc.

• Developing and automating cost-effective compute IAAS for R/python-based recommendation engine using terraform and AWS.

Direct Supply, WI Data Science Specialist 2016 – 2019 Direct Industrial Supply is the nation’s leading provider of equipment, e-commerce and service solution for senior living.

• Fulfilled heterogenous data needs for organization’s Sales & business operation. Maintenance and enhancement of multidimensional Transformer cubes and reports which are used for providing trend analysis for business functions such as sales, Rebates and financial activities.

• Implemented AWS ETL framework for Data channels using SPARK & Python.

• Migrating database and data tools from on-premises to AWS cloud.

• Data Analytics solutions

Recommendation engine

Prescriptive, Predictive and diagnostic analytics solutions

• Implementing Data Lake for facilitating organization ML needs.

• Create the logical data model based on the business and functional requirements. Palvai Global Services Analyst Consultant 2012 – 2016 ELCA Mission Investment Fund- MIF specializes in church building projects and use the money invested to fund building and renovation loans for ELCA congregations and ministries.

Wells Fargo (Business Reporting Team) - Wells Fargo Asset Management strives to help their clients achieve their financial goals through top-tier investment solutions managed by specialized investment teams and backed by superior, collaborative service.

Certified Data Science & Business statistics professional with global experience in implementing scalable, cost-efficient, platform agnostic data solutions. Proficient in Extraction, Modeling, Visualization, Prediction, Large data Summarization & statistical Analytics to provide business AI wings. Extensive financial industry data science experience: HSBC Credit Risk reporting, Wells Fargo fund management, Discover Financial Services & ELCA fund management.

Technologies

Python, R, SQL, Git, Snowflake,

AWS tools

Core Competencies

Data mapping/processing/

simplification, Statistics,

Modeling and Analytics, ML/AI

algorithms techniques, NLP,

Data Visualization, DevOps Best

Practices.

Education

Master of Data Science – Data

Science (Sep 2020 – Mar 2023)

Bachelor of Engineering –

Information Technology (Sep

2001 – May 2005)

Certifications

Sarika Singhal

Data Science

HSBC Software Development Private Ltd Sr. Software Engineer HSBC HTS is a development center offering to its client i.e. HSBC Group around the globe a wide array of development options and end-to-end solutions.

• Defined high-level designs including logical models and functional specification documents, these documents became the base line for development.

• design, build and populate TM1 Cubes with latest forecast data from Data Repository and build dimensions and various types of Cubes in TM1.

• Developed dimensional reports using multidimensional data sources (Cubes and DMR) in Report Studio. Also implemented various levels for searching techniques for large amount of data. Carried out report bursting for services group to streamline report delivery process. Used Report studio/Analysis Studio to connect cube sources. Created multi-pages report and used different report output formats to distribute the data.

• Actively worked with the BI team and Business to transition the application into Production Environment by providing support and training through the release cycle.

• Implemented and maintained a reporting suite of over 50 standard reports while also customizing many reports to meet individual client needs including dashboards, detailed and analysis reports. Created dashboards for Loans, Executing, Accounting, Finance, Operations and deployed staff using benchmarked data to provide an analytical snapshot of point in time data.

• Developed interactive Dashboards using Cognos Report Studio, Workspaces, Workspace Advanced and Active Reports.

• Advised optimization of queries by looking at Execution Plan for better tuning of the database.

• Involved in modeling of reporting data mart which was built from Gleam Data Warehouse in a report-driven approach, considering aspects such as Granularity, Normalization and Performance of reports – This data mart was updated monthly from the DW.

• Built Financial Reports specific Power Cubes Implemented security using Custom Views.

• Created several Dashboards to showcase the Statistics using several views quickly.

• Used Native SQLs and PL/SQLs in Framework Manager to achieve the results required by the business.

• Performed Deployment of Cognos Content from DEV to PROD, Job Scheduling, Folder Security, and Framework Object Level Security.

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