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Abhinav Pandey

Senior Business Analyst

Summary

A seasoned product owner with expertise in building innovative products like Carbondetect and Insightsfirst. Demonstrated proficiency in improving AI-based internal tools, reducing manual efforts by 70%. Skilled in collaborating with design and engineering teams for successful feature launches. Experienced in understanding business requirements, creating requirement documents, planning sprints, and managing product backlogs. Proven ability in conducting in-depth market research and planning UAT from strategy to execution ensuring zero defects.

Perceptive Senior Business Analyst with 10 years driving successful business processes for companies. Dedicated to maximizing the impact of key performance metrics to enhance and expand business operations known for leveraging both macro and micro-scale analyses to generate holistic images of ongoing business operations for immediate actionability.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Evalueserve
01.2022 - Current
  • Building Carbon emissions reporting product (Carbondetect) to help companies calculate, record and view the Scope 3 carbon emissions generated by their Vendors/Partners
  • The product combines the news, charts and Power BI reports
  • Worked on end-to-end market insights product (Insightfirst) to help the world's leading brands generate and capitalise on Insights
  • The product combines news and industry data with social media and company data to provide actionable insights on brand health, competitive intelligence, etc
  • Improved AI-based internal tools to help the internal teams in achieving efficiency by removing manual tasks
  • Reduced manual efforts by 70% across various teams
  • Owned the product roadmap, achieving a 90% success rate in meeting feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any roadblocks
  • Collaborate with the design team to craft wireframes and partner with the engineering team to successfully test, implement, and launch the feature
  • Understand the business requirement and create a business requirement document, product requirement document and Request for Information document
  • Sprint planning according to the Business Requirements
  • Share information through knowledge-base and demo videos with customer-facing team and customers
  • Managed Release Notes, creating SOPs and user stories with product specifications and acceptance criteria
  • Conduct in-depth research that includes market and competitor analysis to identify product improvement and innovation
  • Understanding Business requirements from ops, gathering and analysing data according to business
  • Planned and executed UAT processes to ensure zero defects Managed the product backlog and accordingly planned the sprint with fellow team members
  • Preparing monthly revenue dashboards and variance reports for leadership

Manager

Genpact
01.2017 - 01.2022
  • Managed month-end close activities, including reconciliations, journal entries, and financial statement preparation
  • Built relationships and ensured client satisfaction of onshore clients, leading a team of 7 team members
  • Led process improvement initiatives to streamline R2R workflows and enhance efficiency
  • Provided coaching and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development
  • Facilitated smooth and efficient communication with external auditors
  • Worked with onshore clients for all kinds of digital automation related to tools like Tableau and Python
  • Responsible for presenting Monthly automation dashboard with Onshore directors
  • Monthly contact with onshore partners for process level/team performance discussion
  • Involved in people-level issues and other team-related issues
  • Conducted variance analysis to identify trends and make recommendations for improvement
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather and analyse financial data
  • Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for senior management
  • Assisted in the preparation of the annual budget and strategic planning process

Senior Analyst

Intercontinental Hotels Group
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Preparing and reviewing monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation and associated journal entries
  • It includes timely follow-ups to clear pending aged open items
  • Posting manual journal entries such as Correction and re-class journals, Bonus and incentives True ups, Billing and revenue journals, adjustment journals and journals for resolving variance appearing on reconciliation
  • Posting month-end journal entries such as accruals, deferrals, prepaid amortisation, inter-company cross charges, and adjustment entries for reporting and allocation purposes
  • Preparing and reviewing GL monthly trend report- comparison of the data over the period
  • Works with the team in the preparation and coordination of any projects and ad hoc requests
  • Review of major expense accounts in detail making separate spreadsheets and where applicable correction entries are suggested

Account Executive

Sameer Kochhar & Co
01.2012 - 01.2015
  • Preparation of balance sheet and other related financial statements and records
  • Statutory audit & Tax audit and preparation of the audit report
  • Preparation of the fixed assets schedule and calculation of the depreciation on a monthly & yearly basis
  • Reviewing loan schedule and calculation of interest on the balance principal amount as per the loan agreement/documents
  • Handled taxation and related statutory compliance work such as Income tax, Service tax and TDS

Audit Assistant

M/S Khanna & Annadhanam
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Company Overview: A reputed CA firm
  • A reputed CA firm

Education

B.com - Hons.

Delhi University

CA Professional - Professional II

ICAI

CS Executive - undefined

ICSI

Skills

Problem-solving

Certification

Certified Scrum Master, 2023

Awards

  • Power of One, Evalueserve India, 08/01/23
  • Power of One, Evalueserve India, 02/01/24

Internship

Audit Assistant, M/S Khanna & Annadhanam, Connaught Place, DL, 01/01/07, 12/31/10

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Evalueserve
01.2022 - Current

Manager

Genpact
01.2017 - 01.2022

Senior Analyst

Intercontinental Hotels Group
01.2015 - 01.2017

Account Executive

Sameer Kochhar & Co
01.2012 - 01.2015

Audit Assistant

M/S Khanna & Annadhanam
01.2007 - 01.2010

CA Professional - Professional II

ICAI

CS Executive - undefined

ICSI

B.com - Hons.

Delhi University
Abhinav PandeySenior Business Analyst