Aravind Raj

• Collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders, providing data-driven insights and recommendations. Work towards streamlining existing data flows and processes, while charting future data roadmap for organization.
• Apply strong experience across all data stages, including Data Exploration, Analysis, Synthesis, and Presentation. Identify trends and patterns in data, translating them into compelling narratives and recommendations for leadership and clients to facilitate better decision-making.
• Leveraging my experience in connecting with diverse data sources, including Azure Analysis Services, SQL Server, HANA , Teradata and Excel files, to build complex datasets. Create automated real-time dashboards using Power BI.
• Demonstrate leadership skills within Business Execution Platform by leading, mentoring and motivating team of junior and mid level resources.
• Participate in cross functional projects and also to play role in end-to-end project lifecycle: Gather stakeholder requirements, create project plan, work on he actual data analysis and build reports and dashboards, presenting insights back to stakeholders.
• Showcase strong storyboarding and presentation (PPT) skills to communicate insights and recommendations clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Design comprehensive data visualizations translating complex requirements into optimal technical design.
• Perform routine program modifications, performance tuning, problem solving, debugging and unit testing.
• Assist with development of organizational improvement projects.
• First level of support to troubleshoot and resolve issues within existing solutions.
• Develop and provide insights to organizations through access and queries interpretation, reports, dashboards and other metrics within BI ecosystem.
• Train consumers on how to access, interpret and become self-sufficient using data visualizations.
• Subject matter expert on existing BEP reports.
• Performs first level of functional testing of new reports.

• Experience in building, publishing customized interactive reports and dashboards using Excel and Power BI.

• Experience in back end using SQL features such as join, sub-queries, aggregate functions etc.
• Experience in designing wireframes and data models in Power BI.
• Experience in writing DAX queries and M queries in Power BI.

• Experience working in Agile Scrum development process.

• Experience in pulling data from various sources like Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, CSV, Sharepoint, Salesforce, Jira, Azure, Web etc

• Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring a team of junior resources.
• Interact with country stakeholders to understand key business problems faced and convert them into solutions of analytical interest.

• Understanding consumer behavior across different market segments, challenges in marketing new product and strategic insights in targeting new customers.

• Enhance operational efficiency in existing technology systems & bring down turnaround time so that key findings can be communicated to countries much prior.

• Manage the reporting for number of European countries like Poland, Italy, Germany, Greece, UK etc.

• Preparing reports that explains business about performance in terms of different region, brands and sales rep.

• Keeping an eye on data and reporting for any discrepancies.

• Automated all routine reports done over week which saves substantial time.

• Saved hours from each report and converted it into 10 minutes task.

• Own and ensure delivery of each project from end to end starting from requirement gathering to release or go live within estimated timelines.

• To manage and close all incidence and enhancement requests.

• Developing Insights Identification of relevant KPIs for country, brand, sales rep, store etc which could best indicate commercial performance & its alignment to operating plan.

• Design of commercial scorecards which could portray precise performance metrics for each country, strategic market, region and global (with specific focus on key drivers and drainers).

• Manage multiple stakeholders including partner organizations, data owners, process owners, domain subject matter experts; and leverage on cumulative learning to provide insightful results.

• Help partners by not only building strategies but also implementing solutions to achieve top line and bottom line impact.

• Working closely with a global insurance client to understand and solve various business problems.

• Extraction of data from various sources like DB2, MS Access, Salesforce, Excel, CSV, Sharepoint and some Web Pages.

• Data preparation and manipulation using Excel, MySQL and Power BI.

• Creation, validation and refresh of various sales and performance matrices to generate reports and dashboards in Power BI.

• To produce various types of insights through data visualization and reporting with a focus to make it visually appealing, user friendly and easy to interpret from end user perspective.

• Closing all AD-Hoc requests from clients with minimum TAT.

• To expertise and teach others in reporting and core HR systems. Understand and use expertise of available data elements to develop creative solutions and recommendations.
• Building strong partnerships and collaborate across business and technical teams in day to day work to improve results
• Develop and maintain documentation on HR reporting processes, technical routines and best practices to improve overall efficiency of our reporting environment
• Responsible for optimization of report design to ensure quality end user experience while not negatively impacting overall system performance