Kumar Prashant
Summary
Strategic Business Analytics Leader with over a decade of experience driving high-stakes financial intelligence and AI-led transformation within Global Banking & Markets. Proven track record in partnering with C-suite leadership to convert complex data into actionable growth strategies, resource optimization models, and competitive market positioning.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
01.2022 - Current
- AI & Digital Transformation: Currently spearheading the integration of Generative and Agentic AI into business reporting workflows, revolutionizing how the organization leverages automated insights for real-time decision-making
- Product & Technical Innovation: Scaled analytical capabilities by leading large-scale cloud migrations, establishing robust Data Governance and enhanced classification logics for accurate representation of current business improving data quality by ~10%
- Strategic Growth & Benchmarking: Expert in global benchmarking and market trend analysis, integrating with internal business metrics and deliver high impact actionable insights by synthesizing data for major industry surveyors like McLagan and Coalition
- Collaborative Leadership: Adept at bridging the gap between global engineering teams and business stakeholders to deliver workflow-driven solutions and high-priority product roadmaps focused on value creation and sustainable product development.
- Data Driven Insights: Transformed business data in to actionable insights, directly increasing decision-making accuracy by leveraging trend analysis into high-level business intelligence, empowering leadership to execute evidence-based strategies in solution assessment and long-term business planning while ensuring flexibility of models/platforms to facilitate scenario (A/B) testing
- Empowered senior leadership with actionable business intelligence through the management of comprehensive KPI and financial dashboards using Qlikview / Tableau / Power BI, instituted rigorous validation protocols to eliminate discrepancies and provide a 'single source of truth' for regular reporting (Weekly/Monthly etc.)
- Partner with desk heads on year-end business planning process facilitating stakeholder-centric reporting model leveraging an iterative feedback loop to refine KPIs, ensuring data delivery evolves with shifting strategies and executive priorities for classic Equities and Algo Trading business
Associate (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Collaborate with leadership within Global Markets to prepare and publish reliable reports on timely basis whilst ensuring data quality, analyze market trends to inform strategic decision-making processes.
Analyst (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
07.2016 - 12.2018
- Spearheaded the end-to-end reporting lifecycle for the Global Equities business, ensuring 100% data integrity
- Responsible interactions data submission team to develop a process across different vendor platforms.
Associate (Project Management)
Alpha, A Platform Specialty Products Company
03.2015 - 06.2016
- Partner with business teams to define project scope, specifications, risks, feasibilities and track project progress, cost, etc.
Education
IBS Hyderabad (MBA, Finance)
02-2015
Skills
- AI & Digital Transformation
- Leadership Reporting
- Strategic Presentations
- Data analysis
- Competitor Benchmarking
- ETL Workflows (Alteryx)
- QlikView/Tableau/Power BI
- Product Management
Accomplishments
- Standardized global sales production analytics by engineering a high-precision analytics platform, delivering a 50% improvement in data accuracy and instituted culture of objective accountability across Global EQ teams
- Recognized for streamlining global cost-calculator frameworks across Americas and EMEA improving cost allocation at client level by 20% facilitating metric based conversations with clients in negotiating fees
- Successfully executed negotiation by formulating targeted analysis of cross-regional incentive model for global algo sales business accounting for regional nuances while ensuring origination/execution incentive structures are representative of effort
- Automated third-party survey data submission process, substantially improving data accuracy and simplifying reconciliation process
Timeline
Vice President (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
01.2022 - Current
Associate (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
01.2019 - 12.2021
Analyst (Global Banking & Markets)
Goldman Sachs
07.2016 - 12.2018
Associate (Project Management)
Alpha, A Platform Specialty Products Company
03.2015 - 06.2016
IBS Hyderabad (MBA, Finance)