LOKESH TOKAS
Delhi
Summary
Highly organized and result driven Data Science professional with 13+ years of experience in scaling up Business Analytics/Data Science practice, developing exceptional relationship with clients and creating time-boxed agile transformation road-maps. Delivered plethora of successful engagements in data analytics and machine learning for Government & Public Services across Energy,Financial Fraud and Healthcare sector. With ingrained business value mindset, I can understand client requirements, provide them the required solution and convert the discussion in a potential win.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director
KPMG India
Gurgaon
08.2019 - Current
- Data Strategy & Analytics – Ministry of corporate Affairs, India
● Assisted the Ministry in achieving interoperable data-sharing with various agencies and public by formulating & implementing the data strategy for central database of companies operating in India.
● Won and managed critical engagements with Government Investigation Agencies identifying corporate frauds and funds mobilization using data driven approach.
● Deliverables were presented in court of law as a supporting evidence in investigation.
Data Strategy & Analytics – Risk assessment for Indian PSU in Energy Sector
● Led the Data Analytics mandate to detect potential frauds in the Pay-to-Procure (P2P), Order-to-cash (O2C) and Employee management process.
● Reported major red flags and critical insights from the data to the client's leadership via interactive Tableau dashboard.
● Added 80% more revenue to the ongoing engagement by negotiating a long term contract with the client for delivery of a web-based solution to monitor the data in near real-time and detect red flags from the data.
Data Strategy & Analytics - Information Security – Public Sector Bank
● Spearheaded a mandate for a global bank to help them mitigate the risks of data leakage by analyzing multiple data sources, workflow, solution architecture and data pipelines.
● Formulated strategy to check security lapse from vendors and track involvement of ex-employees in the system.
Data Strategy & Analytics - Transaction services & Due Diligence - (Fin-techs, Social commerce, logistics, social network )
● Led 20+ engagements (both buy & sell sides) out of which 7 acquisitions and investments made headlines in the news.
● Work closely with CXO's to help mitigate risks using right data strategy and analytical approach in order to streamline company's processes and VC's to help with their investments.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technologies
Gurgaon
10.2011 - 07.2019
- Managed and performed the Churn propensity & Pricing analytics for an insurance company (transport) to identify the customers churn and pricing of the insurance policies using statistical modeling and machine leaning techniques
- It helped the client to reduce the customer churn by 3% in the 1st quarter after implementation
- Developed a recommendation engine for one of the media agencies using Natural language processing (NLP)
- It helped the client on customer acquisition and provide quality services on the application
- Worked on credit risk models (PD, EAD & LGD) as a part of fraud prevention system and identified potential credit card frauds ($1+ million saved within 6 months of delivery)
- In an extension of the same engagement assisted the client on re-calibrating the marketing-mix model to refine customer outreach
- I have worked extensively on data migration from SQL server to SAS environment and financial reporting
- Decreased the report execution time from 27 hours to 25 minutes using best data management and coding practices.
Co-Founder
Kitchen on Wheels
Gurgaon
07.2010 - 09.2011
- Co-founded the company with an objective to deliver hygienic food to the customers, within individual's budget
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
- Designed effective business model and formulated customer acquisition strategy.
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
05.2008 - 07.2010
- I was responsible for back-end data management on OLAP data of MIS reports (internal report for TCS Finance and HR module)
- Created dashboards on past expenditure and financial planning using oracle Hyperion.
Education
Management Program - Data Analytics
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad,India 10.2017 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jaypee University of Information Technology
India 05.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Leadership and Teamworkundefined
Certification
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5) - Product Management
Work Availability
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Marilynne Robinson
Timeline
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5) - Product Management
02-2022
Associate Director
KPMG India
08.2019 - Current
Management Program - Data Analytics
Indian School of Business
10.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technologies
10.2011 - 07.2019
Co-Founder
Kitchen on Wheels
07.2010 - 09.2011
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2008 - 07.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jaypee University of Information Technology
05.2003 - 05.2007
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