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Nidhi Sharma

Hyderabad

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Total 10 years of experience in the financial services industry as a research associate, consultant, and Project manage Certified Scrum Master with more than four years of experience in Project Management and Scrum implementation, working on improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing an agile environment. Help scrum team and organization in scrum implementation, work with other scrum masters for better collaboration Remove impediments for the scrum team and enable them to achieve the set goals in the set timelines Expertise with various Agile Methodologies –Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe etc. Previous work experience: Financial analysis & Reporting, Financial modeling, Secondary research, Equity research, Data Analysis, Storyboarding, Data Visualization, Creating Dashboard on Power BI, managing stakeholders, and time management for deliverables

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate Agile Program Manager

Publicis Sapient
08.2022 - Current
  • Practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market
  • Expertise with various Agile Methodologies –Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe etc
  • Create self-organizing teams, build consensus and resolve conflict
  • Act as servant leader and shield the team from external interference and distractions to keep it in group flow
  • Manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level
  • Ability to partner with product owner and manage backlog - backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations
  • Expertise with various Agile Tools – Jira and Confluence

Assistant Manager

State Street Corporate Services Mumbai Pvt. Ltd.
02.2020 - 08.2022
  • Guiding the team and organization in the implementation of Agile principles, and Scrum practices and values
  • Coached 4 teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhere to the scrum framework
  • Guided agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure the teams work in an agile mindset and utilize scrum practices
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
  • Run daily Scrum, Work with sprint team to remove impediments and manage risk and issues arising in the team
  • Participate in release, Pre-sprint, backlog planning, and sprint planning
  • Also, maintain a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel for the job
  • Building a trusting and safe environment for the team members to feel safe in communicating or bringing up any point for discussion
  • Track the performance of the team, identify the risks and report the same
  • Coach the scrum team on self - organization, cross-functionality, and scrum working practices
  • Support the product owner in maintaining and refinement an effective product backlog
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on refinement and maintaining the product backlog

Project Manager

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2020
  • Supporting the PMO in setting up a new research center, managed and trained three subordinates
  • Support the end-to-end planning, management, and execution of a project; measure effectiveness; assume responsibility for assigned project deliverables
  • Develop and maintain end to end plans to effectively manage project timeline, scope, deliverables, and resources
  • Analysis of data and trends impacting client delivery quality and performance
  • Engage in continuous improvement of the team through sharing of best practices and/or learning opportunities (e.g., hosting a lunch & learn, PMI Round-table, contributing to Collaborate Site, etc.)
  • Efficient communication and relationship management with multiple stakeholders including (Sponsors, Senior Management, and global leaders)
  • Provide robust project-level reporting, (including governance metrics, reporting) tracking for the initiative to ensure target timelines and milestones are met
  • Provide support to multiple engagements simultaneously to ensure work is completed within pre-determined deadlines
  • Support in project communications, risks, and issues resolutions

Consultant

USI Consulting Global Office
08.2015 - 09.2018
  • Leading a portfolio of management reports for two major member firms where my responsibilities are preparation and delivery of strategic & financial performance of the member firm and tracking the project pipeline reports
  • Lead strategic projects and provided inputs to the leadership on Priority markets/ clients, Target client analysis, investment prioritization, client collaboration, and financial reporting to drive the overall strategy and achieve the target
  • Stakeholder management – Managing multiple stakeholders and sourcing information required to build the pipeline and other management reports for member firms
  • Analysis and reporting – Analyzing a large set of data and providing insights into the global leadership
  • Focus on automation by creating macros and smoothening the process; create dashboards on Power BI and Tableau

Research Associate

Cognizant Technology Services
05.2012 - 08.2015
  • Company Overview: under UBS Account
  • Equity Research Experience: Collection of financial data for Oil & Gas sector & Steel sector companies
  • Prepared Financial models and updated models of companies on quarterly and annual data release
  • Performed company valuation using DCF valuations, relative valuations, and forecasting for the next five years
  • Prepared report for the companies including charts, graphs, tables, and the analysis part
  • Well versed in Secondary Research, Ratio analysis, and number crunching for forecasting
  • Data collection from Bloomberg, Datastream, and other authentic resources and ministry sites for daily reports
  • Credit Research Experience: Worked on Chinese property market, prepared financial models for property companies
  • Track the movement for bonds of Chinese property companies and overall, Asia-ex Japan region bond market
  • Maintain internal bond price movement databases
  • News based daily product and write-up for daily products; Worked on Bloomberg, Reuters, and Hoover's databases
  • Under UBS Account

Associate Analyst

Cygnus Business Consulting & Research Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 11.2011
  • Secondary Research from Bloomberg, Factiva, hoovers, and other authentic ministry sites
  • Worked in report writing and Company Profiling team for a few months
  • Data collection, financial analysis, competitive analysis, and SWOT analysis
  • Handled the report preparation from end to end including the complete analysis and writing part
  • Preparation of News based reports daily to capture the market trends

Education

SAFe certified -

01.2022

Claritas Certification -

International CFA Institute
01.2013

Master of Financial Analysis -

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
Tripura
01.2010

M.Com. (Hones.) -

Vinoba Bhave University
01.2008

B.Com -

Vinoba Bhave University
01.2006

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) -

Scrum Alliance

Skills

  • Timeline estimates
  • Performance monitoring
  • Financial Management
  • Proficient in [Software]
  • Team Leadership
  • Schedule Management

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10, Financial Services, Research Associate, Consultant, Project Manager, Certified Scrum Master, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Financial Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Power BI

Personal Information

Father's Name: Mr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi

Timeline

Senior Associate Agile Program Manager

Publicis Sapient
08.2022 - Current

Assistant Manager

State Street Corporate Services Mumbai Pvt. Ltd.
02.2020 - 08.2022

Project Manager

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2020

Consultant

USI Consulting Global Office
08.2015 - 09.2018

Research Associate

Cognizant Technology Services
05.2012 - 08.2015

Associate Analyst

Cygnus Business Consulting & Research Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 11.2011

SAFe certified -

Claritas Certification -

International CFA Institute

Master of Financial Analysis -

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University

M.Com. (Hones.) -

Vinoba Bhave University

B.Com -

Vinoba Bhave University

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) -

Scrum Alliance
Nidhi Sharma