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SAMEERA SVNL

SAMEERA SVNL

Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi

Summary

Accomplished professional with over 14 years of expertise in business analytics and strategy development, renowned for delivering actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making and tangible measurable results. Highly organized and detail-oriented leader with a proven ability to manage stakeholders, address complex business challenges, and ensure precise data delivery. Known for being self-motivated, a fast learner, and an exceptional analytical thinker, with a strong record to excel both independently and as a collaborative team player. Recipient of multiple prestigious awards for exemplary achievements, unwavering dedication, delivering impactful and cost-saving results, and contributing significantly to the growth of the organization

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Lead Analyst - Data Science |

INFOSYS
11.2022 - Current
  • Integral member of the Monitoring and Screening tribe, Transaction Monitoring Core squad for Danske Bank since Nov 2024 and responsible for ensuring the effective monitoring of transactions in compliance with AML regulations.
  • Skilled at evaluating complex business challenges, identifying root causes, and developing efficient cost-saving strategies.
  • Major responsibilities include building and implementing strategies to ensure all transactions are properly monitored, assessing the impact of any gaps or deficiencies in monitoring processes, designing and implementing robust solutions to enhance transaction monitoring, defining control systems to mitigate risks, optimizing monitoring frameworks, and delivering actionable insights.
  • Key player of ComEx team from Nov 2022 to Nov 2024 for Danske Bank, Nordic market and efficient in analyzing the key revenue generators of retail bank across business areas including portfolio volume, customer satisfaction, channel performance, advisor sales and digital banking.

Senior Risk Analytics Consultant |

WELLS FARGO
07.2019 - 11.2022
  • Highly instrumental in developing Business Strategies for Commercial Banking customers by considering various risk aspects such as Strike Zones, Obligor Ratings, Thresholds related to Financials.
  • Proactive in initiating numerous high impact projects contributing to the expansion of team from one to five members.
  • Consistently drove innovation and efficiency, resulting in client satisfaction and measurable growth in key performance metrics.

Manager - Business Consultant |

HSBC HDPI
05.2013 - 07.2019
  • Exceptionally resourceful and capable in crafting business marketing strategies and implementing machine learning techniques for retail customers.
  • Won several awards and recognitions for being highly versatile in managing diverse projects, stakeholders and for designing game changing and innovative solutions for complex business problems.
  • Extremely reliable, valuable contributor and an indispensable asset to the team with a proven ability to work efficiently in stringent deadlines.

Senior Business Analyst |

MU SIGMA
07.2011 - 04.2013
  • Played a pivotal role in the "US Ads RnR" Digital team for Bing and Yahoo by successfully managing 100+ strategic and analytical projects that drove significant revenue growth and impact.
  • Conducted comprehensive comparative analysis of top three leading search engines to identify business gaps and opportunities for increasing market share.
  • Tackled complex challenges such as addressing sudden spikes in CPC caused by rich ad placements, analysing anomalous search patterns

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

UVCE, Bangalore University
07.2007 - 07.2011

Skills

  • Business Analytics
  • Strategy Development
  • Decision making
  • CRM Analytics
  • Portfolio Analytics
  • Risk Analytics
  • AML Transaction Monitoring Analytics
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Business communication
  • SAS Enterprise Guide
  • MS Excel
  • Storytelling through Power Point
  • Machine Learning (Basic)
  • Tableau (Intermediate)
  • Python & PySpark
  • MS SQL Server

Extra-Curriculars

  • Semifinalist (Top 3) of Hackathon 2019 for topic Recent Graduates
  • Active member hiring team and interview panel for recruitment drives at HSBC and Mu Sigma
  • Secured 30th, 3rd and 2nd Rank at India level in MATHEMATICA for three consecutive years
  • Won “Queen of Expressions” award by IBM in 2011 for proving my Leadership Qualities
  • Proposed several innovative strategic ideas for BTI, Building the Institute, initiative

Languages

English
Advanced
C1
Telugu
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate
B2

Visa Status

Emirates ID: 784-1990-1363816-0

Valid Residency Visa

LinkedIn URL

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameera-svnl-727b9331

Accomplishments

  • Successfully assessed the impact of transaction duplication on DCS model, concluding that no remediation was required, thus achieved substantial cost savings for the organization
  • Demonstrated excellence by leveraging deep understanding of the customer segmentation model developed using K-means clustering to successfully resolve numerous complex business problems
  • Honored with "GEM Award" for Commercial Steering project, for designing and delivering a comprehensive solution, demonstrating exceptional stakeholder management and effectively translating business drivers into a robust framework.
  • Formulated a highly profitable strategy for the SIC revamp initiative by analyzing approval rates and risk impact, thus achieving a 10% revenue growth
  • Received two awards – one at the India level and another at the ASP level – for efficiently addressing the highly complex analytical problem and for quantifying the attrition in the CASA product
  • Led the main bank analysis by creating a strategy to categorize customers into four segments, resulting in the launch of 70-day campaign that boosted customer migration to higher segments by 8%
  • Developed an effective Go-to Segmentation model using target segment life cycle approach, which has been operational since Oct-16 and recognized through publication in the Global CRM Newsletter
  • Successfully introduced and implemented new eligibility criteria for the corporate employee portfolio, which was launched in October 2017 and published in the Global CRM Newsletter
  • Honored with prestigious "Delivering the Promise" for showcasing exceptional analytical skills and successfully developing a highly efficient strategy for Portfolio Optimization 2015
  • Was on STA, short term assignment, to effectively manage stakeholders across various business areas, gather requirements, address complex business challenges and develop strategies solutions
  • Successful automation of model performance tracking report using Python that reduced manual effort from ~144 hours to 30 minutes each month
  • Employee Appreciation Award for quick learning of tools implementing advanced techniques

Timeline

Senior Lead Analyst - Data Science |

INFOSYS
11.2022 - Current

Senior Risk Analytics Consultant |

WELLS FARGO
07.2019 - 11.2022

Manager - Business Consultant |

HSBC HDPI
05.2013 - 07.2019

Senior Business Analyst |

MU SIGMA
07.2011 - 04.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

UVCE, Bangalore University
07.2007 - 07.2011
SAMEERA SVNL