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Santosh Hegde

Vice President, Business Intelligence
Bengaluru

Summary

Performance-driven Vice President with 13 years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment. Led cross-functional teams to successfully deliver multiple complex projects, ensuring projects are completed within budget and timeline constraints while exceeding stakeholder expectations. Spearheaded the implementation of advanced analytics tools and techniques, resulting in actionable insights that drove strategic decision-making and propelled business growth. Developed and implemented robust data governance frameworks, ensuring data integrity, privacy, and regulatory compliance, and elevating the organization's data management capabilities to industry-leading standards. Orchestrated in-depth business analysis efforts , identifying critical business needs and translating them into actionable requirements that led to process improvements, system enhancements, and successful strategic initiatives. Fostered a collaborative work environment by providing strong leadership and motivation to teams, cultivating open communication, knowledge sharing, and achieving consistently high-performance levels. Developed frameworks and concepts for efficient extraction and analysis of data from various sources, leading to improvements and implemented data-driven solutions to address business challenges. Spearheaded the creation of innovative business solutions that enhanced revenue, quality, and product performance while minimizing costs by utilizing a combination of domain expertise and Data Management and Analytics. Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills by successfully guiding and motivating teams, fostering growth, and cultivating a shared vision of the future through coaching and effective execution. Cultivated strong relationships with stakeholders and collaborated with executives to drive transformative organizational change, leveraging data-driven strategies to achieve business objectives and gained a sustainable competitive advantage.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
01.2018 - Current
  • Overseeing Global Business Intelligence and Data Management team, responsible for data analytics and reporting in areas such as Research Services, Sales Interactions & Corporate Access, including analytics on Broker Vote (client feedback) and Scorecard & Performance Management
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client experience
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals
  • Supporting senior leadership by analyzing large data sets and preparing insightful reports to guide informed decision-making and strategic direction
  • Requirement gathering and business planning for projects related to data strategy and analytics initiatives for department and client reporting
  • Managing and executing CRM Program & strategy for division and cross collaborating projects in CRM with other division to create synergies.
  • Redesigned client consumption reporting infrastructure that will help cater data requests from clients based on their requirement such as schema, time period and timing. This initiative helped us reduce time to market.
  • Automated generation and triggering data reports to client platforms for recurring requests. This implementation helped us with 30% efficiency gain.
  • Driving Data Quality process by establishing policies, procedures, and rules, conducting regular database clean-ups to ensure high- quality and accurate external and internal reporting
  • Actively participating in department steering meetings to discuss project prioritization, roadmap, budgeting, and business planning
  • Collaborated with Engineering and Sales division on automation and data projects, including development of new platform for capturing client feedback.
  • Integrated machine learning tools to parse through vote documents, extract data, and transform it into format relevant to clients for further analysis and management information system (MIS). This achievement resulted in remarkable 40% increase in efficiency.
  • Overseeing day-to-day business operations, including timely execution of data reporting requests from internal and external clients
  • Coordinating with Sales and Global Corporate Access teams for cross-team collaboration on automation approaches and tool reusability
  • Collaborating with third-party vendors to stay updated on evolving buy-side data requirements and vendor platform changes
  • Engaging in hiring, training, mentoring, coaching, and providing feedback to employees regarding promotion, career development, and goal setting
  • Collaborating with risk committee on operational risk resilience for division,including exercises related to Concentration Risk, Handover testing, and maintaining Business Continuity Plan for division

Associate

Goldman Sachs
01.2015 - 12.2017
  • Developed and implemented code to incorporate new keywords and metrics used in equity research analysis, enabling storage of various metrics related to covered corporate companies
  • Managed process of adjusting published research database numbers of securities for corporate actions such as cash dividends and rights issues, collaborating with data vendors like Bloomberg, Thomson, and FactSet
  • Planned and executed various projects as part of Digital Strategy initiative for research department, including collaboration with Global Tactical Research Group and Global Management to determine format and content of equity products based on industry and sector
  • Participated in competitive positioning project, working with analyst teams worldwide to create metrics for sectors/companies that provided insights into overall company prospects for clients
  • Led MIFID II implementation for research department in 2017-2018, overseeing migration of client databases to proprietary subscription system, identifying MIFID in-scope clients, and drafting Research Subscription Agreements (RSA) based on client preferences

Business Analyst

Goldman Sachs
04.2011 - 12.2014
  • Set up equity securities within research infrastructure to enable analysts to cover equities, including setting up securities with appropriate identifiers such as RIC Ticker, Bloomberg Ticker, and SEDOL, and correctly associating them with relevant industries, such as FTSE and GICS Classification
  • Resolved publication issues encountered during release of research reports
  • Oversaw management of research disclosures for companies covered by Global Investment Research, as well as quarterly updates for historical price and rating charts for these companies, as required by regulatory mandates
  • Handled inquiries from re-distributors regarding consensus-related estimates published by analysts, and managed administration of research data feeds sent to re-distributors

Education

MBA - Finance

Visveswaraiah Technological University
Bengaluru, India
06.2008 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Karnataka University
Dharwad, India
06.2005 - 06.2008

Skills

Accomplishments

  • Successfully completed the migration from a legacy system to a new broker vote system, which involved capturing client feedback. Additionally, integrated machine learning tools to parse through vote documents, extract data, and transform it into a format relevant to clients for further analysis and management information system (MIS). This achievement resulted in a remarkable 40% increase in efficiency
  • Redesigned the client consumption reporting infrastructure that will help cater data requests from clients based on their requirement such as schema, time period and the timing. This initiative helped us reduce the time to market, . Also automated the generation and triggering the data reports to client platforms for the recurring requests. This implementation helped us with 30% efficiency gain.
  • Identified automation opportunities within the process, resulting in the enhancement of existing systems and support for scaled-up automation projects from a research business perspective. These improvements created an enhanced user experience, improved data quality, and ultimately led to a reduction in headcount and cost savings.

Technical Skills

  • MS Office
  • Excel & Power Query
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Snowflake

Timeline

Vice President

Goldman Sachs
01.2018 - Current

Associate

Goldman Sachs
01.2015 - 12.2017

Business Analyst

Goldman Sachs
04.2011 - 12.2014

MBA - Finance

Visveswaraiah Technological University
06.2008 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Karnataka University
06.2005 - 06.2008
Santosh HegdeVice President, Business Intelligence