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PRO BONO CONSULTING
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Saurabh Kushwaha

Engagement Manager
Gurgaon

Summary

Dynamic consulting professional with nearly a decade of expertise in analytics and IT consulting, specializing in delivering impactful solutions for BFSI clients to achieve strategic objectives. Proficient in scoping, planning, designing, and implementing analytical and IT solutions while executing and monitoring strategic initiatives that address diverse business challenges. Demonstrated success in developing organizational and account strategies that drive business growth, complemented by Six Sigma Green Belt and Google Project Management certifications. Highly skilled in project planning, execution, program growth, process improvements, as well as risk and financial management.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Engagement Manager

EXL Consulting
Gurugram
07.2019 - Current

Cultivated a culture of collaboration within the team, enabling seamless execution of project deliverables at each stage of the engagement process.

Management Consulting.

  • Collaborated with Analytics and AI functional leaders to support the development of a three-year organizational strategy highlighting the necessary organizational pivot.
  • Developed a three-pillar comprehensive account growth strategy, enabling 15% year-over-year topline growth to expand the analytics service business with a global property and casualty insurer.
  • Partner with cross-functional departments to efficiently establish contracts, manage P&L (greater than $2 million annual revenue), legal, compliance, risks, and change processes to align with the program’s strategic goals.
  • Led 3+ process improvement initiatives across internal IT, travel and expense processes, and the client’s claims quality evaluation processes, resulting in a significant reduction in TAT (~20%).

Analytics Consulting.

  • Legal Analytics – Reduced 5% audit expenses by segmenting appropriate firms for auditing through an XGB-based predictive model using data points like claims details, counsels, billing, statutes, expenses, etc.
  • Distribution and Claims Analytics Transformation – Saved approximately 40% man-hours by transforming existing Excel-based reporting; assisted in decision-making around sales partner performance, claims operations, etc.
  • Financial Planning & Analytics – Reduced planning, budgeting, and close cycle time (~10%) by identifying existing data challenges and designing future-state operating models for data availability and governance.
  • Pricing Tool Development and Automation (Renter LOB) - Established an automation tool and led its adoption to generate policy quotes based on customers' risk, financial profile, and coverage requirements.
  • Real estate portfolio rationalization – Optimized the organization’s real estate portfolio and reduced expenses by approximately $1.3 million annually; established capacity optimization models (MOOs) for the allocation of office spaces and maximization of ROI.
  • Customer Experience - Enabled partner portal analytics to track key funnels, KPIs, CTR, bounce rate, unique page views, etc., thereby improving the partner's CSAT by 5%.

Product Management

Sharekhan, BNP Paribas
Mumbai
04.2018 - 06.2018
  • Envisioned and Administered the development of Customer Web Application and facilitated digital adoption among sales professional
  • Delivered 50+ Clickable Mockups (sign-up, landing page, dashboard, offerings modules etc.) for the application with approval on key designs 2 weeks before expected
  • Designed and implemented complete process flow and controls for transforming physical cataloging to align with organizations digital transformation strategy

Software Consultant

Virtusa Consulting Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2015 - 07.2017
  • Maintained infrastructure and applications, and provided support for the Claim Insurance Application, and triaged/resolved infrastructure issues to stabilize the system.
  • Enhanced payment processing capability of a Claim Insurance Application by 23%, any increased cost implications, and performance drops in terms of response time, default rate, etc.
  • Reduced the total code integration load time by 30% by developing the web modules for the code repository; enhancing team collaboration in a multi-tiered project.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Faculty of Management Studies
Delhi
01.2019

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee
01.2015

Skills

Analytics Consulting

Business Strategy Consulting

Process, Performance Improvement

Stakeholder Management

Product, Project Management

Software Development

Data Visualization

Data Analysis

Timeline

Engagement Manager

EXL Consulting
07.2019 - Current

Product Management

Sharekhan, BNP Paribas
04.2018 - 06.2018

Software Consultant

Virtusa Consulting Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 07.2017

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

Indian Institute of Technology

Master of Business Administration -

Faculty of Management Studies

PRO BONO CONSULTING

  • India Welfare Trust - Provide insights on social media engagement around key metrices like CTR, impressions, post reach, engagement rate etc to develop social media strategy
  • From Eden - Research and re-define brand positioning strategy including customer segmentation, competitor benchmarking, market mix recommendations etc
Saurabh KushwahaEngagement Manager