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BusinessAnalyst

Sonali Grover

Senior Business Analyst
Gurgaon,

Summary

Seasoned techno-functional Business Analyst offering 6+ years of financial services and e-commerce industry success. Skilled in Product Management, Data/Business Analytics, Wireframing, Product Roadmap, PRD/BRD, User Acceptance Testing, and Agile Methodologies. Also, skilled at leveraging data to develop actionable solutions to business challenges and utilizing data mining and data visualization to create meaningful insights.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Nagarro Limited
Gurgaon
02.2022 - Current
  • Built B2B and B2C digital solutions for retail e-commerce client.
  • Modules deployed - Product Catalogue, Order Management, Cart and Checkout, Incident Management, Analytics and Pricing and promotion engines.
  • Document business and technical functions into high level and detailed requirements.
  • Responsible for breaking down high level requirements into granular work items and define user stories in Confluence.
  • Work with project partners to lead projects through to successful and timely delivery of all phases.
  • Actively manage scope changes, impact on project plan and be the central point of liaison, communications and coordination between technical teams and other stakeholders throughout the change process.
  • Manage Product backlog, grooming and prioritize user stories, document workflows, and create low fidelity mock-ups for development team.
  • Closely partner with different stakeholders like business users, product development, development teams, UX and quality analysts for delivering end-to-end business functions.
  • Conduct demo sessions/presentations and create mock-ups to conceptualize solutions. Conduct knowledge sharing and training sessions on user stories and test cases.
  • Coordinate end to end UAT testing for client facing and client services driven applications.

Global Planning Analyst

ExxonMobil
Bengaluru
03.2021 - 02.2022
  • Team - Business Financial Planning and Budgeting
  • Support Global Financial Planning Manager in achieving financial goals that includes revenue, fixed/variable cost targets and gross profit.
  • Responsible for monitoring Fixed Cost Financial trends for Polypropylene Business Unit across AP, EMEAF and AM region.
  • Prepared Corporate Financial Plan of $65M for the year 2022 using varied analytical tools and techniques. Allocated this cost budget to Sales, Marketing and Product Management teams at Cost Center level.
  • Strategize key geographies for relocation and positioning of global head counts to make sure Fixed Cost plan targets are met.
  • Develop, maintain & circulate regular and ad-hoc MIS reports to VPs and AVPs presenting deep-dive story of cost financials and highlighting the root cause for plan vs actual cost deviations.
  • Keeping stakeholders informed about business financial risks after performing impact assessment of deviated KPIs at different cuts of data.
  • Mentor new hires to have them gain end-to-end perspective of the BU specific financial targets and help in weaving story with supporting data points in case of large variations between plan vs actual.
  • Responsible for automating financial dashboards which follow standard operating procedures.
  • Prepare FAQ’s and training material for the use of learning and development.

Business Analyst

Mindtree Limited
Bengaluru
05.2019 - 02.2021
  • Team – Biz Planning and Forecasting at Microsoft Bing Search Engine
  • Support Finance team to create quarterly forecasts and daily-grain projections of important business KPIs at different Line of Businesses.
  • Maintain Rhythm of Business by performing deep dive data analysis to explain Variance to Forecast (VTF) to sales and finance teams.
  • Identify possible risks and opportunities in case of large unexplained variations.
  • Study user search behavior with trend and seasonality patterns after visualizing in PBI and Excel Dashboards.
  • Use data to optimize sales opportunities after performing external driver analysis (exogenous variables) to understand customer search behavior using statistical ML models in python.
  • Work with stakeholders to understand their requirements, identify the scope and design analytical & insightful business solutions using advanced analytical techniques.
  • Responsible for breaking high-level requirements into granular work items and assign to the team via Azure DevOps to avoid conflicting workload priorities and efficient effort estimation.
  • Responsible for Project and Capacity Planning and keeping stakeholders informed with team’s utilization in Weekly and Monthly Status Review sync-ups.
  • Represent team’s highlights, lowlights, and initiatives in project management review meetings to senior leadership.

Senior Systems Analyst

Infosys Limited
Pune
07.2015 - 05.2017
  • Team - Global General Ledger & Financial Reporting at UBS Investment Bank
  • Analyze business requirements and contribute in supporting critical financial applications using BI tools, Informatica and IBM Cognos.
  • To monitor upstream/downstream feed loads and support business user in case of deliverable data discrepancies.
  • Problem Management – Raise JIRA or CR pertaining to any deliverable break-down and to track it till execution and sign-off.
  • Production Readiness Process Control – Maintain up and running banking production system and deal with dashboard Data Quality issues.
  • Business Continuity Management – Make periodic and track it till complete execution and sign-off with no business impact.

Education

MBA - Strategic Management

Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg
Germany
05.2017 - 05.2019

PGDM - Lean Operations And Systems

Christ University
Bangalore
05.2017 - 05.2019

B. Tech - Computer Science

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
Dehradun
07.2011 - 05.2015

Skills

    Biz Planning and Forecasting

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Certification

Business Analysis Techniques for Business Transformation

Timeline

Business Analysis Techniques for Business Transformation

02-2023

Senior Business Analyst

Nagarro Limited
02.2022 - Current

Global Planning Analyst

ExxonMobil
03.2021 - 02.2022

SQL for Data Science

11-2020

Bing Ads Accredited Professional Certified by Microsoft

11-2019

Business Analyst

Mindtree Limited
05.2019 - 02.2021

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified by KPMG

06-2018

MBA - Strategic Management

Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg
05.2017 - 05.2019

PGDM - Lean Operations And Systems

Christ University
05.2017 - 05.2019

Senior Systems Analyst

Infosys Limited
07.2015 - 05.2017

B. Tech - Computer Science

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
07.2011 - 05.2015
Sonali GroverSenior Business Analyst