Bhavatharani Krishnakumar

• Investment Shaping: Collaborated with senior stakeholders like IDTMs and PLMs to outline business cases, deliverables, risks, and value for new DIA projects using NPV and VADA. Also aided with the creation of funding requests and project charters.
• Portfolio Management: Contributed to the strategic oversight of the DS DIA portfolio, managing over 40 projects with a collective investment ranging between $9 million and $12 million.
• Financial Reporting and Tracking: Developed a financial tracker and a dashboard for monthly portfolio meetings to review and track LE. Lead the monthly team meetings to maintain PLMs’ accountabilities for their financial LEs and OP.
• Analytical Expertise: Assisted with VADA calculations across numerous projects and performed a post-investment review for a major project with $3.1M budget , evaluating its value and success.
• Data Quality & Compliance: Created reports on Service Now to maintain financial hygiene, ensure transparency and compliance. Spearheaded the cleanup of Service Now data by closing over 35 redundant or completed projects and demands. Facilitated data migration to the Evergreen Library to minimize data redundancy and compliance issues.
• DEI & Networking Initiatives: Organized DEI and networking events, workshops and socials enhancing inclusivity and collaboration.

Advanced from a part-time crew member to a Shift Manager, showcasing commitment, rapid learning capability, and excellent communication abilities. Key skills demonstrated include:
• Data Analysis: Analysed data from Uber Eats, Deliveroo, and Just Eat for three stores in the Somerset region using Tableau and Excel. Identified delivery sale trends and discrepancies, minimized unnecessary refunds, and enhanced delivery efficiency.
• Financial Management: Utilized VBA in Excel to streamline routine tasks within the store, simplifying financial processing and tracking waste and labour costs. Implemented strategies based on this data to effectively reduce labour and product wastage costs.
• Problem Solving: Addressed crises such as unexpected customer influx, staff shortages, equipment malfunctions, and customer grievances with effective problem-solving skills.
• Leadership: Guided and evaluated crew members in daily tasks and skill development, fostering a productive team environment.

Assisted Dorothy House fundraisers as Data Analyst to develop successful future campaigns establish better external partnerships, and create stronger ties with donors by carrying out the following actions:
• Determined the top donors using RFM analysis in R and Tableau to rank quantitatively and group donors based on the recency, frequency and monetary total of their donations.
• Identified donation patterns and customer segments to help develop customised campaigns and services Using unsupervised clustering techniques in R.
• Assessed campaign effectiveness and identified top-performing marketing initiatives, as well as donation habits, through Association Rule Mining in R, which assisted in predicting potential donor defections from campaigns.

Conducted an in-depth research under Dr. Teslim Bukoye, on the topic of "Benefit Realisation" using relevant and timely research methods, systematic literature review using R and Excel to improve projects in both public and private sector organisations from a project management perspective.

Worked as a Market Research Analyst at Whiley & Co., contributing significantly to the start-up's diversification into various sectors. Responsibilities included:
• Conducted extensive, systematic research and analysis of the VR/AR/XR technology-enabled learning market, employing suitable market research strategies and data analysis methodologies.
• Executed thorough market research leveraging tools such as Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, value proposition models, among others.
• Identified 14 potential market sectors and prepared an in-depth research report on 3 key sectors, detailing market size, projected growth, competitors, prospective investors, and strategic recommendations.