Mrinalini Acharya
Summary
Data Analytics and Consulting professional with global experience in integrating business strategies with analytics to deliver actionable insights. Proven expertise in identifying complex business problems and developing scalable, data-driven solutions. Specializes in predictive modeling and dashboard design to uncover patterns and trends. Adept at partnering cross-functionally and presenting insights to leadership to drive strategic decision-making.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Specialist - Human Capital Analytics
Core42
Abu Dhabi, UAE
07.2025 - Current
- HR Analytics Vendor Implementation: Spearheaded the onboarding and implementation of an HR Analytics vendor. Took proactive ownership in reaching out to vendors, conducting due diligence checks, and negotiating proposals to ensure the best fit for organisational needs.
- Executive Leadership Dashboard: Led the conceptualisation and design of an executive leadership dashboard, offering a comprehensive 360-degree view of all HR metrics. This tool became a key resource for the leadership team to make strategic, data-driven decisions.
- Talent Acquisition (TA) Dashboard: Designed and implemented a recruitment dashboard that tracked the entire hiring process. Identified bottlenecks and optimised the workflow, reducing the time-to-hire from 90 days to 60 days, significantly improving recruitment efficiency.
- Human Capital Services (HCS) Dashboard: Developed and optimised dashboards for critical HR processes (Onboarding, Offboarding, Immigration, and Payroll). This initiative improved SLAs and streamlined workflows, leading to enhanced employee experience, and faster processing times.
- Automation of HR Letters: Spearheaded the automation of the HR letter generation process. Designed a centralised Human Capital Letter Hub that allowed employees to request and receive HR letters automatically, reducing manual effort and ensuring quicker response times.
- Compensation Letters Automation: Led the automation of the annual compensation letters’ generation and distribution process, ensuring timely delivery of compensation details to both employees and managers.
- Data Migration for SuccessFactors: Managed the data migration processes during the SuccessFactors implementation, ensuring smooth transition and integrity of data across platforms.
- HR Data Governance Framework: Developed and implemented the HR Data Governance framework, presenting it to leadership, and ensuring alignment with best practices for HR data management across the organisation.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnered with CoEs, business units, and leadership teams to ensure alignment on HR data and analytics initiatives, driving overall organisational efficiency.
- Collaborated with senior management to define strategic direction, setting clear objectives for team performance.
Associate Manager – Analytics & Insights
Accenture
Bengaluru, India
05.2023 - 06.2025
- Led People Analytics for Greater China Market: Directed HR strategy and advisory for ~20,000 employees, analyzing key metrics such as headcount, attrition, productivity, supply & demand, and inclusion & diversity to support leadership decision-making.
- Attrition Analysis Dashboard: Conceptualized and built a dashboard to identify attrition hotspots and key drivers. Incorporated predictive analysis to identify flight-risk employees, enabling proactive retention strategies.
- Revenue Optimization through Chargeability Insights: Formulated hypotheses and conducted analyses on declining chargeability and monetization, delivering actionable insights that increased employee utilization and revenue.
- Skill-Demand Alignment: Collaborated with leadership to analyze workforce skills and specializations, devising strategies to align with market demand.
- Automation of HR Reporting: Led the development of a HR Scorecard dashboard consolidating key HR metrics. Integrated automated insights generation and risk flagging, reducing manual reporting efforts and saving ~40 hours/month.
Senior Consultant – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
Gurgaon, India
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Reporting Ecosystem Automation: Designed and implemented a reporting solution for a subsidiary firm managing 35+ clients, automating data processing and visualization. Eliminated database dependency, saving 1,500+ hours annually and reducing costs by 10%.
- Resource and Project Management Solution: Developed an integrated solution for resource and project tracking linked to revenue metrics. This reduced operational time by 75% and eliminated the need for a dedicated resource.
- Payroll optimisation: Led the reporting of payroll components for a major U.S. beauty brand, optimising cost tracking for employee earnings, benefits, and taxes.
- Predictive Growth Strategy Model: Created a model to plan and monitor headcount growth against targets. The solution also identified bottlenecks in the recruitment process, enabling smoother operations.
- Resource Movement Tracking: Automated dashboards to track employee movements (transfers, separations, promotions) year-on-year as part of a comprehensive headcount management system.
- Training Module Tracking: Delivered an automated solution for tracking training module development for a global apparel brand, identifying process inefficiencies, and ensuring timely deployment.
- Post-COVID Return-to-Work Insights: Developed a return-to-work strategy by analyzing workforce data for a multinational conglomerate. Generated business reports to support leadership decisions.
- Organizational Design Analyzer: Built a scalable tool to calculate span and layers within organizations, enabling leadership to optimize structure and hierarchies.
- Advanced Business Insights: Produced strategic reports on psychometric analytics, learning metrics, and headcount trends, connecting workforce behavior to business outcomes.
- Proposals and RFPs: Led the creation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to support several RFPs and client proposals, contributing to business development efforts.
Consultant – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
Gurgaon, India
04.2021 - 09.2022
- Reporting Ecosystem Automation: Designed and implemented a reporting solution for a subsidiary firm managing 35+ clients, automating data processing and visualization. Eliminated database dependency, saving 1,500+ hours annually and reducing costs by 10%.
- Resource and Project Management Solution: Developed an integrated solution for resource and project tracking linked to revenue metrics. This reduced operational time by 75% and eliminated the need for a dedicated resource.
- Payroll Optimization: Led the reporting of payroll components for a major U.S. beauty brand, optimizing cost tracking for employee earnings, benefits, and taxes.
- Predictive Growth Strategy Model: Created a model to plan and monitor headcount growth against targets. The solution also identified bottlenecks in the recruitment process, enabling smoother operations.
- Resource Movement Tracking: Automated dashboards to track employee movements (transfers, separations, promotions) year-over-year as part of a comprehensive headcount management system.
- Training Module Tracking: Delivered an automated solution for tracking training module development for a global apparel brand, identifying process inefficiencies and ensuring timely deployment.
- Post-COVID Return-to-Work Insights: Developed a return-to-work strategy by analyzing workforce data for a multinational conglomerate. Generated business reports to support leadership decisions.
- Organizational Design Analyzer: Built a scalable tool to calculate span and layers within organizations, enabling leadership to optimize structure and hierarchies.
- Advanced Business Insights: Produced strategic reports on psychometric analytics, learning metrics, and headcount trends, connecting workforce behavior to business outcomes.
- Proposals and RFPs: Led the creation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to support several RFPs and client proposals, contributing to business development efforts.
Intern – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
Gurgaon, India
06.2020 - 09.2020
- Cost Analysis Dashboard: Developed a dashboard comparing the cost implications of different HR business scenarios, helping leadership select the most cost-effective strategy.
- Training Module Tracking: Built dashboards to monitor the progress of 50+ training modules for 1,000+ employees at a major power and utilities firm.
- Cultural Maturity Analysis: Designed dashboards to evaluate the cultural maturity of firms, supporting merger and acquisition strategies.
- Text Mining for Insights: Created a solution to extract business insights from employee satisfaction surveys, enhancing organizational feedback mechanisms.
Education
PGDM - Big Data Analytics
Goa Institute of Management
Goa2021
B.Sc - Mathematics
Stella Maris College
Chennai2018
Skills
- Storytelling with Data
- Data Visualization
- Business Intelligence
- Data Analytics
- Strategy
- Consulting
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- ETL
- Automation
- Predictive analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Project management
- Strategic planning
- Process optimization
- Relationship Management
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
www.linkedin.com/in/mrinalini-acharya
Awards
- Innovator – Impact Award (2025) : Core42
- Apex Achiever – Encore Award (2024) : Accenture
- Stewardship (2023) : Accenture
- Constant Innovation (2023) : Accenture
- Exceptional Client Service (2022) : EY
- Pursuing Innovation Award (2021) : EY
- Top Performer of the year (2022) : EY
Certification
- Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate
- SAS data Integration Studio
- KPMG Lean Six Sigma, Green Belt
Timeline
Senior Specialist - Human Capital Analytics
Core42
07.2025 - Current
Associate Manager – Analytics & Insights
Accenture
05.2023 - 06.2025
Senior Consultant – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
09.2022 - 05.2023
Consultant – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
04.2021 - 09.2022
Intern – Data Analytics
EY (Ernst & Young)
06.2020 - 09.2020
PGDM - Big Data Analytics
Goa Institute of Management
B.Sc - Mathematics
Stella Maris College