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Shaan Ibrahim

Shaan Ibrahim

Summary

An entrepreneurial-minded professional with a blend of engineering, business, and financial expertise, combining technical acumen with strategic financial planning and analysis (FP&A) skills. Experienced in tech consulting and leveraging data-driven insights to guide business decisions and optimize financial performance.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Financial Analyst

Insight UK
London
10.2023 - Current
  • Managed a $25 million portfolio in rebates for 135 partners at Insight, a Fortune 400 company, as a Financial Analyst for partner income
  • Developed and maintained comprehensive budgets, conducted in-depth data analysis, and built sophisticated business models including price-volume-mix analyses
  • Leveraged advanced tools such as Power BI and Excel to provide actionable insights, driving strategic decision-making and optimizing partner performance

Skills Academy Associate

Insight UK
London
03.2023 - 10.2024
  • Received training and completed rotations across various departments within the organization, including finance in credit and risk analysis, consulting in adoption & change management, unified communications consulting, and technical sales for public sector and corporate clients
  • Working on a digital transformation project to digitalise the GP appointment booking system using all our learnings so far from skills academy

Sales Development Representative

Appetite App (TOJA)
London
01.2023 - 03.2023
  • Responsible for prospecting potential vendors, converting them to leads and demonstrating the App to vendors in person and over call
  • Onboarding vendors to the App and helping them schedule posts and partnership deals on a regular basis
  • Helping the company's growth by onboarding 50 vendors to our platform over 3 months.

Business Development Internship

Green Tek Innovation
07.2022 - 08.2022
  • Closely collaborated with the Global Head of Expansion and International Director of Business Operations to successfully establish a high performing manufacturing unit in India
  • Meticulously collated data and market research which enabled me to offer recommendations for increasing revenue, minimizing costs, and improving efficiency across the business
  • Used adaptability to work in multiple departments including Sales, Marketing, Finance and Technology – being an integral part of the implementation of new policies and processes which have vastly improved the standard of day-to-day operations.

Software Sales Consultant

Intreface
London
03.2022 - 06.2022
  • Acquired and qualified high value leads using product fit, sales stage and opportunity value metrics by utilizing Bitrix24, allowing for a unified approach and higher productivity
  • Engaged with customers, listening to requirements, and probing for more information in order to successfully identify critical features and deliver accomplished solutions that generate profit and strong presence in the form of reviews
  • Delivered comprehensive demonstrations of applications both online and in person – used a versatile nature to gain maximum attention from people, adjusting the demo to individuals and how they like to learn.

Technical Solution Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
01.2020 - 06.2021
  • Successfully resolved technical issues in storage and backup products such as 3Par, Nimble and Data Protector, allowing for improved performance across both internal and external business activity, end user contact and notification systems
  • Effectively communicating with customers around features and specifications of products, helping to increase sales and achieving countless outstanding reviews for service given
  • Significantly reduced the occurrence of issues by proactively collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders to gain insight into problems in order to devise and implement an appropriate solution within a reasonable time frame
  • Delivered a highly successful project as the Project Manager for Sony India involving the facilitation of information validation, team decision making processes as well as supporting team activity and giving it direction
  • Used an adaptable nature to lead customer-orientated projects, seeing matters through from ideology to implementation
  • Took the lead on backup infrastructure for clients within the EMEA and AMS regions, recommending more efficient ways of working and building strong relations, gaining trust and securing further business
  • Completed extensive workloads to transition Sony India on to the HPE GMS Storage and Backup team as a primary SPOC.

Global Deployment Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
01.2019 - 05.2019
  • Designed effective architecture across operating systems and patches for products such as 3Par, enabling a robust service
  • Delivered seamless processes for all implementations, seeing them through from planning to closure and providing accurate, and highly detailed completion summaries to senior stakeholders around the business
  • Utilized key communication to translate complex account information to both customers and internal departments, nurturing and developing beneficial relationships that promote long term partnerships
  • Took accountability for delivery processes including end-to-end ownership of solutions; ensuring any issues were promptly resolved in line with expectations.

Education

MSc Management -

Imperial Business School
London
09.2021 - 09.2022

Bachelor of Engineering; Information Science -

Visveswaraya Technological University, Bangalore
08.2015 - 05.2019

Fellowship Program -

Teesside University International Business School
Middlesbrough
06.2018 - 08.2018

Skills

  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Tech Consulting
  • Data Analysis
  • Business Development
  • Tech Sales
  • Marketing

Certification

  • MS900
  • AZ900

Achievements

  • Youth Secretary, Indo-China Friendship Association, Karnataka: 1 of only 5 students to represent India in the 1st South Asian Indo, attending a conference – ‘How to fix employment issues in our country'. This involved collaborating with a team of 16 people to create letters to send to the Government and State Leaders of Karnataka in order to achieve improved ties between Indo – China.
  • Dance Choreographer, Imperial College London: Led a group of 30 students, choreographing a dance act for ‘East Meets West' – a charity event to support NGOs in India.

Timeline

Financial Analyst

Insight UK
10.2023 - Current

Skills Academy Associate

Insight UK
03.2023 - 10.2024

Sales Development Representative

Appetite App (TOJA)
01.2023 - 03.2023

Business Development Internship

Green Tek Innovation
07.2022 - 08.2022

Software Sales Consultant

Intreface
03.2022 - 06.2022

MSc Management -

Imperial Business School
09.2021 - 09.2022

Technical Solution Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
01.2020 - 06.2021

Global Deployment Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
01.2019 - 05.2019

Fellowship Program -

Teesside University International Business School
06.2018 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Engineering; Information Science -

Visveswaraya Technological University, Bangalore
08.2015 - 05.2019
Shaan Ibrahim