Simran Arora

Business Development Executive

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 4x growth in personal loan disbursement.
  • Led a team of 30+ across multiple functions.
  • Spearheaded strategic partnerships in fintech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Growth Consultant with expertise in strategic partnerships and data-driven decision making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth ConsultingPartnership DevelopmentGrowth ManagementProduct DevelopmentAcquisition StrategyGrowth StrategyTeam LeadershipRevenue GrowthStrategic InitiativesDigital StrategyTrade FinanceData AnalysisInvestment Analysis

Other Skills

Venture CapitalProject ManagementStrategic PlanningStakeholder ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)PnL ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMarket ResearchPartnershipsSQLRPythonFinancial AnalysisSystematic Approach

About

I like to solve problems. Throughout my life, I have been driven by my intellectual curiosity to find the answers to the most pressing question. Which also drove me to work with start-ups alongside the founders, helping solve problems and identify roadblocks. I have 6+ years of work experience working in startups, creating impact on ground and on the MIS!

Experience

Rapidmoney

Growth Consultant

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos

  • Rapid Money is a short term personal loan app. Consulting on GTM, Acquisition Plan and Product Journey along with helping achieve the top line. Owning the acquisition piece and building long term partnerships
Venture CapitalProject ManagementStrategic PlanningGrowth ConsultingPartnership Development

Lendenclub

Senior Manager

Dec 2023Oct 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • InstaMoney is a personal loan app powered by LenDen Club.
  • InstaMoney is a B2C lending fintech application powered by LenDen Club, providing Instant short term personal loans
  • ▪ Growth: Owning the monthly business targets, went from disbursing, achieved 4x growth in my time there. Along with making and owning two AOP's
  • ▪ Product: Constantly working on funnel improvement and bettering the customer journey, achieved the ever
  • highest sign up to disbursed %
  • ▪ Strategic Initiatives: Set up Loan Aggregator as an acquisition channel for InstaMoney, contributing to 20% of
  • overall business with the second lowest CAC.
  • ▪ Stakeholder Management: Heading a team of 21 core members for InstaMoney across Marketing, Product,
  • Credit, Operations, Customer Support and Data Sciences.
  • ▪ Partnerships & Alliances: Spearheaded strategic partnerships with major platforms, enabling end-to-end lending journeys. Also led multiple smaller partnerships across fintech and digital
  • platforms, strengthening distribution and acquisition efforts
Data AnalysisProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Growth ManagementProduct Development

Aastey

Chief of Staff

Sep 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Aastey is a D2C startup into sustainable active & athleisure for women of all sizes funded by Kalaari Capital
  •  Growth: Worked on the growth & revenue channels, revenue jump from September’22 to August’23 – 400%
  •  Data Analysis: Analyzed customer data for consumer insights & purchase patterns, met double the target of Feb’23 by new category introduction based on the purchase pattern & market research.
  •  GTM: Detailed plan for aastey to move offline by 2023 Q4.
  •  PnL Management : Managed PnL metrics to be CM2+ in 4 months & maintaining GM at 60%+
  •  Strategic Initiatives: Driven initiatives and on priority tasks on behalf of the CEO.
  •  Leadership: Led a team of 30+ across Growth, Tech, Product, Sales, Media & Marketing directly reporting to me
  •  Fundraising: Managed current investor communication, fundraise preparation & literature.
  •  Outreach: Organized a tri-city marathon in collaboration with leap.club in Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore with more than 1500 women participating in aastey merchandise.
  •  Business Diversification: Charted 2 years roadmap for product & category diversification.
Data AnalysisPnL ManagementLeadershipGrowth StrategyTeam Leadership

Sarvagram

Founder's Office

Jan 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • SarvaGram is a rural household centric fin-tech impact lending start-up helping with financial inclusion & household lifestyle up gradation in rural India backed by Temasek, Elevation & Elevar Capital.
  •  Sentiment Analysis: Surveyed 200+ customers in 50+ branches to help understand the current loan journey and how to expand the current loan offerings.
  •  Strategic Initiatives: Made and Launched SarvaGram’s first digital journey of Personal Loan.
  •  Competitor Research: Did a deep research on all competitors in the rural space and analysed the tech used by them to modify/expand the current tech infrastructure.
  •  Stakeholder Management: Worked on managing the CXO team along with the CEO on new initiatives management and project tracking across departments.
  •  Productivity Enhancement: Increased branch productivity from processing 4x applications in a day.
CommunicationStakeholder ManagementStrategic Initiatives

Drip capital

Senior Associate

Jun 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Drip Capital is a trade finance fin-tech lending start-up helping with the cashflow cycle for exporters based out of India, USA & Mexico.
  •  Deal Flow: Expedited the sourcing and assessment of 400+ exporters based out of India.
  •  Market Research: Mapped 50+ players in the Indian lending space to track lending trends & seasonality.
  •  Partnerships: Onboarded 80+ partners & managed 150+ partners based out of the west and east.
  •  Data Analysis: Leveraged existing data to, identify export dominant cities and their trade cycles, asses the performance of the onboarded channel partners, improve the channel performance by identifying the loopholes in the sales cycle of the leads from the channel.
  •  Executive Search: Collaborated with my manager on structuring a lean C-suite recruiting operation.
Data AnalysisMarket ResearchPartnershipsTrade Finance

Mu sigma inc.

Intern(Trainee Decision Scientist)

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Went through the rigorous trainee period of three months at MuSigma to become a decision scientist. Learning technical skills such as SQL, R, Python and MS Excel, soft skills such as business communication and getting a hold of statistical concepts necessary for data analysis.
  • Worked on two mock projects in this duration with a team of 5 people, which involved getting hands-on experience in solving a real-time demand forecast and customer churn issues.
  • Shadowed a mentor who was currently handling a banking account and learning to deal with clients and accounts.
  • Worked with the sales team in the last month to understand the whole flow of business in the company.
SQLRPythonData Analysis

Crisil limited

Advisory Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Worked with the Infrastructure Financing Team
  • Learnt about the key factors to look at before a firm decides to invest.
  • Improved my understanding of Financial Reports
  • Analysing Company's annual reports, previous performances etc.
Financial AnalysisInvestment Analysis

Ford motor company

Marketing Intern

Jun 2017Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Composed, revised and proofread corporate communications and
  • marketing materials
  • Worked with the advertising team briefly and sat in their meeting
  • with different advertising firms such as Car Dekho. com etc
  • Analysing the change GST will lead to in the market along with the
  • Sales team.

Model united nations society, vit

Director Of Public Relations

Feb 2017Feb 2018 · 1 yr · VIT UNIVERSITY

  • Responsibility: Provided non-binding strategic advice to the current team of board and secretariat members with regard to substantive affairs, policy initiatives, and the organisation of VITMUN 2019.
  • Leadership: Served as the Chief Operations Officer of VITMUN 2018 and as the Under-Secretary-General (PnM) of VITMUN 2017, the annual international-level MUN conference of VIT, Vellore.
  • Management: Executed a revenue-growth of 50%, a profit-growth of 240%, and a capacity-growth of 35% for VITMUN 2018 over a span of four months.

Prism cements limited

Summer Intern

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Worked with the Environmental Department - Regular monitoring of plant emissions with the team, making sure they
  • are in accord with the compliance of the Govt regulatory bodies as well
  • as suggesting measures to reduce environmental damage

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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