Rajat Sethi

Associate Partner

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 5 years of experience in strategic consulting.
  • Expertise in risk assessment and stakeholder management.
  • Proven track record in driving profitability enhancement projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic consultant with expertise in risk management and financial analysis.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyProject DeliveryFinancial AnalysisRisk AssessmentRisk Management

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsTeam ManagementGoal SettingFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentationsTime ManagementWritten CommunicationCEOsChief Experience OfficersKnowledge AcquisitionCritical ThinkingTeam LeadershipBusiness PlanningPresentation Skills

About

Dynamic and results-oriented professional with a comprehensive background spanning strategic consulting, risk assessment, and stakeholder management in leading firms. Bringing over 5 years of combined experience at Venwiz, Bain & Company and Deloitte India, I specialize in driving projects encompassing growth strategy, go-to-market strategies, market sizing, digital transformation, organizational restructuring, profitability enhancement, fund raising, supply chain strategy, process enhancement, and risk assessment across diverse industry verticals. These sectors include media, steel, stainless steel, power, warehouse/logistics, automobile, healthcare providers, FMCG/CPG, Agri-tech, banks, real estate, fin-tech, and social impact players. Hold an MBA in Finance with a minor in Analytics from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, where I acquired valuable skills and knowledge in financial modeling, data analysis, and business intelligence. Passionate about continual learning and solving complex problems, I uphold values of empathy, dependability, and honesty. I believe in continuous improvement through embracing constructive feedback and taking actionable steps towards enhancement.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Venwiz

Strategy Manager

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Bain & company

2 roles

Senior Associate Consultant

Promoted

Jul 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Project 1 - Strategy support to define group ambition, vision, and values for the next phase of growth for Indian conglomerate
  • Deliverable
  • Developed group ambition for 10 years with growth potential of 7x | Identified new business opportunities
  • Defined group compass including vision, mission, and values | Organized workshops to cascade compass across BUs
  • Re-designed N-1 organization structure | Revamped 7+ HR policies and processes to support next phase of growth
  • Project 2 - Strategy support to enhance fund profitability for leading warehousing logistics player in India
  • Deliverable
  • Benchmarked current team structure (Leasing, Projects, etc.) and operational cost with 5+ real estate companies
  • Identified optimal employee count | Built bottom-up business model with estimated EBITDA upside of ~8%
Analytical SkillsTeam ManagementGoal SettingFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentations+17

Junior Consultant

Jun 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Project 1 - Strategy support to define “Business for the future” for leading news channel in India
  • Deliverables
  • Evaluated 6+ genres (Sports, Health, etc.) across key parameters like market attractiveness, revenue potential, etc.
  • Shortlisted 2 genres | Defined target customers and competitive value proposition for building digital properties
  • Project 2 - Assessed entry opportunity into stainless-steel (SS) market in India for leading steel player in India
  • Deliverables
  • Evaluated SS market across current capacity, growth potential, key players, customers, profitability drivers, etc.
  • Devised entry strategy | Developed model to access target capacity, investment requirement, and payback period
  • Project 3 - Built resilient supply chain and semiconductor sourcing strategy for leading OEM in India
  • Deliverable
  • Benchmarked 10+ Indian and Global auto OEMs | Defined long list of levers for building resilient supply chain
  • Defined category-level strategy for 3 critical semiconductors across levers such as design, inventory, control, etc.
Analytical SkillsFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentationsTime ManagementWritten Communication+13

The d. e. shaw group

Summer Intern

Sep 2021Oct 2021 · 1 mo

  • Developed credit risk assessment model for banks | Analysed and rated on 7 financials parameters
  • Curated performance analysis metrics using bank reports | Identified earnings trends of 12 banks
Analytical SkillsGoal SettingFinancial modellingCost ManagementRatio AnalysisPresentations+13

Deloitte india

2 roles

Senior Analyst || Risk Advisory

Promoted

Jun 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Executed 7 concurrent risk assessment engagements worth ₹40 million for real estate clients pan India
  • Formulated budget for 5 projects | Saved ₹15 million by analysing past years manpower and inventory
  • Projected cost savings of ₹130 million across 7+ projects by streamlining the EDC/IDC payment process
  • Spearheaded a 4 member team | Evaluated deliverables, attaining 60% reduction in client pushbacks
  • Led P2P review | Estimated savings of ₹10 million, evaluated 600+ vendors on quality, delivery, and pricing
  • Increased 15% efficiency of lead management process by benchmarking against leading industry practices
  • Curated Risk Control Matrix (RCM) for knowledge transfer of different business process in real estate
  • Received Deloitte internal recognition award (Live the Dot) award for seeking new business opportunities
  • Fast-track promotion within 10 months for demonstrating excellent client management skills
Analytical SkillsTeam ManagementGoal SettingFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentations+16

Analyst || Risk Advisory

Aug 2018May 2019 · 9 mos

  • Recognised excess payouts of ₹61 million to channel partners by reviewing sales of 15+ projects
  • Independently assessed procurement worth ₹2.5 billion and unveiled loopholes around the P2P process
  • Streamlined sale review process | Saved 80 man-hours per qtr. by decreasing deliverables completion time
Analytical SkillsFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentationsTime ManagementWritten Communication+14

Tractebel - engie group

Finance Intern

Jun 2017Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Improvised client claim invoicing process through reusable excel templates
  • Made recommendations to use assets tagging mechanism to reduce reconciliation errors in fixed assets

Indraprastha gas limited

working capital project

Jun 2017Jul 2017 · 1 mo · R.K. Puram

  • Obtained insight into various aspects of working capital management and key factors affecting it
  • Learned approaches for evaluating different options for investment in Mutual funds, Equity market, and fixed deposit
  • Provided recommendations for better management of working capital
Ratio AnalysisPresentationsTime ManagementWritten CommunicationCEOsProject Delivery+4

Neenv - human resource development cell, hansraj college

President

Jul 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

Analytical SkillsFinancial modellingCost ManagementPresentationsTime ManagementWritten Communication+14

Project saksham

Founder

Jun 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs

Education

SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

PGDM - Finance

Jan 2020Jan 2022

Hansraj College

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2015Jan 2018

Shadley Public School

Commerce

Jan 2009Jan 2015

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