Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Boise, Idaho, United States · On-site

• As Director – Analytics, I help organizations and senior leadership teams use data as a decision asset, not just a reporting function. My focus is on ensuring analytics delivers clarity, confidence, and better business decisions, rather than dashboards that fail to influence outcomes.
• I work closely with CXOs and functional leaders to reframe analytics around what decisions matter most, including growth priorities, performance trade-offs, risk exposure, and resource allocation. By anchoring analytics to these decision points, organizations move beyond descriptive reporting to insight that directly informs action.
• A core part of my role involves improving decision clarity at the leadership level. I help leaders articulate the questions they are trying to answer, surface underlying assumptions, and understand constraints, so analytics can focus on a small set of decision-relevant signals—drivers, scenarios, and implications rather than metric overload.
• I lead initiatives using a strategy-led analytics approach, aligning analytics investments with business objectives before solutions are designed. This ensures efforts are prioritized, sequenced, and focused on outcomes that materially impact the organization.
• I also design decision-centric insight frameworks that embed analytics into planning cycles, performance reviews, and governance forums, ensuring data is used where decisions are made. Where advanced analytics or AI is appropriate, I guide their application with an emphasis on explainability, adoption, and trust.
• Overall, my role is to ensure data and analytics earn their place at the decision table, enabling leaders to act with greater clarity, alignment, and confidence.

Feb 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Boise, Idaho, United States · On-site

• As Lead Data Scientist, I focused on applying advanced analytics to solve real business problems and support better decision-making, rather than building models in isolation. I worked closely with business and leadership teams to frame the right analytical questions, align data science efforts to decision needs, and ensure insights translated into action.
• My work spanned the design and delivery of advanced analytics solutions across performance analysis, forecasting, risk identification, and pattern discovery, with a strong emphasis on explainability, relevance, and adoption. Analytical outputs were evaluated not just on accuracy, but on whether decision-makers could understand, trust, and use them.
• I played a key role in translating complex analytical results into decision-ready insight, focusing on drivers, scenarios, and trade-offs rather than technical detail. This helped leaders engage with analytics earlier in the decision process and use data to shape, not just validate, choices.
• In parallel, I contributed to improving data science standards and ways of working, strengthening collaboration with data engineering teams, and mentoring analysts to think beyond algorithms toward business impact.
• Overall, the role was defined by balancing analytical rigor with business judgment, ensuring data science delivered practical, measurable value.

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · India · Hybrid

• Contributed to drafting Forensic Accounting and Investigation Standards (FAIS), shaping standardized approaches to evidence assessment, investigative processes and reporting integrity, aligned with evolving regulatory and governance expectations.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

• As a Data Scientist, I applied analytics and data science techniques to solve business problems and support informed decision-making. I worked closely with stakeholders to translate business questions into analytical problems and convert data into insights that were practical, interpretable, and actionable.
• My work focused on building analytical models and insights that highlighted key drivers, patterns, and risks, while maintaining a strong emphasis on clarity, relevance, and usability. I collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure analytical outputs were grounded in business context and could be effectively used to guide decisions.

Sep 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

• Supported organizations through fraud investigations and fraud risk assessments, helping identify control gaps, reduce exposure to financial and reputational risk, and strengthen preventive mechanisms. Conducted process and compliance reviews to improve adherence to policies and regulatory requirements.
• Delivered Risk & Advisory engagements in internal audits and process risk and control assessments, providing actionable recommendations that enhanced governance, improved control effectiveness, and enabled management to address risks proactively.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• Managed investment accounting and statutory reporting for a UK-based private equity firm, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with applicable regulatory and reporting standards. Led the quarterly preparation and submission of investor reports, including detailed KPI reviews and performance analysis to support transparent communication with stakeholders.
• Supported day-to-day finance operations, coordinating data across portfolios, validating financial information, and maintaining reporting integrity. Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure reporting consistency, address investor queries, and support informed decision-making at the fund and portfolio level.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 · 11 mos · Kolkata · On-site

• Completed Management Training at ITC, gaining hands-on exposure to account preparation, auditing processes, and financial controls. Worked closely with finance teams to understand accounting practices, compliance requirements, and internal control frameworks within a large, diversified corporate environment.

Sep 2008 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos · kolkata · On-site

• Completed Articleship as part of the Chartered Accountancy program, gaining comprehensive exposure to statutory audits, internal audits, accounting, taxation, and compliance. Worked on audit planning, execution, documentation, and reporting across multiple clients and industries, while supporting senior team members in financial reviews and regulatory filings.
• This experience built a strong foundation in financial reporting, controls, governance, and professional discipline, shaping a practical understanding of how businesses operate and are regulated.