VIPUL SHARMA

Contact No.: +91-9810502022 ~ E-Mail: vipuls_d17@iift.edu/ vipullsharmaa@gmail.com

MIDDLE LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS

Strategic Business Planning/ Management Consulting/ Project & Program Management
PROFILE SUMMARY
• Result-oriented professional with over 3.5 years of experience in Strategic Planning, Management Consulting, Process
Optimization, Product Management, Requirement Gathering, Compliance Management, Project & Program Management,
Customer Relationship Management, Liaison & Coordination, Business Analytics and Team Management
• Directing productive cross-functional teams using interactive and motivational leadership that spurs people to willingly give
excellent results
• Skilled in analyzing business processes while leveraging best-of-breed technologies as per the requirement
• Swiftly completing projects with competent cross-functional skills and ensuring on time deliverables within pre-set cost
parameters
• Proficient in monitoring business in new and growth areas while analyzing uncertain situations, utilizing data and drawing
conclusions out of it
• An enterprising leader with skills in leading personnel towards accomplishment of common goals
• Dual MBA in finance and marketing from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

SKILL SET
Digital Transformation Data Analytics Stakeholder Management
IT Consulting Process Enhancement Budgeting
Business Analysis Project Management Office Market Forecasting

WORK EXPERIENCE (3.5 years)

Since May’17 with Infosys Management Consulting, Pune
Consultant (Client Industry: Financial Services)

Role:
• Developing project baselines and controlling projects with respect to resource deployment, time over-runs and quality
compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects
• Assisting Partners in creating RFP documents after carrying out thorough analysis of the client’s business
• Collaborating with stakeholders while keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations
on all project requirements and deliverables
• Collaborating between product development team and the client for translating business needs into technical goals and
ensure timely conflict resolution
• Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high
performance amongst the team
• Organizing/ participating project review meetings for evaluating project progress & de-bottlenecking

Key Projects Managed:

Digital Transformation
• Integrated Customer Experience Design Strategy for P2P App
o Directing a team of UX/UI developers to redesign of P2P app for a US bulge bracket bank
o Facilitating design thinking workshops that narrowed gaps, promulgated strategies and scored prototype rollout
• Enrichment of Customer Journey for Mortgage Servicing Operations
o Conducting customer ethnographic research to review existing customer feedback and translate them into customer
experience themes in mortgage servicing
o Ensuring effective development of low-fidelity prototype of target state customer journeys and iterated them based on
customer feedback
Process Optimization / Automation / Mapping
• Optimizing processes for an Asset Management company through Automation / Outsourcing Projects
o Monitoring Automation use cases in an Agile manner with multiple execution pods working in conjunction with process
automation/optimization team from client’s end
o Creating a RPA (Robotic Process Automation) amenable process matrix and successfully applied it to key backend
processes of the asset management operations resulting in reduction of ~10% FTE
• Developing AI Accelerator for a leading retail bank in US
o Developed AI lego blocks and illustrated TO-BE state of key business functions illustrating enhanced AI capabilities
Project Management Office (PMO)
• Project management for world’s largest data warehousing database of a global banking client
 o Maintaining functional requirement documents (FRDs) which capture all business requirements necessary for sourcing
information by multiple stakeholders – UAT/SIT/BRD
o Planning/ budgeting for each release cycle and modelling of resource planning scenarios

INTERNSHIP
Organization: JP Morgan & Chase
Role: Investment Banking Analyst (Summer Intern)
Period: Apr'16 to May'16
Client Industry: Capital Markets
• Assisted I-bankers in preparing pitching points for both sell/buy side deals
• Prepared an end-to-end sell side pitch for European luxury major which included building equity story, strategic rationale,
identification of a target company, accretion-dilution analysis and deal structure

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan'15 to May'15 with ZS Associates, Gurgaon
Business Analyst (Client Industry: Pharmaceutical)
• Helped in optimization of sales and marketing efforts of Pharma clients using analytical tools
• Worked with a small team of 4 on Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) and co-positioning projects

Jul'13 to Dec'14 with Sapient Global Markets, Gurgaon

Interactive Developer (Domain: IT-Financial Services)
• Managed UX/UI components of P2P apps for major fin tech clients

NGO EXPERIENCE
Nov ’16 to Jan ’17 with Help age India, Delhi
• Helped analyze gaps in operations of old age homes and helpline services across North India
Jul ’12 to Jan ’13 with Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN, Delhi
• Former member and Eco-auditor at Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN)-a pan India NGO

LIVE PROJECTS MANAGED

Snapdeal
• Responsible for assortment planning & benchmarking in sports category
Ministry of I.T. (GoI)
• Assisted Senior Consultants in critical analysis of SLAs in e-governance project: “Passport Seva”

POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
• Senior Club Coordinator for Capital, Finance Club at IIFT Delhi: conducted national finance symposium during 2016 – 17
• Operations Head - Model United Nations at Delhi College of Engineering: end to end logistics of the event during 2011 – 12
• Content Head & Tutor - expertOnlineTutor.com: tutored US students for SATs and AP level exams during 2009 - 11

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS

• Successfully passed CFA L1 in first attempt in 2013
• Attained:
o Gold Medal by DPS society for securing 99% in CBSE 10th Science board exam
o Gold Medal in the 9th CBSE (District Level) Hockey Championship in 2008
o Blue Blazer by DPS society for displaying persistent academic rigor during 2001-‘06
• Acknowledged as:
o National Finalist at Peaktime– International Business Student Competition, organized in association with Stockholm
School of Economics, Riga, Latvia in 2011
o National Runner’s up in Chanakya – public policy case competition at FMS Delhi in 2016

EDUCATION
2017 MBA (IB) in Finance (Maj) & Marketing (Maj) from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade with 3.45/ 4.33 CGPA
2013 BE in Information Technology from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi with 8.21/ 10 CGPA
2008 12th from Delhi Public School, Rohini, CBSE Board with 87.6%
2006 10th from Delhi Public School, Rohini, CBSE Board with 93.2%

Additional Qualification: CFA L1 (Passed)