Shashank Sinha | 17IM30019

Incoming Associate at Boston Consulting Group

ACADEMIC PROFILE
Year Institution Degree/Examination Percentage/CGPA
2022 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Industrial Engineering (Dual Degree) 8.34/10.00
2016 Narayana Junior College TSBIE (XII) 95.5%
2014 Holy Cross School AISSE (X) 10.00/10.00
INTERNSHIPS
Nomura Holdings, Mumbai | Global Wholesale Strategy May ’21 – Jul ’21
Worked with the corporate strategy team on multiple live projects; received a Pre-Placement Offer from the firm
• Analyzed cross sell and synergies across divisions at Investment Banks and benchmarked strategies of 12 major Investment Banks
• Suggested recommendations to realize synergies across divisions to achieve Nomura’s cross sell ambitions, leveraging current capabilities
• Authored the weekly Asia Investment Banking newsletter; covered Morgan Stanley’s conference to track peers’ Q2 earnings expectations
• Created Nomura’s Investment Banking and Global Markets fee pools data pack for Q2 2021 results to be presented at the Investor Day
Leap Finance, Bengaluru | Product Management Mar ’21 – May ’21
Worked under VP (Product) to reduce the no. of leads not showing up for counselling sessions and enhance revenues from VISA formalities
• Audited all communication channels, consolidated and designed communications campaigns to cater to the missing target audience
• Introduced tracking of campaigns efficacy by shifting all the communications to Web Engage by collaborating with channel owners
• Reduced the No Show Rate by 5%; led a team of 5 sales interns to convert 250+ leads (90% of the target) already holding an admit
HDFC Securities, Mumbai | Digital Strategy and Analytics Dec ’19 – Jan ’20
Worked with the Strategy team to figure out possible use cases of Artificial Intelligence to gauge the needs of various customer cohorts
• Conducted a comparative analysis of the price structures of brokerage firms that offer global investing opportunities to their clients
• Recommended methodologies to realize revenue potential by evaluating the firm's asset pricing model and making revenue projections
• Identified customer segments for the firm to devise specific targeting strategies and formulated 8 potential cases to deploy big data

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Career Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur | Student Placement Coordinator Jul ’20 – Mar ’21
• Entrusted with facilitating placements and internships of 3,000+ students; 1 among 13 to be selected by a panel of Deans
• Designed end-to-end operating procedures for the first ever e-campus recruitment drive, amidst a Global Pandemic
Team work
• Achieved 1,000+ job offers in 8 days (fastest across all IITs); placed over 1,300 students and attained 600+ internship offers
• Convinced 250+ firms to include additional departments and attained 107 open to all profiles such as Google, PayPal etc.
Initiatives • Converted 7 first time recruiters (with 2 International profiles); contributed 85 out of 750+ profiles (second in the team)
Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur | Associate Member Mar ’18 – Nov ’18
Leadership • Spearheaded Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive Ranchi 2018, attracting 1,900 participants with a 2.5X yoy increase
Sponsorship • Led a team of 14 campus ambassadors; garnered sponsorship worth INR 50K and media associations with over 15 articles
Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur | Technology Coordinator Aug ’19 – Apr ’20
• Elected by an electorate of 1,900+ students to chair the position and manage a team of 20+ secretaries and associates
Leadership
• Disbursed budget of INR 2.75 lacs; secured 6 medals in Open IIT; Silver in Ad Design, General Championship 2019-20

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad | Centre for Analytical Finance May ’19 – Aug ’19
Contributed to the research paper titled "Financial Inclusion for The Poor: Do Technological Failures Deter Financial Inclusion"
• Developed an ML tool with an accuracy of 0.89 in collaboration with analysts from Goldman Sachs to monitor a customer's behaviour
• Conceptualized and implemented a fraud detection tool; both the ML and fraud detection tools are in use by a micro-finance institution
• Implemented and back tested Pitroski F-Score and Pairs Trading strategies in Indian Markets, achieving a CAGR of 24.56% and 16.37%
• Completed a study on Valuation (Weighted Average Cost of Capital and APV) on business cases of HBS and INSEAD with certification
• Adjudicated as the best intern (in a batch of 20) and received a letter of recommendation from Prof. Prasanna Tantri (Director, CAF)
7th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, IIM Bangalore Aug ’19 – Jan ’20
Presented the work titled “Risk Assessment Methodologies in Air Cargo Logistics” under the guidance of Prof. MK Tiwari (Director NITIE)
• Tracked events from a forwarding company's cargo system for 5 months with 3,942 business process instances and 7,932 transport legs
• Examined the forwarding company's shipment's delay distribution and established its relationship with the number of incoming legs
• Improved forecast accuracy by over 8% by the development of an ML tool aimed at classifying and forecasting the shipment delay
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Gold in World Quant Global Challenge with a rank of 279 out of more than 20,000 participants by formulating 100+ alphas
Competitions • Finalist (Top 6) at Hult Prize, IIT Kharagpur from amongst 200+ participants from campus hosted by Clinton Foundation
• Bagged Gold in case study with 50+ participants in Samudramanthan (Departmental fest of ocean and naval architecture)
• Raised INR 3 lacs in 12 days during Yogdaan (annual donation drive) as an associate of Gopali Youth Welfare Society
Social
• Personally mentored 5 freshmen students on campus under the purview of Dean of Student Affairs, IIT Kharagpur
• Engaged in stock market investing for the past 2 years with a diversified portfolio consisting of FMCGs and Paint companies
Finance
• Certified Bloomberg Professional in financial markets (Market Concepts); Financial Risk Manager (Level- 1 Candidate)
AA 401, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur | shashanksinhaiitkgp@gmail.com | +91-8637559072