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EDUCATION
INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS |PGP (Intended Majors in Finance & Strategy) | GMAT: 730 (Top 4%) Apr’18 – Present
• Admitted through the Young Leader’s Program (70/2500+) with scholarship of ₹1 Lakh for outstanding academic performance
• National Finalist (top 20/352 teams) at the Matrix Partners and CIEE ₹1 crore challenge (B-Plan competition) (ongoing)
- Created a business plan to redesign the dining experience at airports through pre-ordered meals delivered at boarding gates
• Lead Events Coordinator, Advaita 2018 – ISB’s flagship management competition to be held on 14th October
- Spearheading the planning of a national level event with the EVC Club having a prize money of an unprecedented ₹10 Lakhs
HANS RAJ COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI | Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hons.) Jun’12 – May’15
• Awarded ‘College Colours’ (top 30/1500) for consistent academic record and exceptional extra-curricular contributions
CLASS XII: 95.2% Offered the ‘INSPIRE’ Scholarship of ₹4 Lakhs (Top 1%) by Dept. of Science (Govt. of India) May’11 – Apr’12

WORK EXPERIENCE
UNITED AIRLINES, INC Gurgaon
Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis Jul’15 – Mar’18
Responsible for driving cost reduction & process improvement in the global business; helped CXO level leaders drive financial strategy;
experienced in managing stakeholders in complex cross-cultural situations; instrumental in helping set up the India office
Key Achievements
• Rated ‘Outstanding’ (5/5 Awarded to top 5% of employees globally and 1/30 in India) for performance in FY 2017
• Fast-track promotion (9 months vs average timeline of 18 months) among associate analysts; fastest ever in India
Cost Reduction
• Achieved cost savings of $10M in the FY 2018 Plan against a $330M budget using Pareto analysis and bottom-up budgeting
- Developed the annual budget for MRO spend on components across all fleet-types; provided variance explanations to leadership
• Accomplished cost reduction of $5M annually by evaluating multimillion-dollar maintenance contracts (RFP’s)
- Presented key actionable insights to the global CFO and Managing Directors in Procurement, Engineering and Operations teams
- Realized cost savings by locking in contractual pricing for parts, headcount reduction, and supplier consolidation
Financial Modelling
• Achieved 270% unrealized gains in United’s stock holdings in a private company worth $4.2M by building a valuation model
- Presented recommendation to the global CFO to ‘Hold’ stock as part of a handpicked team of 3 employees
• Developed a model to estimate the cost of a flight delay/cancellation to the company; achieved 40% improvement in accuracy
- Model is used in evaluating investment decisions worth > $1B by appropriating savings to operational improvements
- Analyzed several cost buckets to compute a true sum-of-the-parts cost vs a notional value historically used by management
• Generated monthly savings of $1.2M by identifying two loss-making routes where operations were then terminated
- Designed a scalable model with visualization that assesses route profitability and identifies outlier markets
- Identified markets by conducting sensitivity analysis and plotting unit cost & unit revenue against length of flight
• Built a daily dashboard for the CEO providing a complete snapshot of the business and benchmark against competitors
Process Improvement
• Decreased processing time from 30 hours to 8 hours & reduced errors by ~80% for Star Alliance Inter-Airline lounge billing
- Managed a team of two to automate the billing process for the $29M (annual) spend category using VBA Macros
• Decreased processing time from 120 mins to 10 mins for creation of labor headcount & attrition reports for Operations team
- Streamlined the activity & migrated reports from Excel to TIBCO Spotfire (Tableau equivalent) limiting manual intervention
Leadership Initiatives
• Strategized & executed the outsourcing of a $150M IT hardware & software billing process from United to an IT services firm
• Stepped up to manage local administration, lead recruiting efforts and help grow the India office from a size of 7 to 120+ employees
• Onboarded and mentored >20 new recruits from DU and IIT’s (Financial Modelling, Advanced MS Excel, Org Structure, Policies)
• Steered monthly meetings to provide spend updates to senior business and finance leadership across geographies (>30 people)
• Led pilot projects for 2 teams in Corporate HQ; hand-holding inexperienced teams with working in global set-ups

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Dance
• Director of External Affairs (Choreography Society), Hansraj: Organized the dance fest ‘Choreo’ with a record footfall (>3000)
• National Winners in dance competitions at IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani, St Stephens, JMC; declared best choreography society
- Progressed from an untrained dancer to becoming the protagonist in the annual production within 3 months (2013)
• Certified under “Professional Dance Study Program” by Big Dance Centre, trained in Ballet and Contemporary dance forms
• Dance Volunteer at Bandhan (ISB): Taught Bollywood dancing to >150 children from underprivileged backgrounds
Travel & Adventure
• Have visited 22 countries and flown over 500,000 miles in three years while working full time
- Backpacked across Alaska, Colombia, Eastern Europe, Hawaii, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand etc.
• Completed Sky Diving (10,000 feet) with Jersey Skydive; Scuba Diving (12 meters) with Phi Phi Barakuda (2017)
Sports
• 2nd Runner up (out of 256 teams) in Delhi State level football championships, won prize money of ₹16,000 (2011)
• Co-founded football team at United Airlines; represented the company at various corporate football tournaments (2017)
• Sports Captain (2/160) in Gyan Bharati School, Saket; consistently declared the ‘Best Athlete’ across multiple years (2010-12)