Ajeshkumar Vijayadas
Summary
I am an experienced Data Scientist, seeking a role in data analytics and BI reporting in Sydney. Currently on a Permanent Resident visa.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Statistician
Qatar Central Bank
Qatar
12.2008 - 03.2024
- 15 plus years of regulatory experience
- Familiar with regulatory reporting, documentation, regulatory data analysis, and regulatory training to delegates of financial institutions
- Data analysis, BI reporting, visualization, and presentation of financial sector data, which includes data from the banking sector, non-banking financial sector, private and government-related entities, ministries, and other public sector institutions, data related to domestic and global economies, data related to the global financial sector, etc
- Regulatory experience in investigating financial statements, statutory financial reports, fraud reports, market filing reports, investment reports, and other regulatory filings of financial institutions as part of the central bank's data production and dissemination process
- Experienced in designing business hypotheses, data collection strategies, and the management and governance of large-scale data sets for long-term regulatory and operational use and strategies
- Proficient in handling strategic, operational, and regulatory compliance challenges in banking and insurance institutions
- Skills in building predicative models such classification models, regression models, clustering models and time series models
- Created and implement statistical models to enhance operational effectiveness and resolve challenging business issues
- Use statistical methods to analyse large datasets to find patterns and trends that are essential for the Sector's operational needs
- Frequently produced comprehensive reports with executive summaries, graphs, and illustrations to provide management and stakeholders with the key highlights and actionable results
- Collaborated closely with other departments to collect, verify, and ensure the correctness and integrity of data
- Developed time-series and econometric models for CPI inflation, GDP, NPA, house price, real estate price, credit growth and population and so on for banking sector stress tests use, internal forecasts, and operational use
- Contributed to scenario development and analysis, model validation and optimization, forecast automation, and density charts
- Experience in developing and automating complex numerical and mathematical algorithms for frequent data modelling, analysis, computation, and in-house validation rules
- Internal statistical and predictive models were regularly validated, and they were fine-tuned to reflect changing scenarios involving shocks and developments in the local and international economies
- Executed in-depth statistical data analysis for primary economic, transactional, and financial market data and identified key insights to support regulatory and operational mandates
- Comprehensive analysis and research conducted with regards to financial sector data and provided input in the preparation of quarterly and annual reports and other publications
- Ensured accurate development and timely reporting of key periodic reports
- Involved in the strategic development in the financial stability sector, focusing on the field of data innovation, risk management, data collection, compilation, harmonization, and analysis
- Ensured business continuity and uninterrupted flow of data from internal and external sources to ensure continuous data-driven decision making for the top management
- End-to-end engagement in data collection through surveys, such as questionnaire development, data wrangling, visualization, survey statistical analysis, data curation, and report writing
- Established financial corporations' surveys, senior loan officers' surveys, consumer confidence surveys, real estate market surveys, forex supply and demand surveys, etc
- Provided regular system-wise balance sheet analysis, key performance indicator studies, inter-bank data analysis, profitability analysis, and other primary and secondary analysis to support policy making
- Regularly presented system-wide analytics of financial statements, profitability reports, studies of key performance indicators, interbank data analysis, and various other primary and secondary research to senior management in drafting of new policy for the financial stability sector
- Supported the Assistant Governor's executive team to optimize the data related risk, particularly for the central bank's policy decisions pertaining to Financial Stability Sector
- Coordinated with the three departments to strategise data, reports, and data action plans across different project delivers
- Executed assignments for the national data strategy (e-GDDS, SDDS, GCC Stat Surveys, QNV 2030, etc.) through stakeholdership and collaboration.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify key performance indicators and establish benchmarks for success.
- Developed user-friendly dashboards for real-time monitoring of key performance metrics, facilitating informed decision-making across departments.
- Led training sessions on statistical software tools, increasing team proficiency and productivity.
- Performed comprehensive risk assessments using advanced statistical methodologies, enabling proactive mitigation strategies implementation.
- Assisted in the design of surveys and questionnaires to gather high-quality data for analysis.
- Applied machine learning algorithms to increase the precision of predictive analytics models.
- Increased efficiency by automating routine tasks with custom scripts written in statistical programming languages such as R or Python.
Associate Consultant
Mind tree Ltd
India
03.2008 - 11.2008
- Worked on Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Warehousing projects for domestic and foreign clients.
Senior Functional Analyst
JDA Software (Blue Yonder) Ltd.
India
02.2007 - 01.2008
- Worked on demand planning and forecasting projects for new product development as well as for US client support.
Analyst Programmer
Wipro Infotech
India
05.2006 - 01.2007
- Worked on Business Intelligence, Mark Research and Data Warehousing projects for domestic and foreign clients.
Statistical Data Analyst
ANSI Techniques
India
10.2004 - 01.2006
- Prepared statistical analysis plans and provided statistical interpretation for graphs, tables and charts.
Education
Master of Science - Business Analytics
NYU Stern School of Business
United States Of America09.2015
Master of Philosophy - Statistics
University of Madras
India08.2004
Master of Science - Statistics
University of Madras
India04.2003
Skills
- Data Science
- Business Analytics
- Predictive Analytics
- Collaboration
- Stakeholdership
- Communication
- Regulatory Reporting & Documentation
- Operational Compliance
- Financial Reporting
- Statistics
- Econometrics
- Machine Learning
- Python
- R
- Alteryx
- SQL
- Eviews
- Stata
- SPSS
- SAS
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Business Intelligence
- Visualization
- Dashboards
- Market Research
- Data Governance
- Data Wrangling
- Forecasting
- Nowcasting
- Statistical Analysis
- Multivariate Analysis
- Statistical software
- Statistical modeling
- Conducting research
- Matlab
- Statistical forecasting
- Linear Regression
- R Programming
- Python Programming
- Data Cleaning
- Survey Design
- Data trends
- ANOVA Models
- Hypothesis testing
- Graphic analysis
- Data audits
- Generalized linear models
- Data Modeling
- Data collection methodologies
- Neural Networks
- Data Transformation
- Database Management
- Principal Component Analysis
- Data Acquisition
- Collaborative Teamwork
- Logistic Regression
- Bootstrap Methods
- Cross-validation techniques
- Factor Analysis
- Random Forests
- Data Mining
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Data Quality Assessment
- Predictive modeling
- Cluster Analysis
- Data Analysis
- SQL Database
- Decision trees
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Data Validation
Accomplishments
- Automated the process of data collection, data quality control, and dashboards.
- Achieved greater accuracy in data production.
- Implemented generic statistical business process framework (GSBPM) in key data production domains.
- Benchmarked existing data templates and reports.
References
References will be provided on request.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Statistician
Qatar Central Bank
12.2008 - 03.2024
Associate Consultant
Mind tree Ltd
03.2008 - 11.2008
Senior Functional Analyst
JDA Software (Blue Yonder) Ltd.
02.2007 - 01.2008
Analyst Programmer
Wipro Infotech
05.2006 - 01.2007
Statistical Data Analyst
ANSI Techniques
10.2004 - 01.2006
Master of Science - Business Analytics
NYU Stern School of Business
Master of Philosophy - Statistics
University of Madras
Master of Science - Statistics
University of Madras