ALI ASGAR ZEENWALA
Baulkham Hills,Australia
Summary
Forward-thinking manager with over 8 years of project management experience and more than 10 years of overall expertise in data analytics. Skilled specialist with expertise in project management, problem-solving, and team leadership. Strengths lie in the ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks, develop strategic plans, and ensure the successful execution of operational goals. Demonstrated skills include adaptability, negotiation, and strong communication abilities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist Senior Manager
Deloitte Australia
07.2021 - Current
- Engage with clients to consult and deliver insights via Tableau / Power BI reports to improve their business processes and assist in operational management
- Consideration of legal/award obligation for employees and analysis of all the entitlements for the employee
- Generation of reports to identify remediation impacts from various cohorts for the employees
- Implement various types of data analytics engagements including HR (Payroll), accounts payable, accounts receivable, timesheet, employee expense and loyalty analytics to identify frauds, cost savings opportunities and cost recovering opportunities
- Engage with clients to consult and deliver insights via Tableau reports to improve their business processes and assist in operational management
- Consideration of legal/award obligation for employees and analysis of all the entitlements for the employee
- Generation of reports to identify remediation impacts from various cohorts for the employees
- Implement various types of data analytics engagements including HR (Payroll), accounts payable, accounts receivable, timesheet, employee expense and loyalty analytics to identify frauds, cost savings opportunities, cost recovery opportunities and system integrity issues for the client
- Analysed payroll & AP data from systems like SAP, Ascender, Oracle and Chris21
Data Analyst (Health Manager-2)
Cancer Institute -NSW
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Engage with various stakeholders within the firm to understand requirements and work on multiple projects aimed at increasing cancer screening participation across NSW
- Worked on multiple projects aimed at generating insights for the screening and prevention of various types of cancer
- Worked on ad-hoc requests from various teams and provided data/reports
- These datasets were used in reports which were published in the public domain including the NSW health website
Associate Director
Ernst & Young Australia
04.2020 - 10.2020
- Engage with senior stakeholders within the firm and strategize a road map to digitize the existing offerings
- Key stakeholder in setting up Analytics practice for Transaction Advisory Business within EY Australia
- Led the team working on data integrity assessment for leading energy and mining company
- Led the team comprising resources from multiple geographies (Australia, US and India) and delivered a major implementation engagement for mid-tier train leasing and carriages leasing company
- Trained team members across Australia and India across multiple technologies
Senior Analyst / Manager
Deloitte India & Australia
05.2015 - 04.2020
- Engage with clients to consult and deliver insights via Tableau reports to improve their business processes and assist in operational management
- Consideration of legal/award obligation for employees and analysis of all the entitlements for the employee
- Generation of reports to identify remediation impacts from various cohorts for the employees
- Implement various types of data analytics engagements including HR (Payroll), accounts payable, accounts receivable, timesheet, employee expense and loyalty analytics to identify frauds, cost savings opportunities, cost recovery opportunities and system integrity issues for the client
- I have worked and analysed payroll & AP data from systems like SAP, Ascender, Oracle and Chris21
- Assisted leading advertising agency in fraud investigation for their employee expenses
- Assisted a Big 4 bank in building rules (AML rules) for identifying fraud in daily customer transactions
- Implement analytical engagements for clients which includes data loading using SSIS; data cleansing, data consolidation, data structuring, data standardization and analysis in SQL Server by writing SQL queries and scripts; performing quality assurance and preparing Excel & Tableau reports to present the findings to the client
- Prepare business development material for higher management
- Prepare proposals, engagement letters and budgets for client engagements
- Perform client, stakeholder and engagement management by providing regular status updates to clients and higher management, scheduling appropriate resources to engagements and managing day to day activities to ensure completion of engagement as per plan and budget
- Assign engagement work to off-shore team and coordinate with them to ensure timely delivery of engagements
- Perform quality assurance of engagements implemented by piers, juniors and off-shore team
- Conduct induction and training for new joiners on Tableau, Risk Analytics specific business concepts and SQL Server modules
- Appraisal and development of risk analytics pool of 12 resources and ensure achievement of their utilisation targets for the year
- Create and maintain team utilization Tableau report which is used by higher management to track performance of the data analytics team
- As a manager in Deloitte Australia, I have led and managed all engagements with clients in the betting industry and helped the team grow and develop business and expertise in a new industry
- As a manager I have received client excellence award multiple times based on the excellent feedback received from the client
- I have been a resource of choice to work on high-profile engagements that have been reported in the media which require skills like tremendous attention to detail, working under tight deadlines, stakeholder management and delivering results of top quality with absolutely no tolerance for error
- Led the Data Analytics team of 10 resources catering to Risk Advisory in Deloitte Australia member firm and managed their schedules whilst working with Deloitte India
- Trained, guided and developed my team in Deloitte India to work seamlessly with an on-shore team and deliver good quality results and client experience
- Developed reusable SQL procedures and Tableau dashboard templates for different types of engagements that saves time and effort
Associate Consultant
Ernst & Young, India
12.2013 - 04.2015
- Daily client interaction for analysis of system database objects (SPs, Functions) and Reports
- Worked with multinational Pharmaceutical Company for FDA Response
- Worked with multinational Pharmaceutical Company for resolving data Integrity Issues
- Worked for FRA (Forensic Risk Assessment) Projects for multinational Energy and climate Technology Company
- Worked with multiple clients and helped Forensic team in carrying out fraud investigations by analyzing structured and non-structured data
- Worked at Client place for most of the projects, thus getting better understanding of client’s business and the process followed
- Business Optimization and process optimization based on data gathered from the client
- Maintenance of SSIS packages for Data Integration
- Optimization of long running queries
- Developed Interactive Tableau Reports and dashboards for Ad Hoc Analysis
- Designed Power Pivot Dashboards for Ad hoc Reporting
- Awarded annual excellence team award for the work done in one of the projects
- Appreciated on numerous occasions on quick turnaround time on tasks assigned
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy, India
09.2011 - 12.2013
- Daily client interaction for the analysis of system database objects (SPs, Functions) and Reports
- Implemented SSIS packages for Data Integration
- Optimization of DWH load processes
- Configured and Deployed JOBs (T-SQL), SSIS packages
- Development of Existing reports from the newly constructed Data Warehouse
- Designed custom error handling and logging framework for DWH
- Involved in the User Acceptance Testing, Bug Fixing and support
- Development of SSAS Cubes from DWH for Analysis
- Awarded star of the quarter for quarter ending in Mar 2013 for the exceptional client service and delivering multiple high priority releases
- Wrote 3 modules which were used by our client for their daily reporting and were highly appreciated
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
SRM University
Chennai05.2011
Skills
- Tableau
- SQL
- PL-SQL
- PowerBI
- PowerPivot
- Python
- SQL Server
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Server
- SQL Assistant
- SSIS
- SSRS
- AlteryX
- PowerBI Desktop
- Agile methodology
- Consulting
- Requirements Gathering
- Data Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Management
- Quality Assurance
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Specialist Senior Manager
Deloitte Australia
07.2021 - Current
Data Analyst (Health Manager-2)
Cancer Institute -NSW
10.2020 - 07.2021
Associate Director
Ernst & Young Australia
04.2020 - 10.2020
Senior Analyst / Manager
Deloitte India & Australia
05.2015 - 04.2020
Associate Consultant
Ernst & Young, India
12.2013 - 04.2015
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy, India
09.2011 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
SRM University
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