Ankita Shashidhar K
Westmead,NSW
Summary
Dedicated data management professional with a rich background in ensuring data integrity, accessibility, and security within organisations. Adept at developing and implementing robust data governance strategies to maintain compliance and accountability. Experienced in data quality assurance, utilizing data profiling and cleansing techniques to enhance accuracy.
Committed to transparent communication and collaboration fostering cross-functional teamwork and data-driven outcomes. Dedicated to elevating data as a strategic asset, consistently delivering actionable results that drive business success.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Specialist – Data & Analytics
Ashurst
03.2024 - Current
- Designing, implementing and embedding data governance frameworks to demonstrate compliance to data management obligations and the adequate management of data risk
- Developed and implemented data governance policies and standards to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.
- Working with clients to understand their business and data from the bottom up to drive data driven regulatory responses in relation to compliance breaches and remediation activities
Senior Data Management Analyst
Citibank - Citicorp Services India Private Limited
05.2021 - 09.2023
- As a Data Steward established effective collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Enterprise Chief Data Office, Data Owners, Data Risk & Control and Metadata teams of US Personal Banking Analytics to ensure smooth flow of operations.
- Facilitated data quality monitoring activities such as profiling, rule development, Testing & Production implementation for various regulatory reports.
- Used SAS Studio to perform data profiling and assessment to gain insights into quality of data, to identify issues like missing values, inconsistencies, duplicates, and outliers.
- Developed comprehensive data quality rules and standards, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across all organizational databases and systems.
- Conducted rigorous testing of data quality rules, utilizing SAS Studio and Teradata SQL queries to achieve a 98% success rate in data validation and cleansing.
- Implemented corrective actions to bring red metrics into compliance, resulting in 30% improvement in data accuracy and adherence to regulatory standards.
- Established clear and structured data operating model utilizing chevrons in data governance, visually representing hierarchical data management levels and responsibilities for streamlined data governance.
- Mapped and registered chevron rules to Collibra platform, leveraging platform's features to manage, enforce, and monitor data governance rules, resulting in more streamlined and efficient data governance process.
- Coordinated establishment of scorecards incorporating Data Quality metrics for Critical Data Elements (CDEs) featured in regulatory reports across various Lines of Business (LOBs).
- Led design and implementation of efficient data governance system in Python, resulting in 90% reduction in data searching time across 84 Excel files.
Business Analyst
Genpact (Citibank As Client)
07.2019 - 04.2021
- Managed complete data certification process, encompassing development of data dictionaries, data lineage, data profiling, data quality rules, and validation of results for critical data elements.
- Introduced and recommended a fresh document format for diverse business materials, including quality metrics, issue logs, change control registers, and user manuals across products this enhancement facilitated more precise credit risk assessment of product portfolio for clients.
- Oversaw data quality assessments, promptly reporting anomalies, and collaborating with development teams to achieve resolutions.
- Developed detailed process flow diagrams, data lineage documentation, and user stories to comprehensively capture system requirements, facilitating design and implementation of effective data governance solutions.
- Played key role in optimizing existing SAS code, resulting in significant cost savings and notable reduction in time spent on related activities.
- Reviewed existing policies and procedures against industry standards for compliance purposes.
- Developed reports using SQL queries and SAS studio to track progress against key performance indicators.
Summer Intern
VMware
04.2018 - 06.2018
- Integral part of Business Intelligence, Sales, and Analytics team, involving hands-on learning of tools like SAP WEBi and Tableau for enhanced data analysis and visualization
- Transformed sales and product distribution data into actionable insights by leveraging predictive analytics, resulting in detailed sales trend analysis and accurate business forecasting
- Defined report requirements, collaborated with onsite leads, engaged with stakeholders, and effectively communicated goals and expectations to the team.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
09.2015 - 03.2017
- Proficient in writing USQL queries for Base Table Load and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) calculations, ensuring efficient data processing on Big Data platforms
- Executed data extraction processes for Management Information (MI) reports and Delta Feeds within Big Data Ecosystem, utilizing tools such as Pig and Hive for data extraction and transformation
- Contributed to ingestion process by creating dynamic mappings in Informatica Big Data Management, enhancing data integration and streamlining workflows.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Analytics and Marketing
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
04.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
JSS Academy Of Technical Education
04.2015
Skills
- Data Governance
- Data Analysis
- Data Quality
- Issue Management
- Metadata Management
- Alteryx
Certification
- Python for Everybody Specialization (Coursera)
- Collibra Data Steward
- Genpact Lean Green belt: Trained and tested
- Data Governance and SQL (LinkedIn learning)
Timeline
Specialist – Data & Analytics
Ashurst
03.2024 - Current
Senior Data Management Analyst
Citibank - Citicorp Services India Private Limited
05.2021 - 09.2023
Business Analyst
Genpact (Citibank As Client)
07.2019 - 04.2021
Summer Intern
VMware
04.2018 - 06.2018
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
09.2015 - 03.2017
Master of Business Administration - Analytics and Marketing
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
JSS Academy Of Technical Education
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