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Rima Arora

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Skilled Economics professional with more than 6 years experience in interpreting and analyzing complex data sets. Proficiency in statistical software, data mining, and modeling techniques contributes to robust decision-making processes. Demonstrated ability to streamline operations by identifying trends and improving data reporting efficiency. Known for effectively translating technical information to multiple stakeholders for increased understanding and strategic planning.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Support Analyst

Coles Supermarkets Pty Ltd
02.2024 - Current
  • Working as one of the key members in Accelerated Loss & Theft Prevention program via Smart Gate AI solutions to be implemented in over 300 stores across Australia
  • Management of vendors and stakeholders and providing them with the timely insights on the implementation activities of the project
  • Assisting project manager and leads for the creation of project plans and strategy to understand requirements and deliverables
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and providing required deliverables
  • Manage Daily and Delivery tracker for smooth delivery of the implementation of smart gates solutions upgrade
  • Managing, cleaning, analyzing and manipulating complex data sets using advanced excel functions for preparation of schedule of stores and hardware plans
  • Generating reports and dashboards that provide meaningful insights and visualizations to support business decisions and communicate it with vendors and concerned stakeholders
  • Conducting meetings with vendors to deliver project insights and communicating the requirements to the team and management.

Consultant

Office of Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India
09.2017 - 04.2022
  • Worked on complex timeseries and panel datasets using software such as advanced Excel, VBA, related to industry, manufacturing, agriculture, trade, finance attaining meaningful insights
  • Worked extensively on Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and National Accounts Statistics (NAS) data for drawing up tentative item basket and weighting diagram for index series,
  • Forecasting trends of inflation, and core inflation using regression analysis
  • Investigating international and national literature on business service price indices, designing methodologies & identifying price proxies
  • Monitoring key economic indicators data on monthly and annual basis, reviewing inputs for industrial policy and studying the relevance of parameters
  • Communicated insights/data driven reults with stakeholders and vendors on consistent basis
  • Reviewed wish list of countries such as Australia, UAE, Canada and UK engaged in bilateral trade agreements with India and reviewed provision of market accessibility under ongoing Trade negotiations
  • Analyzing Indian industry sectors for dissemination of information and maintaining sector specific database- Domestic production, exports, imports and potential export destinations, institutional framework etc
  • Analyzing country level data for evaluating India’s performances on basis of indicators of Global Competitiveness Index from World Economic Forum vis-à-vis other countries spanning world trade, FDI.

Research Analyst

Institute of Economic Growth
07.2016 - 08.2017
  • Extracting large sets of data available from primary and secondary resources and processing data cleaning, compilation and analysis using STATA, SPSS, advanced Excel and VBA
  • Performing relevant consistency checks using statistical techniques such as missing factors, skewness etc
  • Extraction and tracking of daily, weekly and monthly rainfall and temperature data from IMD sources and agriculture database
  • Comprehensive literature reviews, especially those related to agriculture and environment sector, preparation of questionnaires, presentations, proposals and reports to present information to concerned stakeholders
  • Conducted data analysis and manipulation exercises such as descriptive statistics, trend analysis, regression and correlations, graphical analysis, and computations of economic variables associated with the study and determination of the causal effect and magnitude of the focus variables.

Education

M.A. Economics -

Ambedkar University, Delhi
01.2015

B.A. (H) Economics -

SGTB Khalsa College, Delhi University
01.2013

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Advance Excel, VBA, Powerpoint, Outlook)
  • Experienced with SQL, STATA, SPSS, R
  • Data visualization tools-Tableau, Power BI
  • Data mining, cleaning, analysis and interpretation
  • Policy analysis, Research, administration
  • Documentation-Reports, presentations, proposals and briefs
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Activity Planning
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Attention to Detail
  • Vendor Relationship Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Office Management
  • Qualitative Research
  • Quantitative Research
  • Analytical mindset
  • Industry analysis
  • Econometric Analysis
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Market Analysis
  • Organizational Skills
  • Consumer trend analysis
  • Interpersonal Skills

Timeline

Support Analyst

Coles Supermarkets Pty Ltd
02.2024 - Current

Consultant

Office of Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India
09.2017 - 04.2022

Research Analyst

Institute of Economic Growth
07.2016 - 08.2017

M.A. Economics -

Ambedkar University, Delhi

B.A. (H) Economics -

SGTB Khalsa College, Delhi University

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