Ritika Mathur

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Aug 2013 - Jan 2017

  Optimized margins by controlling operational levers like AR interest, offshore leverage, T&E costs, professional services, etc.Partnered with Account Managers, Client Partners and Delivery Leads to track operational performance and impacts, and work cross-functionally to drive efficiency with the responsibility for reporting and forecastingCreated Monthly Financial Dashboards that consolidated various views and automated reports to present to the leadership teamReviewed and assessed the Segment’s financial performance against projections analyzing and highlighting the areas requiring improvement to the managementTracked cost and provided analysis and forecasting for a $120M annual revenue portfolio with an accuracy of ~98%Predicted Month-over-Month margins of the account with an accuracy of ±1%Monitored utilization for over 2300 employees in the portfolioInvolved in Project Management activities to guide Project Managers in project creation, resource loading, budgeting and maintaining the profitability of their projects Show less Worked in the field of application programming, application analysis, design of functions and programmingImplemented Change Requests from the client using the SDLC model - by understanding the requirements, gathering data, setting timelines, analyzing the impact, coding the program and testing the flowOptimized the code and database operations for batch processes to increase efficiency by 30%Designed IA documents, test cases, traceability matrices, effort estimation reports by identifying scenarios for each functional changeConsulted clients on designing Impact Analysis documents, traceability matrices, and estimation reportsWorked on defect and bug fixing of the code to ensure the correct functional flow of the application resolving maximum number of defects for the team Show less

  • Associate

    Aug 2014 - Jan 2017

  • Programmer Analyst

    Aug 2013 - Jul 2014
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  MSCI Inc.

  Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

  Financial Analyst

  Pioneered Client Profitability analysis by creating a QlikView dashboard which was leveraged to rationalize pricing strategy for new and existing clientsCreated an overall organizational Client Profitability dashboard for all Business Units used by the Finance Directors and CFOInitiated the Aggressive Price Increase program having a success rate of ~85% to change the pricing culture for Analytics. Closely involved in the Segment’s strategy, planning and forecasting processes

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  Cognizant

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2021

  Business Associate

  Create automated dashboards using Tableau on hiring updates and recruitment insights, leveraged to plan and strategize the hiring trend for the upcoming quarter and year, shared with the Leaders, BU Heads and Account Managers for APACKey stakeholder in managing the end to end tracking and weekly/monthly reports for the recruitment function across APACInvolved in Budgeting and Strategy for APAC Recruitment teamsMigrate all reports from Excel to Tableau by creating dashboards and storylines for more interactive and visually appealing viewsAble to work with focus, under pressure and on deadline oriented demands Show less

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  KLA

  Sept 2021 - now

  Providing Business Intelligence solutions to the Global Operations organization and designing BI products using Power BI to increase analytics reliability and enabling democratization of data.Led the Purchasing Control Tower project which connected data from multiple sources and provided users (Executive team, Site Heads, Material and Purchasing Managers, Buyers) a comprehensive dashboard in Power BI to track and gain insights for their KPIs, metrics and action items.Creating Data Products to ensure data is available from SAP into Snowflake at the lowest granularity.Managing Projects end-to-end and collaborating with various stakeholders from the Business and IT teams to drive towards Digital Transformation and aid in delivering large projects constrained by staffing and ramp.Improve current SDLC processes to increase efficiency and meet delivery deadlines and budget.Rebuild trust around existing analytics reports and dashboards for end-users in terms of providing the correct answers, data validations and self-service.Documenting effective BRDs to assist the IT teams in resolving issues and making enhancements. Show less

  • Sr Business Analyst

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Business Analyst

    Sept 2021 - Jun 2023