Zarna Joshi

Zarna joshi

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Stratergy & Data Analytics | Business Intelligence | Visualization

  • Education

    • Jawaharlal nehru technological university

      2007 - 2011
      Bachelor's degree electrical and electronics engineering
    • Sp jain school of global management - dubai, mumbai, singapore & sydney

      2016 - 2017
      Post graduate program in big data and visual analytics, machine learning, tableau, hadoop, spark natural language processing
  • Experience

    • Deloitte

      Jul 2011 - Oct 2016

      • Communicate with clients around data requirements and understand the transaction flow and their recording in the client’s system for the business processes being analyzed.• Discuss with US engagement team to understand identified risks in the audit and the scope of testing with respect to analysis of client’s financial data to detect irregular patterns or potential frauds in client’s financial statements which might be of audit’s interest.• Participate in preliminary scoping discussions, Fraud brain storming discussions with the audit engagement teams to discuss and identify key areas of risks, design and propose the nature and timing of analytical procedures.• Lead consultant of a 15 member team, responsible for setting up expectations, accountable for the daily scheduling and prioritization of tasks, guiding and providing on-the-job training for the team members on various aspects of the engagement life cycle. The team is responsible for the application and execution of general ledger analytics that involves the application of sophisticated data analyses to areas with specific fraud risk to identify anomalies in the financial reporting and the associated risk of management override and quantify the associated potential impact in concert with the overall anti-fraud programs as listed in the “Statement on Auditing Standards No.99 (SAS 99): Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit”, analyze client’s financial data as per the guidelines laid down by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Show less - Data and Journal Entry Analytics: •Analyzing the client data and cleansing. Developing scripts in SAS/ACL to read some of the complex data extracts. •Key responsibilities included understanding scope and requirements, performing reconciliation of the Journal Entry data in SAS/ACL, Responsible for the application and execution of journal entry analytics on complete populations of journal entries in order to identify anomalies in support of the financial reporting and close process. Develop Compelling visualizations to bring out the insights.- Data Profiling and Substantive Testing: •Responsible for the evaluation of the fundamental characteristics of the organization's data through data profiling and to identify and develop an inventory of associated potential risks. •Performing analytics to confirm Operational and Maintenance expenses and Property Additions expenditures identified within the client’s general ledger and obtain random samples for testing. •Stratify the population into sub population and perform Loans receivables and Deposit testing and provide confirmations and potentital samples for further testing.- Facilitate training sessions on Deloitte proprietary products/tools and technologies to AERS India professionals, which help them get to speed and deliver engagements without any quality issues Show less

      • Senior Consultant - Audit Analytics

        Jul 2014 - Oct 2016
      • Consultant - Audit Analytics

        Jul 2011 - Jun 2014
    • Reliance industries limited

      Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
      Senior manager | data analytics & visualization

      • Work with and provide consultation to HR leaders on unique customized data related requirements and data analysis. • Pro-actively use data to research and identify business problems, collaborate with business partners to diagnose data supported root causes and potential actions that can shift numerical results• Support insights for HR-owned presentations, build compelling visualizations directed at solving strategic and operational problems faced by different functions of HR. • Spearheaded migration of static reporting into self-service and interactive dashboards using data visualization tools.• Key Projects includes – Predicting New Hire Attrition/Early Turnover, Recruiter Productivity, Learning Management System - NPS analysis, Claims and Reimbursement Analysis, User Adoption analysis of new HR products and services, Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis of Employee Engagement Survey.• Facilitate training on Big Data Analytics and Visualization to the new hires Show less

    • Jio platforms limited (jpl)

      Apr 2020 - now
      Senior manager | analytics translator with focus on people analytics

      Work in conjunction with data science specialists and translate analytical outcomes to understandable recommendations for business and management.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Risk analytics proficient - level i

      Deloitte india (offices of the us)
      Jan 2016
    • Consumer and industrial products industry - level i certified

      Deloitte india (offices of the us)
      Jul 2012
    • Financial services industry - level i certified

      Deloitte india (offices of the us)
      Jul 2012
    • Getting and cleaning data

      Coursera course certificates
      Jun 2016
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    • The data scientist’s toolbox

      Coursera course certificates
      Jun 2016
      View certificate certificate
    • Digital transformation

      Linkedin
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Reproducible research

      Coursera course certificates
      Apr 2018
    • R programming

      Coursera course certificates
      Feb 2017
      View certificate certificate
    • Critical thinking

      Linkedin
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Exploratory data analysis

      Coursera course certificates
      Apr 2017
    • Leadership essentials

      Harvard university
      Nov 2011
    • Tableau essential training

      Lynda.com
      Mar 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Tableau 10 for data scientists

      Lynda.com
      Mar 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Nlp with python for machine learning essential training

      Lynda.com
      Jul 2019
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Zarna Joshi
      Applause Award - Outstanding Value to Clients Deloitte Touche & LLP Nov 2015 Fannie Mae, Hartford Financial Corporations, Interactive Brokers Group
    • Awarded to Zarna Joshi
      Spot Awards - Exceptional Client Services Deloitte Touche & LLP Jan 2011 Received Spot awards each fiscal for performing exceptionally well on various engagements of Financial services Industry, Consumer & Industrial Products Industry. Significant clients being Fannie -Mae, Interactive Brokers Group, CNA financial , Hartford financial Groups, BBVA Compass Bancshares Inc. and E-Trade.