Nisha Churi

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jul 2006 - Sept 2008

  Six Sigma Deployment Leader; Assistant System Engineer

  • Managed and trained a team of data warehouse developers, responsible for contributing to critical business decisions.• Coordinated requirements and critical deadlines with teams located internationally and remotely.• Concurrently led Lean Six Sigma training and promoted its department-wide deployment.• Increased profit by identifying a problem and executing a project which reduced the time to analyze the GE Commercial Finance data of about 1000 users by 50%.• Proposed and implemented innovative data analysis techniques by automation of the process which reduced the errors by 36%, ensured 100% service level agreement compliance, and concurrently reduced the analysis costs by 45%.• Initiated and established a mentoring program for the new hires and conducted training sessions which resulted in shorter learning curves of employees and a 10% reduction in the costs.• Nominated for the ‘On the Spot Excellence’ award from 600 employees for conducting a corporate-wide ‘Six Sigma and Lean’ workshop for TCS Corporate employees that achieved participants’ satisfaction index of 99 percentile.• Completed Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt Certification.Facilitated and organized events such as Six Sigma awareness sessions.• For Six Sigma Black Belt Project, completed a project to reduce the efforts of users in analyzing the status of the data loading process.• For Six Sigma Green Belt Project, carried out a project individually to reduce the efforts and time and also to reduce the number of missing SLAs (Service Level Agreement).• Increased the percentage of Six Sigma and Lean training and certifications from 47% to more than 95% within a span of 3 months. Show less

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  Carestream

  Jun 2009 - Nov 2009

  Finance and Business Development Summer Intern

  • Involved in the Annual Operation Plan for 2010 with the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for the financial budget.• Analyzed 10 to 12 interconnected systems for maintenance and reporting purposes. The reports were used by higher management to take decisions to improve sales and reduce costs. The work involved analyzing these systems and finding a way to generate reports efficiently. Reduced the costs and manual hours involved in the company’s worldwide service system reporting by about 60% through automation using excel macro. Show less

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  GE

  Dec 2009 - Jan 2010

  Intern, Treasury Controllership

  • Member of a team responsible for the accounting and analysis of the debt and derivatives portfolio of General Electric.• Worked closely with the Treasury Operational Controller to support the team during year-end close, including the filing of the GE 10K.• Helped the Operational controller improve controllership around the key aspects of reporting and analytics.• Proposed and implemented a process to handle Manual Journal entries and Prior Period Entries to reduce the load during the quarter-end close. Show less

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  General Electric Capital

  Jun 2010 - Sept 2010

  Intern Treasury - America Pole

  • Provided Pricing and Valuation support to Treasury Center of Excellence (COE) and different GE Businesses.• Involved with the Specialized Pricing Team for providing interest rate and Foreign Exchange analysis; Pricing of Indicative cost of funds for new business deals and Matched funding; Indicative as well as actual pricing for derivatives; Development and improvement of existing models for pricing.• Created a model that makes use of the money costs and data from the Bloomberg Terminal and calculates the Equity Hedge Cost for the foreign currency of the Emerging Markets.• Identified cross-currency swap value drivers by looking at the actual exchanges and rates in the trade confirm; analyzed the impact of the swaps on P&L; worked on a high-level model that could predict where the value of the swap goes. Show less

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  Ford

  May 2011 - Apr 2013

  Financial Analyst

  • Presented Global and Asia Pacific Africa (APA) CFOs and controllers with Forecast and Annual Budget performance; Financial Planning, Variance Analysis, and Monthly Forecasting.• Established a 5-year Strategic Business Plan and Annual Budget for the entire APA region by working with 14 finance teams; work closely with Global Controllers to roll out best practices in APA.• Developed financial models to align 14 APA countries (such as China, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand, etc.) to Global Common Inventory Forecast and Global Budget process; trained the individual country’s inventory analysts on the global analysis process by building key relationships with them.• Assisted senior management to find opportunities to reduce the cash held in the inventory in the APA region and globally by coordinating with business teams in North America, Europe, and South America.• Supported monthly APA Inventory Meeting with six markets to get the teams focused on production inventory roadmaps• Executed three Kaizen to align all the 14 markets for Global Common Inventory Forecast and Budget process; trained the individual markets’ inventory analysts to follow the global analysis process Show less

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  Citi

  May 2013 - Jun 2014

  Assistant Manager

  • Awarded “Team of the Quarter” for Scorecards project which would track the performance of top executives across Citi based on five categories namely: Capital, Clients, Costs, Culture, and Controls.• Worked with Taiwan FP&A Head to prepare monthly outlook, and flash expense projections and annual financial plan, including variance analysis to explain changes against given baselines (CCAR).• Presented key financial metrics, business drivers, future trends, and quantitative analysis, for the different business units and financial products, to facilitate executive-level decision making. Show less

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  Deutsche Bank

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2016

  Senior Analyst

  • Prepared and presented the business head a weekly dashboard comprising of revenues, costs, balance sheets, and financial performance metrics.• Received appreciation for designing monthly cost packs which gave business managers granular level details on vendors and nature of payment, which in turn made cost forecast and budget accurate.• Proposed and implemented a spreadsheet model for annual cost planning.• Performed monthly reports for costs flash, actual, and forecast, along with the month-over-month, year-over-year, and vs. Plan variance analysis and commentary. Show less

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  BeyondConsultant

  Jul 2018 - now

  Co-Founder

  • Efficiently handling Strategy, Sales, and Marketing for study abroad and job progression consultancy• Consulted over 300 clients for job search and study in India and foreign countries including but not limited to the United States, Canada, Europe, UK, and Australia• Designed and delivered MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Presentation Skills, and Data Analysis Training (of total 16 hours) for about 35 employees of Udaan, Bangalore