Operations Support Data and Financial Analyst Resume Santa Clara, CA - Hire IT People

EDUCATION MS Applied Mathematics Eng.
(Major: Mathematical Finance)

BE Computer Engineering

EXPERIENCE

Operations Support Data and Financial Analyst Intern, Confidential, Santa Clara, CA
June 2012 – Present

Reporting to Manager Controller, Financial Operations; Responsible for creating first automated financial model to forecast revenue and gross margin using linear regression. The model was approved and first applied to Q1 FY’13 forecasting
Commendably performed financial benchmarking to assess company’s overall competitiveness and productivity in terms of inventory turnover per quarter, and proposed laudable solutions to increase the turnovers

Reporting to the Director, Materials and Forecasting; Responsible for analyzing quarterly cost savings for FY’13 based on discount proposals from company partners to estimate gross margins and profitability
Presented various scenarios to help reduce cost to meet company targets

Reporting to Senior Manager, Corporate Purchasing; Responsible for efficiently maintained global real estate database (contracts, leases)
Managed global travel and credit card information database
Effectively updated company’s legal database for all the contracts/leases
Timely and thoroughly completed spend analysis to help analyze company’s expenditure (Oracle Business Intelligence (ERP) and MS Excel)

Worked with Sr. Product Marketing Manager to analyze and plan market strategy to improve global sales

Accounting Intern, Confidential, San Jose, CA
December 2011 – May 2012

Research Assistant, Confidential, SEECS
January 2011 - May 2011

Led the team on a “Robot Soccer Project” using OpenCV library in C++
Proposed solutions to challenges faced using Digital Image Processing, Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

President, Official Sports and Adventure Society (SAS) ofConfidential, NUST
July 2009 - September 2010

Volunteer, successful campaign for rehabilitation of people
October 2008 – January 2009

Worked at Rawalpindi General Hospital with hospital staff to help the effectives

PROJECTS

Successfully completed a project titled performing extensive research on the history, performance, financial trend and business plans of the company and the entire retail segment
Analyzed financial statements of past and recent quarters to derive common size, solvency and liquidity ratios. Analysis of long-term debts, cash flows, returns on equity, value additions and other financial aspects of the company were performed to determine the company’s stock potential and solvency position
Research data was collected using resources such as SEC filings, recent conference calls, Wall Street analysis and corporate financial reports

ASR is a special form of speech processing where a spoken speech is compared with recorded translate for achieving a match. Hidden Markov’s model is used for decision making based on probability computations.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

RELEVANT COURSEWORK/TRAINING

Time Series Analysis: Forecasting; Statistical Background for Forecasting; Regression Analysis and Forecasting; Exponential Smoothing Methods; Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Models; Tool: R andMinitab.
Statistical Methods: Probability distributions and Random Variables; Sampling distributions; Interval estimations; Hypothesis Testing; Linear and Multiple Regressions; Test of Goodness of fit; Tool: Excel.
Financial Accounting: Journal Entries; Analyzing financial statements etc.;
Microeconomics for Business Decisions: Profit maximization and Marginal Analysis; Demand Elasticity; Cost and Production; Market Structures; Estimation and Regression Analysis; Tool: Excel (Regression Analysis)
Project Management and Planning: Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt Charts etc.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner of Two Gold medals- Best Sportsman and President SAS
Participated in All Pakistan Inter University Software Competition,
Finalist of ‘Math Enigma’ competition (leading a team of 3)
Vice-Captain of Santa Clara SharkX Cricket team in Northern California Cricket Association(NCCA) tournament