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This document contains the academic and professional profile of Shashank Sinha, an incoming associate at Boston Consulting Group. It summarizes his educational qualifications including graduating from IIT Kharagpur with an 8.34 CGPA, internship experiences at Nomura Holdings and Leap Finance, positions of responsibility as the Student Placement Coordinator at IIT Kharagpur and Technology Coordinator of his hall of residence, research work at the Indian School of Business including developing machine learning tools, and involvement in extracurricular activities like competitions and social work.

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Shashank Resume

This document contains the academic and professional profile of Shashank Sinha, an incoming associate at Boston Consulting Group. It summarizes his educational qualifications including graduating from IIT Kharagpur with an 8.34 CGPA, internship experiences at Nomura Holdings and Leap Finance, positions of responsibility as the Student Placement Coordinator at IIT Kharagpur and Technology Coordinator of his hall of residence, research work at the Indian School of Business including developing machine learning tools, and involvement in extracurricular activities like competitions and social work.

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Shashank Sinha | 17IM30019

Incoming Associate at Boston Consulting Group

ACADEMIC PROFILE
Year Institution Degree/Examination Percentage/CGPA
2022 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Industrial Engineering (Dual Degree) 8.34/10.00
2016 Narayana Junior College TSBIE (XII) 95.5%
2014 Holy Cross School AISSE (X) 10.00/10.00
INTERNSHIPS
Nomura Holdings, Mumbai | Global Wholesale Strategy May ’21 – Jul ’21
Worked with the corporate strategy team on multiple live projects; received a Pre-Placement Offer from the firm
• Analyzed cross sell and synergies across divisions at Investment Banks and benchmarked strategies of 12 major Investment Banks
• Suggested recommendations to realize synergies across divisions to achieve Nomura’s cross sell ambitions, leveraging current capabilities
• Authored the weekly Asia Investment Banking newsletter; covered Morgan Stanley’s conference to track peers’ Q2 earnings expectations
• Created Nomura’s Investment Banking and Global Markets fee pools data pack for Q2 2021 results to be presented at the Investor Day
Leap Finance, Bengaluru | Product Management Mar ’21 – May ’21
Worked under VP (Product) to reduce the no. of leads not showing up for counselling sessions and enhance revenues from VISA formalities
• Audited all communication channels, consolidated and designed communications campaigns to cater to the missing target audience
• Introduced tracking of campaigns efficacy by shifting all the communications to Web Engage by collaborating with channel owners
• Reduced the No Show Rate by 5%; led a team of 5 sales interns to convert 250+ leads (90% of the target) already holding an admit
HDFC Securities, Mumbai | Digital Strategy and Analytics Dec ’19 – Jan ’20
Worked with the Strategy team to figure out possible use cases of Artificial Intelligence to gauge the needs of various customer cohorts
• Conducted a comparative analysis of the price structures of brokerage firms that offer global investing opportunities to their clients
• Recommended methodologies to realize revenue potential by evaluating the firm's asset pricing model and making revenue projections
• Identified customer segments for the firm to devise specific targeting strategies and formulated 8 potential cases to deploy big data

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Career Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur | Student Placement Coordinator Jul ’20 – Mar ’21
• Entrusted with facilitating placements and internships of 3,000+ students; 1 among 13 to be selected by a panel of Deans
• Designed end-to-end operating procedures for the first ever e-campus recruitment drive, amidst a Global Pandemic
Team work
• Achieved 1,000+ job offers in 8 days (fastest across all IITs); placed over 1,300 students and attained 600+ internship offers
• Convinced 250+ firms to include additional departments and attained 107 open to all profiles such as Google, PayPal etc.
Initiatives • Converted 7 first time recruiters (with 2 International profiles); contributed 85 out of 750+ profiles (second in the team)
Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur | Associate Member Mar ’18 – Nov ’18
Leadership • Spearheaded Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive Ranchi 2018, attracting 1,900 participants with a 2.5X yoy increase
Sponsorship • Led a team of 14 campus ambassadors; garnered sponsorship worth INR 50K and media associations with over 15 articles
Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur | Technology Coordinator Aug ’19 – Apr ’20
• Elected by an electorate of 1,900+ students to chair the position and manage a team of 20+ secretaries and associates
Leadership
• Disbursed budget of INR 2.75 lacs; secured 6 medals in Open IIT; Silver in Ad Design, General Championship 2019-20

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION


Indian School of Business, Hyderabad | Centre for Analytical Finance May ’19 – Aug ’19
Contributed to the research paper titled "Financial Inclusion for The Poor: Do Technological Failures Deter Financial Inclusion"
• Developed an ML tool with an accuracy of 0.89 in collaboration with analysts from Goldman Sachs to monitor a customer's behaviour
• Conceptualized and implemented a fraud detection tool; both the ML and fraud detection tools are in use by a micro-finance institution
• Implemented and back tested Pitroski F-Score and Pairs Trading strategies in Indian Markets, achieving a CAGR of 24.56% and 16.37%
• Completed a study on Valuation (Weighted Average Cost of Capital and APV) on business cases of HBS and INSEAD with certification
• Adjudicated as the best intern (in a batch of 20) and received a letter of recommendation from Prof. Prasanna Tantri (Director, CAF)
7th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, IIM Bangalore Aug ’19 – Jan ’20
Presented the work titled “Risk Assessment Methodologies in Air Cargo Logistics” under the guidance of Prof. MK Tiwari (Director NITIE)
• Tracked events from a forwarding company's cargo system for 5 months with 3,942 business process instances and 7,932 transport legs
• Examined the forwarding company's shipment's delay distribution and established its relationship with the number of incoming legs
• Improved forecast accuracy by over 8% by the development of an ML tool aimed at classifying and forecasting the shipment delay
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Gold in World Quant Global Challenge with a rank of 279 out of more than 20,000 participants by formulating 100+ alphas
Competitions • Finalist (Top 6) at Hult Prize, IIT Kharagpur from amongst 200+ participants from campus hosted by Clinton Foundation
• Bagged Gold in case study with 50+ participants in Samudramanthan (Departmental fest of ocean and naval architecture)
• Raised INR 3 lacs in 12 days during Yogdaan (annual donation drive) as an associate of Gopali Youth Welfare Society
Social
• Personally mentored 5 freshmen students on campus under the purview of Dean of Student Affairs, IIT Kharagpur
• Engaged in stock market investing for the past 2 years with a diversified portfolio consisting of FMCGs and Paint companies
Finance
• Certified Bloomberg Professional in financial markets (Market Concepts); Financial Risk Manager (Level- 1 Candidate)
AA 401, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur | [email protected] | +91-8637559072

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