Anukriti Yadav

Business analytics consultant with 7+ years of experience leading data-driven initiatives and translating complex data into executive-ready insights and standardized reporting for strategic decision-making. Strong hands-on SQL, Alteryx, and Power BI/Tableau experience building automated datasets, dashboards, and KPI frameworks that improve business effectiveness and reporting consistency. Skilled in driving change through data governance initiatives, designing automated workflows and scalable reporting solutions that reduce manual effort, enhance data quality, and enable faster decision-making.

Effective communicator and team player experienced in stakeholder management, leading enablement sessions, and presenting insights to senior executives to influence strategic decisions. Quick learner with a strong aptitude for mastering new analytics techniques and technologies, and a keen interest in marketing analytics and digital measurement platforms (including Adobe Analytics/Google Analytics).

Data Consultant, Infrastructure Business Services - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Toronto, Canada

(2022-09)

• Designed and implementation a centralized analytics framework, analyzing and transforming cloud cost/usage across 15+ business units, standardizing metric definitions to improve data quality and comparability.
• Architected and automated executive-ready reporting solution through Alteryx & Power BI KPI dashboards and workflows, tracking cloud usage and spend, resource utilization; identified cost-saving opportunities, reduced manual reporting by 70% and improved transparency for strategic decision-making.
• Led quarterly business reviews with senior leadership, presenting infrastructure performance trends, cost optimization opportunities, and strategic recommendations that influence technology investment priorities.
• Initiated and led an Azure Reserved Instance recommendation process (Alteryx + Power BI) delivering $1M+ annualized savings, with comprehensive tracking for utilization, expirations, and realized impact; presented business case to senior leadership and secured approval for enterprise-wide implementation.
• Designed an automated billing validation workflows that identified $500K+ in billing discrepancies and supported decommissioning analysis for 200+ legacy infrastructure assets, reducing waste and improving data accuracy.
• Developed predictive analytics models to forecast infrastructure spend trends, supporting annual budgeting cycles and multi-year financial planning with 90%+ accuracy to address business challenges and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Conducted deep-dive analyses on cloud resource rightsizing opportunities, identifying underutilized resources and recommending optimization strategies that improved resource efficiency by 25%.
• Established governance for reporting access and data assets (Tableau/SQL permissions, standards, audit documentation), improving control, compliance and reliability of self-serve analytics.
• Improved cost attribution logic and tagging accuracy to enable consistent segmentation and drill-down analysis across portfolios/lines of business; improved cost visibility and accountability for 25+ application teams.
• Designed and facilitated stakeholder enablement sessions on dashboard interpretation, KPI usage, and analytics best practices to support data-driven decisions; trained 50+ stakeholders across multiple business units, resulting in 60% reduction in ad-hoc reporting requests.

Data Consultant, GRCS Data & Analytics - KPMG - Toronto, Canada

(2022-01 - 2022-09)

• Built and maintained Alteryx ETL pipelines to extract, cleanse, and integrate supplier invoice data; created analysis-ready datasets for reporting and ad-hoc investigations; developed interactive Tableau dashboards to track spend trends, exceptions, and anomalies, enabling stakeholders to monitor performance and investigate drivers.
• Automated recurring reporting workflows (Blue Prism + Excel macros), saving 20+ hours/week while improving consistency, timeliness, and auditability of outputs.
• Supported RFPs and proposals by translating findings into clear client-ready narratives, and supporting materials.

Business Insights & Analytics Co-op, Personal Banking Data & Analytics - TD Bank - Toronto, Canada

(2021-05 - 2021-08)

• Built a unified analytics dataset from multi-source branch data using SQL + Alteryx; defined and operationalized KPIs to measure appointment productivity and client experience outcomes.
• Developed interactive Tableau dashboards for senior management, surfacing performance drivers, outliers, and operational bottlenecks to inform action planning.
• Performed segmentation analysis (e.g., by region/branch cohort/time period) to compare performance and support targeted, evidence-based recommendations.

Data Scientist and Project Manager - Aero Montreal - Montreal, Canada

(2020-09 - 2021-04)

• Designed a custom user-defined weighted CRM search engine using Elastic Search and PHP to accelerate contractor-supplier match, resulting in saving 4 man-hours/day (equivalent to C$ 70k per annum).
• Developed a SQL data pipeline to include additional supplier search options for business users.
• Presented project insights, technical approach, and business impact to both clients and academic supervisors, highlighting the value of custom search engine and data pipeline in improving supplier matching efficiency.

Associate Consultant, Data and Business Analytics Department - Sapiens Technologies - Bangalore, India

(2018-06 - 2020-05)

• Led a client-facing team to gather and analysed business requirements, aligning them with a standardized insurance data model; delivered national regulatory reports, BI dashboards, and business KPIs.
• Developed data warehouse and DataMart models to support scalable, automated reporting solutions.
• Negotiated Statements of Work (SoW) for the Business Intelligence development team, ensuring clear scope, deliverables, and resource alignment.

Master of Management in Analytics - Analytics - McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management (2020-08 - 2021-12)

Master of Business Administration - Technology Management - NMIMS University (2016-07 - 2018-05)

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering - NMIMS University (2013-07 - 2016-05)