HIREN PATEL
Business Intelligence & Strategy
Abu Dhabi,AZ
Summary
Experienced Digital Transformation specialist working across teams and technologies to design and implement scalable business solutions and streamline processes. Experienced leader with a history of progressive responsibilities in Investment Management industry, and a unique skill set spanning management, data engineering, analysis and visualization, Financial Risk and Digital strategy
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Specialist
ABU DHABI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
05.2015 - Current
- Designed and implemented portfolio analytics architecture for Real Estate and Infrastructure portfolios worth > US $40bn
- Pioneered digital transformation of Analytics function that transformed existing business reporting to create efficiency and integration across teams .(e.g Cloud-based Power BI tool, enabling senior leadership to analyze portfolio using multi-dimensional capabilities and receive actionable insights)
- Built Business and Data Analytics team and implemented data driven decision making framework, saving processing time by 50% and staff costs by $1million
- Built HR attrition prevention model to retain and develop existing talent, thereby release the trapped value potential of individual employee
- Supported department leadership in creating and implementing strategy, adhoc theme based analytics.
- Revamped portfolio forecasting at scale through automation of excel models with proper data governance and validation in place, improving process efficiency by 80%
- Analyze portfolio and recommend allocation and investment strategy to senior leadership
- Fostered and managed key relationships with partners and asset managers globally
- Developed stress testing and scenario analysis using market data to create tools for Portfolio risk management and better investment decision making
- Designed a 2-year roadmap for automated valuation model, mimicking traditional inputs of external valuers to create an in-house view on portfolio valuation and implement active portfolio management
- Promoted to senior specialist (Head of Analytics) ahead of schedule
- Managed and mentored a team of 7 analysts
Manager
RBC INVESTOR SERVICES
Sydney, Australia
01.2011 - 05.2015
- Managed Global investment and risk performance attribution function, assessing fund performance against benchmarks for some of the largest institutional investment houses in Australia and globally across multi- asset classes
- Championed and delivered migration of reengineering effort of Investment performance function to Malaysia, resulting in >US $200m of cost saving
- Managed, coached, and trained a team on concepts of risk, investment analytics and business analytics
- Lead the project for Fixed Income Attribution system implementation, which can analyse all the fixed income classes based on yield curve to increase product offering to the existing client base
- Designed and implemented a new after-tax reporting that reduced reporting time by 50% with increased accuracy
- Received prestigious awards in recognition of service to clients and leadership skills for 2012, 2014
- Promoted twice in 4 years as one of the youngest Senior Analyst / Manager across peer group.
Performance Analyst
STATE STREET CORPORATION
Sydney, Australia
05.2007 - 12.2010
- Assessed Investment performance and risk-return analysis relative to industry or mandated benchmarks for pension fund investment houses
- Created Investment performance attribution analysis on monthly, quarterly basis across Equities, Fixed Income, Private Equity, and Infrastructure markets
- Automated manual process to reconcile and verify security level data issues like price verification and return reasonability, creating efficiency by 25% as all manual intervention was automated.
Education
Executive Master’s - digital Transformation & Innovation Leadership
IE Business School
01.2021 - 06.2022
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Predictive Modelling
University of Texas Austin
01.2020 - 12.2020
Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masters of Accounting - Accounting and Managerial Finance
Macquarie University
11.2008 - 12.2010
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Business and Finance
Saurashtra University
Skills
Power BI
Timeline
Executive Master’s - digital Transformation & Innovation Leadership
IE Business School
01.2021 - 06.2022
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Predictive Modelling
University of Texas Austin
01.2020 - 12.2020
Senior Specialist
ABU DHABI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
05.2015 - Current
Manager
RBC INVESTOR SERVICES
01.2011 - 05.2015
Masters of Accounting - Accounting and Managerial Finance
Macquarie University
11.2008 - 12.2010
Performance Analyst
STATE STREET CORPORATION
05.2007 - 12.2010
Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Business and Finance
Saurashtra University
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