Balaji N

About Balaji N

Leader of Analytics CoE India across all service lines

Experience

1. Partner (March 2013 Present) Director (2008 2013)

   EY

   Jun 1998 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Successfully built o The Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE) for client delivery across all Service lines in EY. This involves solution development and embedding analytics into the solution offerings of EY to bring in efficiencies into delivery. Built the analytics practice with strong capabilities and credentials at all stages of analytics maturity model and a very strong leadership bench.o Analytics practice for the Global Delivery Center for EY, with a growth of more than 100% YoY. This involved building a strong People, Process and Technology Framework for Global Delivery. Also involved in new solution development and sales support for theon-shore teams.• Responsible for a Book of Business for key solutions in the area of Data Management, Social Media Analytics, Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence solutions.• Led several large projects within India and overseas and managed a team close to 150 across different offices in India.• Achieved a growth of more than 100% for GDC and attained the distinction of being one of the highest Gross Margin businesses, which was achieved through effective amalgamation of better leverage, higher utilization, technology enablement and quality delivery.• Played a pivotal role to build the largest analytics team • Developed an efficient people model including the Competency model, Career progression and Measurement criteria with one of the lowest attrition rates in the industry. • Structure the organizational vision to implement strategic growth initiatives for Analytics Practice with the goal to achieve the objectives set by the management.• Analyze market trends and customer requisitions to prepare the roadmap for achieving growth within the market across service lines.• Coordinate with the internal teams to develop and launch new products and solutions to en-cash on the untapped opportunities available in the market.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom

  1988 — 1991

• The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

  ACS

  1991 — 1994

• The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Sikkim

  CTM

  2006 — 2007

• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

  CIMA

  1994 — 1997

• Information System Audit and Control Association

  CISA

  2007 — 2007

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Business Analytics & Intelligence

  2012 — 2013

• Institute of Cost Accountants of India

  ACWAI

  1988 — 1991