Nishant Shah

Senior Consultant @EY

Bengaluru, IN

Leading end-to-end techno-functional delivery for Forecasting Engine Utility (FEU) — a global ML-based demand forecasting product integrated with Kinaxis, ACTPM, TPA, and Anaplan for Fortune 500 CPG clients. • Managed SIT, UAT, data validation, integration workflows, and release cycles across Europe & Asia markets, ensuring accurate baseline, promo, elasticity and total-forecast outputs. • Conducted complex data extractions and analysis using Python, SQL, PySpark, Azure Databricks, improving data quality, upstream issue resolution, and forecast interpretability. • Delivered Power BI analytical dashboards for FEU adoption, forecast KPIs (FA/FB), confidence levels, forecast-value-add, and product transitions. • Supported E2E design, BRDs, FDDs, SOPs, training decks, data/DP process flows, and stakeholder education for planners across global markets. • Coordinated 15 members cross-functional squads (Data Science, Data Engineering, DevOps, Product, Business, Market Teams) ensuring high-quality delivery. • Optimized FEU data pipeline using Ray, improving processing speed by 32% and reducing infrastructure cost by 15%. • Automated repetitive forecasting and validation tasks, saving 150+ analyst hours/month. • Improved forecast accuracy and reduced bias across markets, reducing supply chain delays by 45% and forecast error by 12%.

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Postgraduate Diploma, Data science and machine learning

Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering