THARINDU WIJEWICKRAMA
Uppsala
Summary
Dynamic Financial Data Analyst | Business Consultant | Planning & Operations Executive with over 7 years of experience in multinational teams. Leveraging expertise in industrial management, mathematics, and statistics, I bring an innovative, sustainable, and results-oriented approach to business operations. Known for thriving in diverse, high-pressure environments and delivering exceptional results across cultures, I excel in collaboration and teamwork, consistently striving for excellence in agile settings.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate - Primary Insights
STAX INC. (USA Based Global Business Consultancy)
08.2022 - 08.2023
- Review surveys to ensure all aspects of the project scope and objectives are 100% covered
- Quality assurance through data consistency reviews and design custom data cleaning approaches to ensure 20% more accurate, unbiased and market-representative data
- Modify methodology & survey guide with efficient and effective techniques to gather information with special attention to future analysis and data visualizing phases while enabling 15% more insights
- Program online surveys while incorporating client edits and launch online surveys with multiple panel vendors with 100% success rate
- Conduct data analysis on the cleaned complete dataset using SPSS manual data cuts and syntaxes with 100% accuracy
- Collaborating with data visualizing team to enable data storytelling for client interim update & final deliverable, s, leading to a 30% increase in actionable insights implementation
- Volunteer for cross-functional team tasks to mitigate capacity constraints (e.g. Quality control, data visualization, secondary insights) to achieve 15% increase in cross-functional team efficiency
- Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity.
- Remained solutions-oriented in face of complex problems to assist management and overall business direction.
Executive - Planning & Operations - After Sales & Services
David Pieris Motor Company
04.2017 - 08.2022
- Prepare annual budgets factoring in the prevailing macro and micro environment factors
- Compiled and analyzed data to determine approaches to improve sales and performance
- Retrieved and processed data to generate actionable insights, supporting data-driven decision-making across all management levels and contributing to achieving a minimum of 15% annual profitability growth
- Conduct feasibility analysis on proposals to achieve success rate of 95% for all projects
- Analyze relationships between the potential, demand, orders, receivables and cost to provide insights for data driven decision making to tap in to 85% of market share
- Calculated, analyzed, and evaluated channel and staff performance for divisional performance reward programs, conducting cost-benefit analyses to achieve a 40% increase in staff satisfaction and reduce turnover to 2%
- Maintain, update and create new policy & procedure documents as per 5S techniques with 100% accuracy
- Assessing, documenting, updating and planning the divisional risk through Risk Appetite Statements, Risk
- Managed revenue models, process flows, operations support and customer engagement strategies
- Collaborated with upper management to implement continuous improvements and exceed team goals
- Maintained financial controls, planned business operations and control expenses while identifying and pursuing opportunities to grow business operations and boost profits
- Liaised with sales, marketing, and management teams to develop solutions and accomplish shared objectives
In-plant Trainee - Vehicle Sales & Marketing
David Pieris Motor Company
08.2016 - 04.2017
- Calculating market shares, developing customer profiles and conducting competitor analysis
- Gather, summarize and report on customer satisfaction to achieve more than 95% customer satisfaction
- Coordinating with the legal team for new dealer appointments and contract signing to expand dealership network by 15%
- Organizing new product launch events and conduct post-launch feedback collection to achieve 95% rectification rate
Education
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate - Data Analytics
GOOGLE
Coursera01.2022
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA
Sri Lanka10-2020
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management, Mathematics & Statistics
WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY
Sri Lanka08-2017
CIMA DIP - Management Accounting
CIMA
UK12-2013
Skills
- Management Accounting
- Data analytics
- Data Visualization
- Financial Analysis
- Project Appraisal
- Operations Management
- Time Series Analysis
- Survey Programming
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Access
- SPSS
- Power BI
- Matlab & Minitab
- SSADM
- C
- SQL (MySQL & SQL server)
- Java
- Performance monitoring
- Team leadership
- Project management
- Project coordination
- Schedule management
- Object Oriented Programming
- Presentation and Announcing
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Sinhala
Proficient
C2
Swedish
Intermediate
B1
References
- Prashanth Jayasekera, Manager, Strategy Planning, Stax Inc. USA
- Thusitha Molligoda, Director, Parts & Accessories Division, David Pieris Motor Company Ltd, Sri Lanka
Availability
Immediate
Visa
Valid Residence / Work Permit
Timeline
Senior Associate - Primary Insights
STAX INC. (USA Based Global Business Consultancy)
08.2022 - 08.2023
Executive - Planning & Operations - After Sales & Services
David Pieris Motor Company
04.2017 - 08.2022
In-plant Trainee - Vehicle Sales & Marketing
David Pieris Motor Company
08.2016 - 04.2017
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate - Data Analytics
GOOGLE
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Management, Mathematics & Statistics
WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY
CIMA DIP - Management Accounting
CIMA
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