Pranav Gaitonde

• An investment and data analyst with 5+ years of experience in performance reporting, benchmarking, data collection and quality control processes together with stakeholder management. 
• Experience in producing 300+ performance monitoring reports for various UK based pension fund managers with assets worth USD 1.5 billion. 
• Spearheaded two system migration activities that significantly enhanced efficiency and quality of outputs produced that reduced the manual effort by 40%. 
• Highly skilled in Problem Solving, Research, Leadership and Client communication. 
• Master’s degree in Finance with language proficiency in English (IELTS Band Score 8.5/9), Hindi and Marathi. 

Mercer – Marsh McLennan Companies., India                                                      August 2020 – July 2023 

Lead Specialist, Investments                                                                               April 2023 – July 2023 

• Managed workflow for smooth delivery of 120+ performance monitoring reports for clients per quarter with 98% accuracy and within the prescribed timelines. 
• Managed stakeholder expectations with effective communication together with providing guidance and directing workload activities to ensure timescales and requirements are met. 
• Managed an intra department integration project between teams involving cross training and collaboration that pushed efforts on the business continuity front. 

Assistant Manager, Investments                                                                   August 2020 - April 2023 

• Developed performance monitoring reports, excel models and flash sheets including structured discussion on performance results of fund managers. 
• Developed recommendations to hold/liquidate investment managers basis through research on manager performance and market developments. 
• Led a systemic migration for the generation of performance reports that led to an increase in efficiency by reducing manual effort by 40% and in turn led to an improvement in quality of reports. 

MSCI Inc., India                                                                                                     August 2017 – August 2020 

Associate - Data Operations - Real Estate Data                                                    January 2020 - August 2020 

• Managed an entire process from data collection, calculating performances, data quality analysis to releasing an index and providing standard as well as custom benchmark reports to clients across multiple European regions. 
• Managed a data migration project including providing business requirements, testing and training internal as well as external stakeholders that resulted in a significant increase in process efficiency that reduced manual effort by 35% and reduced the data processing time by 60%.

Analyst - Data Operations - Real Estate                                                                 August 2017 - January 2020 

• Created performance analysis reports and custom analysis for global real estate managers and asset owners. 
• Held responsibility for client communication and helped resolve their queries.
• Communicated with clients to understand their requirements and creating standard or custom analytical reports based on client need
• Led the onboarding of a new client with multiple funds that resulted in a revenue of over USD 5.0 million for the business

Masters In Management Studies (Finance)                                                                     August 2015 – June 2017                                                                                                                                                           

MET's Institute of Management (Mumbai University), Mumbai, India 

Assessed as equivalent to a Master’s degree in Canada by WES 

Bachelors in Engineering (Information Technology)                                           August 2010 - June 2014                                                                                                                                              

Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology (Mumbai University), Navi Mumbai, India 

Assessed as equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Canada by WES