Jidnyasa Kolhe
Analyst
Work Preference
Summary
With a deep-rooted passion for pattern recognition and quantitative reasoning, I excel at navigating large, complex data sets and turning analysis into actionable strategies. I aim to apply my data expertise to support sustainable growth and informed decision-making.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Analyst (BI & Strategy)
The Paper Store
04.2024 - Current
- Subject matter expert for BI Reporting, Sales Strategy, Budget & Forecasting.
- Collaborated with department heads, executives, and stakeholders to translate complex business problems into scalable Power BI solutions, enabling data-driven decision-making across Sales, Finance, and Operations.
- Designed and developed automated Power BI dashboards and interactive visualizations for Sales, Inventory, and Store Profitability, reducing manual reporting effort by 80% and enabling near real-time business performance tracking.
- Owned and delivered monthly, quarterly, and annual operational reporting packages for senior leadership, including performance dashboards and key business KPIs.
- Established and supported Power BI governance processes including workspace management, data access controls, and standardization of KPI definitions to ensure data integrity and controlled reporting usage.
- Leveraged Power BI automation workflows, along with emerging Microsoft ecosystem tools such as Microsoft Fabric and Power BI Copilot, to streamline data processing, enhance report generation efficiency, and enable faster, AI-assisted insights for business stakeholders.
- Supported budgeting and forecasting processes by analyzing historical trends and business drivers, improving forecast reliability and enabling more effective resource planning and decision-making.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams on reporting needs and forecast alignment, leveraging advanced SQL across Snowflake and Azure Data for data extraction, transformation, and ad-hoc analysis to support Sales and Finance insights.
- Retail
Data Analyst
Inmar Intelligence
10.2021 - 01.2024
- Managed a significant client deliverable and effectively socialized it with leadership and key stakeholders, resulting in a 20% improvement in project profitability, achieving company-wide strategic goals for the client.
- Developed 25+ comprehensive data models utilizing R programming to access campaign efficacy and ROI/ROAS from detailed transactional data aggregation methods to campaign design of experiments, offering invaluable insights to Retailers and Stakeholders.
- Leveraged advanced analytics tools and APIs to collect and process large volumes of social media data, ensuring accurate and timely acquisition of crucial metrics.
- Created more than 40 reports based on the analysis of trends and KPIs for management stakeholders.
- Facilitated management and sales stakeholders by running complex SQL queries on ad hoc basis.
- Analyzed forecasted performance over time and implemented model adjustments and refreshes using Python when necessary.
- Assisted in migrating, updating and creating content and reports on new web analytics platform.
- Kroger, Dollar General (DG)
Category Analytics
Inmar Intelligence
- Researched and analyzed overall website performance and consumer behavior using Google Analytics resulting in consumer insights never seen before and boosted the company's overall performance by +20%.
- Collaborated with internal stakeholders to provide ad-hoc reports in Tableau with Excel and SQL and presented insights into visitor behavior, ultimately to drive improvement.
- Provided insight on seasonal and non-seasonal product promotions and placing in more than 2000+ Dollar General stores.
- Responsible for benchmarking and reporting of all programs and workings to help establish goals and strategies for future paid searches or other online marketing growth.
- Predicted the future value using Time Series forecasting and regression algorithms based on historical data using python.
- Walmart, Midwest Dairy, Colgate - Palmolive
Education
Master - Computer Science and Data Analytics
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
05.2021
Bachelor - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
06.2019
Diploma - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
05.2016
Skills
- Data Analysis
- Data Modeling
- Data Governance
- Visualization and Insights
- Pattern & Trend Identification
- Machine Learning
- MS SQL
- MySQL
- ER Modelling
- Snowflake
- DBT
- Circana(IRI)
- Nielsen
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Qlik sense
- R
- Python
- Google Analytics
- Excel
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Oracle NetSuite
Personal Information
Title: Data Analyst
Timeline
Data Analyst (BI & Strategy)
The Paper Store
04.2024 - Current
Data Analyst
Inmar Intelligence
10.2021 - 01.2024
Category Analytics
Inmar Intelligence
Master - Computer Science and Data Analytics
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Bachelor - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Diploma - Computer Science
University of Mumbai