Navneet Gandhi

McAfee is a global leader in cybersecurity, providing consumer and enterprise security solutions that protect devices, data, and identities from cyber threats. The company specializes in antivirus software, cloud security, and advanced threat intelligence, leveraging AI-driven protection to safeguard users against evolving cyber risks.

• Managed Enterprise Product Growth Analytics and Reporting team, responsible for building, supporting, and scaling enterprise data collection, data lake platforms, and analytics capabilities.
• Translated business requirements and one-pagers into technical specifications, designing data models to capture consumer telemetry and instrumentation data within McAfee’s Enterprise Data Lake using the AWS-Databricks platform.
• Partnered with business leaders to align product strategy with company goals and market opportunities, ensuring all product initiatives were data-driven, measurable, and strategically aligned.
• Mentored a team of product analysts to uncover key insights, transforming complex data findings into actionable business and product strategies.
• Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics for product initiatives, continuously measuring impact and optimizing product offerings to meet user needs and business objectives.
• Worked closely with technical program managers, product managers, UX designers, and engineering teams to develop high-quality product data models for instrumentation and tracking.
• Established and implemented data governance frameworks to enhance data quality, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and maintain organizational standards.
• Led a highly technical team in defining data stewardship roles, fostering accountability for data integrity, and promoting a culture of data governance and responsibility.
• Owned end-to-end reporting and analytics, tracking user engagement and journey metrics from activation to trial to paid conversion (ATP, ATR, TTP), retention, Lifetime Value (LTV), and bookings, leveraging Tableau for best-in-class visualizations.
• Collaborated with the Data Science team to conduct A/B testing and experiments aimed at improving conversion rates, retention, engagement, and data discovery for AI/ML initiatives.
• Built strong cross-functional partnerships across product management, product design, finance, operations, e-commerce, legal, and marketing teams to drive alignment and impact.
• Fostered a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.

Intuit is a global financial technology company that develops innovative software solutions for individuals, small businesses, and self-employed professionals. Best known for QuickBooks , TurboTax , Mint , Credit Karma , and Mailchimp , Intuit provides tools for accounting, tax preparation, personal finance, and marketing automation.

• Member of Intuit's Corporate Finance & Data Analytics team responsible for maintaining finance business planning and forecasting systems, developing, refining, and managing BI roadmap and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) from the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
• Collaborated with sales, marketing, and engineering teams to deliver business outcomes for the data products supporting consumer groups (CG) and small business and self-employed group (SBSEG)
• Managed data quality success metrics for the analytics such as forecast monitoring dashboard, new hire/attrition summaries, strategic resource allocation and other financial KPIs
• Functioned as a liaison between the various business units, functional groups, technology, and customer success teams facilitating product reviews, issue identification and resolution
• Gathered stakeholder's feedback to gain thorough understanding of product gaps and development needs in support of business goals and customer intelligence
• Validated E2E analytics test results, worked with stakeholders to negotiate any defect deferrals, ensured they are comfortable with the system as designed, prior to providing approval for the go/no-go
• Spearheaded overall change management and communication to the finance stakeholders throughout the software lifecycle development process, providing training on the new system capabilities, including end to end business process flows, ensuring a smooth launch by providing go live support, as needed

Robert Half is a global talent solutions and consulting firm specializing in staffing and recruitment for finance, accounting, technology, marketing, legal, and administrative roles. With a strong network of professionals and employers.

• Part of Business Intelligence Systems Solution (BISS) team responsible for creating, maintaining, and supporting data models, batch reports and automated dashboards and data visualizations to track Key Performance Metrics (KPIs) for the Finance, Credit, Human Resource, Salesforce, and Staffing teams
• Led the team implementing Cognos Credit report model using ETL, Star Schema, Conformed Dimensions and SCD concepts replacing the extremely fragmented Credit reporting process built in Hyperion Interactive Reporting Studio (IR), a legacy platform with multiple challenges to make updates or conduct regular maintenance
• Successfully delivered complex Finance, DocuSign and Salesforce data models using the relational and dimensionally modeled relational (DMR) technologies of Cognos Framework Manager to help the teams effectively perform ad-hoc analysis and strategic reporting
• Performed vendor analysis and Proof of concept (POC) to explore, compare and make recommendations for the Analytics Reporting functionality of Workday, Salesforce (Einstein) and DOMO for over 1000 licenses
• Documented Process Workflow Diagrams, Business/Functional requirements, Use Cases Scenarios, User Training Materials and worked with technical team to ensure the timely delivery of the analytics projects

Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating secure and seamless transactions across more than 200 countries and territories. As a trusted payment technology company, Visa connects consumers, businesses, and financial institutions through a vast network, enabling electronic payments via credit, debit, and prepaid cards.

• Created and maintained Data warehouse/OLAP cubes building Financial DataMart (ODS) ground up using raw GL Chart of Accounts (COA) data and transforming it into meaningful dimensions and facts (Actuals, forecast and budget data) using Star and snowflake schema and slowly changing dimension (SCD) concepts for the FP&A team
• Key member in Enterprise-wide rollout of the global platform Hyperion's Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software including Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting and SmartView, which supports Visa's FP&A Expense Planning and enable consolidated reporting for forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
• Successfully implemented Hyperion planning models - Opex to forecast Visa's operating expenses, Salary to forecast detailed salary, headcount, and FTEs and CapPlan where VISA performs detailed Gain and Loss on Sale of Assets, Depreciation and Amortization planning of assets, as well as review current year and prior year actual asset class data sourced from Oracle Fixed Assets
• Scheduled, organized, and facilitated meetings and Collaborated with Finance group to assist with the month end close, forecasting and budgeting process and maintain forecast/AOP calendar