Dr. Nitin Singh ,Associate Director & Head, Analytics, KPMG on his visit to the IIM Raipur campus on 24th September,2011as a part of Corporate Interaction Program, briefed the students about analytics and consulting as a career.
He explained the job roles which a candidate would have to undertake in the field of Analytics. The candidates have to work effectively with personnel from a variety of disciplines to provide data analytics driven advisory solutions to a variety of business challenges.
The need to understand complex issues, business processes and risks and determining how internal and external data can be used with other analytical procedures to perform investigations.
There is lot of interaction with clients and other external sources to obtain relevant data and documents in required forms which would be needed in their projects. There is also a need of data cleansing and preparation techniques to achieve necessary results.
The job role of analytics also involves performing sophisticated analyses on large and complex data and then determine and execute follow-up with various personnel to discover transaction patterns,to examine financial data and resolve issues.
He also talked about KPMG’s forensic data analysis and the recent assignment to KPMG of probing into the issues related to the organizing and conduct of Commonwealth Games,2010.
