Liviya Sekar
Analyst - Performance Studies at The Hackett Group
Based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About
Hi there! A data enthusiast with 4+ years of experience working with both primary and secondary data to uncover meaningful insights for global companies. Currently part of the Performance Studies team at The Hackett Group — designing and managing Qualtrics surveys, transforming raw data into clean, clear reports and interactive Power BI dashboards, and automating tasks with Excel VBA, SQL, and Python. Previously worked with large secondary datasets on ESG trends, venture capital, and private equity, helping turn complex information into stories that drive smart decisions. Always curious about finding patterns in data and creating solutions that make business life easier. Open to new ideas, learning opportunities, and great conversations about all things analytics. Feel free to explore!
Skills
Projects
Experience
August ' 22 - Present
Data Analytics at Straive
• Managing a team of 14 research analysts, overseeing the precise extraction and analysis of investment data pertaining to high-value deals within the venture capital and private equity sectors. • Relevant news domain Dashboard, developed an interactive Power BI dashboard using DAX functions for the investment news domain, enabling the client to identify web domains that provided more relevant news that resulted in 40% improvement in data coverage. • Investment News Classification, collaborated with stakeholders and developed a supervised classification model using the Sklearn library in Python, saving 10 man-hours per week required for manual classification of the news articles and received the Spot Award for team action and Excellence during Q1 2023.
January '22 - July'22
Subject Matter Expert at Straive
• Implemented data quality checks and cleaning procedures, reducing data errors by 25% and ensuring the reliability of key reports in delivery. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize data collection and reporting processes by identifying primary and secondary keywords, resulting in 28% improvement in data accuracy. • Presented comprehensive data visualizations and reports using pivot tables, and charts in Excel for executive-level management, enabling a 15% increase in strategic decision-making and improved operational efficiency
January '21 - December '21
ESG Data Analyst at Straive
• Delivered 1500 data points on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance trends by processing ESG-relevant news and third-party source for more than 5000+ companies as per policy guidelines. Demonstrated experience with Straive Spark ESG platform, evaluated the data validation rules by collaborating with stakeholders for the implementation of new ML models which improved the process accuracy by 28%.
Education
January '23 - September '23
Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Engineering
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. • Excelled in Data Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Pre-processing, Feature Extraction, Hypothesis testing , Model Building and Machine Learning algorithms such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression in Supervised learning.
2016 - 2020
B.Tech Biotechnology
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India