Global Risk Operations 

January 2024 to November 2024
- Helped 6 students get admission to their school of choice in Europe and the US for the MiM and MBA program.
- Helped 2 B2B clients, and 1 B2C client build their brand value, increasing following by 3x on Instagram and 1.7x for LinkedIn, and boost revenue on average by 1.4X

September 2023 to December 2023
- 4 month Career Break

A little bit of this & that

Ingenico

I help develop innovative business models for new products in Crypto, Low-Code No-Code, Instant & Biometric Payments, and Autonomous Retail space. 

My day-to-day activities involve conducting extensive market research and competitor analysis, identifying strategic partners, and creating go-to-market solutions. 

I also develop & execute marketing campaigns across videos, blogs, and webinars for new product launches & external communication. 

I also cold-call and email potential partners globally to forge highly effective synergies between disruptive innovation projects.

Innovation & Marketing Operations

Transformation Factory

As a Marketing and Communications Intern working closely with the CEO, I worked on growing the customer base through a custom marketing plan and boosted LinkedIn page visits by 300% with targeted content. To further enhance the customer experience and onboard more clients, I reinvented our website for international clients by optimizing it for SEO and removing any slow JSS scripts.

Marketing and Branding Intern

Deloitte Consulting

• $10 Million SAP Implementation for German Automotive clients for their new SAP System across multiple European and APAClocations, ensuring successful project delivery and adherence to budgetary constraints

• Deployed wide-scale consolidations of legacy ERP systems into a single ERP based on SAP S/4HANA

• Optimized EWM & SCM business processes by 20% by automation in modules by mapping new solutions to their business goals

• Trained 70+ new hires on SAP S/4HANA and received the Best Team award at on-site training simulations at DeloitteUniversity, demonstrating expertise in training and knowledge transfer

Business Technology Analyst

The Souled Store Pvt. Ltd.

• Designed various merchandise including but not limited to T-Shirts, Posters, Mugs, Fridge Magnets, etc

Freelance Graphic Designer

Hardluck

♦ Designed various products such as T-shirts, Hoodies, Posters et cetera for different student bodies at MIT Manipal

Creative Head

Webloom Solutions

♦ Designed UI/UX for Android application of LEUK, an in house project
♦ Designed Flyers, Posters, Banners for Clients and Student Body Clubs of MIT, Manipal
♦ Designed Merchandise for The Loom Store

Graphic Designer

Arif is a seasoned professional with a proven track record in the Innovation, Marketing, Operations, and Consulting domains at Ingenico and Deloitte.

With a career dedicated to the tech industry, Arif has navigated corporate and startup landscapes across India and France, contributing significantly to advancing technology-driven initiatives. 

Beyond his professional endeavours, Arif has also coached 100+ students, freshers and young professionals on choosing and applying to their dream study abroad programs or making career transitions from one industry to another.

Here on LinkedIn, Arif regularly shares insights and lessons on Marketing, Storytelling, Growth Mindset, and how you can make a great life for yourself.

Outside work, he finds solace in fiction, through the pages of a gripping novel or as he works on his crime thriller masterpiece. 

When not immersed in books, Arif enjoys indulging his culinary creativity in the kitchen, whipping up delicious cuisines to delight his palate.

Cheers 🙌

Syed Arif Ahmad

TEAMWILL

• Currently working with clients from the automotive and financial services sector including large banks and corporates.
• Actively building and scaling up the ESG practice within Teamwill Consulting to better help clients in their decarbonization journey.
• Understanding the constantly evolving and developing ESG Regulatory Frameworks including EU Taxonomy, SFDR, CSRD, ESRS, CSDDD, TCFD, TNFD, CDP, SBTi, etc via relevant business use cases.

Consultant Confirmé

BNP Paribas CIB

• As part of the Sustainable Finance Solutions Team, I developed an “ESG Sectorial Toolkit” with a scope of 16 different sectors and geographical spread across the US, EMEA and APAC. The objective of this project was to help the coverage team to be able to have material ESG conversations with the clients. 
The pitch was highly appreciated by the senior management of the bank and holds a global stature of being updated every 3 months using automation tools like Power BI and VBA.

• I studied the Sustainability Reporting Landscape which further developed an in-house expertise for ESG consulting especially on the various Sustainable Finance Products that exist in the market (SLLs, Green Bonds, Green Loans, SLBs, etc.) 

• Laterally, I worked on interesting topics from the project management side, continuously collaborating with various teams within the bank on topics related to the bank's strategic GTS 2025 plan.

Sustainable Finance Project Manager

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB

• Built client pitches targeted towards private investors influencing them to invest in Nature-Based Solutions.
• Mapped 14 successful NBI projects across 3 main ecosystem services: forests, coastal protection, and wetlands.
• Created DCF models to prove the bankability of Nature-Based infrastructure compared to grey infrastructure.

External Sustainability Consultant

Subsea 7

Global Projects Center and Asia-Pacific:

• Worked with category managers to better analyze the sustainability strategy through materiality assessments.
• Analyzed the possibility of developing windfarms in and around Europe as part of Energy Transition Plan 2025.
• Managed several projects worth more than $300 Million with operational target of reducing carbon footprint.

Category Strategy and Energy Transition Analyst

NSIT Solar Car- Solarstorm

Active member of design as well as mechanical team.

Sustainable Mobility Project Engineer

Hero MotoCorp

Worked on Technology upgradation in engine assembly process through low cost automation/digitization.

Business Operations Intern

Indian Oil Corp Limited

Analysis of the L&T Automation systems being used at Bijwasan Terminal.

Financial Analyst

I am a recent graduate from the Grande École MSc in Management program at ESSEC Business School wherein I have also done a specialization in ESG and Sustainable Finance as a part of the Shaping the Future of Finance Chair at ESSEC that was sponsored by AXA IM, Société Générale and Eiffel Investment Group. 

I am currently working as an Advanced Consultant for Teamwill in their Management Consulting Business Line (Paris office).

I have about 3 years of professional work experience, the most latest one being working as a Sustainable Finance Project Manager in the domain of ESG/Sustainable Finance at BNP Paribas CIB wherein my main achievement has been the development of an ESG Sectorial Toolkit wherein I managed a team of approximately 20 people spread across various geographies and spanning across 16 different sectors to formulate a convincing pitch deck that can be used by the coverage team of the bank to have material conversations with the clients on ESG issues including materiality assessment, peers benchmarking analysis, KPI analysis, and the transition to net zero.

Before coming to France, I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Delhi, India. I have been closely working around Sustainability and Impact since my Bachelors' as I was actively involved in building a Solar Car from scratch along with a team of 15 engineering students - we successfully represented our country in the iLumen European Solar Challenge held in Belgium every year. 

I also have a unique internship experience working in the offshore energy industry with Subsea 7 wherein I worked as the Category Strategist and Energy Transition Analyst. So this company is basically a direct competitor to Total Energies in terms of concept and has a significant share of its revenue coming from oil explorations. But my role was more around sustainability, basically researching ideal hotspots to install wind farms as part of the company’s 2025 plan to become more environmentally friendly.

I aim to leverage the flexibility of the curriculum offered by ESSEC to align it with my career goals.
Having held leadership positions before in an entrepreneurial venture, I can certainly say I enjoy building networks with people and getting to know more about them.
 
I’m also constantly focussing on my French language skills to blend in better with the French way of life here in Paris. In my free time, I love to cook, play tennis and watch sports especially Formula 1.

In case you want to connect with me, please feel free to ping me on LinkedIn or drop me an email at rohan.kapoor@essec.edu

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