Niharika Salunke
Business Analyst (Entry-Level)
Pune, India • +91 98223 50417 • niharika.salunke.ba@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/niharika-salunke
Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/business-analyst-fresher
Professional Summary
Commerce graduate and aspiring Business Analyst who turns ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, process maps and decisions backed by data. Comfortable writing BRD/FRD documents, querying data with SQL, and translating between stakeholders and delivery teams in an Agile setting. Pairs structured analysis with crisp documentation — demonstrated across an analytics internship and two end-to-end requirements projects.
Skills
Analysis: Requirements gathering, Process mapping, Gap analysis, Data analysis, Root-cause analysis
Documentation: BRD / FRD, User stories, Use cases, Acceptance criteria, Process flows (BPMN)
Tools: SQL, Excel (PivotTables, lookups), Power BI, Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Visio
Ways of working: Agile / Scrum, Stakeholder management, Workshop facilitation, UAT support
Core Competencies
requirements gathering · SQL · process mapping · stakeholder management · Agile · documentation · data analysis · BRD · FRD · user stories · Business Analyst
Work Experience
Business Analyst Intern — Aldermere Consulting
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
Remote
- Documented 24 user stories with acceptance criteria for a retail loyalty module, accepted by the product owner with zero rework in sprint review.
- Mapped the as-is order-to-cash process in BPMN and ran a gap analysis that surfaced 5 manual handoffs, 2 of which were automated in the next release.
- Wrote SQL queries against a 300k-row sales table to validate requirements, catching a discount-logic defect before UAT.
- Facilitated 6 stakeholder walkthroughs and maintained the requirements traceability matrix in Confluence, keeping 100% of stories linked to a business need.
Projects
ClinicFlow — appointments requirements pack — 9 → 5 steps
End-to-end BRD/FRD and process redesign for a small clinic's booking workflow.
- Conducted 4 stakeholder interviews, authored a BRD/FRD with 31 functional requirements, and modelled the to-be process reducing booking steps from 9 to 5.
- Built a Power BI no-show dashboard from SQL extracts that quantified a 22% weekly no-show rate and justified an automated reminder requirement.
Tech: BRD/FRD, Process mapping, SQL, Power BI
RetailIQ — sales data analysis — 1.1M rows analysed
Self-directed SQL + Excel analysis of a public retail dataset to drive recommendations.
- Wrote 18 SQL queries (joins, window functions) to segment 1.1M transactions, identifying that 3 categories drove 64% of margin.
- Translated findings into a one-page recommendation deck with prioritized requirements for a stock-reorder rule.
Tech: SQL, Data analysis, Excel, Documentation
Education
B.Com (Hons.) — Business Analytics
2025
Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune
CGPA 8.5/10 · Coursework: Statistics, Database Systems, Operations Management, Business Communication
Certifications
- Business Analysis Foundations — LinkedIn Learning (2025)
- Google Data Analytics (Professional Certificate) — Coursera (2024)