Asad Qureshi

Senior Consultant / Manager at Sustainable Advantage
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(386) 825-5501
Location
London, England, United Kingdom, UK
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Urdu Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Hindi Professional working proficiency
  • British Sign Language Limited working proficiency

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Credentials

  • ESG Expert
    EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht
    Mar, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • GAMP5
    ISPE
    May, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • British Sign Language Level 1
    Signature
    Apr, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • PRINCE2 Foundation
    AXELOS Global Best Practice
    Aug, 2016
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Consultant / Manager
      • Aug 2023 - Present

    • United Kingdom
    • Accounting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant Manager - ESG Strategy
      • Oct 2022 - May 2023

      - Sustainable value creation strategy development – Combined industry research with internal client capabilities to develop holistic ESG strategies with a focus on how ESG can create and deliver business value- ESG landscape assessment and strategy review – Reviewed existing ESG strategies held by clients and benchmarked against industry best practice, upcoming and existing regulations, and cutting-edge innovations within sustainability- Ambition, maturity, and materiality assessments – Worked in close collaboration with a wide variety of client stakeholders to create the ESG maturity framework within their organisations, setting the client ESG ambition, establishing their current- and target-state maturity, and identifying the ESG topics which are most material to them- TCFD support ¬– Supported organisations in implementing recommendations put forward by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, assessing their goals and specific context to develop a bespoke action plan- Client proposal & proposition development – Developed and delivered client proposals, and worked with industry specialists and internal subject matter experts to develop the KPMG propositions within the ESG Strategy offering Show less

    • ESG Strategy Consultant
      • May 2022 - Oct 2022

    • United Kingdom
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Management Consultant
      • Sep 2019 - May 2022

      During my time in Boxwood I experienced a range of industries, including: - Automotive – Undertook C-level interviews, industry benchmarking and maturity analyses for a boutique automotive manufacturer to redesign the back-office function to realise efficiencies per year of ~£30m - Asset Management – Undertook interviews, workshops and data model development in order to create a cost allocation methodology which could be applied across an international business structure, paving the way for more effective data analysis and increased cost transparency - Transport – Used international benchmarking, workshops and root cause analysis to redesign the safety processes for track engineers at a major urban metro, reducing the risk of serious accident by ~99% - Infrastructure – Redeveloped PMO processes on a major infrastructure project by restructuring the source data files to allow for multiple analyses to be undertaken automatically, saving ~80% of the ongoing running process cost - Government – Designed and implemented the governance behind a governmental post-merger integration, running workshops with senior stakeholders in the Civil Service to identify efficiencies in the senior decision-making process of ~30% - Agriculture and Logistics – Undertook multi-industry benchmarking, maturity analyses and C-level interviews to develop a suite of initiatives to achieve net zero emissions by 2030 - Private Equity – Developed a business case for a multi-university collaboration project which has been used as a foundation to help raise funding of ~£500m - Rail – Created customer journeys and assisted io the development of the project approach for a major rail company, leading to the project being ready to commence 3 days ahead of schedule - NGO – Developed and delivered training to the NSPCC in order to improve their internal transformation and process improvement capabilities as part of a pro bono project Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Product Analyst
      • Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

      - Triaged bugs - Analysed customer feedback to implement popular features into the product - Managed the features backlog with senior leadership to prioritise and shape product development - Triaged bugs - Analysed customer feedback to implement popular features into the product - Managed the features backlog with senior leadership to prioritise and shape product development

    • United States
    • Biotechnology
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Business Analyst
      • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

      Responsibilities: - Developed materials for large projects, including written communiques and presentations, for senior stakeholders - Ran Sprint Retrospectives and other Agile ceremonies - Worked with clients to gather product requirements in an Agile Scrum environment - Developed Functional and System Design Specification documents - Developed and executed test scripts, managed the test completion progression to tight deadlines - Developed process maps - Oversaw and facilitated User Acceptance Testing at client sites - Delivered client training and system walkthroughs Skills developed - Scrum - Data migration - Excel - JIRA - TFS - SQL - GAMP certification - Functional and System Design Specification - System testing Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Junior Business Analyst
      • Aug 2015 - Sep 2016

      - Elucidated and developed product requirements with clients - Increased efficiency in the archiving solution, resulting in reduced storage requirement and increased program speed. - Delivered the learning resources for Waterfall, Agile, and Unified Process project management methodologies. - Achieved my PRINCE2 Project Management qualification - Collaborated with colleagues based internationally to deliver key projects - Enhanced Microsoft Office skills, specifically Excel and PowerPoint - Increased proficiency in HTML, JSON, CSS and JavaScript coding languages. Show less

Education

  • University of Leeds
    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General
    2013 - 2017
  • The Manchester Grammar School
    2006 - 2013

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