Sanjida Chowdhury

- One of 20 consultants chosen out of 200 applicants - Working on client projects with a team - Learning about consulting frameworks

- Organising events - Handling enquiries and questions at the front desk as a receptionist

- Co ordinating events for 100 Bengali students - Overseeing the work of event officers - Collaborating with other societies and universities - Creating content

- Monitoring the attendance of 60 Year 12s - Overseeing 5 different groups of presentations - Being a part of a panel to talk about A levels, personal statement and university - Maintaining health and safety standards by keeping track of students allergies

- Aim was to find out more about student's hidden curriculum problems based on their situations and to find solutions for KCL to implement as well as students themselves implementing - Taking part in workshops such as qualitative data research and branding learning about Braun & Clarke’s 6 phase framework - Collecting data from KCL students from different groups such as international, commuters, first-generation, state-school and neurodivergent students - Organising data to create 6 case studies to present to KCL - Working with PhD tutors and academic staff - Taking part in LinkedIn Learning: Active Listening course - Formatting case studies on Canva to make storytelling look more visually appealing

- Taking part in consulting case study interviews, presentations in front of four students and two consultants and interviews. - Hearing from graduate business analysts and their voluntary internal work to help out with diversity and inclusion - Learning how business analysts utilise scrum and sprints in their work, as well as more about agile projects

- Having a short time of 20 minutes to create a process map and presenting it in front of 15 students and 2 senior colleagues - Assessing case study to answer pension questions, analysing proposals to see which one is better by assessing pros such as diversification and hedging - Looking at expected return and how proposals meet sustainability objectives - Networking

- One of 11 students to take part in consulting work experience - Looking at Microsoft Power BI to analyse data - Creating a presentation with 3 other team members to create a pitch on why a client should pick us - utilising aspects from customer, data, procurement, energy and operations. - Learning more about procurement process and how to run an end to end process, utilising procurement questions for ESG themes - Learning about customer, data, SCP and PCLS in Baringa - Creating 8 features of products using prioritisation methodologies such as MoSCoW - Creating a visual timeline for these 8 features - Analysing 5000 rows of data to spot for anomalies - Researching under strict timelines to prepare for a debate - Learning about MVP, Private Beta and Pilot as well as UX and UI - Learning about agile and waterfall project methodologies and the pros and cons of each - Learning about scrum master and how this can be seen in consulting - Interested in Operations, Procurement and Customer after these talks

- Conducted a business sale analysis, on a company with four key products in the functional beverage category and multiple sales channels. Looked at how well a company is doing compared to what they are expected to sell by reviewing last year’s (2024) performance and provide data-driven insights to inform decisions for 2025 and beyond. - Reviewed market dynamics by using Porter's 5 forces to understand the external environment - Exploring a sales data set to identify trends and outliers by: • Calculating total sales, costs, profit and gross profit margin per product, channel and customer • Running channel/product/customer analysis – sales, quantity sold or number of customers by channel/customer/product • Commenting on any outliers in the dataset • Presenting some of the data visually - Interpreting data analysis findings for strategic decision making, thinking about: • What does the data tell us about VitaSip? • Are there any visible trends? • If so, why do you think these are taking place? - Looking ahead at potential market changes, such as promoting subscription plans to encourage repeat purchases and expanding to new channels like supermarkets and introduce loyalty schemes

3 day insight programme into KPMG - Business pitch challenge where I utilised teamwork skills and communication skills to deliver a pitch to 60 students and 3 staff members regarding a unique solution to a problem in this world - lithium with a magnet in bins - learnt more about kpmg values and strengths - learnt about commercial awareness - learning about how KPMG leverages AI - hearing from partners in KPMG like Joe Cassidy about their humble beginnings

- Accepted as part of the Civil Service diversity programme - Shadowed a business analyst at the passport office, gaining insight into agile projects and how business analysts tend to work more on waterfall projects, joining in meetings to gather requirements and clarifying requirements with business change managers, having 3 meetings to look at improvements and changes to improve a system and adding these onto a process map which includes swim streams of different stakeholders who would be affected, as well as regular meetings to update the team what is going on

- Analysing case studies by using SWOT - Illustrating data through Gantt Charts - Creating a presentation to persuade the client to pick my company - Communicating with professionals for feedback to improve - Working together with a team of people I haven't met before, allowing me to adapt

Host University - QMUL. Participating in events to network with fellow students, learning more about economics and social sciences. Took part in lectures such as critical thinking. Useful in knowing more about university life.