Harshil Koladiya

Fund Operations Analyst | Payments, Risk & Data

Dublin, IE.

About

Highly analytical Fund Operations Analyst with expertise in payment operations, financial systems, and risk-adjacent data management, consistently transforming complex operational data into high-impact process improvements. Proven ability to leverage SQL and advanced analytics to deliver automated data pipelines, enhance regulatory compliance, and significantly improve service delivery in client-facing financial environments.

Work

Independent Projects

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Business & Data Analyst

Dublin, , Ireland

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Summary

Led independent technical projects, applying business analysis and data science principles to develop innovative solutions for real-world challenges while interviewing for analyst roles.

Highlights

Developed and deployed 'Transfer Truth,' a live LLM data pipeline achieving ≥90% news-source reliability, by implementing an automated 15-case evaluation harness that proactively blocked regressions before release.

Automated comprehensive job-market analysis of ~3,300 roles per run, reducing processing time to under 11 minutes by integrating 4 REST APIs with LLM scoring and a 3-model fallback 'Minions' pipeline.

Contributed to an open-source Node.js AI-agent system by designing and merging a writing-quality guardrail across 4 instruction modes, receiving maintainer review for an 8-file scoped differential.

Optimized AI-agent telemetry, reducing latency from 9.3s to 2.3s and correcting a false error rate of 41.7% through end-to-end debugging.

Bank of Ireland

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Payment Operations Analyst

Dublin, , Ireland

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Summary

Analyzed and optimized payment operations, focusing on straight-through processing, compliance, and quality assurance within a regulated financial environment.

Highlights

Increased new-payee straight-through-processing (STP) from 47% to 71% by analyzing 40-60 daily operational interactions using SQL and Excel, identifying friction patterns, and implementing formal process improvements.

Reduced first-contact escalations by 15-20% through root-cause analysis of workflow failures, aligning front-end user actions with backend attributes and compliance flags.

Facilitated SEPA scheme implementation by collecting regulatory and compliance requirements from stakeholders and developing comprehensive configuration and case-note documentation.

Ensured 90-95% QA accuracy across customer profiles and transaction histories by rigorously testing rule-aligned decisioning and validating case data using SQL and Excel.

Chemist Warehouse Ireland

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Retail Operations Assistant

Dublin, , Ireland

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Summary

Managed high-volume retail transactions and reconciled discrepancies while adhering to pharmacy regulations and operational procedures.

Highlights

Processed high-volume daily transactions and meticulously reconciled pricing and SKU discrepancies, ensuring strict compliance with pharmacy regulations and operational procedures.

MemeChat

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Junior Product Manager

, , India

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Summary

Drove product improvements and managed development cycles, focusing on user experience, task completion, and backlog prioritization.

Highlights

Increased session completion by 10% through in-depth analysis of funnel data using dashboards and SQL, identifying and resolving critical drop-off points in core product flows.

Enhanced task completion by approximately 18% by leading user interviews, redesigning key screens based on feedback, and conducting iterative user testing.

Managed the product backlog and orchestrated Scrum rituals, including writing detailed user stories and facilitating effective sprint reviews and stakeholder check-ins.

MemeChat

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Digital Marketing Executive

, , India

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Summary

Executed paid digital marketing campaigns to drive user growth and enhance engagement across major platforms.

Highlights

Achieved significant user growth, expanding daily active users to 200K, and improved click-through rates by 25% through optimized A/B-tested paid campaigns across Meta and Google platforms.

Education

Griffith College

Dublin, , Ireland
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MS Interactive Digital Media

University of Mumbai

Mumbai, , India
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BA Mass Media

Languages

English

Certificates

GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (GH-600)

GitHub

Goldman Sachs Risk Job Simulation (Forage)

Forage (Goldman Sachs)

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Gathering, Elicitation, Process-Driven Mindset, User Stories, Process Mapping, UAT, Gap Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Process Improvement, Solution-Oriented.

Data & Analytics

SQL, Advanced Excel, Python, Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Dashboards, Reporting.

Domain Expertise

SEPA Payments Operations, Operational Data Reconciliation, QA, Rule-Aligned Decisioning, Regulatory Documentation, Compliance Documentation, Fraud Analysis, Risk Analysis.

Project Delivery & Tools

Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Git, Advanced Excel.

Automation & AI

REST API Integration, Workflow Automation, CI/CD Test Gating, LLM Tooling, AI Agent Observability, OpenTelemetry, LLMOps, MCP, Loop Engineering.

Projects

AI-Agent Telemetry Optimization

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Summary

Debugged and optimized AI-agent telemetry to significantly improve performance and data accuracy.

Transfer Truth (Live LLM Data Pipeline)

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Summary

Developed and deployed a live LLM data pipeline designed to score news-source reliability.

Automated Job-Market Analysis System

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Summary

Created an automated system for comprehensive job-market analysis leveraging multiple APIs and LLM scoring.

Node.js AI-Agent System Contribution (career-ops)

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Summary

Contributed to an open-source Node.js AI-agent system by designing and merging a writing-quality guardrail.