Isha Sayali Bhide

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Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company - banking strategy · due diligence · payments

McKinsey & Company
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
University of Delhi
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Advising
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Overview

I've spent 14 years on financial services strategy - first at HDFC Bank, now at McKinsey & Company. Designed the operating model for a 16 thousand-person transformation. Ran commercial diligence on 38 deals. Before that: Larsen & Toubro and HCLTech. Most at home with payments and banking strategy. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on search and ranking
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about search and ranking
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
due diligencepaymentsregulationcommercial due diligencebanking strategy
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: financial services strategy and commercial due diligence

Topics
search and ranking, regulation, banking strategy
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

14 years of financial services strategy. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Ahmedabad, Indiapaymentsbanking strategycommercial due diligence
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Experience

  1. Associate Partner
    Feb 2023 - Present
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 36 a week to 4.
    • Wrote the regulation service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 74 services to commercial due diligence.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
    Larsen & Toubro · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 26 deals.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $102 million.
  3. Engagement Manager
    Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
    HCLTech · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Delivered 15 engagements across 4 countries.
  4. Consultant
    Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
    Hindustan Unilever · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 12 thousand-person transformation.
  5. Business Analyst
    Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
    HDFC Bank · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 461ms to 109ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 42% in two quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from search
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling search and ranking.

Write-up: search and ranking in practice
2022

A long-form guide to search and ranking for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Economics
    2007 - 2011

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