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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

New York, United States

Syracuse, New York, United States

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Developed and maintained a financial model of the estimated profitability of an insurance business vertical for Board and Shareholder Reporting, saving 150+ manhours monthly
• Assisted quarterly reporting of management performance metrics to shareholders, analyzing multi-team data.
• Developed pricing quotes for individual cases in partnership with actuarial and product teams.
• Conducted quarterly and annual budgeting and forecasting of costs and revenues for managerial reporting.
• Directed a team of 22 Branch Managers and implemented a revenue management strategy – a new commission payout framework for insurance agents resulting in a 26% YoY increase in regional revenue
• Analyzed claims and underwriting process data to identify inefficiencies and integrated process improvements in policy issuance workflows leading to an 18% decrease in turnaround time

Mumbai Area, India

• Drove 5+ funding mandates for Indian and American start-ups across sectors of TMT, fin-tech, ed-tech, pharma, and ecommerce; executed investor outreach, and prepared information memorandums, valuations, and business.
• Prepared business valuation models for sell-side transactions using discounted cash flows, market approach, transaction approach analysis, and sum of parts analysis for companies in pharma, e-learning, media and.
• Conducted market research and prepared quarterly reports tracking private equity investments, exits and M&A transactions, reporting valuation multiples such as EBITDA multiples and exit IRRs across sectors.
• Led a team of 4, performing financial due diligence assignments for buy-side mandates in India and the US, identifying critical red flags, earning adjustments of over $2M, and discrepancies in accounting policies
• Received "Achiever's Award for the Quarter" for qualitative contribution to client engagements and outstanding performance

Mumbai

• Conducted statutory (external) audit and quarterly limited reviews of a $350B Telecom company and other companies in sectors of technology and media, based on IFRS and US GAAP, as per listing regulatory requirements.
• Led communications with international clients in the US, UK, France, Canada, and other countries as a part of control testing procedures, identifying control deficiencies, and reducing audit risk by 12.6%
• Performed walkthroughs and tested operational effectiveness of controls using random and stratified sampling methods.
• Conducted audit of revenue, employee costs, other direct costs and current liabilities among other areas.
• Awarded Gold Standard Rating in "Client Communication Leadership" for developing and maintaining key client relationships, and "High recommendation for further pursuits" at EY

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance, General

Chartered Accountant

Master Of Commerce, Business Management, Cgpa 9.8

Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting And Finance, A+, Cgpa 9.43/10

Activities and Societies: President of the Public Speaking and Debate Society

Education record

Activities and Societies: Secretary of the Debate and Literary Society