Priyanka - Resume
PRIYANKA SHARMA
Boston, MA | ------------| ------------
SUMMARY
7 years of experience in Finance and legal; skilled in financial planning, financial analysis, data modelling and analysis, forecasting & budgeting;
Proficient in vetting & negotiating various commercial agreements, performing due diligence, managing private equity, financial audits;
Supporting investors and leadership teams with strong organizational and complex problem-solving skills.
KEY SKILLS
Accounting, Auditing, Budgeting, Financial Reporting, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Taxation, Compliance, Data modelling, Statistical
Data Analysis/Visualization, Data mining, SQL Database, R programming, MATLAB, Advanced Excel tools, SAS Enterprise Guide, ERP
systems and financial tools, Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), leadership, team building, decision making.
EDUCATION
Suffolk University, Boston, MA – Master of Science in Finance Sep 2018 - December 2019 (Expected)
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India - Bachelor’s in law 2010 - 2012
Institute of Company Secretaries of India, India - Associate Company Secretary, Finance & Accounting 2008 – 2010
(Earned Certified Company Secretary License in 2011)
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India - Bachelor in Auditing & Management Accounting 2004 - 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant - Suffolk University, Management & Entrepreneurship Center, Boston Sep 2018-Present
? Assisting in research on topics “Corporate Venture” and “disruptive innovation” with the faculty.
Assistant Manager – Finance & Legal - Swiggy (an e-commerce startup), India Oct 2016 – Oct 2017
? Executed "Series-E" round of capital fund raising of 80 Million USD as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – prepared investment
memorandums, negotiation and review of Shareholder Agreement and Share Subscription Agreement, managed regulatory compliances
? Coordinated and executed due diligence and risk analysis for new development projects generating over $ 35 Million revenues
? Developed complex financial models, strategic plans and present analytics to support the sales team with monthly and quarterly reports;
Performed strategic and scenario analysis to determine financial performance and budget vs actual variance analyses.
? Assisted and coordinated with Management, teams and regional offices to review and development of targets and annual budget, refine
and establish effective processes and tools to better support financial and operational management ensuring all deadlines are met.
? Conducted comparable and market analysis and provide reports to management and other departments for the analysis and
recommendation.
? Successfully liaised transaction portfolio for operations across India; vetting and negotiation of commercial/franchisee/Payment
gateway/Logistics Services agreements and Restaurant’s MOU to boost the revenue by 35%
Manager - Legal & Compliance - Maxximuz Partners LLP, India Sep 2015 – Jul 2016
? Managed wide portfolio of multi-jurisdictional companies including listed companies, public companies and private companies assisting
with tax, legal and financial functions.
? Performed financial and operational audits for clients in various business area and provide reports thereon.
? Supervise and organize a team of 4 junior associates to resolve problems, liaised during all audit phases and achieve reporting deadline.
? Oversee corporate disclosure and compliances with state corporation laws, stock exchange listing standards and Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI), Registrar of companies and other authorities reporting and compliance.
Analyst - Finance & Legal - M. D. Baid & Associates, India Jun 2011 – Nov 2014
? Assisted in processing of Balance sheets, Income statements, and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting
and financial guidelines.
? Undertaken formation of business entities including preparing corporate documents, application for license and registering entities in
various states; managed day-to-day management activities including increase in Authorized Share capital, Issue of Equity shares, transfer
of shares and completed all initial and annual state and federal government filings.
? Prepared and filed various ROC forms with Ministry of Corporate Affairs; filed Income tax & Service tax returns for corporate, LLC
and partnership firms.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
? Predictive Analytics - Designed many prediction/forecasting models using real world datasets. Developed using different supervised
learning algorithms (Logistic & Linear Regression) implemented in SAS and R. Multiple techniques were used for data cleaning,
imputation, categorical encoding, normalization, feature reduction, ensemble, binning, boosting and model validation.
? Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation – Performed analysis on the financial statements of two publicly traded companies.
Evaluation on basis of asset utilization, cash flow, liquidity and profitability, capital structure and solvency. Built forecasting and
valuation model using Discounted cash flow and Dividend discount model to calculate the intrinsic value of the Company.
? Risk Assessment & Simulation – Built an assessment model of VAR & ETL using methodologies like Moving average, implied
volatility, GARCH modelling implemented in MATLAB to draw comparison of ETL & VAR between developed & emerging
economies.
? The Big 5 Personality Test – Performed Business Understanding, Data Understanding and Data Mining steps to explore data set in
depth using the CRISP – DM framework on SAS. Implemented various predictive analytics techniques to communicate and present
important findings from the data.
INTERNSHIPS
Analyst Intern - Finance & Legal - M. D. Baid & Associates, India Jun 2010 - May 2011
Analyst Intern - Finance - Dhiren R. Dave & Co, India May 2009 - Nov 2009
PRIYANKA SHARMA
Boston, MA | ------------| ------------
SUMMARY
7 years of experience in Finance and legal; skilled in financial planning, financial analysis, data modelling and analysis, forecasting & budgeting;
Proficient in vetting & negotiating various commercial agreements, performing due diligence, managing private equity, financial audits;
Supporting investors and leadership teams with strong organizational and complex problem-solving skills.
KEY SKILLS
Accounting, Auditing, Budgeting, Financial Reporting, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Taxation, Compliance, Data modelling, Statistical
Data Analysis/Visualization, Data mining, SQL Database, R programming, MATLAB, Advanced Excel tools, SAS Enterprise Guide, ERP
systems and financial tools, Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), leadership, team building, decision making.
EDUCATION
Suffolk University, Boston, MA – Master of Science in Finance Sep 2018 - December 2019 (Expected)
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India - Bachelor’s in law 2010 - 2012
Institute of Company Secretaries of India, India - Associate Company Secretary, Finance & Accounting 2008 – 2010
(Earned Certified Company Secretary License in 2011)
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India - Bachelor in Auditing & Management Accounting 2004 - 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant - Suffolk University, Management & Entrepreneurship Center, Boston Sep 2018-Present
? Assisting in research on topics “Corporate Venture” and “disruptive innovation” with the faculty.
Assistant Manager – Finance & Legal - Swiggy (an e-commerce startup), India Oct 2016 – Oct 2017
? Executed "Series-E" round of capital fund raising of 80 Million USD as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – prepared investment
memorandums, negotiation and review of Shareholder Agreement and Share Subscription Agreement, managed regulatory compliances
? Coordinated and executed due diligence and risk analysis for new development projects generating over $ 35 Million revenues
? Developed complex financial models, strategic plans and present analytics to support the sales team with monthly and quarterly reports;
Performed strategic and scenario analysis to determine financial performance and budget vs actual variance analyses.
? Assisted and coordinated with Management, teams and regional offices to review and development of targets and annual budget, refine
and establish effective processes and tools to better support financial and operational management ensuring all deadlines are met.
? Conducted comparable and market analysis and provide reports to management and other departments for the analysis and
recommendation.
? Successfully liaised transaction portfolio for operations across India; vetting and negotiation of commercial/franchisee/Payment
gateway/Logistics Services agreements and Restaurant’s MOU to boost the revenue by 35%
Manager - Legal & Compliance - Maxximuz Partners LLP, India Sep 2015 – Jul 2016
? Managed wide portfolio of multi-jurisdictional companies including listed companies, public companies and private companies assisting
with tax, legal and financial functions.
? Performed financial and operational audits for clients in various business area and provide reports thereon.
? Supervise and organize a team of 4 junior associates to resolve problems, liaised during all audit phases and achieve reporting deadline.
? Oversee corporate disclosure and compliances with state corporation laws, stock exchange listing standards and Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI), Registrar of companies and other authorities reporting and compliance.
Analyst - Finance & Legal - M. D. Baid & Associates, India Jun 2011 – Nov 2014
? Assisted in processing of Balance sheets, Income statements, and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting
and financial guidelines.
? Undertaken formation of business entities including preparing corporate documents, application for license and registering entities in
various states; managed day-to-day management activities including increase in Authorized Share capital, Issue of Equity shares, transfer
of shares and completed all initial and annual state and federal government filings.
? Prepared and filed various ROC forms with Ministry of Corporate Affairs; filed Income tax & Service tax returns for corporate, LLC
and partnership firms.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
? Predictive Analytics - Designed many prediction/forecasting models using real world datasets. Developed using different supervised
learning algorithms (Logistic & Linear Regression) implemented in SAS and R. Multiple techniques were used for data cleaning,
imputation, categorical encoding, normalization, feature reduction, ensemble, binning, boosting and model validation.
? Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation – Performed analysis on the financial statements of two publicly traded companies.
Evaluation on basis of asset utilization, cash flow, liquidity and profitability, capital structure and solvency. Built forecasting and
valuation model using Discounted cash flow and Dividend discount model to calculate the intrinsic value of the Company.
? Risk Assessment & Simulation – Built an assessment model of VAR & ETL using methodologies like Moving average, implied
volatility, GARCH modelling implemented in MATLAB to draw comparison of ETL & VAR between developed & emerging
economies.
? The Big 5 Personality Test – Performed Business Understanding, Data Understanding and Data Mining steps to explore data set in
depth using the CRISP – DM framework on SAS. Implemented various predictive analytics techniques to communicate and present
important findings from the data.
INTERNSHIPS
Analyst Intern - Finance & Legal - M. D. Baid & Associates, India Jun 2010 - May 2011
Analyst Intern - Finance - Dhiren R. Dave & Co, India May 2009 - Nov 2009