Saad Abdullah

Experience

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  Berdict

  Mar 2013 - Feb 2015

  Co Founder

  Berdict is a movie review website where reviews do not exceed 400 characters. It is intended to provide exciting, short and crisp movie reviews to compare and helps in deciding which movie to watch in short period of time. There exist various movie reviewing websites such as Rottoen tomatoes, flixster, IMDB etc and each of them have their own niche. We thought there is a space in this market where people would like to read short and crisp reviews and compare multiple movies in a particular genre in short period of time.I co founded this start up with my college buddy Himanshu Pal. It was a great learning experience and taught me a lot. Show less

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  The Indian Trumpet

  Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

  Marketing Intern

  The Indian Trumpet is E magazine for Indian Expats who try to keep in touch with latest happenings taking place back in their home.I was responsible for increasing the visibility and awareness by building alliances who have similar target market.Acheivement: Successfully executed cross marketing plan to increase brand awareness and widened the reach

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  Air Works Group

  Apr 2014 - Jun 2014

  M & A and Strategy Intern

  My prime responsibility was doing financial statement analysis and building DCF valuation models of target companies based in South East Asia & Middle East. Apart from that, I was also involved in doing market analysis for preparing a list of potential acquistion target.

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  Goldrush Capital Services Pvt. Ltd

  Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

  Credit Analyst

  • Preparation of credit proposals: Evaluation of term sheets and loan agreements; Risk assessment• Preparing financial models and CMA data across sectors such as solar, real estate etc. from scratch• Project Appraisal: Detailed due diligence of the technical and financial viability of the projects• Assessing term loan and working capital requirements of clients in compliance with banking norms• Structuring the transaction on basis of cash flows and preparation of information memorandum Show less

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  PKC Advisory (Subsidiary of $32bn+ KIPCO Group)

  Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

  Business Analyst

  • Directly working with CFO office of KIPCO group on various key strategic assignments• Assessment of investment opportunities; valuation and transaction support services to KIPCO group• Forecasting financial performance of the KIPCO group on financial model and running various scenarios• Valuation of an asset management company for goodwill impairment testing• Analyzing budgets, long range plans and competitor benchmarking of key investments of the group• Preparing MIS with analysis related to movement of top KPIs and presenting it to management Show less

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  OakNorth Credit Intelligence

  Feb 2019 - now

  • Developed detailed financial models comprising transaction details, financials statements and credit ratios• Created various business scenarios for sensitivity analysis on projections for stress testing on loans• Conducted Peers Benchmarking for comparing and finding reasons for deviations in financial performance• Identifying deal specific covenants which can act as early warning signals while monitoring performance• Drafted credit reports in concise writing to summarize financial performance and highlighting key risks• Interacted with clients and team leads to discuss data gaps, inconsistencies and analytical frameworks Show less

  • Associate Vice President

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Senior Associate

    Apr 2020 - Mar 2022

  • Associate

    Feb 2019 - Mar 2020