Investment Associate - Growth Equity
Cyan Limited
Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months
- Cyan Ltd - a Dawood Group entity - is a Pakistan-focused Private Equity Firm which aims to make growth equity investments / provide expansion capital to high potential private companies
- Researched, proposed and successfully deployed investment of PKR 700mn in Glaciers (Pvt.) Limited - Pakistan’s largest cold storage
- Prepared DCF, multiples, accretion/dilution based financial models for equity valuation purposes
- Carried out LBO analysis and sum-of-the-parts analysis to analyse sources of value creation for investors
- Assisted in the investment decision-making process by presenting investment thesis to investment committee members and participating in term sheet negotiations with potential investees across allotted sectors i.e. pharmaceuticals, education, TMT, and non-food retail
- Buy-side evaluation of business plans and financial statements for the purpose of creating investment memorandum
- Validating financial assumptions used in operating models through primary research and discussions with key industry participants
- Developed PACRA's Corporate Business & Financial Risk assessment methodology; involving quantification of risk scales across different operating parameters, statistical estimation of LGD & PD, peer selection criterion, rating model build-up
- Conducted training programs on credit risk assessment for ERM and WBG divisions of notable banking clients
- Created DCF based equity valuation financial models for third party clients and/or internal users
- Led a team of three analysts responsible for credit rating assignments of over 25 clients pertaining to the fertilizer, banking, agriculture, islamic finance, and structured finance instruments
- Successfully completed structured finance consultancy assignment; involving securitization of trade receivables, computation of appropriate credit enhancement levels, and subsequent sequential pay tranching of issued securities
- Developed financial information processing tools including standardized forecasting, break-even and sensitivity analysis spread sheets
- Liaised and participated in meetings with senior management, including CEOs/ CFOs
- Prepared detailed rating reports communicating credit rating rationale, key rating drivers, and entity risk profiling to clients
- Publications: (i) Evolution and regulatory transitions of credit ratings in Pakistan, (ii) Role of put options in Pakistani bonds
- Developed Legal MIS framework for suit income, status & Incurred cost, resulting in 80% added reporting time efficiency
- Financial restructuring/ rescheduling analysis of non-performing advances with specific emphasis on credit & liquidity risk. Conducted credit analysis in order to propose financing facilities for clients as per business requirements
- Handled a portfolio of 8 defunct clients, monitored legal proceedings and assessed borrower settlement proposals
- Investigated growth patterns in emerging and contracting industries, presenting trend analysis to departmental head
Charter holder of the CFA® Institute
- Dissertation: Information asymmetry and buyer behavior in the online consumer markets: the case of Ebay Mobiles. - Modules: Research in applied economics, Industrial economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomic analysis, Principles of finance, Auditing, Management and financial accounting, Project management.