Darshan Nanda, Associate

Darshan Nanda

Associate

KPMG

Location
Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
Experience
13 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months

Associate at KPMG
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since April 2015

 Work as a part of a deal advisory team to execute various engagements for the client including valuation, feasibility study, information memorandum, business restructuring, strategy etc;
 conduct commercial analysis highlighting market size of the industry, market drivers, competitive benchmarking, demand-supply gap, SWOT, business risk and many more;
 build robust financial model explaining the business model of the company/ project and quantify the investment requirement in future;
 forecast future financial performance of the company based on the proposed business objective, historical financial and commercial analysis;
 prepare detailed information memorandum highlighting key investment points, growth prospect and value preposition of the company;
 carry out valuation(s) of business spanning across diverse industries using valuation techniques such as DCF, relative valuation, recent transaction comparable and NAV approach;
 develop and prepare project concept note, business plan and financial forecast based on the market research to test the profitability of the Project;
 carry out sensitivity, scenario and break even analysis for the Project/ Company;
 assist senior team member in developing teaser and shortlisting investors for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals; and
 develop proposals/ marketing document as a part of business development opportunities available in market.

Associate at PKF Sridhar and Santhanam
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2013 to March 2015

 Analysing the financial statement for company/projects, documenting the latest regulation or transaction in system and preparing presentation on various sector;
 forecasting the company’s future financial performance in light of economic indicators and industry;
 conduct various valuation methodologies such as DCF, relative comparison & recent transaction comparable for company valuation;
 independently preparing robust financial projections/models based on economic indicators;
 prepare detailed information memorandum for investor; and
 prepare sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis and break even analysis for decision making.

Analyst at PKF Sridhar and Santhanam
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2011 to March 2013

 Accountable for understanding the business process of company for developing risk monitoring system and analytical reports;
 conducted study on the business process of company and identified the risk in the business process;
 develop exception and analysis report across all the department including sales, operations, HR etc.; and
 Prepare VB code, which will run on the system data (SAP, TMF Universe, RSPM, SAGE CRM etc.) and developed exception reports for the client.

Education

Master's degree, CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
  • at CFA Institute
  • August 2016
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Mumbai Educational Trust
  • April 2011
Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College
  • May 2008

Specialties & Skills

Financial Modeling
Investment Advisory
Investment Banking
Valuation
Interpersonal skill
Business writing
MS Excel
MS Powerpoint
Networking skills
Business development

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

CFA Institute, Charlottesville, USA
  • CFA
  • September 2016

Training and Certifications

Certificate in Project finance (Training)
Training Institute:
Indian Institute of Banking & Finance

Hobbies

  • Playing volleyball