Finance and Accounting Teaching & Researching Fellow
New York University
Total years of experience :11 years, 8 Months
• Reduce non-systematic risk by observing the volatility fluctuations of Shanghai spot market sectors indices using Pearson Correlations and GARCH models on advanced excel and R programming,
• Researcher at New York Volatility Institute (VINs by Noble Prize Laurate Robert Engle) to build financial models and analyze portfolio theory.
• Utilized financial data platforms to research and build valuation models (WIND, Bloomberg, and Thomson one)
• Teach undergraduate recitations in Financial Accounting, Essentials of Investments, and Corporate Finance, covering the following contents: portfolio management (Stocks, Bonds, Forex), CAPM, IFRS, USA GAAP, revenue recognition issues, derivatives, capital structure, and equity valuation.
• Teacher assistant to eminent professors: Cedric Lesage (HEC Paris), Sebastian Pouget (Toulouse School of economics & Princeton), and Martin Cherkes (Columbia, Princeton, & Upenn)
• Advisor for NYU Student Government for budgeting, financial, and constitutional procedures,
• Built financial models to conduct quantitative analysis of financial data and carry out a forecast,
• Predict revenues and costs for three joint venture projects in two different cities,
• Worked with senior management to create 5-10 year financial projections for use in client presentations,
• Created customized due diligence reports for invested clients,
• Conducted feasibility studies, market surveys, and delivered presentations to current and potential clients
• Generated and prepared projected financial statements (IS, BS, CF, DCF) and analyzed financial ratios in order to brief the senior management on quarterly financial performance: such as IRR, NPV, and gross margin,
• Constructed annual and quarterly financial models which were used to estimate the company’s future revenue growth and earnings.
Enrolled in Advanced Microsoft Office classes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and data entry.
• Built and updated risk management analysis reports and loss controls,
• Managed general liability and workers’ compensation reports and worked closely with the benefits department.
• Processed client requests and bill transactions, certificates of insurance, change requests, and auto ID cards,
• Constructed matrices of various depths for group health plans,
• Researched online real estate and healthcare markets and narrowed down acquisition candidates based on financial criteria such as revenue growth and EBITDA margins.
• Worked with financial consulting engagements: business valuation, financial modeling, and market analysis.
Intern, Arab Bank Corporate Department & Capital Bank Corporate Department, Amman, Jordan June- July 2011
• Worked with the financial institution's corporate clients.
• Worked with trade finance which included: third party letter of credit confirmations and letters of Guarantee.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Utica College, Syracuse University, New York, United States May 2013 Bachelor of Science in Risk Management and Insurance, summa cum laude, (GPA: 3.81) King’s Academy- High School, Amman, Jordan May 2010
King's Academy- High School, Amman, Jordan May 2010