Gonzaga University Graduate School of Business

UC Irvine

Accounting Graduate Student at Gonzaga University
Incoming Assurance at BDO

Skills: U.S. SEC Filings · Communication

BDO USA

Assurance Experienced Senior

Senior Analyst supporting R&D and manufacturing for high-growth oncology drug at F500 biopharma firm
• Planned and tracked over $50 million of operating expenses across R&D and Quality organizations
• Re-engineered month-end close and reporting processes, reducing time to completion by 3 workdays
• Led and participated in monthly and quarterly financial reviews, plan reviews and presentations
• Overhauled and automated forecasted plan P&L template for review with AbbVie CFO

AbbVie

Sr. Financial Analyst

Senior Analyst supporting growing mid-sized internet company in the web content management space
•	Built and documented dynamic model that forecasts billings and revenue from bookings
•	Created monthly expense dashboards for internal business partners in R&D, Marketing and G&A
•	Lead cross-functional team to automate reporting of historical revenue and billings data
•	Utilized PowerBI to build automated monthly KPI dashboard for upper-level management

Sitecore

Senior Analyst supporting fixed costs related to R&D, marketing, and services for leading American manufacturer of process control and metrology equipment for the semiconductor industry
•	Build detailed financial operating plan and five year forecast for over $80 MM of annual expenses and capital  
•	Attend regular meetings with the GM and VPs to ensure that the division is hitting financial targets
•	Continually improve forecast accuracy and efficiency of quarter-end and month-end close processes
•	Coordinate with international team in Singapore and India to ensure methodologies are aligned
•	Performed annual cycle count to physically verify the location equipment and machinery

Financial analyst at Adobe's high-growth Digital Marketing Business Unit, supporting the engineering and product management groups for Digital Marketing and Web Enablement Management products
• Plan, forecast and track engineering and product management operating spend, spanning across the Americas, Asia, and EMEA for the Digital Marketing Business Unit
• Built fully automated and customized monthly reporting for internal business partners, helping drive financial visibility for engineering and product management  VPs and  Directors
• Created business unit-wide tracking file to calculate the dollar-impact of headcount changes for 1000+ employee organization and provide weekly headcount/hiring metrics
• Involved in the budgeting and financial approval of outside vendors for ongoing quality engineering and product localization projects 
• Continuously refine, improve, and update various month-end accounting close processes, brining the entire process down to 3 hours
• Ad-hoc projects as assigned, including: customer overlap analysis between business units, industry-wide margin analysis, cross product adoption analysis, travel & entertainment spending trends, and more

Adobe

Financial Analyst

Served in a financial advisory subsidiary of Orrick’s municipal finance group, consistently ranked as a top three municipal bond law firm by the American Lawyer’s Corporate Scorecard rankings.
• Performed complex financial modeling and analysis, including bond yields, IRR calculations, and derivative valuations for state/local governments, public authorities, nonprofit organizations, and private companies
• Saved clients over $100K by interpreting applicable IRS regulations and applying quantitative methods
• Consistently met deadlines in timely fashion, resulting in $20-$50K of monthly revenue from inception
• Effectively communicated advanced financial concepts to municipal bond issuers, investment bankers, public finance attorneys, trust agents, and financial advisors

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Consultant

Worked as an integral part of the deal team in an aerospace/defense focused investment bank which provided M&A advisory services for middle-market firms ranging from $10-$100MM in annual revenue.
• Researched and prepared marketing material for a live, sell-side advisory deal of an aerospace machining firm with a valuation of $40MM
• Performed quantitative and qualitative analysis on M&A candidates in the Aerospace & Defense sector, including sellers, private equity firms, large and mid-tier aerospace firms
• Created and maintained database of over 2,000 strategic buyers and potential sellers in industry group

Sayan Bandyopadhyay