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Corporate finance,
read from four markets.

I'm Shrawani Sawant — M.S. Finance (STEM) at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business. I've studied finance in Mumbai, sustainability in Singapore and central banking in Munich, and I now build the valuation and FP&A work in New York. CFA Level I candidate. ACCA BT and CFI's FP&A Professional behind me, FMVA in progress.

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Based in
New York, NY
Graduating
December 2026
Focus
Corporate Finance & FP&A
Status
Open to full-time roles

Profile

A global perspective, used as a working tool.

4Countries I've studied finance and business in
3Professional qualifications earned or under way
2Research projects completed
15Months in statutory audit and indirect tax practice

My training has happened in transit. I started in Mumbai, reading balance sheets in a market that moves on sentiment as much as on fundamentals. I spent an exchange semester in Singapore on sustainability and entrepreneurship, in a city that treats long-term thinking as infrastructure rather than as a slide at the back of the deck. I went to Munich and Austria on Fordham's Global Immersion Program to work out how the European Central Bank holds a currency union together when its members agree on very little. Now I'm in New York, where a lot of the numbers I had only read about actually get made.

What that adds up to isn't a list of stamps. It's a habit. I can walk into a room where the assumptions differ from my own and find the shape of them quickly: what counts as acceptable risk, what regulators will tolerate, what a persuasive argument sounds like. None of that is the same in Navi Mumbai, Singapore and Manhattan, and knowing it isn't the same is most of the job. That is what I mean by a global perspective: not trivia about places, but a working sense of how differently people can be right.

The work I want sits in corporate finance, including valuation, capital structure, budgeting and forecasting, and the analysis behind a capital decision. I've done the unglamorous version of it too: fifteen months of statutory audit and GST compliance in Navi Mumbai, where a model is only worth what the underlying statements can support. That's the part of my training I'd defend hardest.

Alongside the degree I've been building the technical base deliberately rather than incidentally: ACCA's Business and Technology paper, CFI's FP&A Professional certification, the FMVA now in progress, and CFA Level I ahead of me. Each one was chosen to close a specific gap between what a classroom teaches and what a desk expects.

Selected projects

Things I built to think with.

A study tool, a custom GPT, a variance analysis, two dashboards and a financial model. Most of them started the same way: I wanted the thing to exist, and it didn't.

AlphaMath Calc+

Founder and sole developer

Visit alphamathcalc.online

It started as a personal problem. Across four curricula in four countries I kept meeting the same formulas taught four different ways, and I kept wanting one place where each one was a working calculator sitting next to a plain-English account of why it exists. Nobody had built it the way I wanted, so I built it.

It now covers 353 entries across 25 topics — time value of money, statistics and regression, economics, corporate finance, valuation, portfolio theory, derivatives and alternatives. 269 of them compute live and show their worked steps rather than sitting there as static reference cards; the rest are concept explainers for the ideas that don't reduce to a formula. The Excel templates carry real formulas, not frozen tables, and a numeric self-test harness fails the moment any calculator drifts from its expected output.

It's a vanilla static site: no framework, no build step, nothing to install. That was the constraint I set myself, and I kept it. A student should be able to download the folder, open it offline, and still have every calculator working in ten years.

By the numbers

353
entries spanning the syllabus, foundational to advanced
269
live calculators, each showing its worked steps
25
topics, from time value of money to alternatives
8
subject areas
4
Excel templates built on live formulas
0
dependencies, build steps or frameworks

Also built

Excel · DCF

Ocean Carriers: Capesize Newbuild Valuation

Capital budgeting for a $39M capesize dry bulk carrier, built to answer whether the ship should be commissioned at all. Four scenarios: fifteen and twenty-five year operating lives, each run under US and non-US tax treatment, discounted at 9% with survey capex, straight-line depreciation, working capital and scrap value all carried through to free cash flow. The decision turns almost entirely on domicile. Under US tax the newbuild destroys value on both horizons; operated tax-free the same vessel returns $7.1M over fifteen years and $11.0M over twenty-five. Holding the ship past the fifteen-year scrapping policy is worth roughly $2.4M more either way, which is an argument against the policy itself.

4 scenarios NPV by tax regime

Power BI

Budget vs Actual Spending Dashboard

The same question as an interactive dashboard rather than a report — actual spend against full-year budget, broken down by IT area, cost element, region and date, with a budget-versus-forecast view for someone who wants to explore the variance themselves instead of being handed a conclusion.

View the dashboard

Tableau

Seattle Short-Term Rental Market

Pricing, availability and review activity across Seattle's short-term rental market, built from the city's open listings, calendar and review data. The question was what actually moves a nightly rate — location, capacity or seasonality — rather than how many charts fit on a page.

See it on Tableau Public

Excel

Three-Statement Financial Model

Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow linked through their own supporting schedules — fixed assets, debt and equity — driven off a single inputs tab. A dedicated checks tab fails loudly the moment the balance sheet stops balancing, which is the only way to trust a model you haven't opened in a month.

Linked schedules Checks tab

ChatGPT · Custom GPT · Prompt engineering

ThesisGuard: Investment Thesis Challenger

A custom GPT built to argue against an investment thesis rather than support it. It runs a fixed sequence: what must be true, what the evidence supports, what contradicts it, how the assumptions hold under stress, and what would break the thesis outright. Demonstrated on Apple over a three-year horizon with bull, base and bear scenarios, an adversarial stress test, and the monitoring thresholds that would change the call. The finding that mattered: the thesis survives one assumption weakening and turns fragile when two or more weaken together. Built with a team of six for Investment Analysis with Data Visualization and GenAI at Fordham.

See the full Apple analysis

Case studies

The decisions behind the numbers.

Harvard Business School cases on capital budgeting, financial planning and the cost of capital: the questions a corporate finance team has to answer before a single number goes into a model.

  1. HBS 202027

    Ocean Carriers

    Capital budgeting

    Whether to buy a new capesize bulk carrier to serve a three-year charter. A DCF of the ship's cash flows, including special-survey capex, working capital and scrap value, run four ways: U.S. versus Hong Kong tax treatment, and a 15-year versus 25-year operating life.

  2. HBS 297028

    Clarkson Lumber Co.

    Financial planning

    Growth outrunning internal cash. Working out the sustainable growth rate, and sizing the bank borrowing a profitable, fast-growing business actually needs.

  3. HBS 289047

    Marriott Corp.: Cost of Capital

    Cost of capital

    WACC and CAPM for the company, then divisional hurdle rates for lodging, contract services and restaurants, unlevering and relevering beta for each division.

  4. HBS case

    Cost of Capital at Ameritrade

    Cost of capital

    Deriving beta where no clean pure-play comparable exists, to price the risk of a growth investment.

Research

Two projects, both about decisions made under strain.

Fordham Global Immersion · Germany, 2026 · Independent research

The Role of the European Central Bank in Stabilizing the Eurozone

An assessment of how the ECB's monetary policy tools contribute to Eurozone stabilisation within a structurally diverse currency union. The paper traces the move away from conventional interest-rate policy toward quantitative easing and asset purchases during major crises, reads that shift through Optimum Currency Area theory, Keynesian stabilisation and expectations-based monetary theory, and concludes that while the ECB has succeeded at crisis stabilisation, persistent structural imbalances cap the long-run reach of monetary policy.

7 pages · PDF Read the paper

Amity Business School · Mumbai · Co-author

Strategic Plan for Young Entrepreneurs' Decision Making: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Startups in the Retail Sector

Undergraduate research, co-authored with Siddhi Tawal under Dr. Bhavika Thakkar, on how young founders build start-ups around private label products in Indian retail during COVID-19. We surveyed 55 start-ups in Navi Mumbai at three points over two months, alongside a study of 35 private label manufacturers, and analysed strategic planning and competitive advantage using ANOVA and correlation analysis. Only 7 of the 55 had any plan for a disruption like the pandemic. The paper argues that value-positioned brands must differentiate to prevent cross-shopping, and that nearby start-ups benefit from collaborating.

8 pages · PDF Read the paper

Professional qualifications

The technical track, and where I am on it.

Four programmes, deliberately sequenced — accounting fundamentals first, then planning and analysis, then modelling, then the investment side.

01

Passed

The accounting, law and governance foundation the rest of the track is built on.

ACCA

Business & Technology (BT)

02

Completed

Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting, end to end.

Corporate Finance Institute

FP&A Professional — FPAP

03

In progress

Three-statement modelling, DCF, comparables, M&A and LBO mechanics.

Corporate Finance Institute

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst — FMVA

04

Candidate

Ethics, quantitative methods, financial reporting, equity and fixed income.

CFA Institute

CFA Level I Candidate

Education

Four classrooms around the world, four ways of thinking about money.

Each stop taught a different discipline about capital and, more usefully, a different set of assumptions about what capital is for.

  1. BOMMumbai, India

    Aug 2020 — Jul 2023 · Undergraduate

    Amity University, Amity Business School

    B.B.A. in Finance, minor in Economics

    Where the foundation was built: financial derivatives, financial management, micro and macroeconomics. I ran the Finance Forum as elected Vice President, worked with the Entrepreneurship Cell, and finished first in the intra-college trading competition. I also co-authored my first research paper here.

    • Derivatives
    • Financial management
    • Economics
    • Vice President, Finance Forum
    • 1st place, intra-college trading competition
    • Entrepreneurship Cell member

  2. SINSingapore

    Exchange semester · Amity Global Institute

    Sustainability & Entrepreneurship

    Semester abroad, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    A semester on the two subjects that don't fit neatly into a finance curriculum and probably should. Singapore is a useful place to study both: a country that plans in decades, prices scarcity honestly, and has built a startup economy on top of that discipline. It changed how I read a company's long-term liabilities.

    • Sustainability
    • Entrepreneurship
    • UN SDGs
    • Full exchange semester, studied and lived in Singapore
    • Sustainability reporting and long-horizon capital allocation

  3. MUCMunich & Austria

    2026 · Fordham Global Immersion Program

    Global Immersion — Germany & Austria

    Institutional field research on European monetary policy

    A Fordham Gabelli immersion programme spent across institutions, firms and lecture halls in Munich and Austria, producing one research paper: The Role of the European Central Bank in Stabilizing the Eurozone. Germany's insistence on fiscal discipline is a character in that story, a strange thing to properly understand only once you are standing in it.

    • Monetary policy
    • ECB
    • Eurozone
    • Field research across German and Austrian institutions
    • Final paper on ECB crisis policy and currency-union constraints

  4. NYCNew York, USA

    Aug 2025 — Dec 2026 · Graduate

    Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business

    M.S. Finance (STEM designated)

    Advanced corporate valuation, global risk management, computational finance in Python, advanced financial modeling and wealth management. The point of coming here was proximity: to the market, to the people making the calls, and to the version of this work that gets done at the largest scale.

    • Advanced valuation
    • Risk management
    • Python
    • STEM-designated M.S. Finance
    • Advanced Corporate Valuation · Global Risk Management
    • Corporate Finance · Advanced Financial Modeling

Professional experience

Where the theory met a deadline.

May 2026 — Present

The Global Presence

Connecting mentors, schools and universities worldwide, embedding practical life skills into curricula

Public Information Officer

May 2026 — Present · California, United States

  • Built and presented a bottom-up budget model supporting a $50,000 seed funding proposal, benchmarking spend across four cost categories against Year 1 targets of 50 mentor placements, 200+ certificates issued and 15+ countries represented.
  • Designed a KPI and financial reporting framework tracking five impact metrics, enabling structured quarterly reporting to funders and grant bodies.

Ambassador

Jul 2026 — Present · United States

  • Led funding research across foundations, government programmes and international institutions, identifying the Calaveras Community Foundation as a fit for a $10,000 grant.
  • Work across fundraising, strategic planning, community building and stakeholder engagement for an early-stage international non-profit.

Jan 2024 — Apr 2025 · Navi Mumbai, India

Accounts Associate, GST

Nair and Nair Associates — statutory audit, direct and indirect tax, tax litigation

  • Delivered statutory assurance audits for 7+ clients, verifying regulatory compliance and reducing risk exposure.
  • Maintained 100% on-time GST filing accuracy across 50+ client accounts monthly, supporting ad hoc tax advisory analysis and litigation response drafting.

May 2022 — Jul 2022 · Mumbai, India

Finance Intern

Aditya Birla Capital — insurance, asset and wealth management

  • Conducted fundamental analysis on a 15+ stock pharmaceutical portfolio using three to four valuation metrics to assess financial health for portfolio managers.
  • Authored in-depth investment thesis reports synthesising company financials and market trends to support high-stakes investment decisions.

Jan 2021 — Mar 2022 · Mumbai, India

Director of Content, Entrepreneurship

VidyaVerse — ed-tech startup teaching ahead of the core curriculum

  • Led a cross-functional content team of subject-matter experts and volunteers, achieving 100% alignment with startup content and brand standards.

Certificates & training

Everything on the record.

Professional qualifications, technical certificates and coursework completed outside the degree. Cards with a link open the certificate itself.

ACCA

Business & Technology (BT)

Applied Knowledge paper — business environment, governance and accounting fundamentals.

Passed

Corporate Finance Institute

FP&A Professional (FPAP)

Full certification in financial planning and analysis, budgeting and forecasting.

Completed

Corporate Finance Institute

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)

Three-statement modelling, DCF and comparable company analysis.

In progress

CFA Institute

CFA Level I Candidate

Registered candidate for the Chartered Financial Analyst programme.

Candidate

Corporate Finance Institute

Excel Fundamentals — Quick Start

CPE-accredited course in spreadsheet modelling foundations. April 2026.

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NASBA · LinkedIn Learning

Power BI Essential Training

CPE-accredited training in business intelligence, reporting and dashboards. February 2026.

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LinkedIn Learning

AI Case Studies in Different Business Industries

Applied artificial intelligence across business functions. February 2026.

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Corporate Finance Institute

Accounting Fundamentals

Financial statements, the accounting cycle and reporting standards. June 2026.

Completed

ICA Edu Skills

SAP Certified Application Associate: SAP HANA FICO

Financial accounting and controlling in SAP HANA. August 2023.

Certified

23 more course certificates, CPE-accredited training and awards.

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Achievements

Things I'm glad are on the record.

Volunteering

Four organisations, one of them for four years.

Oct 2022 — Present

Make A Difference

Mentoring and foundation-skills teaching with children in shelter homes.

  • Mentor Aug 2023 — Present
  • Foundation Skills Volunteer Oct 2022 — Present

Non-profit

Umeed A Drop of Hope

Fundraising, environmental volunteering and lesson-resource planning for students.

  • Volunteer, Project Intern Education
  • Volunteer, Project Intern Environment
  • Fundraiser Fundraising

Jul 2026 — Present

The Global Presence

Funding research, strategic planning and stakeholder engagement for an early-stage international non-profit.

  • Ambassador Jul 2026 — Present

Non-profit

Maan Ki Umeed

Writing and content management for a mental-health and wellbeing initiative.

  • Writer Content

Toolkit

What I work with.

Core finance

  • Financial modeling
  • Corporate valuation
  • Budgeting & forecasting
  • Variance analysis
  • Statutory audit & assurance
  • GAAP reporting

Systems & analysis

  • Advanced Excel
  • SAP FICO
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Tableau
  • Power BI

AI-assisted work

  • Excel with Copilot
  • Applied AI for business analysis
  • Automated reporting workflows