Asset Management Analyst at BNP Paribas (2025-10 – Present)
Contract role
- Identified mispricing in a mandate holding (Gorman-Rupp) by recognizing overlooked AI data-center cooling demand in its core pump business; DCF and peer analysis supported an undervalued call, with shares subsequently rising ~72% on margin expansion and deleveraging
- Built an NLP pipeline (FinBERT, Loughran-McDonald) in Python across 160 earnings transcripts to flag where management tone diverged from reported fundamentals, systematizing idea generation by routing the widest tone-numbers gaps into deeper fundamental analysis
- Analyzed multi-asset exposures (equity, credit, rates) across a USD 1.35T sovereign wealth mandate, producing recurring portfolio reviews on sector tilts, factor exposures, and risk concentrations
- Modelled 10+ active options structures within the mandate (spreads, collars, calendars, and combinations), tracking Greeks, scenario P&L across 3 macro stress scenarios
- Took full ownership of the monthly investment monitoring process across a rotation of 8 client mandates, running currency exposure, hedge, concentration, and leverage checks against IPS limits
Investments Analyst at Pentagreen Capital (2025-06 – 2025-09)
Summer Internship at HSBC & Temasek backed blended-finance platform with USD 1B in capital
- Constructed and stress-tested full-stack financial models for 3 renewable energy and infrastructure deals (total deal value of USD 150-250M), analysing revenue drivers, cost structures, and capex profiles
- Reviewed 10+ long-term PPAs (10 to 25 year tenure, approximately 500 MW combined capacity), scrutinising delivery guarantees, tariff escalation clauses to ensure robust and predictable cash flows
- Led the preparation of 5+ investment pre-screens for infrastructure and energy deals valued at USD 50–100M, assessing sponsor credibility, market dynamics, and financial viability, contributing directly to board meetings
Investment Banking Analyst (M&A) at OneTeam Capital (2025-01 – 2025-05)
Semester Internship at SME-focused acquirer and restructurer backed by Wavemaker Ventures
- Led due diligence on 2 major acquisitions including OneTeam's largest deal to date, enabling roughly $20M in enterprise value capture; scope included site visits, contract reviews, and scenario modelling
- Pioneered Project Chatbot at OneTeam Capital, building a revenue forecasting model using Python, NLP, and APIs to automate manual contract analysis saving about 15 to 20 analyst hours per week
- Conducted in-depth financial analysis and peer benchmarking on 4 acquisition targets, evaluating earnings quality, ROIC, and valuation multiples (EV/EBITDA, P/E) to directly inform shortlist recommendations
Equity Research Intern at Everest Insights (2024-05 – 2024-08)
Summer Internship at fundamental-driven, independent equity research firm
- Constructed a dynamic, self-updating financial model to assess the financial viability and impact of warehouse expansion for retail and textile firms, reducing model complexity and manual updates by 80%
- Incorporated macro factors (Fed policy shifts, energy prices, FX trends) into FCF valuation models, uncovering 4 valuation gaps (15 to 25% mispricing) across ASEAN equities
- Streamlined and defended critical assumptions for FCF, DCF, and Time Series (ARCH) models before an 8-member senior team, identifying key drivers and assessing the reasonableness of about 10 market-implied stock prices
Wealth Management Intern at Magnavera Advisory (2022-05 – 2022-08)
Summer Internship at wealth management platform backed by Great Eastern & OCBC
- Conducted CKA and CAR for 20+ clients; modelled tastes and preferences of clients using the mean-variance utility function, improving asset class selection by 15-20%
- Evaluated risk analytics metrics on institutional and high net-worth projects; identified key risk indicators to prepare comparative analysis for 10+ portfolios reducing CVaR by ~18%
- Attained M5, M9, and M9A certifications from the Singapore College of Insurance (SCI) on first attempt, specialising in regulatory and product advisory standards
Frontline Healthcare Worker at COVID Task Force x Raffles Medical Group (2020-01 – 2020-04)
Critical support role in detection infrastructure at national pandemic response taskforce
- Collaborated with more than 10 Clinical Nurses to monitor health of travellers at Changi Airport, operating advanced thermal scanning equipment to detect abnormal heat signatures during 12-hour shifts
