Karthik Mahesh Sadasivan

MS Finance candidate at The University of Texas at Dallas with experience in valuation, financial modeling, and corporate finance analysis. Skilled in DCF, LBO, M&A, trading comps, and integrated 3-statement modeling through hands-on project and transaction experience. Currently serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Business Finance & Private Equity at JSOM and trained through Wall Street Prep.

Seeking a 2026 Investment Banking Summer Analyst role to apply analytical and deal execution skills.

Graduate Teaching Assistant — Business Finance & Private Equity - Naveen Jindal School of Management (JSOM), The University of Texas at Dallas - Dallas, TX

(2025-08)

Selected from the full MS Finance cohort to support 160+ undergraduates in Business Finance and Private Equity

• Graded financial models and case submissions, led pre-exam review sessions, and assisted the professor in developing course materials covering DCF, LBO, and capital structure analysis.
• Conducted weekly office hours explaining valuation concepts, capital structure, and financial modeling to students reinforcing own technical fluency in DCF, LBO analysis, and deal structuring through applied, repeated instruction directly aligned with investment banking analyst skill requirements.

Research Intern - ShowMyTrade - Bangalore, India

(2024-08 - 2024-10)

• Cut equity research report turnaround by 15% by redesigning the data collection and analysis workflow enabling team to expand mid-cap coverage across 10+ companies without additional headcount, directly increasing research output capacity.
• Built trading comparables and sector valuation frameworks across 10+ mid-cap companies using Bloomberg and Capital IQ supporting internal portfolio allocation decisions with buy/sell recommendations grounded in financial statement and earnings.

Finance Executive - Lorman Kitchen Equipment Pvt Ltd - Bangalore, India

(2023-01 - 2024-07)

B2B Manufacturing & Distribution

• Reduced monthly reporting turnaround by 30% by engineering automated Excel-based reporting templates, eliminating manual reconciliation and freeing analyst capacity for strategic financial analysis and management-level decision support.
• Identified working capital inefficiencies through cash flow modeling and financial performance analysis, leading to a 15% reduction in cash conversion cycle and unlocking working capital through improved liquidity and capital utilization thus recovering 5–7% cost optimization results used to support strategic capital allocation decisions and presented directly to senior management.

MS - Finance - The University of Texas at Dallas (2025-01 - 2026-12)

BBA - Center for Management Studies (2020-08 - 2023-11)