Nidhi Pathak

Corporate Finance, Balance Sheet & Capital Planning

Master Data – Financial Analyst Corporate FP&A - American Soccer Company, Inc. - Irvine, CA

(2025-09)

Corporate Finance, Balance Sheet & Capital Planning

• Own ground-up Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasting for ASC's $1B+ balance sheet, building bottom-up models for CapEx, Equipment depreciation, and Power infrastructure; forecasts are consumed in weekly CFO reporting packages and the Long Range Plan (LRP).
• Prepare weekly variance analysis reports on Balance Sheet and Cash Flow movements versus forecast, isolating drivers across Depreciation, Power, and Equipment categories; present structured executive summary decks to VP Finance and CFO staff each Monday with clear narrative on variances exceeding $100M.
• Partner with TI, Infrastructure, and M&A teams to maintain accurate capital asset inputs for Equipment and Power; led diligence support for 3 high-priority leadership requests including a gap analysis on data center CapEx that informed a capital allocation decision within 72 hours.
• Built automated SQL data pipelines in BigQuery replacing 8 manual model input processes; owns day-to-day pipeline hygiene and recommends process optimizations to management by reducing weekly data preparation effort by 60% and improving forecast accuracy on CapEx inputs.

Data Analyst II – Budget & Financial Planning - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Pomona, CA

(2024-01 - 2025-08)

• Maintained financial forecasting models for university operating budgets totaling $350M, writing SQL queries against the university data warehouse to extract actuals and producing monthly variance reports comparing spend against plan for 14 administrative departments.
• Built weekly reporting decks synthesizing budget utilization, headcount cost drivers, and capital project status into structured 5-slide summaries for the VP of Finance; replaced ad hoc email-based status updates and established a recurring weekly reporting cadence consumed by university leadership.

Financial Consultant – Corporate Finance & FP&A - Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP - Mumbai, India

(2022-05 - 2023-08)

Technology sector, CFO Advisory practice

• Supported Balance Sheet and Cash Flow modeling engagements for 2 Fortune 500 technology clients, building three-statement financial models (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) and delivering monthly variance analyses with board-ready summary decks used in investor relations and leadership planning reviews.
• Developed Hyperion and SAP-based financial reporting workflows for a $15B technology client, designing automated data pulls from Oracle ERP into Hyperion Planning; reduced monthly close reporting cycle from 12 days to 7 days and eliminated 3 manual reconciliation steps flagged by internal audit.
• Managed cross-functional diligence requests from Engineering, Treasury, and Corporate Development teams in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, independently resolved day-to-day data gaps while escalating structural forecast misalignments to engagement leadership within defined thresholds.

FP&A Analyst - Infrastructure & Capital Finance - P.B.Global Limited - Mumbai, India

(2017-06 - 2021-11)

Finance, Infrastructure Capital Planning

• Owned equipment and depreciation forecasting for data center and infrastructure fleet, maintaining asset lifecycle models in SAP and reconciling forecast vs. actuals monthly; variance commentary fed directly into Microsoft corporate FP&A rollups.
• Partnered with Infrastructure Engineering and Procurement teams to align capital asset inputs for server, network, and power equipment; produced gap analyses on equipment spend deviations exceeding $50M and escalated systemic forecast errors to management for process correction.
• Synthesized complex operational data into executive summaries, built a single-page CapEx tracking dashboard using SQL on Snowflake and Tableau that replaced a 40-tab Excel model previously managed manually by 3 analysts.

Junior Financial Analyst - Salgia & Co. - Mumbai, India

(2014-03 - 2017-06)

Corporate Finance, FP&A Rotational Program

• Rotated through Balance Sheet management, Cash Flow forecasting, and Variance Analysis desks, building foundational three-statement modeling skills and financial statement analysis experience across P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow interplay in a regulated financial services context.
• Automated monthly variance reporting using Excel VBA and SQL, reducing the team's manual data aggregation effort by 30%; also supported diligence requests from Corporate Development on 4 M&A transactions by extracting and formatting financial data from SAP.

Master of Science - Business Analytics - California State Polytechnic University (2025-08)

Bachelor's Degree - Finance - University of Mumbai (2014-05)