Karan Shah

Background

About Karan Shah

Finance professional with 13 years of experience in working across Corporate Banks, Credit Rating Agency and Equity Research Firm. Excelled in credit underwriting, drafting credit risk opinions and presentation of credit recommendations to the management committees supported by thorough analysis of business risk/project risk, business value chain, financial statements, industry dynamics and dynamic financial models built for conducting stress tests. During corporate banking stint have managed portfolio of 40+ corporate clients spanned across various industries in infrastructure sector viz. Energy (Oil & Gas, Renewable and Non-Renewable Power), Metals & Mining, Road Construction (P3 – HAM & BOT, EPC), Real Estate - EPC as well as other non-infra verticals such as Logistics, Digital Media, Metal, Ceramics, Engineering and packaging. Major role involved credit underwriting, deal structuring, financial modelling, trade finance, debt syndication and loan documentation. Has maintained top quality asset book and ensured zero delinquencies by continuously monitoring portfolio for early warning signals. Key skills- Credit Risk Underwriting and drafting credit risk opinions - Financial Modelling and stress testing - Strong accounting knowledge and its application in Financial Statement Analysis - Transaction structuring - Relationship Development; Legal & Commercial Negotiations - Project and team management; corporate portfolio management Karan is a Chartered Accountant (CA) as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Karan is inclined to learn programming languages which can be used for financial modelling (currently learning python).