Ankit Agarwal

About Ankit Agarwal

Ankit is a subject matter expert in conducting enhanced, integrity, vendor, and senior management due diligences. He specializes in conceptualizing and producing insightful and impactful research outputs on market and business intelligence for private equity, venture capital, and corporate clients.He has been a management professional with over 14 years of work experience in qualitative and quantitative research in private equity/venture capital domain across sectors. He specializes in creating structured, concise, and impactful research outputs on business intelligence. Content ideation, creation and marketing through corporate social campaigns are skills he has developed along the way. He has developed an intuitive eye for red flags, risks, and fraud associated with the operations in a business be it a start-up, corporate, or a multinational in both impacted and resilient industries.He is adept with identifying high-growth sectors attracting private equity/venture capital investments by thorough assessment of growth drivers, key performance indicators, and strategic deal dynamics across industries. He has worked extensively on due diligence, company profiling, target screening, peer -identification, competitive benchmarking, relative valuation, financial statement analysis and forecast, trend analysis, trading comps, transaction comps, investor returns, and report writing. He possesses strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of managing teams and client relationships on end-to-end output delivery.He aspires to become an angel investor and leverage his experience and expertise towards supporting the community that builds resilient and high growth start-ups into global giants.

Experience

1. Deputy Manager

   Deloitte

   Apr 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Maintaining highest level of confidentiality and integrity throughout the due diligence process while handling sensitive information and ensuring compliance standards are met. Understanding clients’ objectives, risk profiles, and needs and ensuring clear communication along with providing timely updates. Reviewing financial records, legal documents, contracts, regulatory compliance, and reputational risks to identify potential risks and red flags. Investigating integrity issues including fraud, corruption, or unethical conduct. Providing comprehensive reports, presentations, and recommendations, advising stakeholders on the potential risks and benefits of engaging with vendors, partners, or professionals. Advising clients on the risk mitigation strategies and providing solutions to address issues found during the due diligence process. Managing the workload across the team of executives and assistant managers, providing guidance, training and support wherever needed, and ensuring quality and consistency of the work product. Identifying areas of process improvement in the workflow including enhancements in work product, streamlining back-up work papers, and bringing overall work efficiency.

Education

• Delhi University

  Bachelor of business economics, Finance and Economics

  2007 — 2010

• Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

  Master’s Degree, Banking and Finance

  2016

Skills

• Transaction Advisory Services
• Financial Structuring
• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Valuation
• Economics
• Financial Analysis
• Private Placements
• Capital Iq
• Fixed Income
• Equity Research
• Research
• Data Analysis
• Financial Markets
• Financial Modeling
• Equities
• Analysis