Arun Swaminathan

About Arun Swaminathan

Arun has a well-rounded 15+yr finance experience in Tech Business Finance, FP & A and Investment Banking across US and India. Arun is a Finance Manager at Amazon supporting the Fulfillment Optimization Org (400+ tech team). Arun informs debates, influences leadership and directs the strategic roadmap and decisions. He is skilled in SQL enabling him to analyze complex data sets to identify opportunities to optimize and generate savings to the outbound fulfillment network and increase Amazon.com revenues. Arun also leads the FP & A function for the team where he creates mechanisms, analyses and checks to improve accuracy of loads. Arun has led the Investment Banking Structuring teams at Americas Execution, a crypto focused IB and Bankers Capital International, a start-up boutique IB where he structured and presented deals to CXOs and led investor calls with the approved deal structure. He was part of the Corporate Finance and Investment Banking teams at Rabobank and PwC where he worked closely with CEOs and owners leading sell-side transactions, made board presentations on bidding and synergies on buy-side transactions and negotiated with private equity investors for fundraising mandates. He has valuable end to end Deal experience from the origination phase of pitching for the mandate, finding the counter-party, value negotiation, due-diligence, legal documentation and closure of transactions. He has deep investment banking as well as industry insights across multiple sectors including agri, financial services, healthcare, real estate etc. in US and India.

Experience

1. Finance Manager

   Amazon

   Jul 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Guiding 400+ Fulfillment Optimization technical team’s roadmap and strategy by evaluating projects to quantify their business impact and RoI by analyzing complex datasets. Leading X-org initiatives across Speed, Transportation, CX & End2End planning orgs to generate savings for $100B+ fulfillment cost. Led the FP & A for Headcount & OpEx, reporting and controllership for Media & Ads business heads) where I created mechanisms, analysis and checks to improve accuracy of loads by teams during planning cycles.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  B-Tech, Electrical, Electronics and Communication

  2002 — 2006

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  MBA, Finance

  2006 — 2008

• ESAP

  Student Exchange Program, Finance, General

  2007 — 2007

Skills

• Valuation
• Equity Valuation
• Financial Modeling
• Mergers
• Financial Services
• Team Management
• Strategy
• Due Diligence
• Options
• Dcf
• Business Valuation
• Business Analysis
• Corporate Finance
• Managerial Finance
• Investment Banking
• Financial Analysis
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Financial Advisory
• Management
• Finance
• Private Equity
• Business Strategy
• Business Development
• M&a Experience
• Project Finance