Zahir Y. Edwards-Crumbley

About Zahir Y. Edwards-Crumbley

I did not discover finance in a classroom. My earliest exposure was at an insurance brokerage in Manhattan — before high school, organizing balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements alongside the accounting team. That early contact with real financial documents shaped how I think about money: not as an abstract concept, but as a system with rules that can be learned, applied, and mastered. At 10, I read Rich Dad Poor Dad. At 14, I started coaching people in my community on budgeting, credit, and wealth-building — not because anyone asked me to, but because the gap between what I understood and what the people around me had access to was too wide to ignore. Today I am a sophomore at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona — Finance & Accounting major, Mathematics Minor, 3.8 GPA. I co-founded the Quantitative Finance Club from the ground up in 2024 and serve as Executive VP of Finance, leading programming for 50+ members across valuation workshops, industry speaker events, and technical training in Excel and Python. On the technical side I build models. NVIDIA DCF across bear, base, and bull scenarios. Trading comparables across 8+ public peers. A TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing model used by HP Inc. leadership. Bloomberg certified. CFI certified. JPMorgan and Bank of America IB simulations completed. Three words that describe how I work: meticulous, versatile, stubborn. Relocating to New York City in May 2026. Targeting investment banking, wealth management, and FP & A roles. Portfolio & full work history — zahiredwards.netlify.app

Experience

1. Sales Specialist

   Dillard's

   Jan 2026 — Present · Tucson, AZ, US

   Ranked 3rd of 11 associates in-store and 73rd of 270 across the district. Generated $108,601.72 in monthly SPH sales at a 380 SPH pace, maintaining a 82% regular unit rate and $313 average sales transaction — consistently outperforming store benchmarks across all tracked KPIs in a high-volume, client-facing retail.

Education

• Brooklyn College

  Dual Enrollment Student, Accounting and Finance

• University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting and Finance