Goldman Sachs

Summer Analyst, Liquidity Risk team (2018)

  • Governance: assessed governance structure across various entities, assessed evidence of regulatory compliance, used SQL to pull data on regulatory breaches to assess and manage risks, and reviewed and modified all Contingency Funding Plans* (CFP) across Goldman Sachs and its subsidiaries to ensure adequate liquidity responses in a financial crisis. Upon internship end, my new versions of the CFP, one of the main liquidity documents for Goldman Sachs, had been escalated to senior leadership for review.

    In addition to my internship in Governance, I also took on the following projects due to interest and need:

  • Investment Management: proposed and coded Python data analysis platform to model redemption liquidity risk (risk of fund pull-out and resultant liquidity crisis) based on investor redemption reactions to specific fund and market performance indicators in normal and stressed scenarios.

  • Goldman Sachs Bank: researched financial crisis failed banks’ deposit outflow structure to assess deposit liquidity risk in an analysis for Goldman Sachs Bank & Marcus.

  • Asked by department Chief of Staff to lead New York interns and coordinate with all Americas interns in final project.

*A Contingency Funding Plan is an FDIC-mandated document which includes policies, procedures, projection reports, and action plans designed to ensure a bank's sources of liquidity are sufficient to fund normal operating requirements under contingent liquidity events. According to the FDIC, “all financial institutions, regardless of size and complexity, should have a formal CFP that clearly sets out the strategies for addressing liquidity shortfalls in emergency situations. A CFP should delineate policies to manage a range of stress environments, establish clear lines of responsibility, and articulate clear implementation and escalation procedures. It should be regularly tested and updated to ensure that it is operationally sound.”

“[Niyathi’s] approach was very methodical and her ability to bridge financial considerations with the scientific merits of each target based upon very little input was exceptional. I was very impressed with her ability to navigate the limitations of financial projections for early stage biotherapeutics and present actionable recommendations that were sound from both a economic and technical point of view. I would recommend Niyathi for any team requiring a strategic thinker who can operate efficiently and independently and act decisively given limited resources.”
— Ryan Kum, Assoc. Director, Intrexon

Other professional roles

Summer Financial Analyst, Intrexon Corporation

  • Built discounted cash flow models in Excel and gave recommendations for biotechnology & pharmaceuticals mergers & acquisitions, new projects, and current subsidiary management

  • Built mechanism to score all potential future projects and decide which to pursue based on a number of quantitative variables including: resources needed, fit with corporate strategy, market potential and regulatory hurdles

  • Worked with subsidiaries to analyze cost structures and pricing models

  • Built financial models for technological, pharmaceutical, animal sciences, consumer goods, agricultural and biochemical industries

Private Equity Analyst Intern, K2 Fund (2017)

“[Niyathi’s] detail-oriented approach as well as the quality of her work enabled the program to move smoothly across multiple sectors and divisions. One thing which impressed me most was her way of connecting the complex scientific notions into a simple process-oriented view - which made it particularly easy to build a process upon in a complex company of >1000 people. She was instrumental building a scoring mechanism across multiple ideas to cross-compare and validate them - which made it phenomenally easy for the exec team to prioritize one against the other.”
— Burak Over, former VP of Operations & Head of Engineering, Intrexon

  • Screened investment opportunities and evaluated investment criteria

  • Performed due diligence including financial modeling, valuations and drafting deal memos

  • Presented multiple deals and analyses to General Partners

Accolades

National Finalist, Ernst & Young Corporate Finance Woman of the Year (2017)

Winner, Cornell S.C. Johnson School of Business Women in Investing Stock Pitch Competition - PagSeguro (PAGS) (2018)

Winner, Entrepreneurship Written Business Plan, DECA State Business Competition (2013)

Winner, Wharton e-Pitch Competition (2016)

Semifinalist, Wharton Startup Challenge (2017)

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Student roles

Director of Corporate Outreach, Wharton Undergraduate Consulting Conference (2017-2018)

Member, Authors@Wharton student committee under Prof. Adam Grant (author, Give and Take, Originals, Option B) - attracting, coordinating & marketing for author events with Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Sir Richard Branson, Brene Brown and more (2016-2018)