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Huanyu Xiao

Huanyu Xiao

Research Analyst

Intern Open to opportunities
  • Designed and conducted 20+ expert interviews and performed customer segmentation and competition analysis
  • Populated complex info. from lit research, in a visualised way to 500+ pages deliverables deck, and designed a process strategy, reducing redundancy in team work by 50%
  • Assisted the team to identify relevant industry information to be collected, and created scenarios and strategies to perform 40+ overseas cold calls, increasing efficiency by 100%
  • Performed trend/correlation analysis on school size, fees, expansions, international level and graduate placements, and produced 60+ reports and 100+ pages ppt, under the complexity and data difficulty of the HK pre-school industry
  • Analyzed business scenarios (e.g. insourcing/outsourcing) for each transformation solution, and performed gap analysis by mapping contextual processes and interviewing external vendors
  • Collected gap data from the client through interviews, and performed cost/benefit analysis and NPV/IRR computations
  • Tracked and conducted fundamentals decomposition and financial modelling (including sensitivity analysis) for 15+ companies
  • Led a 5-member team to deep research on key sector topics, including value chain specifics and dynamics, regulation frameworks and MSCI-added A-shares to the US comparables benchmarkings
  • Drafted regular industrial & 3+ deep company research reports, and prepared for roadshow pitches with research directors
  • Led a 3-member team to report credit status of subsidiaries based on ratio analysis and liability management, and assisted the manager in advising on the corresponding financing risks and financial controls to the subsidiaries
  • Improved daily reconciliations and bank acceptance bills processing, increasing volumes processed per day by 20%
  • Assisted the account manager prepare AR aging analysis, reducing AR 30-day overdue by 15%
  • Initiated and established a communication strategy for the Foreign Currency office to collaborate efficiently with correspondent banks in different time zones, reducing 1-day delay of SWIFT message processing by 20%
  • Initiated a database on financial sanctions (e.g. OFAC and FATF) to maintain real-time compliance for operations division
  • Performed KYC due diligence on Iranian companies, including historical transactions screening and ownership investigations

Co-founder

HD Program
August 2013 to December 2015
  • Drafted the business plan with cofounders, led a 5-member team to pitch to potential sponsors, and managed to guarantee AUD 20k annual sponsorship from an Australian real estate agency, and achieved AUD 30k and 40k profit in 2014 and 2015
  • Led a team to negotiate partnerships and organized 8+ marketing events, each contributing to 5+ instant tutorial bookings
  • Developed the reward system and pricing policy to solve tutor bypassing issues and hereby strengthened revenue flows

Master in International Management (CEMS)

HEC Paris

Since January 2018

Master of Science in Finance, Master in International Management (CEMS)

Stockholm School of Economics

August 2016 to June 2018
Cum. GPA 4.5/5.0 (=3.7/4.0)
Investment Analyst at Stockholm Student Investment Fund | Financial Markets in Emerging Market
Corporate Finance | M&A | IFRS | Portfolio Management | Fixed Income | Applied Econometrics (Top 5%) | Wealth Management

Bachelor of Commerce

University of Sydney

March 2013 to December 2015
Majors: Accounting, Business Analytics
GPA 3.63/4.0 | Outstanding Academic Credential (Top 5%)
Financial Econometrics Research Assistant (2015) | Tail Risk and Volatility (Conditional Autoregressive Expectile) | Scholarship
Business Applications| Financial/Management Accounting | Taxation/Corporate Law | Data Mining | Operations Research
  • Mandarin(Native) | English(Native) | Cantonese/ French (Conversational) | Swedish(Basic)

IT

  • MS Office suite | Bloomberg | MATLAB | R | SAS | Python | Stata
  • Bushwalking (Trip Organizer at Sydney University Bushwalkers) | Photography | Bamboo Flute | Skiing | Gardening