Pratik S

Walk me through your resume" is a request for a story, not a line-by-line summary. Answer it in about ninety seconds. Say where you are now in one clean line, name the two or three choices that pointed you towards finance, then land on why this seat, this firm, and why now. Tie every point back to the job in front of you. The interviewer looks up from your CV and says six words. Walk me through your resume. It sounds like a warm-up. In practice it is often the question that decides whether...

Email etiquette matters more than Excel accuracy in your first year as an investment banking analyst, because models get reviewed and emails do not. Lead with the ask, state deadlines plainly, remove apologetic filler, and write every message so a VP could forward it to a client without editing a single line. Picture the path your first live-deal model takes. You build it, an associate checks it, a VP checks it again. Every formula, every link, every number gets a second and third pair of...

A Chartered Accountant can move into investment banking, and one of the clearest routes in is through valuations, where accounting knowledge is a genuine advantage rather than a gap to explain away. The interview will still test judgement that accounting alone does not teach: how to value something that does not sit cleanly on a balance sheet, how to talk about uncertainty without hiding behind a single number, and how to choose the right valuation method rather than default to the familiar...