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Gaurav Chandak — Real Estate Private Equity | Financial Modelling · Underwriting · Portfolio Analytics | Ex-Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt (US RE) | CFA L3 Candidate | AI-Augmented Finance · AV FINCORP PRIVATE LIMITED · Pune District, Maharashtra, India.
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I work at the intersection of investment research, financial modelling, and applied AI—combining financial judgement with hands-on workflow building. My experience spans equity research, real estate asset management, credit analysis, investment evaluation, and portfolio reporting, including work with Goldman Sachs, RBS, and AV Fincorp. Across these areas, I focus on understanding business economics, assessing risk, and translating complex information into clear investment insights. Alongside financial analysis, I build and refine AI-assisted tools that address recurring research challenges: organising large volumes of information, comparing expectations with reported performance, and tracking developments that could change an investment thesis. My recent work includes:• An earnings research dashboard that brings together broker estimates, result dates, reported financials, and beat/miss comparisons.• Research-document workflows for collecting, naming, classifying, and organising broker reports into a more accessible company and sector research library.• Developing structured monitoring for corporate orders, capital expenditure, and acquisitions, with financial context to help assess their significance.• Designing a company-dependency framework to map external drivers such as raw-material availability, input prices, regulation, and industry demand. I use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Python scripts, PowerShell, and VS Code to develop and improve these workflows, drawing on financial research platforms including ACE Equity, Screener, and Trendlyne. My contribution starts with the financial problem: defining what matters, structuring the data, identifying exceptions, and checking whether the output supports sound analysis. AI helps me turn that understanding into repeatable research processes. I’m interested in investment research, asset management, private credit, and opportunities to build more effective research capabilities through applied AI.
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AssociateCurrent
AV FINCORP PRIVATE LIMITED · Mumbai
Sep 2025 – Present
-Alongside investment analysis and financial modelling, I develop AI-assisted research workflows and dashboards to support information organisation, earnings analysis, and company monitoring. This includes research-report collection and classification, broker-estimate comparisons, and the development of structured frameworks for assessing corporate announcements and external business dependencies. • Conducted sector deep-dives on Data Center investments — analysing demand drivers (cloud, AI, colocation), cap rate trends, lease structures, and key operator benchmarks across India and global markets. • Built financial models for Data Center assets incorporating occupancy ramp-up, power costs, hyperscaler tenancy structures, and IRR/MOIC sensitivity analysis. • Supported due diligence on private credit and structured lending opportunities, including cash flow waterfall modelling and covenant analysis. • Developed detailed LBO models for potential real estate and infrastructure acquisitions, including debt structuring, waterfall analysis, and equity return scenarios. • Prepared comprehensive investment memos covering market thesis, asset-level financials, risk factors, and exit strategy for review by the investment committee. • Assisted in preparing investor-ready presentation decks and portfolio performance summaries for the family office principals. • Developed and maintain automated n8n workflows to capture market announcements.
Founder
First Principle Coffee · Pune District
Jan 2023 – Jul 2025
Co-founded and scaled a specialty coffee business from zero, owning end-to-end operations, financial systems, and growth strategy. • Built all financial systems from scratch — P&L tracking, cash flow management, budgeting, and pricing models — developing a founder's instinct for where AI creates genuine operational leverage vs. noise. • Applied AI tools to accelerate business analysis, financial planning, and market research, compressing analytical turnaround time significantly and informing how I now approach AI integration in finance workflows. • Managed full operational cycle: supply chain, vendor negotiations, customer growth, and team building — building cross-functional decision-making skills directly applicable to enterprise finance roles.
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