From Goldman Sachs M&A to Revenue Analytics Leadership

I started at Goldman Sachs as an Investment Banking Analyst (Apr 2019 – Feb 2020), working across Bengaluru and New York on live M&A and capital-markets mandates.

What IB taught me about commercial work

• Sector-level investment analysis used directly in live deal recommendations across Goldman's IB coverage.
• Commercial due diligence frameworks and contribution to 75+ investor materials per quarter across M&A, fundraising, and strategic advisory.
• Automated data-validation workflows across deal reporting that cut manual reconciliation time by ~40%.

The through-line

The skill was never "banking" for its own sake. It was rigorous commercial analysis under time pressure — the same muscle applied later to pricing experiments, GTM redesign, and ML guardrails at a 1,000Cr+ GMV D2C business.

Data is the weapon, not the job title. The transition from Goldman and J.P. Morgan to Good Glamm and Careem was a shift in industry, not in what the work required: make commercial decisions faster and better than the competition.