FP&A and financial analysis, commercial analysis and strategy, transaction services and valuation, or reconciliations and finance operations. Based in Belgrade, Serbia (CET), comfortable working across any time zone. Open to full-time employment, contractor or B2B. Available immediately.

Pavel Vasyutin
@pavelvasyutin
Financial & commercial analyst, 2+ years in Big Four deal advisory (former Deloitte and EY member firms): due diligence, forecasting, valuation.
What I'm looking for
Former Consultant at BST (former Deloitte member firm), working on financial and commercial due diligence for buy- and sell-side M&A.
- Designed and owned a driver-based cohort model of the national ATM market (~130k units, to 2035 with a view to 2045, three scenarios, stress tests) for a major bank's acquisition; showed the target's plan achievable but overstated. Directed two consultants, received a performance bonus.
- Rebuilt fixed assets from scratch for one of the largest railcar lessors after an earlier attempt had stalled: merged ~700k rows from six entities in 2–3 weeks, reconciled to contracts, 1C and financial statements, helped prepare IFRS adjustments.
- Quality of earnings on most FDDs: normalised EBITDA and working capital; built a consolidated IFRS balance sheet and P&L for a group of ~40 entities.
- On every FDD, reconciled 1C ledgers and balances to contracts, bank statements and trial balances, and confirmed large transactions with counterparties.
- Identified material financial, regulatory and crypto-specific risks across 7 jurisdictions in the DD of an international crypto payments company; reconciled its cash and crypto holdings to bank and exchange statements.
- Challenged a +45% single-year growth jump in the business plan of one of the country's largest education groups (cohorts, retention, CAC, pricing).
Before that, business valuation intern at B1 (former EY member firm): worked on the DCF valuation of two sawmill plants and processed a large international trade dataset in Python.
Advanced Excel (Power Query, XLOOKUP, macros), 1C (ERP), PowerPoint; working Python, SQL, Power BI.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Consultant, Financial and Commercial DD
BST (former Deloitte member firm)
Jan 2025 - Jun 2026 (1 year 5 months)
Financial and commercial DD for buy- and sell-side M&A.
- Designed and owned an ATM market cohort model (~130k units, 3 scenarios) for a major bank's acquisition; led two consultants, bonus.
- Rebuilt fixed assets of a railcar lessor: ~700k rows, 6 entities, 2–3 weeks.
- Quality of earnings, normalised NWC, IFRS consolidation of ~40 entities, reconciliations to 1C, contracts and bank statements.
Business Valuation Intern
B1 (former EY member firm)
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024 (5 months)
Business valuation and market analysis for industrial clients.
- Worked on the DCF valuation and potential sale of two sawmill plants of a top-3 wood products group; processed a large international trade dataset in Python and Excel.
- Assessed the Indian commercial vehicle market for a leading truck manufacturer: players, segments, prices, regional demand, entry barriers.
Accounting Intern
Ascreen
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022 (1 month)
Processed primary documents and posted entries in 1C under RAS; built an automated Excel model tracking the company's tax burden deviation from industry norms.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Higher School of Economics
Professional Development Certificate, Personal and Behavioral Finance
2025 - 2025
380-hour professional development program for HSE bachelor graduates, specialization in personal and behavioral finance, including hands-on trading practice.
Higher School of Economics
Bachelor's Degree, Economics
2021 - 2025
Activities and societies: Founder and Lead, VASPIRE peer-learning initiative for 200+ HSE students (2022-2024); 1st place, Kept (former KPMG member firm) Finance and Valuation Competition (2023); TeDo (former PwC member firm) Case Championship, DCF model (2023)
Thesis: value drivers of innovative companies, a regression study of 477 public companies; first-authored paper in the peer-reviewed journal Innovations (No. 6, 2024). Grades in the top 5-10% of the cohort. Winner of the Financier - Profession of the Future Olympiad (finance, statistics, calculus), 2025.
Higher School of Economics
Diploma of Professional Retraining, IT in the Financial Sector
2024 - 2024
1,444-hour professional retraining program: data analysis, programming and AI methods applied to finance. Qualification: Specialist in Economic Analysis and Modelling.
B1 (former EY member firm)
Audit School Certificate, IFRS and Russian Accounting Standards
2023 - 2023
Audit school covering audit under IFRS and Russian Accounting Standards (RAS).
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