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Asad S.

Asad Sayani

AI in Finance | Company-Wide AI Champion

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    Cornell University

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    Fetch

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Asad also coaches for FP&A, College, and Business Operations & Strategy. View all.

Asad’s AI for Finance Qualifications

Experience level: Associate

I'm a strategic finance leader who taught himself to build. Two years ago I had never written a line of Python. Today I've built my company's first automated revenue pacing system with Claude Code, and it posts every business unit's implied month-end finish to Slack each morning, from gross revenue down to contribution profit. Leaders now catch misses in the first days of the month, when there's still time to act, not two weeks later. The part most people skip is trust. AI-built forecasts don't mean anything if no one believes them, so I built in automatic backtesting. Every month the system checks its own historical calls against actuals, in public, where anyone can see how it did. I was named a company-wide AI champion, made the case to be one of our first non-engineering Claude Code adopters, and built a shared library of AI skills my finance team uses every day. I also lead strategic finance for more than half the company's revenue across four business units, so this isn't a side project. It's how I do the job. I can help with: - Going from zero to building real finance tools with AI, with no coding background needed - Automating forecasting, pacing and recurring reporti - Making AI outputs trustworthy enough for leadership to act on - Driving AI adoption across a finance team - Positioning your AI skills in interviews, which is now one of the strongest signals in strat fin and FP&A hiring

Asad can help with:

AI Automation

AI Financial Modeling

AI Fundamentals

Automated Financial Reporting

Budgeting & Planning

Data Visualization

Financial Forecasting

Work Experience

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Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Fetch

2023 - Present

Hiring Manager

Fetch is a Pre-IPO ad-tech consumer rewards business with 14MAU. - Lead strategic finance for <50% of the companies' revenue and EBITDA across four business units centered around JVs/Partnerships: credit card, third-party dining (launched 0->1 as GM), affiliate eComm, and marketplace driven mobile game advertising - Sit on Chief Revenue Officer's 4-person advisory council - Named company wide AI champion for driving adoption and creating the tooling the team now runs on - Drove team through Annual Planning, Long Range Planning, and multiple equity and debt financings

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Strategic Planning and BizOps

Thrasio

2020 - 2022

Admissions Committee

Thrasio was an eCom roll-up business that acquired 200+ companies in a few years. At the time it was the fastest profitable unicorn in US history. 4th hire on Strategic Planning and BizOps team. - International Growth and GTM - Sales Operations - Corp Finance

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Investment Banking

Société Générale

2019 - 2019

Advisory and Financing Group. AbbVie's $63B acquisition of Allergen.

Education

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Cornell University

B.S., ILR, Business

2017 - 2020

Held leadership positions in Student Government (elected official, voting member), Cornell Hedge Fund (on campus investment team, New Member Educator), and Delta Sigma Pi.

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McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)

BBA, Finance

2016 - 2017

Transferred out after freshman year. Received admission to two Ivy League schools as a transfer.

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