RAY R. GONG

**-** **** **, **** Island City, NY *1101 / adbxel@r.postjobfree.com / 1-951-***-**** / www.linkedin.com/in/rui-gong EDUCATION

Rady School of Management, University of California – San Diego December 2019 Master of Finance Mathematics (GPA: 3.8/4.0) San Diego, CA

• Key Courseworks: Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Accounting, Valuation in Corporate Finance, and Advanced Financial Risk Management

University of California – Riverside March 2017

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance Riverside, CA

• Key Courseworks: Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting & Reporting, and Investments: Derivatives Markets SKILLS & CERTIFICATE

• Skills: Microsoft Office with Advanced Excel, Python, MATLAB, SQL, Bloomberg Terminal

• Certificate: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level II candidate WORKING EXPERIENCE

GF Securities July 2019 – August 2019

Investment Banking Analyst Summer Intern Guangzhou, China

• Worked as a summer intern to help clients on various deals, such as refinancing loans, private placement, etc.

• Analyzed companies’ financials to measure their financial performance by reviewing 10K and 10Q to calculate different financial ratios, such as total leverage, free cash flow, debt repayment service ratios, price/earnings, etc.

• Assessed companies’ risk profile by conducting industry research, peer analysis, due diligence, and regulatory & compliance risk analysis.

• Partnered with credit officers, compliance officers, legal, and various departments to identify any potential risks associated with the clients.

• Assisted in preparing secondary offering pitch book for one client to raise around $150MM, and present the pitch book to both senior management and client.

Versailles Group December 2018 – January 2019

Mergers & Acquisition Analyst Intern San Diego, CA

• Worked with manager to revise and optimize Offering Memorandums for six middle market companies.

• Analyzed any potential M&A opportunities for clients by doing industry research, analyzing pro forma financials, conducting enterprise valuation, etc.

• Collected and reached out to potential buyers, ranging from single financial institutions to large multi-national corporations who have interests in South America’s middle capital market. Univest Securities May 2017 – May 2018

Investment Banking Analyst New York City, NY

• Utilized Excel to build financial models, such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model, to evaluate five companies’ enterprise value using multiple valuation methodologies, and performed in-depth company and industry analysis.

• Coordinated with manager to write comprehensive memos including company summary, financial performance, valuation, risk assessment, and equity price, and to present the results to senior management team and investors.

• Cooperated with teammates to create various materials for three deals with a net worth ranging from $15MM to

$100MM, such as approval memos, investor presentations, and press releases for issuers, etc.

• Communicated with qualified investors to help with their various inquiries and provide necessary information. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Goldman Sachs Capstone Project September 2019 – December 2019

• Worked with Goldman Sachs London Foreign Exchange office to provide trading data analysis and visualization.

• Led a team of four to run regression based on a time series of trading data and apply AR model to predict the number of FX trades on a given market over the next X minutes.

• Wrote the Data Quality Report and demonstrated how to use TWAP and VWAP algorithms to calculate the average price and time needed for the FX trades.

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