After we got selected, we were asked to prepare a presentation on FinTech Start-ups operating in India and which would be discussed at a later stage.
I was finally set to start my amazing two-month experience! The very first day of our internship we had a formal orientation and we were sent to our respective departments. After a formal introduction with our mentor, the CFO himself, he discussed the presentations that we sent him after the recruitment procedure. Then he got talking to us regarding our areas of interest so that he could accordingly align the projects. Since, I wanted to explore more about the core areas of finance such as Valuation and Projections of the company, I was handed over the project for valuing Pay1 after making projections for upcoming 3 years.
Initially I was asked to understand the working of the company, different products offered, the competitors, its market standing, and further move to associating the numbers with this initial research. It was an incredible experience to work closely with real life scenarios. The best part about the internship was that it enabled me to get a hands-on experience with the real-life scenarios.
All through my journey I had a constant support from my mentor. Though he was the CFO of the company and had many responsibilities bestowed upon his shoulders but never did he refuse to help me out whenever I went to him with any of the silliest doubt of mine.
This sounds like a happy fairy-tale where everything is just so perfect without any issues or difficulties, well, that’s not true. It was not always this easy. There were times when I was too frustrated that I wanted to leave and come back, but amidst all that, I just reminded myself, nothing comes too easy. Since, it was a start-up, the data available was not very well managed, which lead to delay of work many-a-times.
In the last week of my internship, I gave a presentation on whatever I had worked upon in these two months in-front of the entire management and other interns as well. My mentor was extremely proud of me. And I was satisfied with to have done this internship because it helped me gain confidence to put forth my views and more importantly this internship gave me the clarity, I needed to pursue my career into the field of finance.
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