Finance • Analytics • USF ’26 San Francisco, California

Navya Kakkara finance & analytics portfolio

Finance & Business Analytics student at USF. FP&A at E.L.F. BEAUTY, President of SOMHP, and a former supporting developer on Roblox games totalling two billion visits.

3.90 GPA · Dean's Roll
$70M+ Forecast managed
2B+ Roblox visits
About · 00
Portrait of Navya Kakkar
San Francisco, 2026

A finance student
with an unusual backstory.

I didn't take the direct path to finance. For years I was a supporting developer on Roblox games that collectively passed two billion visits, which taught me more about reading user metrics, cohort retention, and monetization than any textbook could. I brought that same curiosity into corporate finance.

At USF I'm a dual-degree student in Finance and Business Analytics, 3.90 GPA, Dean's Honor Roll every semester. I've had the luck to manage $70M+ in forecast data as an FP&A intern at E.L.F. BEAUTY, place Top 3 of 12 teams in their Capstone, and serve as President of SOMHP, a 100-member honors org reaching 2,300+ students.

Top 3 · E.L.F. Capstone 2026 Outstanding Leadership President · SOMHP
Selected work · 01 Five pieces

Financial modelling,
analytics, and a few games.

Theme Park Tycoon 2 screenshot Game development · Analytics
Lead · 01 / 05

Theme Park Tycoon 2

I contributed to one of Roblox's most-played games as a supporting developer, analyzing user-retention cohorts, supporting monetization strategy, and assisting with A/B frameworks for in-game pricing. It's where I learned to respect what metrics actually mean.

Lua Monetization Cohort analysis Retention
Play on Roblox
E.L.F. Beauty Capstone FP&A · Capstone
02 / 05

E.L.F. BEAUTY Capstone

Built 4-year financial models for three product launches at a Fortune 500. Integrated top-down market sizing with bottom-up pricing and presented go/no-go recommendations to senior leadership. Placed top three of twelve teams.

Top 3of 12 teams
4 yrfinancial model
3product launches
Excel Financial modelling NPV / IRR Market sizing
Read the capstone
Gaming anxiety dashboard Behavioral analytics
03 / 05

Gaming anxiety & behavior analysis

Behavioral segmentation across 13,000+ gamers for a $200B market. Found high-anxiety players log 23% longer sessions; built an executive dashboard framing this as a retention-optimization opportunity.

13,464gamers analyzed
+23%session length, high-anxiety cohort
Tableau Python Statistical analysis Data visualization
View dashboard Read report
Amazon sales vs Google trends Demand forecasting
04 / 05

Amazon sales vs. Google trends

Predictive demand model correlating Google search velocity with e-commerce revenue across fifteen categories. Identified a consistent two-week leading indicator usable for forecasting.

r² = 0.73correlation strength
2 wkleading indicator
15categories
Python Pandas Regression API integration
Read report
Fillmore revamp project Economic development
05 / 05

The Fillmore revamp project

Worked with a team on a revitalization strategy for an underserved SF corridor. Built a 10-year model projecting $4.2M in tax revenue and helped secure $1,500 in seed funding from the Chamber of Commerce.

$4.2Mprojected impact
10 yrDCF horizon
Excel DCF modelling PowerPoint Market analysis
View strategy
Experience · 02 Six places

Places I've been
lucky to learn.

May 2025 – Sep 2025
Oakland, CA

Financial Planning & Analysis Intern

E.L.F. BEAUTY
  • Reconciled and migrated $70M+ in forecast data across Vena (NetSuite) and SAP; implemented version control and documentation to create an audit-ready change trail across forecast cycles.
  • Partnered with Marketing, HR, and Ops to collect and validate forecast inputs (lookups, tie-outs, variance checks) and delivered summary views used to explain forecast-vs-actual drivers to the CFO team.
  • Built an Excel reporting engine monitoring $1M+ monthly OpEx; automated KPI views and exception checks, cutting reconciliation effort ~30% (est.) and improving forecast-readiness for leadership reviews.
  • Built a Python regression forecast for T&E run-rate using headcount, seasonality, and event drivers; surfaced scenarios exceeding budget by 10%+ (est.) to support proactive cost controls.
Aug 2024 – Present
San Francisco, CA

Investment Data Analyst Intern

Silk Family Investment Institute, USF
  • Built a Python data pipeline (Reddit API) around earnings events and applied NLP sentiment labelling; delivered repeatable outputs to support investment discussion and research signals.
  • Standardized and QA'd large financial datasets (10,000+ data points); documented workflows so analysts can reproduce results and reduce data-quality defects in future cycles.
  • Trained analysts on Bloomberg, FactSet, and Excel; created onboarding guides to shorten ramp time for new researchers.
May 2025 – Present
San Francisco, CA

President

USF School of Management Honors Program
  • Lead a 100-member honors organization serving the broader School of Management community of 2,300+ students at the University of San Francisco.
  • Own strategic planning, programming cadence, and event logistics; coordinate a cross-functional exec team and represent SOMHP in School of Management leadership forums.
  • Recognized with the 2026 Outstanding Leadership Award for impact on honors membership and student programming.
Feb 2025 – Mar 2025
San Francisco, CA

Undergraduate Consultant

Malloy Group
  • Conducted site selection analysis for a $50M+ industrial-robotics facility expansion, evaluating 12 U.S. regions across labor cost, logistics, state/local tax incentives, and operational risk.
  • Built a 3-scenario Excel model with sensitivity analysis quantifying $2–4M annual cost variance across locations; incorporated 10-year DCF projections and break-even analysis to support a data-driven recommendation.
  • Led a 4-person cross-functional team through financial analysis, stakeholder presentations, and client deliverables, delivering an executive-ready recommendation deck within a 2-week consulting timeline.
Jan 2017 – Feb 2025
Sammamish, WA · Remote

Roblox Developer

Roblox · Freelance
  • Supported monetization design and virtual-economy mechanics across games totalling 2B+ collective visits (Theme Park Tycoon 2, Snow Shovel Simulator, Fling Tycoon); helped analyze user-retention cohorts to improve in-game engagement.
  • Contributed gameplay features in Lua, implementing event-based telemetry for tracking user engagement and identifying drop-off points.
  • Helped design A/B testing frameworks for in-game asset pricing; used cohort analysis to understand price sensitivity and improve conversion rates.
Jul 2024 – Aug 2024
Stanford, CA

Clinical Summer Intern

Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Completed Stanford Medicine's competitive Clinical Summer Internship; shadowed clinical research teams and contributed to project discussions on study design, patient workflows, and early healthcare analytics.
Education · 02.a
Expected June 2026
San Francisco, CA

B.S. Finance & B.S. Business Analytics

University of San Francisco
  • 3.90 GPA · Dean's Honor Roll every semester.
  • President of the School of Management Honors Program (SOMHP).
  • Coursework: AI for Business, ML for Business, Spreadsheet Analysis, Investment Analysis, Quantitative Business Analysis, Business Statistics, Data Mining, Data Visualization.
Skills & leadership · 03

Tools, systems,
and the rooms I've sat in.

FP&A & financial expertise twelve

FP&A Financial modelling Budget forecasting Variance analysis DCF valuation Financial planning & analysis Business partnering KPI dashboards Scenario analysis P&L management NPV / IRR analysis Investment research

Technical & systems nine

Excel (VBA, Pivots, VLOOKUP) Python (Pandas, NumPy) SQL Vena (NetSuite) SAP Tableau Power BI Bloomberg Terminal FactSet

Leadership five

President, SOMHP (100 members, 2,300+ reach) VP, USF Boxing Club Resident Advisor Dean's Honor Roll Stock Investment Club

Languages three

English (Fluent) Hindi (Fluent) Spanish (Conversational)
3.90 GPA
$70M+ Forecasts managed
Top 3 E.L.F. Capstone
2.3K Students reached
Get in touch · 04

Looking for a
2026 role in
finance or analytics.

I'm seeking an internship or full-time role where I can apply my interdisciplinary background to complex, data-driven problems. If you're hiring for FP&A, analytics, strategy, or anything in between, I'd love to chat.