I’m Sakib Mahmud, an infrastructure advisory analyst at EY‑Parthenon in Halifax. Since moving to Canada in 2021 I’ve worked on both coasts: technology risk at KPMG, investment banking at NewPoint Capital Partners in Toronto, and three roles at BCI, one of Canada’s largest institutional investors. This is the route so far.
Raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2021 I left for Canada and a finance degree, and the route begins.
23.8° N, 90.4° E on the Buriganga
2021 to 2024
Halifax
Where Canada started: Dalhousie, and a first co‑op across town.
Dalhousie University
Bachelor of Commerce, Finance (Co‑op) 2020 to 2024
4.10 out of 4.30 cumulative GPA, and the Dean’s List every semester.
1st place and best speaker, DCS Summer Case Competition
1st place, PepsiCo Case Competition
CFA scholarship, among several others
Teaching assistant and marker, 8 courses
Co‑founder and President, Dalhousie Quantitative Finance Society
VP External, Dalhousie Consulting Association
KPMG Canada
Technology Risk Consultant (Co‑op) Jan to Apr 2022
Audited financial risk inside technology‑driven processes for real clients, and learned early that data only creates value once someone makes sense of it.
44.6° N, 63.6° W on the Atlantic
Autumn 2022
Victoria
Across the country, to one of Canada’s largest institutional investors.
BCI
British Columbia Investment Management
Trade Management Analyst (Co‑op) Sep to Dec 2022
Trade execution support on the trade management team, and the start of a habit: finding the slow parts of a process and automating them away.
48.4° N, 123.4° W on the Pacific
Summer 2023
Toronto
A summer on the deal side.
NewPoint Capital Partners
Investment Banking Summer Analyst (Co‑op) May to Aug 2023
Built three‑statement models, comparable company analyses and precedent transactions to value clients’ businesses and potential acquisition targets. Found buyers, investors and targets through deal databases, and wrote the industry research, pitches, proposals and CIMs.
43.7° N, 79.4° W on Lake Ontario
2024 to 2026
Victoria, again
Back to BCI and the Pacific, for two roles and two years.
BCI
British Columbia Investment Management
Trade Management Analyst (Internship) Jan to Apr 2024
Executed time‑sensitive, multi‑million‑dollar trades across asset classes. Automated the monthly KPI report and brought the team onto Power BI.
Investment Accounting Analyst Apr 2024 to Apr 2026
Owned the daily NAV calculations and reconciliations for multi‑billion‑dollar funds under SOC 1 controls, and built the automated Power BI reporting and KPI dashboards the team still runs on.
48.4° N, 123.4° W on the Pacific
Now
Halifax, again
Back on the Atlantic.
EY‑Parthenon
Infrastructure Advisory Analyst, Strategy and Transactions since Apr 2026
The financial models behind a nation‑building infrastructure project delivered as a public private partnership: the payment mechanism, operations and maintenance cost frameworks, and value for money analysis, advising the public authority. Part of a team, and learning a lot as I go.
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Along the way
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