KIM JONGHO 김종호
Gwangjin-gu
Summary
Accomplished candidate with expertise in business research and financial analysis. Adept at conducting thorough market research to support strategic decision-making. Demonstrates proficiency in managing tasks and adapting to new challenges swiftly. Willing to pursue a career as a Venture Capital analyst.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Intern
F.I.M Asia
Seoul, South Korea
09.2024 - 10.2024
- Provided strategic advisory for an overstock e-Commerce startup on its potential ASEAN market entry, leveraging insights on consumer perceptions, e-commerce trends, and operational feasibility for handling nearing-expiration and refurbished products.
- Analyzed internal customer data to generate actionable insights for the client’s overseas strategy, identifying trends, customer behavior, and optimization opportunities applicable to new markets.
- Assessed operational feasibility by engaging with local logistics providers and analyzing regional data, estimating logistics costs and forecasting marketing expenses to support the client’s market entry strategy.
Associate Consultant Trainee
Bain & Company, Inc.
Seoul, South Korea
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Participated in an acquisition advisory (due diligence) of a leading waste treatment company for a private equity firm, analyzing the target's financial stability, and potential legal/social risks in addition to providing estimated value with various multiples (e.g EBITDA).
- Analyzed the target's potential by investigating the plausibility of its new recycling business, with researches on value chain, competitors' strategic initiatives such as partnerships, and the target' profit anticipation.
- Executed comprehensive research for an operational improvement project at a major battery company, comparing financials, suppliers, and workforce with competitors, and provided in-depth analysis of competitive advantages in the battery recycling business.
- Took ownership of a modular side business project (battery recycling) for a client, leading the comprehensive analysis of market structure, key stakeholders, product types, and industry trends.
Research Assistant
The Boston Consulting Group
Seoul, South Korea
03.2024 - 06.2024
- Performed comprehensive macroeconomic and competitive analysis of the Brazilian home appliance market to provide strategic recommendations for a leading domestic client seeking to improve market performance, the research mainly being executed in Portuguese.
- Conducted an in-depth analysis of competitors’ sales and channel strategies, covering logistics, production, pricing, bundling tactics, and actions in multiple platforms like 1P/3P e-Commerce platforms and offline distribution.
- Identified new product categories to enter in Brazil, providing clear recommendations based on market size, growth potential, and competition intensity through metrics like HHI and CR4, while also identifying potential acquisition targets to facilitate market entry, the research output being directly shared to client counterpart.
Project Intern
Kakao Pay Corp.
Pangyo, South Korea
07.2022 - 08.2022
- Participated in a consulting project on the business expansion strategies in the payment service market and devised the action plan of the business expansion process.
- Developed a comprehensive long list of strategic investment options, including established companies and startups, and evaluated their feasibility and potential synergies by analyzing financial data, market trends, strategic alignment, and business models to provide well-informed recommendations supporting the company’s growth objectives.
- Benefiting from interviewing prowess (e. g. Rapport establishment and responsive inquiry skills), conducted approximately 30 in-depth interviews with both sides of the payment service user groups (i.e Consumers and sellers), with originally created questionnaires, to derive insights on customer characteristics that contributed significantly to formulating 'To-Be' solutions, and was later called 'Interview Master' by teammates.
Research Analyst
IBM Consulting
Seoul, South Korea
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Participated in a project on enhancing customer experience for a global automobile OEM and suggested solutions for the effective application of CRM and customer data.
- Conducted a number of researches on customer marketing, including case studies on various CRM providers and legal analyses on the Personal Information Protection, addressing compliance issues of customer data marketing.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Seoul National University Data Mining Center
Seoul, South Korea
08.2020 - 08.2020
- Assisted a master candidate in writing a thesis on the relationship between employee reviews and market caps of firms, by data scraping techniques to compare words used in reviews of high vs. low-valued firms.
- Attended weekly graduate student seminars on big data analyses and made useful suggestions to help enhance the values of their researches, by critically examining the business implications.
- Developed text analysis/visualization skills and proposed a personal project topic: relationships between hashtag texts (e.g. cost-emotional efficiency) using WordCloud, which was developed to a complete project next semester.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Hispanic Language and Literature & Economics
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea 03.2018 -
Skills
- Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Business Research
- Financial Analysis
- Python
- Leadership
- Speech and Communication
Custom
- Piano Playing
- Soccer (Football)
- Book Reading
- Cooking
Languages
English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent
Korean
Native
Portuguese
Intermediate
German
Elementary (A2)
Affiliations
- Piano Playing (held 2 solo recitals)
- Soccer (Football)
- Running
- Cooking
Certification
Accounting Management II (Samil PwC), Passed CFA Level 1 Exam (CFA Institute), KBI Financial DT Test (KBI, Jul 2020)
Timeline
Project Intern
F.I.M Asia
09.2024 - 10.2024
Associate Consultant Trainee
Bain & Company, Inc.
06.2024 - 08.2024
Research Assistant
The Boston Consulting Group
03.2024 - 06.2024
Project Intern
Kakao Pay Corp.
07.2022 - 08.2022
Research Analyst
IBM Consulting
01.2022 - 03.2022
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Seoul National University Data Mining Center
08.2020 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Hispanic Language and Literature & Economics
Seoul National University
03.2018 -
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