# JORDAN A. CARTER
(312) 555-0148 | jordan.a.carter@gmail.com | [GitHub](https://github.com/jacarter) | [Website](https://jordancarter.dev) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanacarter)

## Professional Experience (in order of relevance)

### Oct 2024 - Present | EPIC GAMES (consumption-priced AI creator tooling) | Remote
**Finance & Strategy | Forecasting, Planning & FP&A, AI Creator Tools**
- Own the financial model and unit-economics forecasts for Epic's AI Creator Tools - a consumption-based model (per-call, cache-hit, usage) that set launch pricing and removed ~$25M in annualized margin risk at ~50% gross margin
- Own the operating-expense and headcount budget for the AI Creator Tools team, running the rolling opex and cash-flow/runway forecast that paces hiring and spend against plan and flags variances to leadership early
- Run the recurring close and quarterly actuals-vs-forecast reviews for Unreal Engine, turning royalty, licensing, and bookings variances into budget reallocations, headcount decisions, and course-corrections against plan for leadership
- Partner across Product, Engineering, and GTM to turn roadmap, usage-threshold, and pricing trade-offs into investment and launch business cases, surfacing risk and opportunity early

**Agentic Finance | Automated the Finance Org's FP&A Tooling on AI Agents**
- Stood up Epic finance's first agentic operating layer, onboarding 20+ non-technical finance and business users onto Claude Code with a finance-specific curriculum, verification loops, and a shared library of reusable agent skills
- Built schema-aware agent skills that let finance partners self-serve from Workday, Salesforce, and Databricks, cutting manual pulls across 10+ close, forecasting, and reporting workflows
- Shipped SSO-protected deployment rails (GitHub Actions/Docker) that turn finance-built prototypes into governed, reliable production tools

### 2021 - 2022 | SHARECHAT (Google-backed social platform, 180M MAU) | Bengaluru, India
**Strategic Finance, Manager**
- Built ShareChat's first 3-month revenue-forecasting and business-planning process (Salesforce schema, approval flow, reporting outputs), holding monthly revenue within 5% of actuals
- Owned revenue planning for ShareChat's $255M Series G across self-serve, programmatic, and direct ad-sales, translating business-unit forecasts into board and investor diligence materials
- Built the sales-capacity and scenario model for a 6-month expansion from 50 to 200 reps against a $300M plan, setting headcount, channel mix, and productivity-ramp assumptions under high ambiguity
- Set bulk-inventory discount recommendations for a closed $50M+ annual ad deal, balancing committed spend, ad-yield trade-offs, and revenue predictability for Sales and Commercial leaders

### 2023 | PASS+ (Vertical SaaS platform, 25K users) | Los Angeles, CA
**Chief of Staff (MBA Intern)**
- Built the business case to reprice three SaaS plans around usage, storage cost, and churn risk while managing customer migration, shaping ~$500K in annualized EBITDA growth

### 2017 - 2021 | RAINSHINE ENTERTAINMENT (media/gaming investment platform) | Mumbai, India
**Corporate Development & FP&A, Manager**
- Built unit-economics models (LTV, churn, retention, CAC) and investment cases that underpinned a $1M gaming-as-a-service decision and a $3M content-platform launch, framing trade-offs for executives
- Translated $75M+ in acquisition and content-IP deals into post-close budgets, synergy targets, and integration plans presented to executives and the board
- Automated finance and performance data from 10+ sources into a centralized Python data lake, cutting manual reporting pulls and standardizing the team's source of truth

## Education
### 2022-2024 | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | Evanston, IL
**Master of Business Administration (MBA)** | Concentrations: Strategy & Finance · Dean's List · GMAT: 770

### 2013-2017 | INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA | New Delhi, India
**Chartered Accountant** | Cleared all exams in first attempt (top 1% across ~130k candidates)

## Additional
**Tools**
- Claude Code, SQL, Python, Databricks, Tableau, PowerBI, Excel, Salesforce, Workday

**Side Projects**
- gpt-researcher skill: an agentic deep-research tool (Claude Code) that fans out web queries and returns cited, current answers - the kind of AI-automated research workflow finance can self-serve
- Cadence: a local-first, Whisper-powered desktop app that turns rambling voice memos into clean, structured notes and action items, fully on-device