Academic Experience (About 4years)

• Professor (Accounting, Economics, and Finance) at T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal, Karnataka.
• Visiting faculty at XLRI Jamshedpur for teaching Project Finance course to Post Graduate Diploma in Finance (PGDF) students
• General Manager (Academics) at Management Training Institute, SAIL, Ranchi- designed and conducted various management development programmes such as developing business acumen, business finance for young managers, cost behavior and decision making, strategic orientation for managers, business finance & costing, creating value through cost optimization, e-modules for financial literacy, etc,
• Program Chairperson for MBA program and Co-Chair for Executive Education Program at T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal, Karnataka
• Research published in reputed management journals such as Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, Journal of Indian Business Research, Global Business Review, etc.
• Serving as a reviewer for journals such as International Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics Letters, Cogent Business & Management, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, etc.

Industry Experience (About 28 years)

• In diverse roles, including General Manager (Academics) at the Management Training Institute, General Manager (Raw Materials) at the Centre for Engineering & Technology, and various other management positions at Steel Authority of India Limited
• Gained valuable consulting experience working with HATCH Associates, Perth, Australia.
• Industry experience includes:
• Consultancy: managed multiple consulting projects involving feasibility studies, detailed project studies, due diligence, financial appraisal of projects, options analysis, cost estimation, discounted cash flow analysis, and capital budgeting decisions
• Contract & commercial:  Tender & contract documents, tendering & bid evaluation; writing proposals & participation in bid; coordination with clients, suppliers & sub-contractors
• Corporate planning: Scouting for mining business opportunities, deft in interpreting mining acts, rules and regulations in different nations & their implication on business opportunities
• Business Management: Managing safe & efficient mining & processing operations, formulating & implementing operational strategy, and coordination among various stakeholders
• International Business Exposure: Australia, Canada, Republic of Mali (Africa)

• Working capital management
•  Earnings Management
• Corporate governance
• Capital budgeting decisions

• Awarded the BOG Chairman’s Gold Medal for academic excellence during postgraduation at IIM Ranchi.
• Best paper award for the paper titled “Influence of working capital efficiency on firm’s composite financial performance - Evidence from India” at the International Finance and Accounting Conference (ICAF) 2023, IIM, Jammu

• Sawarni, K.S., Narayanasamy, S. &  Padhan, P. C. (2023), “Impact of Earnings Management on Working Capital Management Efficiency”, Finance Research Letters, Vol. 54, pp. 103778 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.103778
• Sawarni, K.S., Narayanasamy, S. and Ayyalusamy, K. (2021), "Working capital management, firm performance and nature of business: An empirical evidence from India", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 70 No. 1, pp. 179-200. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-10-2019-0468
• Kumar, S.S., Sawarni, K.S., Roy, S. and G, N. (2024), "Influence of working capital efficiency on firm’s composite financial performance: evidence from India", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-07-2023-0374
• Sawarni, K.S., Narayanasamy, S., Gopal, N. and Shukla, A. (2024), "Whether Innovation Focused Companies Invest More in Working Capital: Evidence from India", International Journal of
• Managerial and Financial Accounting , Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. DOI: 10.1504/IJMFA.2026.10066880
• Sawarni, K.S., Narayanasamy, S., Chattopadhyay, S. and Chakrabarti, P. (2022), "Working capital management, financial performance and growth of firms: empirical evidence from India", Journal of Indian Business Research, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 361-381. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JIBR-12-2020-0382
• Kumar, K., Sawarni, K. S., & Narayanasamy, S. (2024), “Does Efficiency in Working Capital Management Impact the Overall Performance of Firms? Evidence from India”. Global Business Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231213524
• Sawarni, K. S. (2022), “Working Capital Determinants: Study of a Sample of Non-Financial BSE Listed Firms”, GROWTH: Journal of the Management Training Institute, SAIL, Ranchi, Vol. 50 No. 2, pp. 9-21.
• Sawarni, K. S. (2022), “Corporate governance in India: An investigation into the evolution and recent developments”, GROWTH: Journal of the Management Training Institute, SAIL, Ranchi, Vol. 51 No. 1, pp. 7-18.