Ben Blakey Email & Phone Number

Manchester, United Kingdom

• My role involves providing assurance and advice to clients over the quality of internal control, risk areas and governance frameworks. Some of the audits I have been involved with include:
• Financial Controls (e.g P2P, Treasury, Budgets)
• Health and Safety
• Information Governance
• Human Resources
• IT

Manchester

• Improving brand awareness by delivering the brand’s core message through multiple channels, including experiential, digital and in-store.
• Representing leading global brands such as Cadburys, Lego, Gillette and Philips. Tasks involved liaising with marketing managers to organise campaigns and briefing clients' management teams from Boots and Tesco about.

Manchester

• Chaired disciplined meetings ensuring club members voiced their opinions, dealing with complaints throughout the season and electing team roles in a democratic manner.
• Responsible for entering of the team into the inter-mural league, including collecting and handling of money to pay match fees, pitch fees and referee fees on a weekly basis. Handled the clubs annual budget of £1000.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Peer Assisted Study Session Leader. Responsible for facilitating learning for 'Introductory Mathematics 1st year students. (Had to achieve 80%+ in exam and enrol on an extensive training course over the summer, comprising of 18 hours of training). Prepared structured sessions for a group of 14 lasting an hour, with students having different academic.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Recruited a student-team of 6 people to help collect old items of clothing/unwanted foods from the Owens Park Campus and subsequently redistributed these resources to the less fortunate. Devised a variety of strategies to increase students awareness of poverty in Manchester including regular talks and updates at the popular student bar, in front of up to.

York, United Kingdom

• Balanced 16 hour a week contract at Morrison’ supermarket with my A-level studies. Developed time management skills, provided customers with solutions and worked within a large team of 40 members of staff.
• During busier periods responsbile for Fresh Food department, acting as supervisor for a team of 8. Delegating jobs, completing weekly staff rota and taking part of weekly meetings with management team.

Harrogate, United Kingdom

Liaising with the local schools of Harrogate and the Viper Rooms to organise successful afterparties at the nightclub. Involved meetings with the leavers ball organisers and the Viper Rooms management team to discuss pricing of drinks and entry deals, whilst negotiating times of entry and closing. Developing professionalism skills and how to act tactfully.

Harrogate

6 week summer placement gaining a valuable insight into the running of a medium sized organisation. Spent a lot of time managing the social media feeds of the company using complex software to generate sleek media coverage. Within the Harrogate area I worked as part of a street team, interacting with locals conducting market research on the popularity of.

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics, 1St - Averaging 72.4%

Current Modules: Advanced Macroeconomic/Microeconomic, Business Economics, Managerial Economics, Market Research and International.

High School, A-Levels In: Economics (A), Business Studies (B) And Geography (B).

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder of the Economics Society and Economics Revision Club. Prefect, XI Football Team, 2nd Team Rugby.

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