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Berlin, De

Berlin, Germany

Lead of the Banking and Accounts Receivable team and backup for the Finance Section Manager for the regional service center (CSDP), which provides shared services to 28 Canadian embassies in Europe and Africa.Additional responsibilities include ensuring compliance to government accounting policies, fraud risk mitigation, and implementation of improvement projects (eg, enhancing banking processes in Africa, client dashboard creation in PowerBI and SAP modifications).

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Managed a team of five accountants and assistant accountants. The team was a centre of excellence for National Grid's £4bn of UK revenue. Responsibilities included executing month end close, reporting, forecasting, audit queries and providing ad-hoc subject matter expertise to a wide range of Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.In this role I also supported the design and implementation for revenue of SAP S4/HANA.

Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Supported National Grid's UK business on price control related activities, including business plan submission to the regulator, answering internal and external queries on the price control, and training the UK Finance function on the price control. This role required in-depth knowledge of the financial aspects of the RIIO price control and included working with Ofgem on parts of this price control.

London, United Kingdom

This role was in the Relationship Management team within the Treasury function, the team responsible for ensuring good working relationships between National Grid and it's banks, credit rating agencies and debt investors.

Responsibilities include multi-year forecasting of specific types of operating expenditure, calculating labour rates for timesheeting, and management accounting for part of the Electric Transmission business.

Warwick, Warwickshire, England

Placement as part of the company's Finance Graduate Scheme. The bulk of the role was to use BEx Analyser and Query Designer to provide effecient and effective MI that supports decision making across the whole of the business.This meant providing bespoke solutions from non-techincal briefs, requiring a close relationship with the customer to be maintained throughout the development process to ensure the final product met their requirements.

In this role I have developed customer service skills, and gained experience delivering a high-quality service as part of a team. I was often given sole responsibility of the bar and bistro area without managerial supervision during daytimes, and hence I was required to use initiative and to carry out tasks efficiently to ensure customers were provided with a premium service unfailingly.

Leeds, United Kingdom

I performed tasks for both the Administration and Actuarial departments. My roles included: drafting letters and Scheme updates to clients - including communicating technical information in a digestible manner; managing my time to balance several ongoing tasks successfully; organising and performing an update of records on clients’ details; modelling impact of changes on Microsoft Excel; delivering accessible data to other team members for further analysis; and taking part in group reviews and internal training to improve performance.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics And Economics, 4.0

Activities and Societies: EconSoc, SUMS, various football teams.Graduated with first-class honours. Relevant modules (with score obtained.

Education record

A-Level: Mathematics A, Biology A, Physics A, General Studies A. AS-Level: Chemistry B. During my second year, I tutored two AS-Level.

Education record

GCSE: English Language A*, English Literature A*, Mathematics A*, Physics A*, Biology A*, Chemistry A*, Geography A*, History A*.