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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Provide valuation models for family and private enterprises by forecasting three way models for M&A or outright buying transactions. Assist in the production of financial packages to help enterprises re-finance debt for expansion or transactional (buying/selling) of businessProduce monthly and quarterly financial statements and net worth summary reports for clients. Audit employee contracts and hours for mergers and enterprises applying for additional government grants.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Responsible for the day-to-day accounting of Barings Finance.Handle the Barings Finance close period on a monthly, quarterly and year end basis, where key financial information is presented to upper-level management at period close meetings.Assisted and taken the lead in streamlining and improving numerous documentations and processes within Barings Finance.Created the new Barings Finance SOX Testing Narrative and Barings Finance Functional Currency files for the European Entities.Had interaction with our external auditors KPMG for three audit seasons and have made audit deliverables both in our US and European audits, which has seen Barings Finance receive no global deficiencies during my time.Accounting experience with middle market borrowers and loan originations.Workday and Workiva experience.

Athens, Ohio

Database establishment and maintenance for all Ohio University Grants and Scholarships. Preparation of journal entries for annual audit including locating, retrieving, revising and imaging to data base.Management and filing of donations to Ohio University. Maintenance of Excel spreadsheets with reports for the fiscal year with both reporting and filing batch numbers.Digitize hard copy files of financial statements and minutes/agendas from Ohio University Foundation Board Meetings. Competent experience with On Base and Oracle programs.

Athens, Ohio

Helped professors proctor exams and grade homework assessments.Assisted with data collection and annotation of Economic Journal papers.

Adelaide, Australia

Second 10 week Summer Internship with this Group between Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, working 37.5 hours per week. Helped established a financial evaluation template on Microsoft Excel in timely manner for bidders for future projects and was involved in the procurement processes to select consultants for future projects done by the Group. Assisted with the financial expert to unpack the valuation modelling provided by transaction adviser and to help construct a reserve price for sale for the Land Services Commercialization (LSC) Project (Sold at a transaction cost of AUD$1.6 billion).The daily use of Microsoft Office allowed me to become highly proficient in these programs, which in turn has developed my analytical and quantitative skills when reading confidential and sensitive information about projects. Analyzed, prepared and reviewed key evaluation and valuation model development documents for directors and private sector transaction advisers on sensitive deadlines.Assisted refining project management plan, spreadsheets and timelines for the various transaction advisers involved in the LSC Project, while undertaking industry relevant research in the form of environmental scans and drafted media/stakeholder material for the Treasurer of South Australia.Worked efficiently and actively involved in key meetings ranging from Steering Committee meetings, internal project teams and working groups meetings, and meetings with stakeholders and members from private service consultants. Numerous reports that I worked either individually or in a group were presented at these meetings. Collaborated and worked independently on writing reports and creating and updating presentations and reports to directors and private sector transactional advisers by gathering current economic and market information relevant to a specific industry.

Adelaide, Australia

9 week Summer Internship between my Junior and Senior years of undergraduate study, working 37.5 hours per week. Assisted with the financial expert to unpack the valuation modelling provided by transaction adviser and to help construct a reserve price for sale for the Land Services Commercialization (LSC) Project. Assisted refining project management plan and timelines, while undertaking general research in the form of environmental scans relevant to the industry and drafting media/stakeholder material for Treasurer of South Australia.Involved in the procurement processes to select consultants for certain areas of the LSC Project and HomeStart Finance Project by evaluating previous transactional history in these areas. Attended and actively involved in key meetings ranging from Steering Committee meetings, internal project teams and working groups meetings, and meetings with stakeholders and members from private service consultants.Successfully integrated and condensed financial data and research information from transaction advisers to make accurate and shorter sized documents, reports and spreadsheets for senior level management.

Evanston, South Australia

Summer Job between my Sophomore and Junior College YearsServed food, washed dishes, handled inventory and invoiced for food and beverage orders.

Gawler, South Australia

Summer Job between my Freshman and Sophomore YearProvided customer service, handled beverage orders and deliveries to the hotel, and continuous stocked inventory.

Evanston, Australia

First JobServed food, washed dishes, handled inventory and invoiced for food and beverage orders.

Masters, Financial Economics, 3.443

Completed projects on creating and managing diverse investment portfolios and used Bloomberg and SAS to write financial evaluations..

Bachelor Of Science, Economics/Finance And Mathematical Finance (Double Major), 3.801 Gpa Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: President of Student Athletic Advisory Committee (2015-2017). President of Kappa Mu Epsilon Chapter (2016-2017)..

South Australian Certificate Of Education: Atar Score Of 92.15