Heather Katsonga-Woodward, Acca Cfa Email & Phone Number

Working on bringing large water infrastructure to the UK at efficient cost and on time.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Zumex Trading Company was 100% owner of the site NenoNatural.com, for a time the foremost UK blog & brand for curly hair care and the Queen of Kinks, Curls & Coils hair product line. The business operated using a UK-based contract manufacturer and Amazon’s fulfilment model. As Managing Director I had oversight and responsibility for:PRODUCT: generation of product ideas, recruitment of formulators, hiring of contract manufacturers, approval of designs.SALES & MARKETING: creation of digital marketing strategies that saw the business grow from a standing start to a peak off 420,000 Facebook fans, 325,000 Pinterest followers, 13,300 instagram followers and 60,000 email subscribers.FINANCE: oversight over all business spending, recruitment of staff, negotiating office leases, collation of all necessary documentation to enable our accountants to complete corporate tax returns and VAT returns, sourcing funds for capex and opex.RELATIONSHIPS: active pursuit of joint ventures and good supplier relationships accelerated growth of sales and social media influence.

Malawi

I wrote a weekly personal finance and business column for Malawi's leading media house, The Times Group. The target was middle-class, working women. See katsonga.com/femail for a reproduction of the articles I wrote.

Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom

Corporate Derivatives Liability Solutions and Sales (For Corporate Treasurers). Experience included coverage of: - Project and Export Finance (main coverage)- A range of corporate clients in different sectors (main coverage)- Regulated utilities (supporting coverage)- Financial Sponsor transactions (supporting coverage)- Well versed in ISDAs of structured PEF transactions.Core product experience:- Interest rate swaps (including FRAs, swaptions, caps, floors and everything in between)- Inflation swaps especially Gilt-style and revenue-style structures- Cross-currency swaps- FX spot, forwards, vanilla FX swaps and optionsSecondary product experience:- Basic oil hedging (put options, call options, collars and three ways)Key deal experience, in addition to a multitude of flow transactions:- King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Project- Centrica Windfarms Project- M25 Project - Yorkshire Water WBS - Dikkowita Project, Sri Lanka - West Durham Windfarms

Full-time Analyst at Goldman Sachs International in Infrastructure Advisory and Structured Finance Group, IBDDuties included:- Financial statement analysis- Financial modelling and valuation of regulated utilities and infrastructure assets- Research on sectors that the group is involved in: Infrastructure funds, toll roads, wind farms- Creation of presentations in collaboration with team members for clientsKey achievement: worked on the set up of $6.5bn Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Fund- At inception, was the biggest single infrastructure fund- Helped to sell the fund to internal sales force and potential investors thereby raising $6.5bn beating the initial target size of $3bn - Analysed feedback and relayed it to managers using charts and spreadsheets- Fully responsible for all logistics of roadshow and legal docs distribution- Helped in the modelling required to assess the economics of the Fund

1St, Ma, Economics, First Class (Hons)

I graduated with First Class Honours in Economics. According to my Director of Studies, Professor Michelle Baddeley, I was the first.

Secondary Education

Accounting

Option papers: Advanced Financial Management (P4) and Advanced Tax (P6)

Certificate In Corporate Treasury