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London, GB

London, GB

• GoHenry is on a mission to make every kid smart with money, providing a debit card and app for kids and parents. Working as an analyst within a product team, the major responsibilities were:
• Improving signup funnel conversion by analysing user behaviour (using GA, SQL, Mixpanel) to uncover opportunities for improvement, design A/B test, and create potential solutions. Proposed multiple winning tests.
• Conducting investigations for teams and senior stakeholders across the company covering topics like LTV and churn.
• Filling in for the Product Manager role owning payment success and KYC. Increase KYC completion by 2% by improving fail messaging, and payment success by 3% by enabling a broader range of card payments and error flags.

London, GB

• Tractable applies AI to accident recovery. Joining as the first BI hire, the role focused on:
• Establishing the BI function, including goals, KPIs, processes, overall roadmap and ways of working.
• Producing all of the active BI resources across the company for internal use – saving 30 hours a week in reporting – and as paid products for major customers.
• Training team members to act as analysts, covering technical skills such as building visualisations, and soft skills like crafting stories.

London, London, GB

• carwow is an online car marketplace, the Trading team existing to optimise short-term performance and long-term marketplace health, with the core of the role being:
• Hiring, training, and managing the performance and development of two insights analysts.
• Acting as lead commercial analyst on major projects, including a 6-month business model pivot, typically working with carwow’s Executives and C-Suite.
• Producing Tableau, and SQL based resources for teams across multiple countries, training more than 50 individuals on how to use them to self serve and solve problems.

London, London, GB

• Trading Managers are responsible for the performance and health of a brand portfolio, as well as influencing company strategy across wider teams. Main responsibilities included:
• Managing marketplace health for a portfolio totalling up to 50% of carwow UK sales.
• Leading multiple cross-team commercial activities, the largest being a site wide summer sale requiring the co-ordination of 6 teams.
• Contributed to the product roadmap, drafting solutions to commercial specific problems. Two releases are now an essential components of carwow promotional activities, while other changes increased configuration funnel.

London, London, GB

• Trading Analysts are responsible for a brand portfolio, data distribution and availability for commercial teams, and are embedded in key business areas as general analysts. Responsibilities included:
• Managed the health of value & smart choice brands, helping this become the highest converting segment.
• Producing BI resources for teams across 3 countries, many receiving high traffic (including 6 of the top 10 most monthly viewed resources).
• Acting as the sole analyst working on growing carwow’s used car proposition, advising on commercial performance, marketing strategy and product changes.

London, London, GB

• Joined the Trading team as an analyst, owning a broad range of commercial responsibilities.
• Owned the performance of a portfolio of 8 automotive brands, growing this portfolio from 22% of UK sales to 30% by the end of the year.
• Created processes to scale Trading team activities, such as those for solving front end errors and launching new models, halving time to completion in each case.
• Became the company expert for a sales channel, immediately available cars, orchestrating initiatives to increase the supply of these by 20%.

London, London, GB

Generalist internship, covering everything from research to customer service calls and internal audits. Offered a full-time role after conducting a viability investigation into a new market segment.

Boston, MA, US

• Internship within GE Oil and Gas finance, monitoring and reporting on key financial metrics for 3 sub-businesses. Primary elements of the role were:
• Assisting the FP&A manager project P&L outcome on a monthly and quarterly basis, investigating any reporting discrepancies.
• Identifying and running process improvement actions, saving 25 man-hours a month.

Brussels, BE

• Placement year at a Brussels based communications consultancy, focused on supporting the team of consultants. Key responsibilities included:
• Daily media and parliamentary monitoring, producing briefing packs for consultants.
• Assisting in pitches and RFP submissions, including for the company’s highest value contract.
• Stepping into the consultant role on various projects, such as organising events for trade bodies, and producing training decks for a major multinational food company.

GB

• Summer internship working directly with the founder to support ongoing operations and growth, including:
• Managing teams of volunteers conducting PR activities at major UK festivals.
• Signing up new partners, mostly independent festivals, through targeted outreach.
• Running the company twitter account and customer service inbox.