John Owens, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Cork, Ie

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

At Netgear, I helped to deliver the AOP; build and improve company forecasts for EMEA; partner with sales leaders in various major regions throughout Europe, delivering financial analysis relating to sales performance and promotional events.

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

At mCards, I helped create and implement strategic business plans for growth and expansion at seed level, performing competitor analysis, business planning, cashflow forecasting, fundraising, monthly management reporting, corporate finance, product development and account management, driving ARR through market segmentation and licensing. I oversaw the finance and legal functions, launched a new investor relations department, initiated shareholder communication initiatives and implemented good corporate governance practices including the implementation of modern cap table management, resolution of tax issues, designing better AP process and internal controls. I implemented business intelligence dashboarding with AMAZON Quicksight for internal and external stakeholders and played a crucial role in key vendor negotiation and management.

County Cork, Ireland

As a valuations & modelling specialist, I model, identify and realise business value for clients across all sectors, from individual entrepreneurs to publicly listed firms.This included delivery of bespoke financial models, robust financial evaluations and business valuations. My team supported corporate M&A, Tax optimisation and restructuring with strategic input, operating due diligence and key decision making for engagements in agri, utilities, electricity generation and transmission and commercial property. Engaged to provide cross border merger analysis, share transfer valuation support, valuation of private company assets, shareholdings, and other non-traded securities and assisted in the development of financial and valuation policies and procedures for clients. Provided data analysis and insights utilizing modern business intelligence and data analytics tools.

County Cork, Ireland

As market modelling team lead, I helped transition the BGE front office for the launch of ISEM. This included leading an amazing team of very strong energy market experts in preparing the company for new market and supplier data feeds, delivering forecasts for market participant behaviour and incorporate wind generation forecasting and customer demand forecasting into Trading activity, helping BGE to utilize Whitegate power station for the benefit of our customers.

Cork

AT BGE, I helped to develop business cases for a range of energy technologies including CCGT and OCGT gas plant, solar PV, large scale CHP and BESS. Maintained a detailed understanding of the development in ISEM and DS3 regulations, gathering information related to wholesale, capacity and ancillary revenue streams. Strong advocate for the utilization of modern Battery Storage Systems and other storage technologies to deliver SNSP and renewables targets.

Ireland

Developed the content for a new and interactive online CFA curriculum. Responsible for course layout and instructional design as well as creating a comparative advantage over competitor products in terms of both content and UX.This entailed development of the learning pathway, designing original lecture materials and learning tools, writing lecture scripts, recording lectures in both video and audio and managing a team of animation professionals.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Designed and delivered a series of lectures for a group enrolled in the Morgan CFA study group program. Lectures covered specific CFA material including Quantitative Methods for Level 1, Financial Reporting and Analysis for Level 2, Derivatives for Level 2 and Portfolio Management for Level 2.

Vancouver, Bc

Developed new procedures and automations to deliver several key daily operations deliverables. These included an overhaul of the foreign exchange reconciliation process, managing wire transfer release, AML, settlement of Non-CNS Balance Order, international ex-clearing trades and GIC reconciliations.

Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for taking orders from various internal strategy teams and trading groups. Worked towards best execution on trades in futures, forex and equity markets. High volume, high pressure role.

Hdip Business And Financial Information Systems

Crossover course with modules in accounting, financial markets, programming, database management and IT.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Final Year project: Depth of Anesthesia Research using Quantitative Analysis of EEG. Using EEG data supplied by the Cork University.

Education record