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London, Gb

• Responsible for overseeing the operations of a £30m+ fund-of-fund platform with a diverse investor base of 80+- Responsible for driving technology and AI across the firm• Successfully restructured operations and implemented a new financial model of a fund of fund, integrating automation to enhance the quality and efficiency of investor reporting• Consolidated and streamlined more than 500 spreadsheets into 2-3 core spreadsheets, improving data management and reducing processing time for various tasks from 40 hours to just 5 hours per month.• Effectively managing a budget of over £500,000 across the firm, ensuring cost-effective solutions are in place and optimized for efficient operations.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Successfully rolled out a new expenses system across two locations, covering 100+ employees• Streamlined various procedures to enhance data entry efficiency for analysts in the CRM, resulting in an estimated weekly time saving of approximately one hour per analyst per week• Restructured and fortified the Finance department's revenue models by utilizing advanced Excel techniques for data management, manipulation, and reporting, to effectively track the firm's revenue from deals and ensure long-term scalability

London, United Kingdom

• Developed and coded a semi-automated trading strategy based on technical indicators and trends applied on currency pairs and indices

London, United Kingdom

• Updated bi-annual portfolio valuations to be sent to current investors with data provided by the asset management team• Performed regular investment valuations in Excel, such as a $30m bond portfolio, and country analyses for a potential geographical expansion• Managed the potential deals updates for weekly meetings with the investment team

London, United Kingdom

• Analyzed the biscuit industry in key European countries in order to help the client launch new brands• Built and presented slides for weekly internal team meetings as well as client meetings• Conducted interviews with biscuit industry experts to collect benchmarking data on the launch and speed of penetration of new products and brands in Europe

San Francisco Bay Area

Co-founded the Personal Investment Club at Hult International Business School with 85 members up to date.• Organizing insightful events by inviting financial professionals and tradersClub goals for 2015:• Organizing virtual trading competitions with Club members• Club members competed in the worldwide 2015 CME Trading Challenge

Shanghai City, China

Responsible for the research on the European and American power generation leaders, working within a 4 member consulting team for one of the largest electricity utility companies in China.• Analysed annual reports, financial statements and analysts reports to find key benchmarking data.

Loughborough University

Elected treasurer of the Loughborough University Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering Department students'​ committee representing 200+ students.• Managing expenses for events and socials with budgets and communication with the department's finance officer.

Loughborough University

As a university society, we published monthly e-newsletters to promote news, trends and issues around the world regarding three main areas: Financial, Social and Environmental Sustainability.• Investigated financial sustainability issues and innovations, shared within the society and through the e-newsletter.

Loughborough University

• Elected and trusted to manage the Club's money• Managed budgets for flying trips around England• Handled payments between pilots and the flying school

Loughborough University, Loughborough

• Elected by a ≈300 student assembly• Responsible for all secretarial duties including taking the minutes of all committee meetings• Organising department events• Improved team work and team leadership skills

Warrington, United Kingdom

• Created a report on all sodium-cooled fast reactors ever built• Analysed all incidents that ever happened at sodium-cooled fast reactors sites• Report used as a benchmark element for a future nuclear power plant in France

Luton, United Kingdom

• Based in the easyJet headquarters, worked within the ≈50 member engineering and maintenance team that has to guarantee the total airworthiness of the entire European fleet• Team had to ensure that the aircraft are fully available to the operation with extremely tight deadlines• Worked with the company's specific software to track the transfers of aircraft replacement parts across Europe• Insight of how an airline organises its large fleet to avoid delays and grounded aircraft• Shadowed most team members which allowed a good understanding of the bonds between each positions

London, United Kingdom

• Supported the IT Team with OS updates, transfers of data via servers• Assisted the team with daily tasks such as solving technical issues with employees.

Coursework (20,000 words + code in Pascal)• Wrote a program (using Microsoft Access and Visual Basis) meant to organise a senior partner's diary and store projects'​ and clients' data outputting reports• Arranged meetings with a General Electric Capital Aviation Services senior executive to discuss the features of the program

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• 6-day intensive aerospace engineering program covering basics of aeronautical engineering such as the science of flight, aircraft design, aerodynamics, fluids and thermodynamics.

Master Of Science - Ms, Energy, Trade And Finance

Continuing Studies, Getting From An Early Idea To A Real Business (Bus 217)

This course was dedicated to learn how to get from an initial “napkin sketch” of an idea to a real, profitable business. The whole process.

Master'S Degree, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Personal Investment Club World's most international business school. Top 10 FT ranking for international.

Bachelor'S Degree, Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of Loughborough University Finance Society, Flying Club Treasurer, Department's Vice Chair, Private Pilot.

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