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Lisbon, Portugal

Finance professional managing and optimizing financial operations across Uphold and Optimus UK Cards, two closely connected entities, ensuring seamless fiat and crypto operations within a unified ecosystem.Uphold:1) Team Coordination: Lead team planning and task delegation, ensuring efficient knowledge transfer in crypto and card payments.2) Financial Analysis & Reconciliation: Conduct in-depth analysis and reconciliation for crypto and fiat transactions to inform operational decisions.3) Product Strategy & Integration: Assess and integrate new financial products and technologies to drive process improvements.4) Regulatory Reporting: Oversee U.S. financial statement preparation and compliance.5) Process Optimization: Drive automation initiatives to streamline workflows and boost productivity.6) Liquidity & Risk Management: Manage liquidity, hedging, and transaction fees across exchanges.7) Risk Management: Lead financial risk assessments and develop best practices documentation. ***Optimus UK Cards:1) Financial Reconciliation: Ensure compliance and accuracy in Mastercard® and banking transactions.2)Settlement Management: Oversee daily card payment settlements and liquidity for smooth transactions.3) Data Accuracy & Automation: Collaborate with tech teams to maintain data integrity and automate processes.4) Cross-Functional Support: Advise Compliance, Accounting, and Product teams on financial impacts of platform updates.5) Risk Management: Lead financial risk assessments and develop best practices documentation.6) Planning & Process Optimization: Manage and organize best practices for process optimization and support operational planning.

Lisboa, Portugal

Main functions:1) Team Coordination: Coordinate team activities, plan and delegate tasks, ensure knowledge transfer, and monitor task completion;2) Advanced Financial Analysis and reconciliation: Conduct in-depth financial analysis and prepare comprehensive reports and alignment for operational decision-making;3) Product Evaluation and Strategy: Assess and integrate new financial products and technologies to optimize processes;4) Enhanced Financial Reporting: Oversee the preparation and compliance of detailed financial statements and regulatory reports.5) Tasks Macro Management and Process Optimization: Implement automation and optimization techniques to streamline operations.6) Liquidity and Risk Management: Monitor liquidity levels, manage hedging strategies, and optimize transaction fees across exchanges.

Braga, Portugal

As FinOps analyst in the world of cryptos, we try to ensure the following objectives are met:1) Correct flow of users’ operations, i.e. understanding all types of inflows & outflows (payments, deposits and withdrawals) intra flows (trading), within the usual fiat systems or using blockchain transactions, minimizing users’ trading obstacles;2) Secure financial targets and requirements, at the same time, standardising, optimising and diversifying operations, using new sets of tools based on data analytics (e.g. excel, sql and python), process automation (bots), new apps and software solutions (e.g. Aws, Fireblocks, Ledger, Git-hub, Datadog, Metabase);3) Determine adequate levels of liquidity, hedging and diversification across exchanges (Cefi and Defi), according to strategies of fees optimization and control, mainly using ethereum blockchain (erc-20) and SPL tokens;4) Financial analysis of new investment trends in the scope of digital assets, e.g. staking of crypto assets, using data to support decision-making;5) Data reconciliation across all dependent systems and entities (real vs database), within banking systems, card providers, payments solutions, payments networks which could effectively identify sources of deviation or errors, providing meaningful insights (Daily, YoY, MoM);6) Data reporting, mainly for US regulators, in terms of Income Statement, Balance sheet, Permissible investments, Transaction details, etc.;Therefore, we cover a group of distinct dynamics which force us to interact with different teams and departments, specially data, backend, support, compliance, fraud and accounting.

Lisboa E Região

Support financial institutional clients to achieve and implement results accordingly to a set of objectives related to areas where risk plays a major role, as in the core business of the firm and on going business as well.

Lisboa, Portugal

Global Investment and Innovation Incentives (GI3)"Deloitte advises companies in their pursuit of the right incentives by developing and executing an effective incentives strategy for their specific needs."Focused in the area of financial incentives and tax benefits, namely in the preparation of applications for multiple national investment projects, with highly technical and complex innovation and R&D strategies, in sectors such as automotive, banking, retail, agriculture, food, information and communication technologies, engineering services and others.Main functions:1) Global Fitting:2) Preparation of the applications and submission;3) Support in the negotiating phase;4) Monitoring and Management.

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Main Functions as intern in the smart mobility team:-Data extraction, treatment and analysis for ongoing business;-Data integration and automation with the objective to serve critical processes in today´s business;-Data project initiatives with different geographies and marketsMain tools:- Power BI- Microsoft Excel (Thinkcell);- Microsoft Power Point;

Braga E Região, Portugal

Main functions:- Specialized seller in Football, tennis, fish and Hunt product sections- Support in the organization and planning of the product layout - Ensure product and inventory maintenance

Master'S Degree, Finance, Current Average Grade Of 17 Out Of 20

Activities and Societies: CFA Challenge - Develop a group report for Corticeira Amorim equity evaluation "The Master in Finance aims.

Exchange Program, Economics, Average Grade -19 Out Of 20

One of the most enrichment activities at academic´s level, I was able to study for 6 months in Zagreb, Croatia "The Faculty of Economics &.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, Average Grade: 16 Out Of 20

Activities and Societies: Organization of EEG (Escola Economia e Gestão) business day dedicated to activities and seminars.