Private Consultant Resume

SUMMARY

I’m a skilled analyst with experience in price forecasting and financial reporting as well as a very strong IT background. working in mining and metals, insurance and business analysis. Along the way I've developed a strong ability to produce powerful and well designed BI systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Private Consultant

Responsibilities:

Database and analytics expert working on behalf of a major consultancy group.
Working as part of a large cross - platform project to automate financial processing for the Lloyds-TSB banking group, the UK's largest retail banking group.
Responsible for producing critical daily and weekly reporting: previously a vast enterprise that required required hundreds of people to manually process data.

Confidential

Data Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for data and reporting at a multinational coin trading company.
Modernizing existing data systems and implementing new BI solutions.
Responsible for all analytics for the sales group, the financial team and the senior management board.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Risk Analyst

Responsibilities:

Risk analyst at a major marine insurer, focusing on emerging claims trends and loss prevention.
Providing a wide variety of key weekly and monthly claims and financial reports for the CEO, CFO, Senior Risk Director and regional directors.
Developing new reporting systems and implementing them across the company in order to improve data analysis and move the company’s reporting inline with “Solvency 2” regulations implemented after the 2008 financial crisis.
Designed and implemented a new graphical benchmarking system for underwriting and loss prevention. This created company profiles in a similar style to a stock profile and changed the way in which renewals were approached.
Integrated the CRM and claims reporting systems into one application, massively improving the sales and marketing team’s ability.
Scrapped the traditional spreadsheet and email reports and replaced them with PDFs and interactive search applications that allowed non-technical people to quickly assess and understand ongoing and emerging trends, statistics and financial details.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Forecasting analyst and consultant in the aluminum industry with a focus on the industry’s power costs and raw materials, principally petroleum coke.
Writing and managing a wide number of monthly, bimonthly and annual economic outlook studies as well as ad-hoc strategy work.
Producing supply/demand projections as well as price forecasts for the market.
Constructed and developed the company's CO2 model for analyzing carbon emissions from refineries and smelters.
Responsible for managing the company’s outlook on industrial power tariffs.
Spent 4 weeks traveling around Chinese oil refineries and subsequently wrote an industry-changing report about the development of the sector.
Overhauled the IT methodology within the department and automated huge areas of previously time consuming day-to-day work.