I'm currently a Software Engineering bootcamp graduate. Previously I was a finance professional that helped to build Monzo, a £1.4bn valued FinTech and the UK’s fastest growing bank. I worked as the sole Finance Projects Analyst, tasked with ensuring that the Finance function remained focused on automation and controls as the company rapidly scaled from 1.9m customers to over 4.2m and grew from ~900 employees to over 1,500.

This is backed with over four years of finance & accounting experience in public infrastructure (energy & social PFI/PPP) investments for a leading FTSE250 fund and in commercial real estate acquisition for a global private equity fund, on behalf of the Qatari Royal Family.

During my time in Finance I've covered a wide range of functions including: Accounts Payable & Receivable, Systems Accounting, Project Accounting, Financial Controls and most recently in Treasury. I combine this experience with skills gained in project management and change implementation to bring stakeholder visions into reality by delivering tangible & effective results in an efficient time frame.

I initially discovered a love for programming from teaching myself Python, in order to automate in-house manual processes. Then after gaining further development experience - and from working with Engineering & Data teams at Monzo - this really just confirmed for me that Software Engineering was the career I wanted to pursue. I've made a commitment to achieving this ambition by joining Makers as a full-time student.

Monzo Bank | May 2019 - July 2020
Finance Projects Analyst

Monzo was founded in 2015 and is recognised by the iconic 'Hot Coral' card. The bank has rapidly grown from just another Shoreditch startup to achieving the "quickest crowd-funding campaign in history", reaching 'Unicorn' status, a US launch and even at one point a valuation of £2bn. It's changing the way banking is done through its branch-less, app only approach and now offers customers current, joint, teen, business, premium and savings accounts, ISAs, loans and overdrafts.

• Built an automated global Balance Sheet Substantiation (BSS) & full reconciliation process using SQL, BigQuery/Fivetran and Google Apps Script. Achieving an 100% account attestation in four working days for ~200 general ledger accounts. I saved the firm on the significant cost of purchasing a third-party BSS system by single-handedly building the tool in-house, in under a month. Announced company wide, by the CFO, as Monzo's most important control.

• Cut processing time from two working days to two hours and drastically reduced manual errors by automating the upload of third-party expense card data. Achieved by deploying an ETL backend Python service to send API requests (Requests Python Library), map the data using Pandas and then prepare a NetSuite Journal which could be passed to a Golang service using an RPC.

• Achieved further time savings by automating the quarterly intraday liquidity returns for the bank. Coordinating with the Regulatory, Engineering and Data team to consolidate multiple payment schemes using SQL, BigQuery and dbt. Reducing the process from four working days to half a day.
  
  

Amber Infrastructure Group | September 2017 - May 2019
Project Accountant

Amber Infrastructure is a specialist international investment manager, focused on investment origination, asset management and fund management. With over £8 billion of assets managed, Amber invests in eight countries internationally across its funds and a number of managed accounts.

• Automated the firms manual payment process. Saving each Accountant up to two days of work per month, by building and deploying a user tool with Python, included a basic GUI (tkinter) and utilised the Pandas & Selenium packages.

• Allocated to a portfolio of 16 SPV entities. Involved the preparation of statutory accounts, review of monthly payment runs, VAT returns, dividend distributions, liaising between the various project stakeholders and the supervision of the Junior Accountant.
  
  

Alduwaliya Asset Management | October 2016 - September 2017
Accountant

Alduwaliya is a multi-billion dollar global real estate fund on behalf of the Qatari Royal Family, investing in high grade commercial properties & hotels.

• Oversaw and coordinated overall finances for four UK properties and two US based hotels. Included the review of financial accounts, management of entity cashflow and regularly liaising with stakeholders across Luxembourg, Doha and the US.

• Upgraded the firms financial capabilities by successfully implementing Oracle Fusion Financials. I built the firms expense system and the finance reporting tools, as the team grew from 2 of us to 5 global finance professionals.
  
  

Amber Infrastructure Group | November 2014 - October 2016
Assistance Systems Accountant

Amber Infrastructure is a specialist international investment manager, focused on investment origination, asset management and fund management. With over £8 billion of assets managed, Amber invests in eight countries internationally across its funds and a number of managed accounts.

• Improved the cost control of live bids, by designing and building a detailed bid budget analysis report, provided to senior members of the organisation, using Excel & VBA/Infor Q&A.

• Increased the control and accuracy of financial returns by building automated financial working papers for ~300 business units, used by finance professionals across the UK, North America and Australia, using Excel & VBA/Infor Q&A.

Makers Academy | July 2020 - October 2020

A highly selective and intensive 16 week software development bootcamp.

• OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
• Agile/XP
• Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
• RSpec, Jasmine

ACCA Professional Qualification | 2018

• Level 4 Diploma in Accounting & Business