Finn Lakin

Final-year Economics, Finance & International Business student at Oxford Brookes University, on track for First-Class Honours, back from an exchange year at Université Paris Dauphine taught in French. I rebuild published financial and economic series from primitives and report where the reconstruction disagrees, in Python, R, Rust and TypeScript.

1. Junior Analyst

   Sep 2021 – Present

   Jura Consulting · Winchester, United Kingdom

   • Compile intraday market-data summaries and short research notes on global energy supply, demand and price action for the senior trading desk.
   • Maintain equity and commodity sector watchlists, and flag catalysts ahead of earnings and macro events.
   • Digitalised the company's records into a tagged document-management workflow, increasing operational efficiency by around 15%.

2. Team Leader

   Oct 2024 – Nov 2024

   Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge · Oxford Brookes Investment Society

   • Led a five-person team through Bloomberg's global trading competition, trading a simulated book on the Terminal.
   • Set the investment thesis, sized the positions, and presented weekly research and trade-attribution reviews to the wider society.

3. Guest Manager

   Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

   Avington Park · Hampshire, United Kingdom

   • Ran event operations across a large private venue: logistics, client check-in and guest support.
   • Redesigned the guest check-in workflow and cut average wait time by around 10%.
   • Coordinated multi-stakeholder planning against fixed, unmovable dates.

4. Summer Intern, Business Operations

   Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

   Nicolas James Group · Southampton, United Kingdom

   • Embedded across a UK property and business-services group: project planning, internal reporting and client communications.
   • Built the weekly KPI consolidation used in senior management review.
   • Assisted with audit-readiness documentation and compliance standardisation.

1. Exchange year, International Business and Data Analysis in R

   Sep 2025 – May 2026

   Université Paris Dauphine · Paris, France

   • Selected for academic exchange at one of continental Europe's most rigorous economics faculties.
   • Taught entirely in French: Business Data Analysis in R, Statistical Inference, and International Macroeconomics.
   • A year of sitting coursework in a second language, which did more for the French than any certificate.

2. BSc Economics, Finance & International Business

   Sep 2023 – Jun 2027

   Oxford Brookes University · Oxford, United Kingdom

   • On track for First-Class Honours.
   • Econometrics, Financial Modelling, Investment Analysis, Corporate Finance, Macroeconomic Theory, and Statistical Methods in R.
   • Member of the Oxford Brookes Investment Society, and led its Bloomberg Trading Challenge team.

3. A-levels in Mathematics, Economics and French

   Sep 2017 – Jul 2023

   Charterhouse · Surrey, United Kingdom

   • Ten IGCSEs: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English Literature and Language, French, Spanish, History, Art and Geography.
   • Gold in the BPhO Intermediate Physics Challenge, Silver in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge, and the Edexcel Algebra Level 3 Award.
   • DELF B2 in French.

Programming

Python · R · Rust · TypeScript · SQL and DuckDB

Methods

Econometrics · Affine term structure models · Backtest overfitting and deflated Sharpe · Market microstructure · Index reconstruction · Monte Carlo and scenario sweeps

Finance

Equity research · Options and derivatives · Energy markets · Portfolio construction · Financial modelling · Bloomberg Terminal

Elsewhere

Athletics, UK top 100 in hurdles, 2022 · Competitive slalom and giant slalom skiing · Team leadership

Languages

English, native · French, bilingual · Spanish, professional