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7 entries, most recent first. The CV is the same history at a tenth of the length, if that is what you are here for.

  1. Sep 2021 – PresentWork

    Junior Analyst

    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. Sep 2025 – May 2026Education

    Exchange year, International Business and Data Analysis in R

    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.
  3. Oct 2024 – Nov 2024Work

    Team Leader

    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.

    About the setting. The competition ran across 396 universities in 46 countries. That is a fact about its size, not about how the team placed.

  4. Jun 2024 – Sep 2024Work

    Guest Manager

    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.
  5. Sep 2023 – Jun 2027Education

    BSc Economics, Finance & International Business

    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.
  6. Jun 2023 – Aug 2023Work

    Summer Intern, Business Operations

    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.
  7. Sep 2017 – Jul 2023Education

    A-levels in Mathematics, Economics and French

    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.