Who Am I?

I am a learning and new experience fanatic. I love to try new things, take them apart and understand them. As an educated economist and traveller I like to understand the world and get excited about the Tech Industry, Start Ups, Disrupters and currently the AR, VR and EV industry.

Work Experience

Business Analytics & Operations Manager

Oct.2016 - Sept.2017
Expert360, Sydney

Expert360 is a global marketplace disrupting the traditional consulting industry by enabling companies to connect with top tier freelance consultants

● Investor Communications
- Series B Pitch Deck
- Scenario-based Financial Model (Unit Economics, P&L and Cashflow)
- Raised AUD 13M

● Business Analysis
- Live dashboard setup around the office
- Ongoing analysis for Sales, Marketing, Investors and Board

● Management Experience
- Team of 1 full time Financial/Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Aug.2015 - Sept.2016
Expert360, Sydney

● Business Analysis
- Automation of KPIs
- Setup of Internal Performance Dashboards
- Investor, Board, VC and Client data analytics and deck preparation

● Finance
- Leading the payment process
- Budgeting and forecasting

● Technical Marketing
- Marketo Certified Expert
- Google Analytics Individual Qualification
- Trigger and event based email marketing

● Salesforce (CRM) Administrator
- Dashboards, Reports and KPI setup

● Mangement Experience
- Team of 3 (Accountant, Accounts Manager, Intern)

Chamber of Commerce Intern

Jun.2015 - Jul.2015
Austrian Trade Commission, Sydney

● Provided business and legal advice to Austrian companies expanding to Australia and New Zealand
● Researched and produced industry and country reports
● Tripled Twitter followers of corporate account

Operations Manager & Head of Partnerships

Feb.2015 - Jul.2015
Mad Paws, Sydney

Mad Paws is an Australian marketplace, which allows pet owners to connect with pet sitters

● Partnerships
- Growing the partnership network with vets, dog trainers, dog gadgets, dog accessories and other related businesses (www.madpaws.com.au/partners)

● Community Management
- Primary customer support contact person
- Hired and managed a team of two
- Responsible for social media marketing (Instagram, Facebook, etc.)
- Grew the Instagram Fanbase from 400 to 4.000 Followers within 6 weeks

● Operations
- Improved the process flow of the customer journey (automatic emails, text messages, on-website messages, etc.)
- Learnt about start-up scaling, growth hacking, communicating to developers, creating Landing Pages (Unbounce) and how to analyse web traffic (Google Analytics, Mailchimp, Facebook & Instagram Engagement etc.)

Finance Strategy Consulting Intern

Jun.2014 - Sept.2014
KPMG, Cologne

Finance System Implementation, IFRS 9 & Technical Skills
Tasks: Support in loan management system implementation; Lead workshop in SQL & VBA; Research of Shadow Banks & IFRS 9 solutions and impact on Asset Managers
Outcomes: Learned and taught SQL & VBA and gained insight into IFRS 9

Financial/Transaction Services Consulting Intern

Oct.2013 - Jan.2014
PwC, Vienna

Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) & Banking Industry in Austria & CEE
Tasks: Analysed NPLs and bad banks; Wrote new proposals; Researched Austria’s & CEE’s banking industry in English, Polish & Russian; Used Bloomberg & Visio
Outcome: Created NPL Bank Visualiser used by the partner to approach new clients

Finance IT Consulting Intern

Jun.2013 - Jul.2013
PwC, Belfast

● Global Insurance Company
Supported Oracle implementation by mapping old to new responsibilities/users and assisted with the creation/management of new accounting lines

● UK Outscourcing Company
Performed a Spend Analysis on the companies vendors/suppliers and visualised it using Tableau

Specialisation in Cloud Computing ERP Systems - Delivered a deep dive Presentation

Financial Analyst

Jul.2011 - Jul.2012
American Express, London

P&L Accounts – Global Planning & Analysis EMEA
Tasks: Responsible for Austria’s, Netherlands’ & EMEA HQ’s P&L and forecasting;
Improved tools for Volume Prediction, Discount Rate & Industry Spend Analysis
Skills: Financial Consumer Analysis & Process Improvement in TM1 & Microstrategy

Investments – Investment Optimisation & Business Analysis
Tasks: Administered investments of $700m and 2 P&Ls at an expense base of $20m;
Responsible for Investment Capturing & the Cost Benefit analysis of investments
Achievement: Improved process for the Conversion Revenue split (~$300m p.a.)

Achievements

Boston Consulting Group - Strategy School & Emeralds Programme, Dusseldorf
Bain & Company - 1st Place in Consulting Challenge, Warsaw
Students4Excellence - Financial Scholarship, Vienna
Mentor Award - Aston University Placement Mentor of the Year Award
Sports Award - Exceptional Services Award for Volleyball, only awarded to 3 students annually

Skills

Excel

VBA

Database Management

Data Visualisation

HTML & CSS