Seller 254783 - London, Greater London, UK
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| Hourly Rate: | £52.78 | |
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| Overview: | Small Business Consultant (Startup to SME). Entrepreneurial MBA. A natural problem solver, equally adept at applying logic, reason, imagination and lateral thinking; | |
CV
| Entrepreneurial MBA with experience in valuation, forecasting, modelling, analysis, negotiation, deal-structuring and fund raising for acquisition targets. Pre-MBA experience in quantitative finance and market risk, including pricing and trading of various financial instruments. |
Employment History
(Apr 2004 to Dec 2007)
Director
LondonFounded company in order to acquire a business in the publishing/new media sector. Responsible for identifying targets, valuation, forecasting, modelling, analysis, negotiation, deal-structuring and fund raising
(Jan 2002 to Dec 2002)
Risk Management Consultant
Johannesburg, RSAValued clients’ derivative trading books including assessment of risk and yield curve structures
Coordinated the development of financial instrument pricing software
(Jan 2001 to Dec 2001)
Business Development Manager
Accstar Limited, LondonResponsible for the day to day General Management of the company, including the management of a team of independent consultants on projects throughout Europe
Executed strategic marketing campaigns, forging relationships with complimentary businesses.
Researched Thin-Client networking (Citrix) and potential strategic applications
(Jan 1998 to Dec 2000)
Consultant
SolCorp Limited, LondonEstablished financial IT consultancy – clients included JPMorgan, Barclays Capital and Greenwich NatWest
Developed software for identifying anomalies between the General Ledger and trading system (JPMorgan) and upgraded systems for Y2K compliance (Excel VBA)
Audited the development of systems for Capital Adequacy requirements
Constructed complex Excel financial models
(1996 to 1997)
Quantitative Analyst
Societe Generale Frankel Pollack, Johannesburg, RSAConstructed real-time computer models to identify and exploit arbitrage opportunities
Priced, wrote and hedged OTC equity options
(1994 to 1996)
Research Analyst
First National Bank, JohannesburgProprietary trading of currencies, capital market instruments, equity futures and options
Developed Technical Analysis based trading systems
Researched new analysis techniques including Neural Networks
Education
(Jan 2003 to Dec 2003)
INSEAD
MBA
(Jan 1994 to Dec 1996)
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Bachelor of Commerce
- Economics
- Informations Systems
(Jan 1990 to Dec 1993)
University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Science - Actuarial Science
Categories & Skills
Finance & Accounting
Categories
Skills
- Business Plan Creation (Financial Consulting)
- Capital Markets (Banking)
- Debt (Capital Markets)
- Due Diligence (Banking)
- Equity (Capital Markets)
- Financial Consulting
- Investment Analysis (Financial Consulting)
- Market Analysis (Risk)
- Negotiation
- Risk (Banking)
- Swap (Capital Markets)
- Valuations (Banking)
- Valuations (Financial Consulting)
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- VBA (Programming)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Business Plan Creation (Financial Consulting)
- Business Plan Creation (Business Consulting)
- Company Start-up
- Competitive Analysis
- Equity Analysis (Financial Consulting)
- Fixed Income Analysis (Financial Consulting)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- Investment Analysis (Financial Consulting)
- Management Buy Out/In
- Profit Improvement
- Risk Management
- Small Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Strategic Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Venture Capital

