Jessie M

Jessie Mahal

United Kingdom • jsm1g15@yahoo.com • 07305263007

Education & Qualifications (BCom Honours, MSc)

Part qualified ACA up to Professional level, with commercial experience in financial services, legal, telecommunications and logistic industries

Data Scientist Course (Pairviews Ltd) Learning how to report and visualize MI/KPIs for more effective use of SQL, Tableau, and Excel. I learnt and made use of data cleaning techniques, data manipulation, analysing using pivot tables, VBA and financial analysis

Masters of Science in Finance (1st with Distinction)

Southampton University (UK) Business School, Southampton

Core modules: Portfolio Management & Exchange traded derivatives, Derivative Security Analysis, Advanced Time Series Modelling, Stock Market Analysis, Advanced Corporate Finance, Management of Financial Risk and Quantitative Finance

Dissertation: “The effects of opinion polling data in the lead up to the ‘Brexit’ EU referendum on the UK stock market”

Bachelor of Commerce Honours, Double Majors in Accounting & Finance (1st)

Asper School of Business-University of Manitoba, Canada

Core modules: Financial Accounting (A), Managerial Accounting (A), Corporate Finance
Advanced (A). Investments (B+) Financial Modelling (A), Auditing

 

Maiden Erlegh Secondary School

Reading, UK
A-Level Grades: Mathematics (A), Biology (A), Chemistry (A)

AS-Level Grades: Further Mathematics (B)
GCSE Grades: 8 A*’s and 2 A’s: English Language (A*) and Mathematics (A*)

Professional Experience
Law Miracle Commercial Awareness (Birmingham, UK) – writer and journalist

DESIblitz South Asian Online Cultural Magazine (Birmingham, UK) – Journalist/presenter, news and features writer

Current – Volunteer content writer on articles for a commercial law publisher

 

First Class Support Ltd (Birmingham, UK)

Current – ‘Note taker and mentor’ for adult students at The University of Birmingham with learning difficulties who wish to pursue Masters or Undergrad degrees in various disciplines, but mainly focused on Accounting and Finance.

Gardewine Logistics Inc (Winnipeg, Canada)

Pricing Rate Analyst,  to Sep 2019 – work abroad in a logistics firm in their rates department. Key responsibilities were to communicate with dealers, brokers and customers on broker freight enquiries that span Canada Nationally. I also was involved in management reporting on daily, weekly and monthly time, revenue, cost and excess charges reports that were sent to upper level management. I had to analyse data from all the national  depots and provide insights and data mine to give management information in the form of trends and performance metrics. I would make use of complex formulae, pivot tables, macros and dashboards in Excel to amalgamate report sheet data that was being sent to my desk from all the national depots owned by the firm.  I also had to attend to email quote requests from customers with a turnaround time of 2mins per quote, answer ad hoc phone call enquiries, obtain updated industry fuel surcharge rates from regulators and also update Gardewine’s proprietary market rate setting system with new rate changes based on Government regulations or changes in the firm’s profit margin policies.

KPMG LLP (Canary Wharf London, UK)

Junior Forensic Accountant, Sep 2016 to Sep 2018

Handling multiple deliverables with varied tight lines in the heart of Canary Wharf’s dynamic business World. Delivered strong risk consultancy to the global financial service firms, banks, and insurance providers. Consultant to multi-national financial service industry clients in developing disaster recovery plans, continuity plans, and business risk management strategies. Led the enforcement of POCA regulation as well as new EU guidelines on anti-money laundering and tax evasion. Extensive research activities on tax havens, tax avoidance and tax evasion schemes. Help prepare effective presentations for senior management, reviews on audit reports, and help compile business proposition documents. Executed document reviews of legal cases on construction projects.

Selected Contributions:

·      Successfully completed surveillance, due diligence, extended due diligence, and audit reviews on past assurance providing projects and ID and KYC checks while enrolling new clients.

·      Managed detailed evaluation of miss sold PPI and other financial products.

·      Review of contracts under investigation and their accompanying financial statements to analyze areas of material matters which were missed out during FP&A.

·      Audit review on trading accounts for some of the large MNC banks located in Europe

·      Basel 3 capital adequacy (part of the CAMELS approach) review on major European Bank clients

Sainsbury’s Bank & Travel Forex Exchange (Bracknell, UK)

Forex Cash Handler, April 2015 to Oct 2015

Implemented reconciliation process and cash flows while working in a trusted position. Ensured delivery of correct rates to customers based upon the bank’s loyalty reward scheme.

Selected Contributions:

·      Ensured cash in deposit and debit receipt totals matched end of day/shift revenue sales figures for all products and services after accounting for FX rates by 100% success rate.

·      Mitigated counterfeit money activity risks while evaluating fraudulent or money laundering activities.

·      Completed the Western Union monetary global transfers.

Additional experience as a Summer Student, Manitoba Hydro Limited; as a Warehouse/Dock Worker/Warehouse Inventory Assistant, Manitoulin Transport & Pepsi Bottling Limited & as a Security Guard, GardaWorld Security Corporation.

Volunteer experience at Misercordia Hospital, Ircom Refugee Shelter, Lord Harris Elderly Care Home, Social Mobility Workshops at Schools in the Battersea District of London.

Membership: ASBAA Asper School of Business Accounting Association Member