ALYSSA RONG

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St. Louis, MO 63144

314-***-****

ac7jke@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL, St. Louis, MO Dec. 2018 (Expected)

Master of Science in Finance

Concentration in Quantitative Finance (STEM designated degree)

GPA: 3.6/4.0

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver, BC, Canada May 2017

Bachelor of Commerce

Concentration in Finance

CFA LEVEL II CANDIDATE

EXPERIENCE

Gigafast Investment Inc, Vancouver, Canada Jun. 2018 – Aug. 2018

Financial Analyst (Buy Side)

Sourced equities and provided recommendations based on companies’ financial statements and stock performance

Assisted in managing our newly established portfolio of $2.5 million USD in equity, helped with stock selection and weight adjustment, overall return beat the benchmark by 2% in three months

Built financial models and updated daily data to assess companies’ growth and the ability to generate earnings

Dug into accounting statements and relevant figures to generate financial forecasts, ratio analysis and analyzed past cost

MINMETALS & JINGYI FUTURES CO., LTD, Xi’an, China May 2016 – Jun. 2016

Junior Analyst

Diversified a portfolio and minimized risk exposure by 16.7% through conducting analysis on trend of futures mainly of agricultural and sideline products and on the influence factors such as current macro economy, supply-demand relationship, price trend, and other relevant factors

Wrote 24 daily reports and personal recommendations concerning risk, market and policy changes for internal communication, and detailed weekly and monthly reports

Reduced investment length by 30% by coordinating with equity researchers to build portfolio modeling for five selected stocks and rebalancing portfolios on a daily basis

PROJECTS

Sales Prediction using Random Forest and Xgboost (Used: R)

Built a model using Random Forest to predict revenue for 24 different products in the grocery stores based on five variables and improved the test MSE by 40% from previous models

Used Cross Validation methods to prune and simplified the model

Studied correlations between products by separating variables and building models with combinations of variables

ACTIVITIES

Social Executive – UBC Music Initiative

Obtained 30% increase in new-registered club members by advertising and promoting club’s activities and mandate while fostering teamwork and collaboration and enhanced engagement of all 42 club members by planning and organizing 12 bi-weekly social activities

SKILLS & INTERESTS

Skills: Java; Python; SQL (Aggregation, Join, Subqueries) ; R (ISLR, dplyr, ggplot2, xgboost); MatLab; VBA; Excel; MS PowerPoint; MS Access; NetSuite ERP; LaTeX

Interests: Guitar; Vocals; Japanese Novels; Movies; Road Trip Planner

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