Achilles F. Stryker
212-***-**** Arlington, VA 22203 ********.*******@*****.*** EXPERIENCE
Foundation Finance Company Arlington, VA
Business Analyst April 2018 – Present
• Formulate and review product and pricing strategies in consultation with executive team; contributing to 20% increase in annual loan originations
• Assign analytical tasks and review deliverables for team contracted to build reporting tools and forecasting models
• Recommend multimillion-dollar loan portfolio acquisitions after developing purchase decision criteria and frameworks
• Build and maintain financial models used to price new originations and forecast returns; including benchmarking and calibrating amortization schedules and prepayment, delinquency, loss, and recovery assumptions
• Satisfy risk management requirements by implementing model stress-test scenarios to evaluate portfolio performance during elevated credit and market risk periods
• Lead initiatives to streamline and automate decisioning, verification, servicing, and loss recovery business processes Fannie Mae Washington, DC
Associate I, Capital Markets Risk Analyst January 2017 – March 2018
• Advised capital market and servicer management teams on credit and market risks from $34.7B retained mortgage portfolio
• Ensured regulatory compliance by assessing and recommending loan prepayment model changes to risk committee
• Identified and mitigated operational risks while collaborating with risk management staff during business process assessment
• Fulfilled auditing and training objectives by documenting risk management policies and writing standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Booz Allen Hamilton McLean, VA
Senior Consultant, Financial Analyst March 2015 – January 2017
• Guided multimillion-dollar capital budgeting decisions by evaluating lease contract and project cash flows using net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) analysis
• Led financial model modernization project; successfully creating project plan, designating staff duties, coordinating task completion, and communicating status updates to key stakeholders
• Ensured financial models’ adequacy and validity by testing input variables’ sensitivity using Monte Carlo simulations
• Increased deliverable accuracy and timeliness by developing process automation tools and leading staff training courses
• Enhanced internal reporting capabilities by testing and recommending new business intelligence tools for user adoption American University Washington, DC
Student-Managed Investment Fund Analyst August 2014 – December 2014
• Selected by faculty as domestic equity analyst for $475,000 actively managed fund within university’s financial endowment
• Determined fund’s asset allocation after researching macroeconomic trends, performing financial statement analysis and peer company comparisons, and predicting investment returns using discounted cash flow (DCF) and dividend discount
(DDM) models
American College of Cardiology Washington, DC
Business Development Intern June 2014 – November 2014
• Identified $1.98M incremental funding opportunity from strategic partnerships and presented findings to executive team
• Defined summer internship project duties for undergraduate student assigned to support business development team LPL Financial – Advanced Capital Strategies New York, NY Winter Intern December 2011 – January 2012
• Supported client investment objectives by evaluating proposed stock and exchange traded fund (ETF) transactions using fundamental and technical analysis
International Executive Service Corps Washington, DC Program Development Assistant September 2011 – February 2012
• Supported business development initiatives by writing Expressions of Interest (EOIs) and Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Ensured executives’ meeting readiness by creating briefing dossiers on government officials and international organizations Oracle Washington, DC
Summer Intern May 2010 – August 2010
• Recommended lobbying objectives after assessing pending federal legislation’s potential impact on business operations EDUCATION
American University – Kogod School of Business Washington, DC Master of Science, Finance December 2014
American University – School of International Service Washington, DC Bachelor of Arts, International Studies & Business Administration May 2013 SOFTWARE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Aginity Workbench, Argo, @Risk, Bloomberg Terminal, Constant Contact, Edraw MindMaster, GDS Modellica Decision Studio, HubSpot CRM, IBM SPSS Statistics, Jupyter Notebook, MicroStrategy, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Power BI, MS PowerPoint, MS SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), MS SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), MS Visio, Oracle Hyperion, Oracle OBIEE, Prezi, Python, Qlik Sense, R, RStudio, SAS Enterprise Guide, Spyder, Stata, Structured Query Language (SQL), Tableau, Toad Data Point, Toad Intelligence Central, Thomson ONE, Trello, Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA), WinSCP