Financial Business Analyst

Diego Kuzma, MBA

East Boston, MA +1-617-***-**** *****.*********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/diegokuzmacruzalegui/ BUSINESS ANALYTICS DATA STORYTELLING DATA AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT Passionate and self-driven MBA professional with experience across real estate, retail and investment industries. Strengths include facilitation on cross-functional projects, managing big data for performance analysis, providing data driven narratives for leadership, and advising on overall business solutions. Seeking an impactful data-driven role where can deliver insights and ensure continuous improvement in the company’s business and financials. ACHIEVEMENTS

• Increased the number of real estate units sold by 10% during the period 2022 and 2023, by optimizing the company's price evaluation platform, capturing insights from the operations areas.

• Streamlined executing reporting on Falabella’s P&L data processing by reducing the required time from two weeks to five days by evaluating the different processes involved in closing and fixing the SQL coding.

• Maintained the company's working capital despite confinement during 2020 through a diversification strategy of factoring and control management assessment to the clients, supporting a profitability above 12% by the end of the year

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALPFA Boston Boston, MA Latin professional association in the United States November 2024-Present Committee Member, Financial Literacy Committee. Contributing to the design and enhancement of financial literacy programs aimed at fostering financial education within local communities.

• Program Development and Strategy assisting in creating educational materials and planning initiatives to address diverse financial literacy needs.

Imagina Inmobiliaria Lima, Peru Real Estate Group with 50+ projects June 2022 – July 2023 Business Intelligence Specialist. Enable the company’s profitability improvement through competitive pricing strategies and in-depth market analysis, using data from public registries, leads databases, and industry sources.

• Market Research and Analysis conducted in-depth research and analysis on market trends, customer preferences, and competitive landscape in the real estate market

• Data Management and Reporting, designing data related to the market and projects. Constant focus in improving the way to deliver the data in dynamic and visual ways using Excel and Tableau. Saga Falabella Lima, Peru Part of Falabella S.A with revenues over 14 Bn. USD October 2020 – June 2022 Financial and Cost Analyst, responsible for tracking analysis of the logistical and operative costs of the company and subsequently report them to each team and sales line of the company.

• Data Cleaning and Preparation, in Oracle Hyperion, managing information cubes to engage closing processes to elaborate and deliver the P&L reports. Madero Capital Peru Private Investment Fund part of Grupo Madero January 2020 – October 2020 Investment Analyst, responsible for the evaluation of financial operations including risk assessment and financial statements’ analysis.

• Financial Due Diligence, led financial operations assessments through market research and risk analysis, securing sustained profitability above 12% by year-end.

• Data Analysis & Reporting, with advanced spreadsheet modeling and statistical analysis for in-depth financial statements’ evaluation, facilitating strategic investment. UTEC Lima, Peru Peru's most modern and innovative engineering university March 2017-December 2019 Research assistant, in the department of educational quality for the implementation of a new study methodology focused on putting theory into practice.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Languages: Native Spanish; Fluent English

• Informatic Tools: Tableau, SAP, Power BI, Oracle Hyperion, R Studio, Python, Microsoft Office Suite

• Specialized Skills: Data Storytelling, Applied Business Analytics

• Certified Bartender: Completed bartending program at Le Cordon Bleu, Lima, 2022.

• Delegate, Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN): ECOFIN Committee, Boston, 2020

• Social Volunteer, TECHO: Contributed to poverty alleviation projects, supporting families in vulnerable conditions, Lima, 2018-2020.

• Tennis Athlete: Competed in national and international tennis tournaments, 2010-2015 EDUCATION

Master Of Business Administration (MBA) September 2023 - August 2024

• Hult International Business School Boston, Massachusetts

• Business Insight Through Data, AI for Investment Management, Data Visualization. Bachelor of Economics Specialization in Finance and Private Sector August 2013 - July 2020

• Universidad del Pacifico Lima, Peru

• Financial Analysis, Informatic for Economists, Evaluation of Private Projects, Econometrics

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