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Candidate:

Mr. West African Finance

About Me:

Area Finance Manager overseeing the function across two francophone countries in west & central Africa at a mid-size shipping agency. Spent years prior as Project Coordinator of a large electrical distribution infrastructure project in Senegal.

Schools:

Target School: Harvard

Considering: Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, Stanford GSB, INSEAD, Chicago Booth

See More Profiles For: Harvard

Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Birmingham City University

Undergrad Major: BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

GPA: First Class Honours (~GPA 4.0 equivalent) + Merit on my Master's degree (~3.5 GPA equivalent)

GRE: 320

Age: 29,  Ethnicity: Asian or Indian

Other Degree/Certification: MSc Petroleum Engineering

School Name: Imperial College London

Extracurriculars: Long jumper and sprinter at University first team., Badminton - cofounder of Senegal's first regular badminton club

Work History:

Title: Area Finance Manager

Industry: Supply Chain / Logistics

Company: Global

Length of Employment: 1 yr

Title: Project Coordinator

Industry: Power / Energy

Company: Global

Length of Employment: 2 yrs

Big Life Wins:

Rapidly promoted from external finance consultant to country finance manager to area finance manager & now setting up dept. in a new country. At the badminton club, many of our players experienced their first overseas travel due to a sport they had never seen 2 years prior. Two of our players also got badminton scholarships to train in China.

Post MBA Goal:

Aiming to work in a different geographical location & move to consulting at MBB. Following a few years, aim to transition to a strategic role in an energy company – the idea is to oversee a transition from an oil company to an ‘energy company’ (in the same way that Statoil has done becoming Equinor).

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