Recent Grad - International - Finance, Accounting, Sales, Marketing

Highly motivated recent graduate, focused, and interested in working in a competitive environment that offers high earning potential and a broad range of challenges

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oct2007-currently
Drake LifeStyle, New York, USA
- YMCA International Training Program in Management (marketing/sales/accounting)
DUTIES: Exposure to the New York City real estate market: Conduct marketing research and promotional strategies; Sell available listings, identify prospective leads and create new ones; General bookkeeping and financial reporting.

Dec2005-July2006 (8months)
School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Environmental Economic Unit
DUTIES: Database management within the doctoral projects funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, data storage and documentation, daily exposure to the PhD students and researchers.

July 2005 (1month)
School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Summer Assistant, Graduate Business School-Central Administration Department
DUTIES: Assisted with administrative tasks.

Jul2003-Sept2003 (3months)
Central Bank of West African States, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- Internship, Economic Studies and Money Department
DUTIES: Conducted a research study on the implementation of the exchange control regulations: interviewed managers from local and foreign financial institutions and presented the empirical investigation in an internal report.

Jan2002-Jun2002 (6months)
French-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Oslo, Norway
- Internship, Commercial Department
DUTIES: Supported French companies with their trade needs in Norway through market and partner research.

Jun2001-Aug2001 (3months)
Ibis Hotel, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
- Internship, Accounting Department
DUTIES: Carried out daily accounting, involved in the hotel reception desk activities.

Jan2000-Feb2000(2months)
Mac Donald’s, Saarbrucken, Germany
- Internship, Restaurant Crew
DUTIES: Rotational assignment at the cashier and in the kitchen, improved my conversational German.

EDUCATION

Aug2003-June2005
Handelshögskolan, Gothenburg, Sweden
Master of Science in Industrial and Financial Economics
2nd Place Best Undergraduate Paper Award, International Atlantic Economic conference, New York (Oct2005)

Sep2002-Oct2004
University of Evry Val Essonne, Paris, France
Master of Science in Corporate Finance with honors

Sep1999-Sep2002
University of Lille/University of Metz, France
Bachelors in Business Administration with honors, major in International Management
Including one-semester Erasmus exchange-program at Oslo University College, Norway

Sep1996-Sep1999
University of Metz, France
Undergraduate courses in Economics and Public Administration

June1996
French School “René Descartes”, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire / Academy of Nice, France
French A level – specialization in Economics and English

LANGUAGES
French: Native
Spanis: Fluent(Mexican mother)
English: Fluent (TOEIC: 845/990)
Swedish: Fluent
German: Basic (5 years of study and a student job in Germany)

COMPUTING
MSOffice, EViews5, SPSS, Photoshop

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2004-2005
Active at the Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law: Wrote information material for the international students; interviewed by the school magazine, cover girl for the 2006 academic brochure of the school.

2000-2001
Founding member of a student humanitarian group in France and collection of funds through diverse activities for financing a development project in Burkina Faso.

HOBBIES
Watercolors, Photography, Writing, Volley-Ball, Swimming, Cycling .

REFEREES available upon request.