Maria Oliveira

Economics major with a concentration in Finance and experience in financial reporting standards,
knowledge of finance, statistics, econometrics and economics seeks position in Finance. Accurate, analytical, team-player, intellectually curious, fast learner, capable, professional, detail-oriented and dedicated. Fluent in Portuguese.

EDUCATION
MA, Economics, The City College of New York, September 2013, GPA: 3.375
BA, Economics, Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, August 2011

RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Finance, International Corporate Finance, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance, Advanced Options and Futures, International Economics, Econometrics.

QUALIFICATIONS
Key Skills: Extensive finance coursework, experience with accounting related work and sales.
Core Values: Accuracy, integrity, hard work, quality and honesty.
Technical Skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SPSS, basic SQL.

PROJECTS
MA Thesis: Dissertation studying high frequency stocks trading with the aim of studying the relation between HFT and stock price randomness. (Summer 2013)

EXPERIENCE
Internship, Instituto Informador Comercial, Lisbon, Portugal
August 2010 - August2011
Developed a specification for IT detailing the method to bring the company’s database of financial statements into compliance with newly introduced IFRS based accounting standards.
• Devised a set of rules for the automatic conversion of financial reports issued pre-IFRS to the new standards.
• Designed a spreadsheet that automatically uses financial reports issued by competitors to calculate a set of benchmarking ratios for performance comparison.

AFFILIATIONS
Member, Communications, AIESEC Lisboa-Catolica
2006-2007
Promoted the association to fellow students in coordination with the national committee.
• Designed marketing materials such as posters and newsletters.
• Developed PowerPoint templates for use in new-member orientation meetings and national meetings.

HONORS/AWARDS
Recipient, Catolica Top+ Scholarship, 2005