Artem Shitkov

For almost 8 last years I carried out quite a versatile kind of analytical work, being hired as full-time analyst or performing project work. I have participated in wide range of finance-related and analytical activities within different core business fields.

Lately I've been working as an outsource analyst for the chain of coffee houses "Shokoladnitsa" — one of the largest developing companies in the sphere of restaurant business in Moscow, regions of Russia and the CIS countries. I've performed cost efficiency analysis, participated in valuation of the business in order to resolve internal issues between partners, evaluated efficiency of company strategy.

Since November 2017 till mid of 2019 I have been working in Tranio – online-based real estate brokerage company, which has recently started managing investors’ funds in development projects in Spain and Greece at the time of my accession. Within the company, I held an analyst position and was responsible for providing market analysis and feasibility study-like calculations for Greek development/redevelopment investment projects under consideration (article on Greek market perspective have been published in several online journals, including Russian Forbes – e.g. https://www.mygreekflat.com/buying-greek-property-makes-sense/ ).

Second core responsibility was managing internal company data – coming from CRM-like system, tracking all the applications for real estate purchases within Tranio, and tracking their performance, based on 50+ parameters as – type of property, language and geography, budget, response and communication timing and etc. I provided analysis of current company’s activities – managers’ performance, conversion analysis, country trends; made one-year forecasts for 2018 and 2019; cost/benefit analysis of expansion into German market. CRM system and backend of tranio.com are made on Python, thus throughout my career path I mastered Excel skills and carried out analysis of unloaded spreadsheets using Microsoft product.

At this point, I would like to mention that I’ve always been passionate about financial markets, thus I have nothing except personal experience in trading stocks and derivatives on Russian stock exchange. Hereby I would like to mention my master thesis from UvA dedicated to verification of behavioral-style CAPM model provided by myself MSc Finance program – «CAPM models with risk-neutrality and loss-aversion, consistency and predictability on emerging stock markets of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)» (https://arno.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=480963 ), where I executed analysis of weekly data of more than 430 stocks across 4 stock markets for 10 year periods, estimating classic CAPM and self-proposed model predictability powers.