Umar Rauf

UMAR RAUF |-|- EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL SKILLS University of Waterloo Bachelor of Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management – CFA Specialization, Honours, Co-operative program  Candidate for CFA Level 1 Sep. 2011 – May 2017 Working Experience with: MS Office, VBA, Bloomberg, SAP, SQL, Python, R Statistical Software, Matlab, C New Entity Finance Research Project: Conducted extensive research and developed detailed projections, financial statements, debt\equity\partnership financing options and a feasibility report; using excel, for entering into the polypropylene bags manufacturing industry WORK EXPERIENCE Junior Quantitative Analyst, NN Group NV - NN Reinsurance and Hedging – The Hague, Netherlands Mar 2016 – Dec 2016  Implemented an end-to-end tool to calculate correlation of returns between large data sets of hedging risk-factors  Developed Fund Mapping tool to map invested funds to risk-factors through regression in MATLAB  Centralized database and process flows for a more efficient overall hedging system and streamlined tool to calculate various volatilities and aggregated results - used for ESG reserve projections  Built a tool to calculate long term best estimates of volatility of hedging risk factors  Validated new Liability/Reserve calculation tool by building shadow models (Excel VBA/C#) for inforce insurance policies Resources Used: MATLAB, Excel VBA, Access VBA, SQL, C, R Business Finance Co-op, Suncor Energy Inc. – Fort McMurray, Canada      Sep 2014 – Apr 2015 Reduced projected annual expenses by $11 million through optimization of shift schedules and workforce levels Automated weekly reports on utilization, compliance, KSIs, and scheduling; time reduced from 24 hours to 8 hours Presented monthly reports to directors and management on departmental financial performance and KSIs Audited and analysed risk assessments and departmental costs Helped improve utilization of cranes by 10 – 15 % which helped reduce costs further Resources Used: Excel VBA, Access VBA, SQL, SAP, R, Crane Monitoring Tools Project Control Officer, Government and Insurance (Consulting), CGI – Toronto, Canada Aug 2013 – Dec 2013  Cut down billing cycle by over 20 hours by developing and automating business processes  Created processes and an expansive database to manage security access requests for WSIB shared systems  Analysed Sales Funnel and forecasted Project Billing files to model detailed monthly reports for Account Directors Resources Used: Excel VBA, Access, SharePoint, SAP EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS  Executive Director Events; Waterloo Music Club (Created Waterloo’s largest student organized concert MUHouse)  Manager Music Studio, LUMS - Leader of Quads – High School Rowing Team - Model United Nations Awards at LUMUN, TISMUN - President of High School Student Council  UW FARMSA (Fin. Analysis and Risk Management) – Stock Valuation Competition – Pooled Investing