FINLAY O'NEILL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Engineer

03-2023 to Present

Aberdeen Investments

Working within the Modelling & Quantitative Analytics department, tasked with democratising data across the company to ensure investment decision making is taken on the back of high-quality data sources. Developed data pipelines, dashboards and bespoke tools to support users to access and utilise data.

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Quantitative Developer

03-2022 to 03-2023

Aberdeen Investments

Based in the Quantitative Investment Solutions team, tasked with enhancing the portfolio analytics capabilities to understand the drivers of performance and exposure to risk factors. Specifically championed with developing capabilities to monitor portfolio changes ahead of trading.

PythonSQLAzurePowerBIBloombergFactsetAzure DevOpsSFTP

Data Engineer / Scientist

01-2021 to 03-2022

Forecast Global

Consultant role working on projects with clients of different industries and sizes - ranging from building data pipelines for a FTSE100 telecoms firm to classifying promising sales leads using machine learning models for a small FinTech.

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Investment Risk Manager

04-2019 to 11-2019

Aberdeen Investments

Analytical role to monitor the risk profiles of Multi-Asset investment portfolios. Responsibility to develop new tooling to meet regulation and growing set of sophisticated investment types.

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Investment Specialist

09-2016 to 04-2019

Aberdeen Investments

Designed reporting tools to monitor the performance of Multi-Asset investment portfolios, competitor analysis and macroeconomic data.

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Investment Accountant

04-2014 to 09-2016

Baillie Gifford

Automation of investment portfolio transaction reporting and reconcilations with custody banks

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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

MSc in Big Data (Data Science) (Distinction)

09-2020 to 09-2021

University of Stirling

CFA Charter

06-2016 to 06-2018

Chartered Financial Analyst Institute

MA (Hons) in Accountancy & Business Law (2.1)

09-2009 to 06-2012

Heriot Watt University