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Koryo Kakinoki

Transaction Analyst / Freelance Data Scientist / Business Consultant
Miyazaki,45

Summary

Experienced finance and management professional spanning over 3 years. Strong background in transaction analysis, data-driven insights, and strategic solutions. Eager to transition into a dynamic role within the finance sector or data-driven industry. My dedication to productivity, coupled with strong organisational skills, ensures both efficient processes and high-quality results. Recently, I obtained an Associate Data Scientist certificate from DataCamp to accelerate my skill development.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Transaction Analyst

British Business Bank
01.2022 - 08.2023

I ensured the seamless and efficient execution of our schemes by assessing the eligibility of 64 lenders based on the scheme criteria. This involved close collaboration with product, risk, legal, and operation teams, including direct interaction with lenders.

  • Authored 3 accreditation papers, analysing the financial stability, credit and lending performance and origination capability of banks and non-banks by building financial models. The papers received approval from the Managing Directors Forum.
  • Efficiently monitored (post) accreditation process by designing and utilising management tools such as Excel and Microsoft CRM 365.
  • Supervised scheme performance, assessed 64 lenders' deployment and guided resource allocation, optimising taxpayer funds.

Junior Consulting Manager

N-Spirits
08.2016 - 04.2018

Took on the role of a junior manager and led 2 teams located in different prefectures, concurrently managing 5 projects. Managed the progress of both co-workers and company tasks.

  • Tracked the company's cash flow while efficiently managing costs, leading to a remarkable 20% reduction in expenses.
  • Gave presentations on strategy proposals for 5 high-ranking city officials, leading to receiving the contract for two prefectural projects in 2017.
  • Collected, analysed, and reported data from the 45 surveys, enabling a comprehensive understanding of issues that I tackled

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
05.2018 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Language And Culture With Teaching

University of Miyazaki
Miyazaki, Japan
05.2012 - 05.2016

Skills

Credit analysis

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Projects

House Sales Prediction, March 2024. 

Skills used: Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Linear Regression, Random Forest & Feature Engineering. 

  • Utilised Python and data analysis libraries to conduct exploratory data analysis on a real estate dataset, identifying key factors influencing house prices.
  • Implemented machine learning models to predict house sale prices, demonstrating the ability to optimise listing prices and enhance market competitiveness.

Clustering Antarctic Penguin Species, February 2024.

Skills used: K-means Clustering, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Visualisation, 

  • Utilised unsupervised learning techniques on a curated dataset to explore information about penguins.
  • Extracted meaningful features and uncovered hidden patterns, clusters, and relationships within the dataset.

Predicting Credit Card Approvals, February 2024. 

Skills used: Logistic Regression, Model Performance, scikit-learn, Hyperparameter tuning, 

  • Applied machine learning techniques to build an automatic credit card approval predictor, streamlining the application process for commercial banks.
  • Conducted data preprocessing, including segregating features and labels, feature rescaling, and training and evaluating a logistic regression model, demonstrating proficiency in data preprocessing and model training.

Skills & Achievements

• Tools: Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word, Python, SQL and Tableau.

• Financial Skills: Financial modelling, Financial, Investment, Stock & Fixed assets, Data and Credit analysis and FOREX trading.

• Accomplished Courses: Data Scientist with Python (DataCamp), Business Writing Principles (LinkedIn), Investment Management Specialization (Coursera), Algorithmic Trading A-Z with Python, Machine Learning & AWS (Udemy), Excel for Investment Professionals (LinkedIn), and The Business Intelligence Analyst Course 2023 (Udemy).

• Entrepreneurial mindset: Participated in a Start-up game held at the University of Birmingham. Achieved 1st class mark for my dissertation, titled ‘Entrepreneurship and business growth: where would business growth sit?’.

Personal Qualifications

Data Scientist Associate: Certified by DataCamp. Obtained competencies across data-specific domains like data management, exploratory analysis, statistical experimentation, modelling, data science programming, and data communication.

Timeline

Transaction Analyst

British Business Bank
01.2022 - 08.2023

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of Birmingham
05.2018 - 05.2021

Junior Consulting Manager

N-Spirits
08.2016 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Language And Culture With Teaching

University of Miyazaki
05.2012 - 05.2016
Koryo KakinokiTransaction Analyst / Freelance Data Scientist / Business Consultant