Helen Petrou

Experience

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  Amplify Trading

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  Amplify Trading: Finance Accelerator

  • Participated in two simulation events, acting as an Asset Manager and an IB Sales Trader• Completed the IB Sales Trader simulation with a score of 82% - putting me in the top 10 of the group

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  City Investment Training

  Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

  Introduction to Investment Banking Technicals

  Day 1:Introduced to some accounting basics. Created income statements from example scenarios. Learned about Assets, Liabilities and Equities in order to create balance sheets from example scenarios.Day 2:Introduction to financial modelling, forecasting line inputs for an income statement and balance sheet.

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  Amplify Trading

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2021

  Summer Analyst

  • Participated in simulations acting as a Sell-Side trader and market maker giving 2-way quotes on over 5 different securities.Completed the Level 1 IB Sales Trader simulation with a Sales Trader score of 73%, within top 20% of the cohort.• Worked in a team to create a DCF on Exxon Mobil and produce an equity research report. Presented this to cohort of ~ 60.• Participated in Level 1 Global Macro Asset Management simulation using real data from 2011. Rebalanced my portfolio after each quarter and successfully beat the benchmark PnL of -$1million with a personal PnL of $32 000.• Participated in Advanced Commodity Trading simulation, using real oil and gasoline prices from 2017. Hedged my trades using a box spread to mitigate outright price exposure. Achieved a total PnL of $4+ million.• Completed M&A model exercise, calculating consolidated financials of 2 companies to gauge future EPS accretion or dilution.• Collaboratively produced a pitchbook for Rubius Therapeutics, shared with cohort. Conducted indication of interest activity and adjusted share price accordingly. Successfully IPO’d at $23 per share, achieving $17 million over target $100 million.• Participated in Level 1&2 Quant Trading simulations. Coded own algorithmic trading system using Python to produce 2-way quotes on assets. Coded quotes to be skewed based on current position. Show less

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  Code First Girls

  Aug 2023 - Oct 2023

  Data & SQL Kickstarter Course

  8-week course introducing the fundamentals of SQL for data management.-Proficient in SQL querying, database table design and effective use of primary and foreign keys for relationship definition. -Skilled in data manipulation (updating, inserting, deleting) and using joins for creating views.-Knowledge of writing subqueries to extract specific information and implementing stored procedures and functions.

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  Code Institute

  Aug 2023 - Aug 2023

  Coding Challenge Participant

  Short-term educational course I enrolled in to learn about web-development. The course included coding activities which were marked, as well as quizzes.

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  GirlsWhoML

  Oct 2023 - Nov 2023

  Machine Learning Course

  4-week course providing an overview into contemporary machine learning techniques. -Mastered linear & logistic regression modelling with a focus on feature selection and optimisation.-Delved into neural networks, gaining expertise in architecture, backpropagation, and activation functions. -Applied Convolution Neural Networks for image classification. -Gained insights into the power of transformers, diving into tokenisation, encoding, and attention mechanisms.