Christopher Küster

Christopher Küster

Book keeper/ Accountant

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  • About me

    Senior Analyst at Klarna

  • Education

    • Westerford High School

      2008 - 2012
      NSC English, Afrikaans, German, Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography A aggregate, Bachelor's Matric Pass

      Activities and Societies: Outdoor club Orchestra Chairperson of Orchestra for 2011 and 2012

    • University of Cape Town

      2014 - 2017
      Bachelor of Business Science Economics
  • Experience

    • Chapman Financial South Africa

      Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
      Book keeper/ Accountant

      Working part time for a small start-up business that provides a variety of bookkeeping and financial services to a number of international and local clients

    • University of Cape Town

      Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
      Tutor

      Tutor in the Department of Statistical Sciences.I have one/two classes of about 25 students each which I tutor. Other duties include hosting workshops for larger groups of students of up to 200, as well as facilitating hot seats that provides one-on- one time with students struggling with the study material.

    • Mindpearl

      Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
      Customer Service and Sales Representative

      Full-time employment during 2015/2016 university vacation. Worked as a German Speaking Call Center Agent for the Weight Watchers - Germany account. I used a variety of computer systems, including the eGain email system

    • Truworths

      Feb 2018 - Sept 2021
      Credit Risk Analyst

      Worked as a Credit Risk Analyst in the Risk and Analytics department at Truworths, a large fashion retailer: - Using SAS, SQL, and PowerBi to perform day to day tasks - Responsible for the Layby financial product, it's development and strategy (credit risk strategy) - Project management of changes and improvements to the Layby product - Forecasting of Targets for our in-store offering - Engaging with Stakeholders and presenting reports to all levels of the company

    • Klarna

      Oct 2021 - now

      Working as an Analyst in the Market Expansion space, we launch new markets and new payment methods at Klarna: - Using SQL, Python, and Qliksense to perform reporting and adhoc analysis. - Building automated reports in Slack, and a ChatGPT Slackbot using Python and Langchain. - Engaging with Stakeholders to manage the development of changes in the purchase flow. - Designing and maintaining data pipelines and dashboards. Working as an Analyst in one of Klarna's Market Success Teams: - Measure and assess our merchant portfolio performance - Providing analyses and presentations to our top merchants and stakeholders - Forecasting our portfolio performance (volumes and profitability) - Developing data pipelines and dashboards to streamline the reporting process

      • Senior Product Analyst

        Jan 2023 - now
      • Senior Analyst

        Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SAS Academy for Data Science: Predictive Modeling

      SAS
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    • Xero Partner Certification

      Xero
      Dec 2015
    • Xero Partner Certification

      Xero
      Jan 2017
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Christopher Küster
      Dean's Merit List for Commerce Dean of Commerce at the University of Cape Town Dec 2014