Shayla Cowin

Experience

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  American Century Investments

  May 2022 - Jul 2022

  Finance Intern

  - Rotated between various departments: Financial Reporting/Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable, Sales Reporting, and Financial Planning & Analysis- Updated and edited ACI’s 100-page Process Narrative so that it accurately reflected controls set in place to prevent and detect accounting risks - Utilized communication and presentation skills to lead team meetings consisting of approximately four other colleagues- Reviewed quarterly earnings release statements of approximately ten publicly traded companies to evaluate ACI’s performance compared to similar asset management firms- Reviewed and analyzed over 1,000 suspicious records from Salesforce to assist IT in creating a new process that will connect trades with offices in Salesforce Show less

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  Kansas State University

  Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  Finance Tutor

  - Assist students with finance concepts including discounted cash flow analysis, risk-return tradeoff, and valuation - Understand and help undergraduate students achieve their finance education goals

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  Deloitte

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Strategy Summer Scholar

  - Worked on a multi-million, multi-year finance transformation project that is optimizing a top insurance brokerage’s finance department and will save the client ~$5.5 million over the next five years.- Practiced first-class consulting skills such as using PowerPoint to create and communicate a clear story and using Excel to build a case analysis that detects business inefficiencies.- Facilitated meetings with Deloitte Senior Leaders to create an inventory of all key deliverables on the Client Account to provide practitioners an understanding of change impacts and gain stakeholder alignment. - Built a transition checklist that will become the framework for future international activities moved to a shared service center and presented the deliverable to Client Leadership. Show less

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Aug 2024 - now

  Strategy Analyst