Sebastian Thomas

Experience

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  LloydsPharmacy

  Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

  Sales Assistant

  - Gave the highest standard of customer service while manning the tills, stocking the shop, handling sensitive personal information as well as organising paperwork and medicines prepared by the pharmacists to make a customer's visit quick and efficient.

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  Football Index

  Mar 2019 - Mar 2021

  Trader and Mentor

  - Achieved a 300% return in 2 years.- Developed data analysis skills to evaluate investments and dividend potential.- Created a mentorship scheme and advised 15 different paying clients to grow their portfolios.- Contributed to the generation of over £10,000 for my clients.

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  CoffeeActive

  Jun 2019 - Jan 2020

  Support Staff/Barista

  - Working with the team to make customers as happy as can be with a wide variety of responsibilities and helping to raise the image of the cafe. - Skills gained include upselling, food preparation, coffee preparation/barista, responsibility, commercial awareness.

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  Nottingham Economics & Finance Society

  Oct 2019 - now

  - Summarising the past week’s important macroeconomic events to the rest of the division at the start of every team meeting.- Presenting comprehensive investment pitches every other week on an alternative asset, covering fundamental, technical and comparative analysis.- Over £24,000 AUM. - Chosen from numerous applicants to write a concise weekly report on a specific focus area.- Read by 3500 students and corporate sponsors of the society.- Written articles on Latin America during political crises, the Pharmaceuticals industry, major currencies, and China during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.- Regularly featured on the ‘top stories of the week’.

  • Senior Equity Fund Analyst - Alternatives Division

    Feb 2021 - now

  • Equity Fund Analyst - Alternatives Division

    Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Research Analyst

    Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
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  Capital One

  Oct 2019 - Nov 2019

  Business Decision Making Mentorship

  - Chosen from a large number of applicants to develop many key skills with Capital One including commercial awareness, data analysis, decision making in business contexts and more.- Given a real model of a balance teaser product, and proposed my strategy to the firm's employees.- Received a score of 7/9 for presentation and ideas as well as evaluation of the data.- Predicted correctly a phenomenon that actually happened in the real world!

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  Samuel and Co Trading

  Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

  Live Trading Event

  - Selected personally by trader, Samuel Leach, to receive a free ticket to his live FX and shares trading event and training due to my passion for learning.- Received practical training in investment and trading strategies as well as mindset coaching.

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  Amplify Trading

  Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

  Trading Simulation

  - Selected from a huge number of applicants to take part in a trading simulation to test raw skills in hedge fund trading, market making and sales trading.- Gained vast amounts of knowledge about the industry from Amplify Trading and Morgan Stanley.- Scored very highly (~75%) in all three aspects of the simulation without much training at all, showing I have the talent to succeed with more trading.

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  BP

  Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

  Trading Simulation

  - Participated in a trading simulation run by BP’s supply and trading division.- Grasped an understanding of what makes prices of commodities, mostly crude oil, fluctuate.

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  Nottingham Entrepreneurs

  Jan 2020 - now

  President
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  Amplify Trading

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  Investment Bank Sales & Trading Simulation

  - Selected to take part in a trading simulation to test raw acumen in the roles of a hedge fund trader, market maker and sales trader.- Gained vast amounts of knowledge about the in depth role of sales and trading in investment banks from Amplify Trading and Morgan Stanley.- Scored very highly (~75%) in all three aspects of the simulation without much training at all, showing I have the talent to succeed and develop in a related position.

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  Nottingham Green Economy Society

  Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

  Finance Author for the Sustainable Business Review

  - Chosen to write quarterly articles for the finance column of the UK’s first student-led sustainable business magazine.- Written articles include on real estate’s growing ESG appetite and on European football clubs’ green investments.- Featured as the finance column’s lead story for issue 2.

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  Golden Drake Capital

  Jul 2020 - Oct 2020

  Industry Analyst

  - Chosen to be part of the Industry Analysis division, developing complete and in-depth reports every other week.- Written comprehensive reports on topics including the video game industry and telemedicine.- Presented all reports to the rest of the team in a formal, corporate setting.- Created daily ‘Market Breaking News’ posts for the social media pages as soon as news broke.

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  Samuel and Co Trading

  Jul 2020 - now

  Junior FX Trader

  - £50,000 AUM, increased from £25,000 after consistent performances and hitting targets profits.

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  Creator Fund

  Oct 2020 - now

  Investment Analyst

  - Creator Fund is Europe's leading student venture capital firm responsible for identifying and investing in visionary student, academic and recent-graduate founders.- We are an early-stage fund pioneering a new model, recruiting teams of PhD and well-connected students to find and back the best startups on their university campuses.- As a student analyst, I source and analyse deals for investment coming from across the UK and Europe.- Evaluating the value of potential student start-ups through due diligence and discussing these at regional investment committees.- In addition to funds, we provide access to an ecosystem of world-class mentors and entrepreneurs offering students the expertise, knowledge and recruitment they require to build their businesses.Please reach out to me if you are a student, academic or recent-graduate founder and are seeking to raise! Mostrar menos

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  The Modular Analytics Company

  Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Innovation Intern