Yulia Absalyamova

Experience

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  European Youth Parliament (EYP)

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Delegate (Environment, Human Rights and Employment Committees)
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  PwC Russia

  Nov 2010 - Apr 2014

  Spearheaded achievement of client management goals, uniting international, cross-functional teams through project management. Guaranteed project success through proactive identification and mitigation of barriers to success. Gained client trust by building rapport and effectively managing timely stakeholder communications and updates. Disseminated complex technical findings in written and oral presentations, using easy-to-understand language to ensure comprehension by diverse, non-technical audiences. Show less

  • Consultant

    Jul 2011 - Apr 2014

  • Intern

    Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
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  European Youth Parliament (EYP)

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Committee Head (Culture)
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  KPMG

  Apr 2014 - Feb 2019

  Delivered high-performance results, meeting client needs by building rapport to gain comprehensive understanding of management requirements and goals across global sites. Led change projects end-to-end, establishing scope, developing, and assigning tasks, monitoring deadlines, and overseeing financial resources to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery. Aligned spending with project funds, building budgets to support client foci and priorities.

  • Manager

    Oct 2016 - Feb 2019

  • Senior Consultant

    Apr 2014 - Oct 2016
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  PwC

  Feb 2019 - Sept 2020

  Manager

  Trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading enterprises providing management solutions and advice they need to keep on top of the major risks they face and supporting them in implementation of internal audit, fraud, and bribery risk management frameworks. Enhanced client success managing resource allocation, staff development, and administrative decision- making. Grew revenue by focusing on organisational success, developing, and sharing best practices. Secured future organizational success, serving as coach and mentor to provide training and guide development of staff. Show less

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  Berkeley Research Group LLC

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2022

  Senior Manager

  Deliver high quality solutions and reports by leading daily operations for multidisciplinary professionals. Fulfil client needs by giving practical advice and leading management consulting assignments, forensic accounting, quantum expert assessment in arbitration and litigation, opining in matters of valuation and accounting. Expand revenue by securing new business, developing, and delivering comprehensive bids for new projects.

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  AGON

  Feb 2021 - Jan 2023

  Chief Operating Officer

  Shareholder, a member of the founding team, built AI fitness start-up with blockchain technology from scratch leading operations and business development functions. Lead fundraising efforts and investor relations. Build business strategy and product functionality to maximise route to revenue.AGON is the world's first fitness app, which makes personal training with state-of-the-art AI fitness instructor accessible, engaging and interactive. AGON is a future AI trainer built on proprietary technology, which will substitute personal trainers and introduce groundbreaking FitnessVerse to the market. Show less

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  Yandex

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  Director of International Projects

  Managed international expansion of Yandex search engine and portal in the APAC and MENA regions. Responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, conducting market sizing exercises, geographical regulatory assessment and government communications, financial planning and modelling for new markets. Leveraged this strategy to drive business development within targeted strategic partnerships and key external stakeholders.

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  Sumsub

  Jul 2023 - Aug 2024

  Director of Strategic Initiatives

  Created and led Sumsub’s government relations function and strategy working group. Working closely with C-suite and product teams - helped to formulate, facilitate and communicate the organisation’s strategic initiatives and future goals (GOST framework). I identified key regulatory accounts, created Sumsub’s regulatory narrative, approached and set up a projects with the accounts.Sumsub is one verification platform that helps businesses monitor fraud worldwide and at every step of the customer journey. In a single flow, our clients verify users, businesses, and transactions, as well as manage cases and customize flows. Show less