I am in my second year at the University of Toronto Scarborough, enrolled in a Double Specialist Co-op Program that combines Management & Finance with Quantitative Finance in the Statistics stream. That pairing is deliberate: financial accounting and economics explain how a business reports and behaves, while statistics and data analysis provide the tools to test what those reports actually imply.
My most relevant applied work so far was at Milky Way Educational & Cultural Association, where I assisted with financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting in Excel, supported internal audit activity, and helped reduce reporting turnaround time by 25%. In coursework I have carried the same approach into public company analysis — reading Aritzia's annual report, calculating ratios, and interpreting what they mean for the decisions in front of management.
Alongside that, sales and client-facing roles at Turkville and Sienna Painting taught me to explain a proposition clearly to someone who has no obligation to listen, and to keep accurate records while doing it. Twelve years of competitive swimming set the underlying habit: consistent work over a long horizon, measured against a clock that does not negotiate.