Sam Arnold
London,Surrey
Summary
Detail-oriented Business Analyst Apprentice specialising in accounting and reporting, with hands-on experience in month-end and quarter-end close processes. Reconciled financial data from legacy systems to AWS cloud platforms, ensuring accuracy through structured reconciliations and variance analysis. Tested reporting logic within Axiom and employed AI for anomaly detection, delivering clear reports and presentations to stakeholders.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
London
09.2024 - Current
- Developed dashboards with SQL to establish systemic controls over monthly data feed variances.
- Coordinated with technology teams to integrate and compare datasets in AWS, ensuring like-for-like prior period loading and maintaining a clear audit trail of testing steps and outputs.
- Built structured Excel reconciliation workbooks using lookups, aggregations, and variance logic to summarise high-risk variances for stakeholders.
- Tested and evaluated legacy P2P feeds against strategic feeds to confirm suitability for GL reconciliation and balance sheet reporting.
- Strategic Migration Completed across Banking and Trading Financial products, such as Loans and Derivatives.
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Shelf Stacker
Morrisons
London
09.2023 - 08.2024
Fast Food Worker
Domino's Pizza
London
08.2022 - 08.2024
Education
Level 4 AAT -
BPP University
London, ENG01-2026
A-Levels -
Warlingham School
London, ENG01-2024
GCSEs -
De stafford
London, ENG01-2022
Skills
- Data analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- Databricks
- Financial reporting
- Audit compliance
- Information systems expertise
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Process testing
Timeline
Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
09.2024 - Current
Shelf Stacker
Morrisons
09.2023 - 08.2024
Fast Food Worker
Domino's Pizza
08.2022 - 08.2024
Level 4 AAT -
BPP University
A-Levels -
Warlingham School
GCSEs -
De stafford