Projects

A selection of professional and academic work.

Work

IT & Marketing Cost Recharge Model

IT & Marketing Cost Recharge Model

Designed and built a recharge model at Quintessentially to allocate and recover IT and marketing costs across partner offices globally. The model improved cost transparency and enabled more accurate departmental budgeting.

Built With:Excel,Power BI,Sage 200
Multi-Hub Financial Reporting

Multi-Hub Financial Reporting

Owned end-to-end monthly financial reporting for Singapore, German, and Polish hubs at Quintessentially. Responsibilities included purchase ledger management, overhead budget variance analysis, bank reconciliations, intercompany ledger reconciliation, and journal posting.

Built With:Sage 200,Intacct,Excel
Internal Audit FY24 & FY25

Internal Audit FY24 & FY25

Played a key role in internal audit at Quintessentially for two consecutive financial years, with primary responsibility for intercompany balances and membership revenue streams.

Built With:Excel,Sage 200,Intacct
Equity Buy Recommendation — Zeus Capital

Equity Buy Recommendation — Zeus Capital

Conducted in-depth fundamental research on a listed equity of my choosing, producing a comprehensive buy recommendation report. Presented findings to a panel of department managers and executives at Zeus Capital.

Built With:Excel,Bloomberg Terminal,PowerPoint

Side Projects

Econometrics & Financial Economics Research

Econometrics & Financial Economics Research

Academic research projects at Royal Holloway covering econometrics, financial markets, industrial economics, and labour economics — achieving first-class grades across all modules involving quantitative analysis.

Built With:R,Excel
Portfolio Optimisation Software

Portfolio Optimisation Software

Created a portfolio optimisation programme through my knowledge of Python and with some use of Opencode. Effectively calculates optimal weightings of assets within a portfolio given inputted stock tickers and user-defined risk profiles. Backed up by historical stock price data gathered from Yahoo Finance. User-friendly GUI created through the tkinter package.

Built With:Python,VS Code,Excel,Bash,Github,Opencode
Boot.dev Courses

Boot.dev Courses

Supplemented and expanded my existing programming knowledge through structured courses in Advanced Python (OOP and Functional Programming), SQL, Golang, and Linux. Built several Python projects, including a 2D Asteroids game, a book analysis program, and my own AI agent.

Built With:Python,VS Code,Bash,Linux,Go,Github
alessandroscanu.com

alessandroscanu.com

This is the first professional website I have developed, applying concepts learned from various tutorials alongside my growing knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript.

Built With:TypeScript,JavaScript,VS Code,Node.JS,Yarn Package Manager,Vercel,Github