william cole

Responsible for creating and reviewing models for a variety of purposes across a range of sectors. Sector experience: pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, emergency services, healthcare and utilities. Technical experience: Experienced in the use of SQL Server, Alteryx, LaTeX and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and VBA for Excel. Good working knowledge of SSIS, R, MatLab, Python, Git, PowerShell, EViews and Bloomberg. C# beginner.

See description for Research Officer position (below).

Researcher in the Securities and Finance Practice. Conducted research and analysis to inform and support the conclusions of expert reports submitted by the firm during financial litigation proceedings. Specific experience: hedge fund litigation, financial regulation and event study analysis. IT experience: experienced in the use of full range of Microsoft Office software, VBA for Excel and LaTeX; working knowledge of Bloomberg, FactSet, MatLab and Stata. Technical skills: report-writing, quantitative analysis and the use of software packages. Soft skills: management, presentations and team work.

Research pertaining to unemployment duration models (a type of survival model). Contributed to the implementation of statistical tools to account for incomplete data using Matlab, a statistical analysis program.

Provided statistical analysis and modelling support to the Global Data & Analytics team and on secondment across the firm.

Subjects studied: econometrics, microeconomics, macroeconomics and international trade. Theoretical extended essays (2,500 words): signalling games, Bertrand competition amongst firms with increasing marginal costs and nonlinear least squares estimation in econometric theory. Empirical project (2,500 words): 'Do Restrictive Trade Policies Reduce a Country's GDP?' Activities and Societies: Philoenic Society.

Studied at the Judge Business School. Followed the Financial Engineering stream. Subjects studied: advanced financial models, portfolio optimisation, asset pricing, econometrics and microeconomics of finance. Activities and Societies: Cambridge University Jugglers' Association.