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ALIYA RAKISHEVA
8220 Palo Verde, Irvine, 92612
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A well-grounded professional in strategic development who can be a good addition to any team due to a 10-year background that includes creation and realization of strategies for different companies, gathering and analyzing data, presentation skills and eagerness for ongoing self-improvement.


EXPERIENCE
AGRARIAN CREDIT CORPORATION JSC, Astana, Kazakhstan
Large financial institution with loan portfolio of 800 million USD and more than 22, 000 credit lines in farming
Head of the Department of marketing and PR
•Created strategy, development plans and reports on realization of government programs, reports on financial and operational performance for top-management;
•Provided economic and financial justifications for prioritized agricultural projects (successfully retained 200+ million USD from the state budget);
•Prepared Annual reports according to GRI standards (two reports won Annual contests among 131 local companies);
•Monitored Instagram and Facebook on everyday basis (achieved a result of subscription by 6 times in 1 year);
•Monitored allocation of funds on subsidizing from Ministry of agriculture (provided subsidies for more than 3 900 farmers);

Aug 2016-Sep 2018
TRANSTELECOM JSC, Astana, Kazakhstan
Large telecommunication provider in Kazakhstan with 10% national market share
Head of the Department of corporate governance
•Co-created of a company strategy with the Transformation and Restructuring team of McKinsey in Astana;
•Managed the creation and implementation of strategic and financial KPIs for top-managers based on the operational plans;
•Created risk-management system based on COSO standards and monitored the correspondence of corporate governance maturity to S&P standards;
•Composed the Annual report following the Global Reporting Initiative Standards. Apr-Dec 2015

NATIONAL MEDICAL HOLDING JSC, Astana, Kazakhstan
National healthcare corporation providing diagnosis and treatment for cardia, neurosurgeries and transplantation.
Head of the Department of strategic development and corporate governance
•Designed the Development plan of NMH for 3 years including financial and functional KPIs for top-management and physicians;
•Monitored the correspondence of corporate governance structure of hospitals to Gamma standards;
•Analyzed current business-processes through RACI matrix. 2014
UNIVERSITY SERVICE MANAGEMENT PE, Astana, Kazakhstan
A subsidiary company of Nazarbayev University providing services in facility management, accommodation and transportation, management of faculty and student flows
Head of the Department of strategic development and coordination
•Created a company strategy for 3 years using University partner (UPenn and UCL) benchmarks;
•Led a team of faculty and staff in creation of Eco-management system including waste management in construction, labs and medical tissues.
•Effected commercial business plans for mini-recycling plant, vocational training center for plumbers, electricians, etc.;
•Participated in building partnerships in facility management with UPenn, VAMED Gmbh, Charite and Schneider Electric.

May 2011-Aug 2014
REAL ESTATE FUND SAMRUK-KAZYNA JSC, Astana, Kazakhstan
A subsidiary company of the national welfare fund Samruk-Kazyna supporting the development of the construction industry and real estate market of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Assistant of the Department of corporate development
•Created of financial model which included break-even analysis and approximate monthly payment for an apartment;
•Built relationship with mass-media and government entities to expound the importance of the Rental program;
•Analyzed local and international real estate markets and prepared the report published on the site www.fnsk.kz on a quarterly basis

Aug 2009-Mar 2011
GEO-MUNAI XXI LLP, Almaty, Kazakhstan
A subsidiary company of PetroKazakhstan, a vertically integrated oil and gas group owned by China National Petroleum Corporation and KazMunaiGas.
Financial analyst
•Analyzed key cost drivers of oil production and prepared financial analysis for top-management Jan 2007-
July 2009

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE, Southern California, USA
Accelerated Certificate Program of Data predictive analytics for Business professionals
Learned business applications for data exploration, preparation for data mining and visualization
Accelerated Certificate Program of Digital Marketing
Learned the latest trends and methodologies for acquiring, converting, and retaining customers in the digital era 2018-2019
NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY, Astana, Kazakhstan
Executive Master of Business Administration in strategic collaboration with Fuqua School of Business 2014-2016
KAZAKHSTAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS AND STRATEGIC RESEARCH, Almaty, Kazakhstan (AQAA Austria accreditation)
Bachelor of Business Administration, Major in Finance 2005-2009

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT
Project “Employee of choice”, KPMG 2007
Courses “Financial analysis”, “Financial and economical modeling», «Consolidation of financial reporting”, Ernst&Young Business Academy 2010
Seminar “Management of Universities, Research centers and Services”, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA 2011
Course “Company: strategy, finance and performance management”, Ernst&Young Business Academy 2012
Course “Kaidzen or the way of quality improvement and decreasing of production costs”, Kaidzen Kazakhstan, 2013
Courses “VBA programming for Excel” from “High Tech for Human” 2016
Certificate in Google Analytics for beginners 2019


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Language skills: English (fluent), Kazakh (fluent), Russian (fluent), French (basic);
Computer skills: SQL, VBA programming for Excel, Python, R programming, KNIME, Microsoft Office.