Ostap

Ostap Polukainen

PROFILE
Final-year Finance and Law student at Masaryk University, graduating January 2027, specialising in financial analysis and modelling. Have practical experience working with financial statements using Python, SQL, and Power BI. Comfortable automating finance workflows to replace manual, repetitive reporting. A reliable team player focused on delivering clear and efficient work.
HARD SKILLS
• Excel (advanced): financial modelling, pivot tables, complex formulas, Power Query, VBA automation.
• Power BI: star schema data modelling, Power Query (M language), DAX, automated interactive dashboards.
• SQL: analytical querying and transformation(joins, aggregations, window functions).
• Python: pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, matplotlib.
COMPETITIONS
EY Audit Challenge: Colt CZ Group
05.2026
• Led a team of 3 to 4th place out of 12 in audit case on Colt CZ Group.
• Analysed the company's financial statements across profitability (margin trends), liquidity (current/quick ratios), and leverage (debt-to-equity) to assess its overall financial health after recent horizontal acquisition.
• Flagged the key risks emerging from that analysis and presented the team's conclusions to an EY jury.
Projects
Bachelor's thesis: EU–Switzerland bilateral agreements (focus on electricity agreement):
06.2026
• Conducted independent quantitative research into the economic consequences of Switzerland's exclusion from the EU internal electricity market.
• Sourced and cleaned seven years of hourly cross-border wholesale electricity prices for Switzerland and its neighbouring markets.
• Built a machine learning model, grounded in the academic literature, to estimate the price convergence Switzerland would see under full market integration.
E-commerce Sales Analytics (Power BI):
02.2026
• Cut a recurring reporting task from ~20 hours of manual work to 1–2 hours by replacing spreadsheet pulls with an automated Power BI pipeline.
• Created DAX measures (revenue, order volume, average order value) powering refreshable, self-serve dashboards.
• Designed a star-schema data model and a repeatable Power Query (M) transform layer to ingest and clean raw multi-table data.
Peer Mentor (student body)
06.2026
• Tutored and mentored up to 10 fellow students through their university studies, tutoring across quantitative subjects including econometrics, finance, Excel and mathematics.
• For the English exam, also built an interactive web app to support their practice, all 7 who prepared with me passed.

CONTACT
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Location Prague, Czech Republic
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EDUCATION
Finance and Law
Masaryk University
9.2022 – 1.2027
LANGUAGES
English – C1 (IELTS 6.5, Business English C1 certificate)
Czech – C1 (Masaryk University certificate)
Ukrainian – native