Velissarios Tsagkalidis

Accomplished finance professional with experience in equity strategies, financial modeling, and project management across international markets. Skilled at analyzing market trends, optimizing risk management, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive sustainable growth.

Professional Experience

UniCredit

Equity Strategy Analyst

Munich, 09/2024 – Present

  • Developed investment strategies by analyzing market trends and delivering stock recommendations that aligned with portfolio guidelines, achieving a 2.1% benchmark outperformance.
  • Evaluated sector performance and macroeconomic indicators to shape equity allocation and improve risk management.

Financial Modeling Analyst

New York, 06/2024 – 09/2024

  • Developed and stress-tested financial models to evaluate market, credit, and operational risks, delivering weekly reports to management with recommended adjustments to align with target risk thresholds.
  • Established dynamic models to track and forecast liquidity, optimizing cash flow and meeting compliance targets.

Associate Project Manager

Munich, 02/2024 – 06/2024

  • Collaborated with a cross-functional team to overhaul wealth management software, delivering a new portfolio engine, improved valuation and risk calculations, and a faster, more secure API integration.

Trading Systems Developer

Munich, 06/2023 – 12/2023

  • Optimized code for rebalancing UniCredit’s equity fund based on market capitalization of included equities.
  • Collaborated with an international team to resolve performance bottlenecks in algorithmic pricing code, resulting in an 18% increase in speed within 6 months while complying with architectural and latency standards.

Education

Technical University of Munich

BSc in Management and Technology

Munich, 10/2020 – 02/2024

  • Specialization in Information Technology
  • Bachelor Thesis: What’s the ‘Green’ Worth? – An Experimental Approach to Examining the Greenium
  • Exchange Semester at Universitat de Barcelona UB from 09/2022 to 01/2023, with a focus on International Economics, Financial Management, Economic Forecasting Methods

Deutsche Schule Thessaloniki

Abitur – Qualification for University Entrance

Thessaloniki, 09/2008 – 06/2020

  • Class Speaker from 2016 to 2019
  • Part of school orchestra
  • Part of MUN 2016?