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Who will be Future CFO of the Year?

Who will be Future CFO of the Year – 10 finalists make the grade in competition

From a pool of 50 entrants, and after a demanding assessment held at ACCA’s (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) London HQ recently, 10 young people have made the shortlist to find the winner and runner-up as the Future CFO of the Year.

For 2015, ACCA is sponsoring the Future CFO category of the UK-wide Target Jobs Undergraduate of the Year competition.

The ten finalists are:

• Rohan Arora, University of Oxford New College
• Daniel Arnold, University of Durham Stephenson College
• Lewis Coultas, Robert Gordon University
• Ranjeev Juty, London School of Economics,
• Laura Mckechnie, University of Strathclyde
• Aataullah Naser, University of Manchester
• Oluwadamilola Payne, University of Birmingham
• Maya Patel, University of Liverpool
• Alex Quaey, University of East Anglia
• Daniel Tascon, London School of Economics

All the students are in the penultimate year of their undergraduate degree at a UK university, and all are studying a degree related to business, accountancy and finance, maths or economics. This shortlist of 10 is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf, London on 24 April, 2015 where the winner and the runner up will be announced.

Both will win a five day trip to Shanghai – one of the world’s fastest growing economies, where they will get the chance to meet CFOs. The overall winner will also win a paid internship over summer 2015 to gain valuable work experience.

Andrew Leck from ACCA UK, said: “Congratulations to this group of 10; I am sure that these are all future high fliers. It was a tough decision to choose this shortlist, but they possess the mix personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record that make them standout.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by ACCA .