01 — 2021
EY
Staff Accountant — Audit
Toronto · 12-month internship
A year inside the audit machine — real estate, retail and asset-management files, learning how numbers are proven rather than presented.
Nabeen Ahmed — Side A · The Ledger
VIALTO
The Analyst
Financial Analyst II at TELUS. Five years spent proving numbers, not just presenting them — audit floors at EY, warranty ledgers at Tesla, cross-border returns at Vialto, and now FP&A for one of Canada's largest telecoms.
5+ yrsFinance
4Firms
2Countries
$21,750In awards
VIALTO
Scroll — the story compounds
Chapter 02
The Ladder
Four firms, two countries, one direction. Every rung audited before the next was climbed.
02 — 2023
Tesla
Warranty Cost Accountant
Fremont, California · Internship
Rebuilt month-end close workbooks with Power Query and SQL — the quarter automation stopped being a buzzword and started saving days.
03 — 2025
Vialto Partners
Tax Compliance Specialist
Toronto · Contract
U.S. and Canadian cross-border returns — two tax codes, one filing, zero room for error.
04 — Now
TELUS
Financial Analyst II
Toronto · Remote · Full-time
The current chapter — planning, reporting and analysis at national scale for one of Canada's largest telecoms.
Chapter 03
The Foundation
A management degree earned twice over — once in Scarborough, once in Shinjuku.
2019 — 2024
University of Toronto Scarborough
BBA, Management Co-op — Specialization in International Business. Dean's List every year from 2019 to 2023, graduated with High Distinction and Summa Cum Laude honours.
2022 — 2023
Waseda University, Tokyo
A full academic year of business administration on exchange in Shinjuku — the year that earned two Japan-focused scholarships and a lasting bias for building bridges across the Pacific.
Summa Cum Laude · 2024
High Distinction — >3.5 CGPA
Dean's List 2019–2023
Chapter 04
The Recognition
Merit, priced to market. Every line item below was competitively awarded.
$0
in scholarships & awards
Mary Jane Hendrie Memorial ScholarshipFor a demonstrated focus on Japan–Canada relations
$6,250
International Experience AwardFor the Waseda academic exchange, Tokyo
$6,000
EDC International Business ScholarshipExport Development Canada
$5,000
Summer Company Entrepreneurship AwardGovernment of Ontario — for founding and running SiteNED
$3,000
RBC Gaming GrantRoyal Bank of Canada
$1,500
Work-Term Excellence AwardUTSC Management — for the Tesla co-op term
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Chapter 05
The Toolkit
The working stack — what actually gets the close done.
SAP Business Warehouse
Power Query
VBA
SQL
Financial Audits
Year-End Accounting
Cross-Border Tax
AI Tooling
Digital Marketing — HubSpot Academy2022
Data Analytics Consulting Virtual Internship — KPMG2020