About me

Hello, I am Sofia Soboleva

Analytical and multilingual MBA student specializing in Financial Analysis, with hands-on experience in Excel-based financial reporting, strategic planning, and business analytics. Finalist in national case competitions and founder of a digital platform.

Work experience

Commercial Project Manager Intern

PepsiCo (Benelux) • July 2025-ongoing

  • ✔ Supported the Commercialization Team in managing cross-functional projects across sales, marketing, and supply chain, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely execution.
  • ✔ Led commercial project coordination, including timeline tracking, stakeholder communication, and deliverable management.
  • ✔ Collaborated with the Insights Team to collect, organize, and create content for internal and external reporting, contributing to strategic decision-making.
  • ✔ Conducted market and consumer analysis to support insights generation and commercial strategy.
  • ✔ Delivered presentations and reports summarizing key findings and project outcomes for leadership teams.

Talent development and inclusion officer (Traineeship)

Deloitte Belgium • September 2024-December 2024

  • ✔ Worked closely with internal platform, created multiple courses and course pages for internal learnings.
  • ✔ Planned and executed initiatives to promote inclusivity and diversity. Contributed to organising impactful events such as the Mental Health Awareness Day and ADHD awareness session.
  • ✔ Designed a calendar for the team covering all major projects, milestones, and organizational events for the next two years. Collaborated with department heads to gather inputs on key deliverables, recurring events, and project timelines.
  • ✔ Documentation work.

HR Administrative assistant (Student Job)

Deloitte Belgium • September 2022-October 2022

  • ✔ Coordinated numerous Meet & Greets, ensuring that they are well-planned, executed smoothly.
  • ✔ Consistently delivered detailed and insightful reports, providing valuable data and analysis to support decision- making processes within the team.
  • ✔ Effectively managed the team's calendar.
  • ✔ Conducted thorough internal information checks, ensuring that all data and information used by the team are accurate, up-to-date, and compliant with relevant policies and regulations.
  • ✔ Utilized advanced Excel skills to evaluate data, identify patterns, and generate actionable insights.

Internship

OOO DMT GROUP (LOGISTICS) • June 2021-July 2021

  • ✔ Reduced the average time between receiving an inquiry, responding to it with relevant information, and processing orders by 20%.
  • ✔ Recorded the arrival of goods to the warehouse and their dispatch using Excel spreadsheets to ensure that utilized capacity of the warehouse is up-to-date at all times.
  • ✔ Reviewed shipping documents for compliance with the corresponding signed agreements.
  • ✔ Monitored packaging stations for adequate supply of boxes, filler and wrapping materials, tape, and labels, communicating to senior staff which items need to be reordered.

Front Desk Officer (Summer Job)

Dr. Bykov's Eye Microsurgery Clinic • June 2020-July 2020

  • ✔ Responded to telephone enquiries about the range of service offered at the clinic and booked initial patient appointments.
  • ✔ Greeted patients and supplied them with obligatory individual means of protection against infections.
  • ✔ Prepared service agreements and processed payments.

Education

Master of Business Administration with a major in Financial Analysis • 2024-ongoing • KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium)

Master thesis ‘The market reaction to share repurchases in Europe’.

Bachelor of Business Administration • 2021-2024 • KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium)

Bachelor thesis ‘Employee Experience – a fuzz word or important for an employer?‘ Trying to understand EX within the KBC bank and propose methods to improve it.

Projects & Competitions

  • Leuven Case Competition (March 2024)

    Finalist

    • Selected as a finalist among teams solving real-world cases for McKinsey, L’Oréal, and Colruyt.
    • Proposed sustainable refill system for L'Oréal; led research and presented recommendations to jury panel.

  • SWAPHUB (2023-ongoing)

    Founder

    • Developed and pitched an e-commerce platform offering physical inspection points for online purchases, aiming to increase trust in secondhand sales.
    • Conducted a market survey (97 responses), built a business plan, and presented to university investors and startup competition in Brussels.
    • Oversaw brand design and business model; MVP developed privately with IT support (brother).

  • Deloitte Management Project (2022-2023)

    Team Leader

    • Conducted strategic, financial, HR, and marketing analysis of Deloitte Belgium.
    • Led finance and strategy sections using SWOT and internal data access.
    • Proposed solutions on burnout prevention, social responsibility branding, and business process optimization.

Skills

  • Machine Learning & AI Foundations – LinkedIn Learning (Prediction, Causation, Statistical Inference, Oct 2024)
  • The Integrity Imperative (with final exam) – Deloitte Learning Network (April 2024)
  • Tools & Software - Excel (advanced functions), SPSS, WRDS, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, LMS (Delight)
  • Methods & Analysis - Event study methodology, regression analysis, SWOT, Likert-scale survey design

Languages

  • Russian (Native)
  • English (C1)
  • French (B1)
  • Dutch (A2)

Testimonial

Get In Touch

  • Address

    Brussels, Belgium

  • Phone

    +324 653 125 20

  • Email

    sofia.sobolevawork@gmail.com