Application Letter

                                                           

                                                    

                                                        Ziye Lu (Isabel)

1917，88 Corporate Dr, Scarborough, Ontario M3H 3G6  647-992-0923·ziye.lu@utoronto.ca

FEB, 08^th, 2012

Ms. Marina Joseph

Reliance Comfort, a Division of Union Energy

2 Lansing Square, 12th Floor
Toronto, ON
M2J 4P8

RE: Co-op Financial Analyst

Dear Ms. Joseph,

  It is my pleasure to apply for the Financial Analyst Co-op position at Reliance Comfort, a Division of Union Energy. Reliance is passion for delivering superior quality of home comfort products and services to yield customers’ satisfactions. As a Financial Analyst career in Reliance addressed, the work should initiate to deal with integrated financial issues by exerting strong analytical, teamwork and communicational skills. I, as a third-year Co-op management student, view it as a great opportunity to exert my knowledge in to practice, accumulate experience and stimulate my potential.

  In my perspective, to be given the opportunity to work in Reliance, one should possess two indispensable abilities: a passion for collaborating with supervisors and coworkers，and analytical and organizational skills. I am a financial associate in University of Toronto Forum of China Development (UTFCD) where I enhanced collaborative skills and analytical skills to deal with club’s financial issues. For instance, cooperating with team members, my main responsibility is to calculate the club’s budget and plan the detail strategy to sell tickets for a Chinese Conference which is held our club annually. I am exerting analytical and decisive skills to plan the whole process of how to sell tickets such as being a liaison role to cooperate with other clubs to promote our conference or presenting the detailed sheet to the director of how to run our club effectively within limited budget. And it turns out that our strategy seems to work well because the conference has been finalized and is about to be held on September this year while selling out almost 75% tickets. Conjunctively, as job described, the Financial Analyst position needs the one who can deal with diverse issues by exerting strong analytical and communicational skills.

  Moreover, with an experience of being an accounting and math tutor at Centennial College in Canada during last fall, my basic responsibilities were to tutor students with their subjects in accounting, finance and math and to promote tutoring service via several marketing channels. During this job placement, I made some effective changes while improving myself by doing them. Because the data showed almost 50% students failed their level-1 accounting courses, I did some research and prepared some sheets which provided simplified approaches to solve some specific accounting issues, such doing journal entries, analyzing financial reports. It turned out to be effective since students improved their grades and the fail rates decreased to 45%. Therefore, as the Financial Analyst position required some basic accounting skills, my abilities can match with these requirements. And additionally, by interacting with managers and my co-workers, my collaborative and leadership skills were addressed.

Possessing enthusiasm and abilities in collaboration, and analytical and communicational skills, I am confident that I can apply my skills and talents to handle any challenge encountered. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I look forward to meeting with you to further discuss this opportunity.

Sincerely

Ziye Lu