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Simon Johannes Jähn · M.Sc. Business Administration · Bremen

Turning data into decisions that hold up under uncertainty — working where machine learning, finance and risk meet.

About

I'm an M.Sc. Business Administration student at the University of Bremen, where I also finished my B.Sc. in Business IT with a final grade of 1.18.

I'm a working student in Credit Risk Controlling at Die Sparkasse Bremen. I started in the CRCU-PD and now work mainly in the Internal Validation Unit (IVU).

Based in
Bremen, Germany
Studying
M.Sc. Business Administration
Working as
Working Student, Credit Risk Controlling
Focused on
Machine learning, finance & risk

Experience & Education

  1. Experience

    Working Student — Credit Risk Controlling

    Die Sparkasse Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

    Since 11/2025

    • CRCU-PD, later IVU
  2. Education

    M.Sc. Business Administration

    University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

    Since 10/2025

    Focus: Finance, Accounting

    • Inflation forecasting
    • Risk-based portfolio optimisation
  3. Education

    B.Sc. Business IT

    University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

    10/2022 — 09/2025

    Final grade 1.18 (≈ 3.8/4.0 GPA)

    Focus: Computational Finance

    • Forecasting asset returns with machine learning

Projects

Personal project

Interactive Brokers Tax Report

Turns an Interactive Brokers transaction log into a tax report that follows German tax rules.

  • Go
  • TypeScript
M.Sc. Business Administration

Risk-Based Portfolio Optimization

Builds risk-based portfolios, forecasting volatility and correlations with GARCH and DCC-GARCH models.

  • Python
  • GARCH
  • DCC-GARCH
B.Sc. Business IT

Directional Bitcoin Forecast

Predicts the direction of Bitcoin returns using LSTM networks and gradient-boosted trees.

  • Python
  • LSTM
  • XGBoost

Focus

Machine Learning

Building and validating models that learn from data — from feature engineering through to reading what the output actually means.

Finance

Quantitative approaches to valuation, portfolio construction, and the mechanics of how markets behave.

Risk

Measuring and controlling credit and financial risk — putting numbers on uncertainty without hiding it.

Skills & Languages

Programming
Python, Java, Go, SQL
Machine learning
scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Tools
Git, LaTeX
Languages
German (native), English (professional working proficiency)