Finance · Education · Thinking

Liz
Nambuya

I work at the intersection of financial rigour and human complexity, and I find that most interesting things live there.

Current Role

Commercial Analyst, Upstream Finance BP · Aberdeen, Scotland

Chartered Status

ACMA CGMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Based in

Aberdeen, Scotland

01 About

I'm a finance professional with a background spanning financial control, internal audit and commercial finance, roles that have taught me to ask not just what the numbers say, but what they mean and for whom. It's a question that sounds simple and rarely is, which is probably why it's the one I keep coming back to.

That habit of pulling on simple-looking questions extends well beyond finance. I'm drawn to history, systems, identity, the way people make decisions under pressure, and the quiet places where those things overlap with the work I do. Finance gives me a framework for thinking rigorously. Everything else gives me something worth thinking rigorously about.

Running alongside all of this is an instinct toward teaching, toward finding the clearest, most honest way into a complex idea without making it smaller in the process. I've taught formally and informally across different contexts and have found that the instinct doesn't change much across them. It shapes how I write, how I explain, and what I choose to explore.

ACMA CGMA — Fully Chartered Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Drapers Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement Queen Mary University of London
MSc Accounting & Management Queen Mary University of London
BSc Economics & Finance Cardiff University
02 Experience

Sep 2025 — Present

Commercial Analyst

BP · Upstream Finance · Aberdeen

Sep 2024 — Sep 2025

Internal Auditor

BP · Internal Audit · Sunbury

Sep 2023 — Sep 2024

Accounting, Reporting & Control Coordinator

BP · Accounting, Reporting & Control · Sunbury

Sep 2020 — Present

Brand Strategist

Platform Presence · Neurobranding

May 2019 — Aug 2020

Programme Coordinator

Leadership Training · Kampala, Uganda

Jan 2018 — Jan 2019

English Language Teacher

Secondary School · Rural Uganda

03 Current Work

Ripple Finance

Financial literacy that travels further than you.

Too many people count themselves out of financial thinking before they have really begun. Ripple Finance is a vision for making financial thinking genuinely accessible, through stories, games, and formats that meet people where they are rather than where textbooks assume they should be. The lesson series is where the work begins publicly, an introduction to the kind of thinking Ripple Finance is being built to spread.

Read the series

Platform Presence

How you think shapes everything you build.

Platform Presence is a neurobranding consultancy working at the intersection of mind, identity, and professional presence. Drawing on research into how the brain shapes behaviour, it helps people think more clearly about who they are, what they are worth, and how they show up at work, online, and in the world.

Visit Platform Presence

"Write, not because you have all the answers, but because you have questions."

04 Contact