Ask Yuliia to write a creative essay, and she’ll politely decline. Ask her to analyze complex financial statements, reconcile accounts, or identify discrepancies in a company’s books? Now you’re speaking her language.

“Writing letters is hard work for me,” she admits with a laugh. “It doesn’t matter what language — Ukrainian, Russian, English — I just don’t enjoy creative writing. But math? Numbers? Financial analysis? That’s where I’m comfortable. That’s what I love.”

This preference for precision over prose is exactly what makes her exceptional at what she does. While others might glaze over at balance sheets and income statements, Yuliia sees puzzles waiting to be solved, patterns waiting to be discovered, and stories about a business’s financial health waiting to be told.