Workbook · Finance systems · 2026
Finance systems built for better decisions.
Senior Financial Analyst · FP&A · Finance Systems · Automation
Financial analysis, forecasting, management reporting and automation across Excel, SAP, Power BI, SQL, Python.
04 / SELECTED_WORK
Constraint → Build → Control → Result
Selected systems work with measurable operating outcomes.
FP&A Month-End Reporting Automation
- Constraint
- Month-end management reporting required several days of manual data gathering from multiple sources each cycle — extraction by hand, spreadsheet reconciliation, and re-keying into the reporting pack.
- Build
- Automated the month-end management reporting pipeline — SQL extraction, Python validation, Power BI delivery.
- Control
- Stable extract schema
- Result
- The reporting cycle moved from multi-day assembly to same-day availability.
~20 hours / month of manual consolidation removed
Open case →BeforeMulti-daymanual assembly
AfterSame-dayreconciled delivery
Excel/VBA Budget Consolidation Toolkit
- Constraint
- Consolidating a dozen department budget templates into the master model was a manual copy-paste exercise every cycle, with version-control and broken-formula risk on every round.
- Build
- One-click consolidation of department budget submissions with validation and rolling forecast refresh.
- Control
- Missing-input checks
- Result
- Consolidation effort dropped from days to hours per cycle.
BeforeDaysper cycle
AfterHoursvalidated consolidation
Executive KPI & MBR Dashboard
- Constraint
- Leadership reviews ran on static, manually prepared decks.
- Build
- A Power BI KPI dashboard for the monthly business review with drill-through from summary to account level.
- Control
- Shared metric definitions
- Result
- Metric definitions are now shared across the pack.
BeforeDaysmanual MBR prep
AfterFew hoursshared definitions
09 / SYSTEM_STACK
Capabilities
Evidence categories — not self-ratings.
- Core finance
- FP&A · Budgeting · Forecasting · Variance · Management reporting · Close
- Finance systems
- SAP · Reporting systems · Process design · Automation
- Analytics
- Power BI · Power Query · DAX · SQL
- Automation
- Excel/VBA · Python · Validation · Exception handling
12 / LATEST_INSIGHTS
Latest Insights
NO.TOPICTITLEDATEREAD
Signals
Selected observations
Still copying names, owners, or categories between Excel files? That's exactly the kind of job XLOOKUP should eliminate. One key → one maintained reference → one answer. The formula is easy. Keeping the reference table clean is the real control.
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20 / CURRENT_WORKBENCH
Current workbench
LiveActive practice — secondary to Selected Work.
- Insights
- an essay on FP&A as decision architecture
- Building
- a controlled finance reconciliation drill
- Practicing
- SQL window functions for finance workflows