Farazi Ahmed

Business Data Analyst with 5+ years’ experience, seeking to clean, transform, and model data to discover meaningful information for effective business decision-making in the Financial Services sector.

About

Results-oriented Business Intelligence and Data Analytics professional with 6 years of experience delivering data-driven decision making and actionable insights to optimize business performance. Skilled in leveraging advanced analytics and data visualization techniques to solve complex business problems and achieve measurable outcomes to communicate with business stakeholders.

Education

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Applied Data Analytics Certificate (ADAC), Python for Data Analysis and Power BI Advanced Data Visualization / 2024

Schulich School of Business York University

Master of Finance in Capital Markets (CFA Program affiliated), Finance in Capital Markets / 2015

North South University

Undergraduate Honors, Finance and Accounting / 2012

Experience

Seaspan ULC Shipbuilding

Senior Supply Chain BI Analyst / October, 2022 — Present

Prepared analytical reports in Power BI programming calculated columns and DAX measures to support supply chain operations. Standardized shipbuilding quality reports and dashboards as QC Log and Non-Conformity Reports to enhance logistics efficiency. Designed instant and scheduled conditional flows on Power Automate to systematize reports and emails with SharePoint Integration. Specialized BI dashboards with power query via merging datasets and data flows to customize interactive modules for KPI insights.

FlexPay AI-Driven Fintech SaaS Startup

Revenue Operations BI Analyst / May, 2022 — September, 2022

Integrated Salesforce Objects & Reports to Power BI creating relationships & data models and analyzing with DAX to visualize the performance and invoice reports online with scheduled refresh to support the sales and client success team on the KPI deck. Executed SQL queries in MS-Server and BigQuery and connect to Power Query to build relationships to analyze approval rates.

The Very Good Butchers

Supply Chain BI Analyst / August, 2021 — February, 2022

Established the Revenue Trend Model between actual and forecast units based on channel and region and visualized in Power BI. Expedited the Fulfillment Lead Times model to map the inventory level and warehouse transfers to interpret the critical SKUs. Refined the Demand vs. Inventory process model for each third-party logistics to estimate the target stock and projected variance. Expanded the Safety Stock model and data integration from Shopify and ShipStation platforms to assess the reorder inventory level.

Cossette Communications Inc.

Data Analyst / July, 2019 — August, 2021

Created managed and QA digital data streams from database source APIs on structured and unstructured datasets to analyze data patterns and shaped pipelines on Extract Transform Load (ETL) tool for integration jobs on process automation and data requests. Supplied the development of data models on quantitative and qualitative research projected interactive dashboards and modified visualizations with custom metrics for insight identification and optimization in BI Platforms as Google DataStudio and Tableau.

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