Michael L.

**Previously Upwork Top Rated Plus (Took 1 Year Hiatus)** I'm a seasoned, Senior Financial & Data Analyst for growth startups with valuable, unique experience scaling a startup to $1B valuation and raising over $300M during my tenure, supporting a B2B SaaS, PE-backed growth company double, and advising over 50+ startups across various industries, some fundraising for Seed and Series A. To give back to the communities I'm active in, I mentor startups and small businesses at Shapers Impact Capital, WeWork Labs, Portland Incubator Experiment, OSU, PSU, and WSU. Tasks I'm most impactful to businesses: - Financial modeling & projections - Excel, BI Reporting, Google Data Studio, SQL wizard - Budgeting & forecasting - Variance analysis - Pricing analysis - Quickbooks, Shopify, Paid Ads, SalesForce, NetSuite, BigML, Looker, Python proficient - Growth strategies (customer whitespace and expansion, marketing channel expansion and optimization, market prioritization and expansion, product expansion, pricing optimization) - Accelerating and optimizing sales & marketing - Market research & analysis - Business, data, & marketing analytics - Investor readiness Industries I've supported extensively: - B2B SaaS - DTC Brands - Ecommerce - Retail - Brick and mortar - Food & Beverage - Restaurants - Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) - Consumer Electronics - B2B Service