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Isaiah A.

Excel Automation & Modeling Expert | Power Query, VBA | MS Finance

🫴🏽 Give me the messy spreadsheet, the manual workflow, or the model that doesn't tie out. I'll turn it into a clean, automated, decision-ready Excel solution you can trust and reuse. Top Rated Plus | 100% Job Success Score across 75 client reviews | 170+ international projects | 7+ years | M.S. in Finance 📊 WHAT I BUILD • EXCEL AUTOMATION: Power Query and VBA workflows that replace manual processes, including datasets of 2M+ rows, and HR systems where users enter only hours and dates and the calculations and reports run automatically. • FINANCIAL MODELS & FORECASTING: Valuation models (including a multi-million-dollar SaaS company valuation), cash flow trackers, income statement generators, scenario and sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo simulation with @RISK, and optimization with Excel Solver. • DASHBOARDS & REPORTING: KPI dashboards in Excel, Google Sheets, Power BI, and Looker Studio, connected to SQL sources, Google Ads, and Google Analytics. • DATA ANALYSIS & CUSTOM TOOLS: Data cleaning, reconciliation, statistical analysis, forecasting, survey frameworks (including multi-year executive compensation surveys that showed average salaries rising 4.5% to 9.5% per year), and a project management web app on Google Apps Script (built with AI coding tools). 🛠 TOOLS & TECHNIQUES Advanced Excel, Power Query, VBA, dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, data validation, Google Sheets, @RISK, Excel Solver, Power BI, and Looker Studio. Working knowledge of SQL and Python. 🤝 WHY CLIENTS WORK WITH ME • ACCURACY: I've validated clinical dosimetry data for hundreds of patients to as many as 30 decimal places, and I've worked with sensitive financial, compensation, and survey datasets where confidentiality matters. • FINANCE-TRAINED: M.S. in Finance (Data Analytics focus), B.S. in Economics (Mathematics minor), and Google AI Professional certified, so every model rests on sound financial and quantitative reasoning. • OPERATIONS BACKGROUND: Before freelancing, I built automated Excel tracking for $5.6M+ in recurring fee payments, cut quarterly reconciliation time by more than 50%, and supported procurement projects that contributed to $1.3M+ in savings. • CLEAR HANDOFF: Documented solutions your team can run and maintain, backed by experience teaching Advanced Excel at the University of Houston. Have a complex Excel automation, financial model, dashboard, or data analysis problem? Send me the objective and your current workflow, and I'll help you determine the most efficient solution.

🇺🇸Houston, United States$75/hr100% JSS4.94 (75)Since Jun 2020

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.2k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#41,236 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,273 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$812

Last 6 months: $7.1k

World#49,386 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,039 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$96k

Billed in all: $100k

World#41,169 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#8,323 / 62.1k
Per project
$617

$1.4k in the last 6 months

World#163,622 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#27,728 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
5
20% fixed80% hourly
World#41,746 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,872 / 62.1k
Projects in all
155

Across 178 contracts

50% fixed50% hourly
World#14,989 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#2,549 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$100k+$812 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$99.0k$99.5k$100.0k$100.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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