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.
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Across 178 contracts
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