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Finance, structured by data and delivered through automation

A finance professional who works where financial planning meets analytics and technology.

Syed Danish Arafat — Financial Analyst and FP&A professional
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Syed Danish Arafat

Financial Analyst | FP&A | SAP | SQL | Power BI | Advanced Excel

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

I am Syed Danish Arafat, a finance professional with 6+ years of experience across financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, procurement processes, management reporting, and financial data analytics.

Day to day, I own monthly FP&A cycles — building OpEx and CapEx budgets at cost centre and WBS level, tracking budget vs actual vs forecast, explaining variances to business partners, and keeping PR/PO spend under control in SAP and SAP Ariba.

My work combines traditional finance with technology. I use Advanced Excel, VBA, Power BI, SQL, Power Automate and AI assistants to turn scattered reports into structured, refreshable dashboards — replacing repetitive manual reporting with automated pipelines that finance teams can trust.

This site is a working demonstration of that approach: an interactive Financial Command Center, a PR tracking simulation, an automated data-cleaning lab, plus free tools I built end to end — an ATS resume builder, an AI headshot studio and a client-side PDF studio.

How my work evolved

Finance → Analytics → Automation → AI

Each stage builds on the previous one: sound financial fundamentals first, then data structure, then automation, then AI as an accelerator.

  1. 01

    Finance

    Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, OpEx and CapEx planning, PR/PO processes and management reporting.

  2. 02

    Analytics

    Structuring financial data with Advanced Excel, SQL and Power BI to make spend, budget and variance visible.

  3. 03

    Automation

    Replacing repetitive manual reporting with Excel VBA macros, Power Automate flows and templated pipelines.

  4. 04

    AI

    Using Copilot and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate data cleaning, drafting and documentation — with analyst validation.

Business partnering & soft skills

Cross-Functional Business Partnering

Finance value is delivered through communication and stakeholder management as much as through models and dashboards.

  • Translating complex financial data and variances into clear, actionable insights for non-finance department heads.

  • Collaborating directly with budget owners to monitor spending and optimize cost structures.

  • Presenting monthly financial reviews and performance scorecards to senior leadership.