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SDASyed Danish Arafat

About

Finance, structured by data and delivered through automation

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

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

My work combines traditional finance with technology. I use Excel, VBA, SAP, Ariba, Power BI, SQL, automation tools, and AI to improve reporting processes, financial visibility, and decision-making.

I am particularly interested in building scalable finance processes where repetitive manual reporting can be transformed into automated, data-driven workflows.

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.