IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
IBM · June 2024
Founder Profile
Talha Ansari is the founder of Expert O'clock and a BI and data analyst with 13+ years across marketing, finance, and HR.
His work sits where financial discipline meets modern data engineering: reporting, analysis, dashboards, and automation across sales, marketing, ecommerce, finance, accounting, HR, and operations.
He holds an MBA, has delivered 100+ projects including a 22-location reporting rollout, and works across Excel, Python, SQL, Power BI, Looker Studio, and PostgreSQL. The standard he sets is simple: the numbers must reconcile before the reporting can be trusted.
Experience
13+ years
Background
Marketing, Finance & HR
Track record
100+ projects
Core stack
Excel · Python · SQL · Power BI
Credentials & experience
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Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Google · December 2022
Master Microsoft Excel
LinkedIn / NASBA · October 2021
Excel 2016 VBA Advanced
Quickstart Inc. · March 2024
The foundation
Built inside the business, not beside it.
The founder's perspective was formed across marketing, finance, and HR, where reporting has consequences. That grounding defines the work: reconcile the numbers, define the terms, and build systems that last.
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Multi-site reporting
A 22-location reporting rollout that brought one reporting standard to a multi-site franchise.
02
Financial control
AR/AP, GL reconciliation, and management reporting workflows built for month-end close.
03
Cross-functional analytics
Dashboards and automation across sales, marketing, ecommerce, finance, and operations.
04
End-to-end ownership
Discovery, solution design, build, QA, and handover, documented so the client's team can operate independently.
Domains of expertise
A cross-functional command of the business.
The work spans the functions that determine performance, not just the finance function.
Sales
Pipeline, conversion, revenue, targets, and sales performance.
Marketing
Spend, leads, cost per lead, campaigns, and channel performance.
Ecommerce
Sales, margin, product performance, returns, and stock risk.
Finance
P&L, cash flow, budgets, forecasts, and management reporting.
Accounting
AR/AP, reconciliations, ledgers, aging, and month-end close.
HR
Headcount, attrition, hiring, workforce cost, and capacity.
Operations
KPIs, process reporting, automation, and operating rhythm.
Technical range
Financial discipline. Technical depth.
The practice combines the rigor of finance and operations with modern BI and data tools. Reporting is designed to be defensible: defined, reconciled, documented, and built to endure.
Business intelligence
- BI dashboards
- KPI design
- Month-end reporting
Data & automation
- SQL & Python
- Data cleaning & pipelines
- Excel/VBA automation
Platforms
- Power BI
- Looker Studio
- PostgreSQL
Reporting domains
- Sales & marketing
- Ecommerce
- Finance & accounting
- HR & operations
The standard
Business first
Start with the decision, not the dashboard.
Reconcile everything
If the numbers do not tie out, the system is not finished.
Leave no dependency
Document the work so the client's team can run it independently.
Build to last
Design for the next year, not just the next reporting cycle.
The longer view
Built to remain after the engagement.
The measure of the work is not a dashboard delivered. It is a reporting system that still holds a year later — reconciled, documented, and owned by the client's team.
The work is built for that horizon: fewer dependencies, clearer definitions, and decisions that remain defensible as the business grows.
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