Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Hi, I’m
Brendon Fischer
Montreal,QC
Summary
Overview
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Fasken LLPMontreal, QC
Senior Data Analyst
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Developed dashboards & datasets in PowerBI to provide business intelligence insights.
- Maintained or updated business intelligence tools, databases or dashboards.
- Optimized database design and queries for improved performance of analytics operations.
- Established KPI metrics to monitor performance of the firm and various areas.
- Created presentations and documentation delivered to c-suite, and senior partner and director audiences on new data tools, concepts and processes.
- Trained junior analysts on best practices in data extraction, visualization tools, and effective communication across all levels of the business.
- Identified opportunities for improvement in existing business processes through advanced analytics techniques.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams across departments such as innovation, pricing, finance, and legal project management.
- Maintained library of model & process documents, templates or other reusable knowledge assets.
- Prepared comprehensive documentation outlining technical specifications in new business processes.
- Provided technical support for existing reports, dashboards or other tools.
Fasken LLPToronto, ON
Senior Financial Analyst
02.2019 - 04.2023
Job overview
- Created and maintained an inventory of over 200+ financial reports, and an inventory of over 100+ SQL queries for all areas of the business to use for analysis.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop new tools and reports for financial reporting.
- Managed and streamlined corporate budgeting upload process for financial reporting.
- Trained other analysts on use of financial system, data extraction techniques and financial reporting.
- Conducted thorough reviews of monthly financial reports to ensure accuracy reporting.
- Created and maintained firm-wide reports summarizing financial performance metrics for senior directors and c-suite.
- Enhanced overall productivity across all departments leading to decreased labor costs and improved efficiency.
- Provided technical expertise in developing complex financial tools & reports that accurately report previously unseen areas of the business.
- Assisted in financial audits by providing finance and auditors with access to back end data.
Goodmans LLPToronto, ON
Financial Analyst
12.2017 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Collaborated with other departments to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting processes were followed.
- Generated financial reports to garner forecasting, trending and narrative results analysis for management.
- Generated reports using T-SQL programming language.
- Tested SQL scripts for accuracy and reliability.
- Composed financial reports by compiling data.
- Produced daily, monthly and quarterly financial reports for leaders and directors.
Education
University of New BrunswickFredericton, NB
BBA
04-2015
University Overview
Skills
- Business Analytics
- PowerBI Dashboard & Dataset creation
- KPI & metric Creation
- Microsoft SQL & Reporting Tools
- Project Presentation to Leadership
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Teamwork and Collaboration
Professional Achievments
Professional Achievments
- Collaborated with the Data Engineering team to construct a robust data lake infrastructure utilizing Microsoft Azure Platform.
- Pioneered the development of a comprehensive reporting system for a team previously lacking visibility and tracking performance in their domain.
- Created budget upload process by implementing automation, resulting in the elimination of 2 weeks of manual work annually.
- Self-taught proficient in SQL queries and reporting tools, with expertise in Power BI dataflow & datasets, and Microsoft Azure queries.
- Built new & refined existing SQL queries to ensure 100% accuracy and precision in data retrieval.
- Specialist in financial data and proficient in providing continuous training and assistance to fellow analysts.
Timeline
Senior Data Analyst
Fasken LLP
04.2023 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
Fasken LLP
02.2019 - 04.2023
Financial Analyst
Goodmans LLP
12.2017 - 02.2019
University of New Brunswick
BBA
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