Workdata

Workdata is a Power BI consultancy, we specialize in providing expert advice, guidance, and support to businesses of all sizes, helping them to transform their data into meaningful insights and actionable intelligence. Whether you're looking to optimize your reporting processes, build custom dashboards, or analyze complex datasets, our team of experienced consultants has the knowledge and expertise to help you achieve your goals. With a focus on quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction, we are committed to delivering results that exceed your expectations and drive success for your business.

Director & Independent Consultant

Lionpoint Group

Lionpoint Group provides strategy, operations and technology advisory services to the alternative investments industry (venture capital, private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure). Our services range from digital strategy and technology transformation to system selection and implementation, data migration, system integration, data governance, and reporting, analytics and visualisation.

Manager

Workiva

Workiva delivers the world’s leading cloud platform for regulatory, financial and environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) reporting. Workiva provides more than 4,300 organizations with software-as-a-service solutions to help solve some of the most complex reporting and disclosure challenges. People all over the world use our connected, cloud platform to seamlessly enable collaboration and deep integration into existing work streams to simplify their most complex reporting challenges.

Solutions Consultant

Sapphire Systems

Sapphire is the largest digital operating transformation provider to the mid-market and mid-enterprise clients. Our mission is to turn operating friction into digital business momentum. Through the passion and expertise of our people, we unlock the cloud-delivered operating platforms, digital user experiences, data analytics, and intelligent automation that transforms our clients operational performance. We are globally significant partners for SAP, ServiceNow, Automation Anywhere, Infor, Hexagon and AWS, and we have transformed the digital operating capacity, capability, intelligence and resilience of over 1,250 clients in the UK and US through our portfolio of consulting, design, delivery, lifecycle service, and cloud services.

BI & CPM Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

CFMS, Corporate Financial Management Systems

CFMS empower organisations with sophisticated applications for Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management, Financial Consolidation and Data Management.

We are experts in helping organisations improve performance by getting more out of their data.  Our team of technology professionals and business consultants specialise in delivering solutions that:

- Accelerates and improves decision making with extended reporting capability
- Optimises internal business processes
- Increases operational efficiency 
- Drives new revenues with improved planning, budgeting and forecast accuracy
- Gain competitive advantage over business rivals and empower your business to analyse interrogate and monitor key business metrics

Pre-Sales OLAP Consultant

Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register started out in 1760 as a marine classification society. Today, we’re one of the world’s leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology – improving safety and increasing the performance of critical infrastructures for customers in over 75 countries worldwide. The profits we generate fund the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charity which supports engineering-related research, education and public engagement around everything we do. All of this helps us stand by the purpose that drives us every single day: Working together for a safer world.

Specialist Reporting Systems Analyst

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality and range.

Interim IFS Project Accountant

Plant Impact

Plant Impact is part of Croda International Plc. Croda create, make and sell innovative, sustainable high performance speciality chemicals that are relied on by industries and consumers everywhere.

Finance Systems Expert

Assistant Accountant

I am a data enthusiast with a passion for transforming complex data into actionable insights. Specializing in Power BI implementations, Microsoft Fabric, and PowerApps, I help businesses unlock the full potential of their data.

From integration, notebooks, lakehouses, and data warehouses to beautiful, impactful apps and reports, I create robust, scalable solutions that put data-driven decisions at the forefront of your business strategy.

My collaborative approach guarantees that the solutions are not only effective but also aligned with your specific goals.

Let’s connect and explore how we can drive your business forward together.

Imran Choudhry

Rishi Sapra ACA, MCT, Microsoft MVP

Avanade

This role reports directly to the global IDP practice leader to support an accelerated level of growth across the practice. The role focus is on working across Avanade, Microsoft and Accenture to ensure we have a complete and differentiating suite of technical and sales assets, which are fit and ready to use by the solutioning, sales and account communities.

In this role I lead dynamic teams across onshore/nearshore/offshore locations to deliver MVC, industry and functional offerings, assets and accelerators.

Strategic project lead, Data & AI Integrated Centre of Excellence

Power BI Solution architect with a focus on designing and building the architectures and operating models to enable self-service BI in large organisations. Combining a deep technical understanding of the Power BI eco system with a commercial lens and business analysis skills in order to drive maximum value for clients.

Group Manager

Learn Data Insights

Learn Data Insights (LDI) - www.learndatainsights.com - is a community-driven ed-tech platform with quizzes and courses to help people prepare for Microsoft certifications in a fun and engaging way. In the first year of operation the platform had over 7,000 subscribers and over 50,000 quiz attempts. The platform is backed by a strong data architecture built on Azure and provides students with granular performance data for them to benchmark their results and identify specific knowledge gaps.


Power Platform Finance - www.powerplatformfinance.com - is a community for helping finance professionals leverage the power platform in their roles through educational webinars and courses. In 2020 we hosted 17 webinars from a range of industry professionals (including Microsoft product group and MVPs) and in 2021 are focusing on running small workshop virtual classroom sessions with detailed practical worked examples.


In 2020 I was recognised by Microsoft with a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for my community leadership.

Co-Founder

Altius

Principal Consultant

KPMG

I worked as a manager on the financial modelling team with an industry focus on Financial Services and a technology focus on Excel and Power BI. My responsibilities included designing and developing business/data modelling solutions for a range of blue chip companies and delivering end user computing solutions including Model Build/Reviews, Data Analysis/Visualisation and Web-based tools. 

I managed small teams of junior consultants on model build and review engagements and took an active role in Engagement Management – managing an engagement end-to-end in terms of sales, KYC, contracts, resourcing, planning and billing.

Business Modelling consultant and Power BI Lead for KPMG UK

Barclays Bank

Providing tactical technical solutions and models to Finance teams across Barclays, primarily using MS Office Applications (MS Excel, Word, Outlook) and helping Finance teams with their use of these tools. Role involves a combination of Finance and IT programming (using Visual Basic for Applications-VBA) skills.

Business Analyst (Finance Change)

HSBC

As a product controller, I was responsible for producing daily P&Ls for trading desks and providing traders with data-driven insights on activity and pricing relating to their investments.

Product Controller (Cash Equities)

Software Solutions Centre Ltd

Project/Operations Manager (Ad-hoc)

Deloitte & Touche Tax Technologies

I worked in a team that produced tax compliance software for large corporates, getting involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle including development, sales, business process consulting and support.

Assistant Manager

I’m a commercial technologist with a deep-rooted expertise at the intersection of business, finance, and cutting-edge Data & AI platforms. As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, I’m proud to help shape the future of data technologies, collaborating closely with Microsoft’s development teams and sharing insights with audiences at conferences and meetups around the world.

A Chartered Accountant and Executive MBA (Hons), I’ve dedicated the past two decades to driving impactful change across the Big 4, Financial Services, and now as part of Avanade’s global Centre of Excellence—a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. Here, I focus on creating industry accelerators and go-to-market strategies for Microsoft Fabric, blending my technical know-how with a strategic perspective to support enterprise growth and transformation.

Beyond my role, I’m passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to be self-sufficient with data and AI. Through my communities, Learn Data Insights and Power Platform Finance, I provide e-learning to tens of thousands of technology and finance professionals. Additionally, I serve on the advisory committee for the Data Analytics community at the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW), where I help produce educational content for over 40,000 members, supporting the finance community’s ongoing evolution with data and AI.

Connect with me if you're interested in learning more about self-service analytics, developing data-driven strategies, or discussing innovative approaches in the world of finance and technology.

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