FP&A & Power BI Consulting
Replace slow, manual, spreadsheet-bound reporting with automated Power BI and Anaplan systems — faster closes, rolling forecasts, and numbers your leadership can act on with confidence. Delivered by a consultant who has run a month-end close, not just built a dashboard.
Why this matters to you
You get clean reports — but from someone who doesn't know how a close works, what variance analysis means, or why a wrong number in a multi-country consolidation is more than a display bug.
They know the business cold — but they don't design star schemas, write advanced DAX, or build the pipelines that make faster, more reliable reporting possible.
You shouldn't have to choose. The work behind this site comes from nine years as a Financial Controller inside CRH Group — one of the world's largest building-materials companies — and years as an independent Power BI architect for multi-country finance teams. That combination means shorter projects, fewer requirement gaps, and reporting your team trusts.
What I build
Get one trusted source of truth instead of fragmented spreadsheet versions — a governed, scalable Power BI environment your team can self-serve from, built for multi-country, multi-entity, multi-currency reality.
Give your controllers their time back. Manual consolidation, reconciliation, and version control are automated away, so the close gets shorter and your team spends its hours on analysis, not preparation.
Move from a once-a-year budget to rolling forecasts you can actually steer with — change a driver and see the impact across the P&L immediately, with multi-currency planning and proper version control.
Find out whether your data can support AI before you invest in it. Most copilots fail at the model layer, not the AI layer — I tell you what to fix so the answers come back reliable, not confidently wrong.
How we work
A 30-minute conversation about where reporting hurts and what "good" looks like for your team. No pitch deck — just whether this is a fit.
A written plan with the outcome, timeline, and a fixed price or monthly retainer. You know exactly what you're getting before anything starts.
I deliver the system and document every decision and business rule — so it keeps running, and your team can operate it, long after the engagement ends.
Featured engagement
A Central European subsidiary of a global Fortune 500 building-materials group ran planning through interconnected Excel workbooks — four country entities, three segments, 100+ contributors. The annual cycle took over four months and produced a single budget that was stale on approval.
Speed was the visible outcome, but not the point. The mandate was to give the organisation planning capabilities it had never had: rolling forecasts, scenario modelling, and version control — with multi-currency consolidation designed into the data model from the foundation, not bolted on. I coordinated the implementation under the Group Head of Controlling across 100+ stakeholders in finance, production, sales, and procurement.
Every design decision, business rule, and model dependency was documented as the build progressed — so a system used by 100+ people across four countries stays operable without the consultant present.
Live reports
Two anonymised reports from enterprise engagements. Open either in full screen (button at the lower-right of each report) for the full experience.
References
"I worked with Jan for nearly two years on a Power BI implementation for the CEE finance team. He was highly professional — not only listening to our needs but proactively advising us to make sure the reports were genuinely fit for purpose."
"Jan led the successful implementation of Anaplan, our budgeting and forecasting tool, and gave exceptional support developing Power BI reports across all segments. His technical expertise was instrumental in advancing our digital reporting capabilities."
"As a Power BI developer, Jan showed impressive knowledge and adaptability in a challenging environment. He delivered efficiently and on time, and consistently went the extra mile to keep the quality of his work impeccable."
About
I started as a Financial Controller inside CRH Group, working across sales controlling, financial reporting, and cluster-level analysis for operations spanning four countries — monthly close, variance analysis, executive reporting, and daily exposure to messy enterprise data.
Over time I moved from consuming reporting infrastructure to building it: first by coordinating an Anaplan implementation as Finance Project Manager, then as an independent Power BI architect serving CRH Group subsidiaries and other enterprise clients.
Most BI consultants come from a technical background and don't think like a Finance Director; most finance professionals don't build star schemas or write advanced DAX. The combination is what enterprise finance teams actually need — and it's the work.
Based in North Vancouver, BC. Working remotely with enterprise clients across North America and Europe, including a 4+ year ongoing partnership with CRH Group subsidiaries.
Get in touch
A 30-minute call is the fastest way to find out whether what I do fits what you need. No pitch deck — just a conversation about your situation and how I'd approach it.