Kara Harper
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMER
- FP&A Business Partner
to multiple market verticals providing interactive BI tools to inform decision making
- Specialization in Automated Report Development
to guide productivity and profitability within an organization
- Business-minded with Technical Ability to Deliver Solutions
driving process and visibility improvement at all levels from project managers to C-level executives
ROLES
- Designed, developed, and deployed business analytics dashboards using Microsoft BI tools including Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps
- Supported the full BI lifecycle from requirements analysis through design and development, and through release and support/maintenance phase
- Gathered requirements and design reports/custom analysis tools for the FP&A and Operations teams
- Developed, maintained, and presented key business indicators
- Assisted in the development of business models and business decision support tools as part of a long-range aim to increase the use of quantitative information in business decisions
- Ad hoc reporting for various business needs from strategy to financial and operational performance using Power BI
- Assisted in the yearly budget process from pre-phase to board reporting
- Provided automated, self-serving tools for yearly audit requirements
- Implemented new business processes for overall efficiencies, new business models, and re-structuring
PROJECTS
- Replaced a detail lacking excel report that took 64-man hours per month to prepare
- Provided transactional-level visibility to every level from C-level to project manager
- Assisted in data gathering for consulting firm and potential buyers
- Created interactive tools that allowed for easy manipulation based on asks outside of typical management reporting
- Built automated report that tracks billable hours vs budgeted billable hours
- Enabled month over month comparisons, giving indications on financial performance
- Provided high-level visibility to all levels of management with drill through features for transactional detail
