Financial Analytics · Business Intelligence · Decision Support
CompletedFinancial & Event Analytics
Budgeting, forecasting and profitability analysis for events
Financial analysis supporting event budgeting, cost control and planning, including expense and revenue forecasting, Excel and Power BI dashboards, and post-event profitability analysis.
- Role
- Data Analyst, Financial & Event Analytics (Hybrid)
- Timeframe
- July 2024 – October 2025
The problem
Event budgets, costs and revenues needed continuous tracking against targets to support planning, pricing and vendor decisions.
The objective
Give management continuous KPI visibility and decision-ready analysis before, during and after each event.
My role
- Analysed financial data to support budgeting, cost control and planning.
- Tracked and forecasted expenses and revenues against targets with cross-functional teams.
- Built and maintained Excel and Power BI financial dashboards.
- Prepared financial statements, cost-benefit analyses and forecasts.
Technical approach
- Budget-versus-actual tracking by cost category.
- Revenue and expense forecasting against financial targets.
- Post-event profitability analysis surfacing cost-saving opportunities and margin improvement areas.
- Data-driven input into pricing strategy and vendor negotiations.
- Data accuracy and integrity controls supporting audit and compliance.
Key features
Financial dashboards
Continuous KPI visibility for management.
Forecasting
Expense and revenue forecasts against targets.
Profitability analysis
Post-event margin and cost analysis.
Reporting integrity
Accuracy controls supporting audit and compliance.
Interactive demo
SYNTHETIC DATAFictional events and figures (SAR) for demonstration only. No real financial data or savings are represented.
Budget
3.2M
SAR
Actual spend
3.1M
SAR
Variance
−31K
under budget
Margin
15%
revenue less actual cost
Budget vs actual by category
SAR
- Budget
- Actual
Cost variance by category
Actual minus budget · right of the axis = over budget
Revenue: actual vs target vs forecast
All events · monthly · SAR
- Actual
- Target
- Forecast
Expense breakdown
All events · actual spend by category, SAR
Outcome
- Insights that fed directly into budget decisions, pricing strategy and vendor negotiations.
Employer financial data is confidential. The dashboard below uses fictional data.