IBRAHEEM IBRAHEEM

Financial & Market Analyst | Business Intelligence Analyst |
Researcher in Digital Assets, DeFi & Market Structure

Power BI • Microsoft Excel • SQL • Power Query • DAX • Financial Analytics • Business Intelligence

Featured Power BI Projects

Power BI projects focused on data modeling, DAX, interactive dashboards, business performance analysis, and decision-support reporting.

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OmniStep Global Footwear Analytics Power BI Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end Power BI solution to analyse sales performance, product demand, customer behaviour, market distribution and discount exposure across OmniStep’s global footwear operations. Using the CRISP-DM framework, the project transformed 30,000 transaction records into a structured data model, three interactive dashboards and a management-focused key insights page.

Project Highlights
Gross Sales: $10.48M
Net Revenue: $9.08M
Orders: 30,000 across six countries
Units Sold: 75,006
Discount Exposure: $1.40M
Discounted Orders: 83.43% of all orders
Key Insight: Higher average discounts did not guarantee stronger category revenue

Technologies
Power BI • Power Query • DAX • CRISP-DM • Star Schema • Business Intelligence

Finovia Global Finance Loan Portfolio Analysis

Finovia Global Finance Loan Portfolio Power BI Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end Power BI solution to analyse loan operations, borrower outcomes, credit risk and financial performance across Finovia Global Finance's ten markets. The project transformed two years of fragmented lending data into a structured star schema and three interactive dashboards covering Loan Operations, Loan Outcomes and Finance.

Project Highlights
Total Loans: 4,000 across 2,000 unique borrowers
Repayment Rate: 67.93% against a 75% target
Default Rate: 6.03% across 241 defaulted loans
Collection Rate: 85.9%
Net Income: $124M
Profit Margin: 18.2%
Data Model: Star schema with a dedicated Calendar table and 17 DAX measures

Technologies
Power BI • Power Query • DAX • Star Schema • Financial Analytics • Data Visualisation

ASEAN Health Analytics for Sustainable Development

ASEAN Health Analytics Power BI Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end Power BI solution analysing public health performance across 10 ASEAN countries between 2000 and 2023. The project transformed complex health data into interactive dashboards that reveal regional progress, country-level disparities, disease burden, mortality trends, and health system capacity.

Project Highlights
Coverage: 10 ASEAN Countries
Period: 2000–2023
Focus Areas: Health Outcomes, Disease Burden, and Health System Capacity
Data Model: Star Schema with Power Query ETL and DAX
Objective: Support evidence-based decision-making aligned with SDG 3

Technologies
Power BI • Power Query • DAX • Star Schema • Data Modelling • Executive Reporting

Sub-Saharan Africa Energy Access & Sustainability Dashboard

Sub-Saharan Africa Energy Access & Sustainability Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end Power BI solution analysing energy access and sustainable development across 49 Sub-Saharan African countries between 2001 and 2023. Using World Bank data, the project combines interactive dashboards, dimensional data modelling, and business intelligence techniques to uncover regional disparities in electricity access, clean cooking, renewable energy adoption, economic development, and environmental sustainability.

Project Highlights
Coverage: 49 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Period: 2001–2023
Indicators: 10 Sustainable Development Metrics
Data Model: Star Schema with Power Query ETL & DAX
Objective: Support evidence-based decision making for SDG 7
Technologies
Power BI • Power Query • DAX • Star Schema • World Bank Data

Deskify Business Intelligence Dashboard

Deskify Office Supplies Power BI Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end Business Intelligence solution using Microsoft Power BI to transform transactional sales data into actionable business insights. The project combined Power Query, Star Schema data modeling, DAX, and interactive dashboard development to evaluate product performance, customer profitability, regional trends, and operational efficiency.

Project Highlights
Revenue: $15M
Profit: $1.52M
Profit Margin: 10.33%
Top Product Category: Office Supplies (65% of total profit)
Most Profitable Customer Segment: Corporate

Technologies
Power BI • Power Query • DAX • Star Schema Data Modeling

Data Analytics Projects

Excel-based analytics projects focused on business performance, customer behavior, sales analysis, profitability, and data storytelling.

Salient Ventures Sales Recovery Dashboard

Salient Ventures Dashboard

Developed an end-to-end business performance dashboard using Microsoft Excel to evaluate Salient Ventures' Q4 recovery strategy. The project analyzed product profitability, customer behavior, regional performance, and sales personnel effectiveness to assess the impact of strategic business initiatives.

Project Highlights
Revenue: $115M
Profit: $17M
Profit Margin: 15%
Highest Performing Region: Texas
Top Product Category: Accessories

Technologies
Microsoft Excel • Pivot Tables • Pivot Charts • XLOOKUP • Dashboard Design

Wexford Retail Performance Dashboard

Wexford & Rowan Q3 Retail Performance Analysis

Developed an interactive retail performance dashboard using Microsoft Excel to evaluate sales performance, customer purchasing behavior, product demand, and regional distribution. The project transformed transactional data into actionable insights to support strategic business planning.

Project Highlights
Revenue: $264K
Orders: 2,000
Products Sold: 4,179
Top Categories: Fashion, Home & Furniture, Electronics (63% of revenue)
Highest Revenue Month: September (+30%)

Technologies
Microsoft Excel • Pivot Tables • Pivot Charts • XLOOKUP • Dashboard Design

Furniture Sales Performance Dashboard

Furniture Sales Performance Analysis

Built a sales performance dashboard using Microsoft Excel to evaluate revenue growth, profitability, product margins, and operational efficiency across the furniture market.

Project Highlights
Revenue: $742K
Profit: $18.5K
Year-over-Year Profit Change: -57%
Largest Loss Drivers: Tables & Bookcases
Primary Markets: New York City & Los Angeles

Technologies
Microsoft Excel • Pivot Tables • Dashboard Design

Online Retail Sales Dashboard

Online Retail Sales & Returns Analysis

Developed an interactive retail analytics dashboard using Microsoft Excel to evaluate sales performance, customer purchasing behavior, product returns, and geographic sales concentration.

Project Highlights
Revenue: $13.2M
Revenue Lost to Returns: $896.8K
Return Rate: 6.78%
Largest Market: United Kingdom (88% of revenue)
Business Risk: Heavy dependence on a single geographic market

Technologies
Microsoft Excel • Pivot Tables • Dashboard Design

Netflix Content Analytics Dashboard

Netflix Dashboard

Built a content intelligence dashboard using Microsoft Excel to analyze Netflix's global content library, acquisition strategy, audience targeting, and geographic expansion.

Project Highlights
Total Titles: 8,796
Movies: 69.7% of the catalogue
Largest Genre: International Movies
Largest Content Market: United States
Recent Content: 63.1% added within two years of release

Technologies
Microsoft Excel • Pivot Tables • Dashboard Design

Research & Market Intelligence

Long-form research and market intelligence covering blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, decentralized finance, market structure, and emerging financial technologies.

Solving the Liquidity Fragmentation

An in-depth analysis of the current multi-chain landscape. I explore how fragmented liquidity across silos creates inefficiencies and why the industry is shifting toward unified, chain-agnostic infrastructure. Developed during a technical advisory role for the Mitosis ecosystem to address liquidity fragmentation.

Key Insights:
Fragmentation Tax: Scattered liquidity acts as a hidden cost, creating massive slippage and capital inefficiency.
Chain-Agnosticism: Future DeFi success depends on unified layers where users prioritize execution quality over chain identity.
Yield Maturity: Sustainable yield requires durable infrastructure and risk controls, moving beyond temporary incentive loops.

The L2 Scaling Reality Check: A 2025 Infrastructure Outlook

An analytical evaluation of the evolving role of Layer 2 solutions within a modular blockchain framework. This research, originally developed for the Mitosis ecosystem, explores whether L2s remain a necessity in 2025 or if the industry shift toward unified interoperability and alternative scaling layers is rendering them obsolete. I break down the technical trade-offs between fragmented liquidity and sovereign execution environments.

Key insights:
Modular Standard: L2s are the new baseline for execution, but their success now hinges on seamless interoperability.
Ecosystem Specialization: Networks are evolving from "general purpose" to specialized roles like RWA tokenization and high-speed trading.
The UX Barrier: Gas token fragmentation and bridging friction remain the final hurdles to mainstream L2 adoption.

Technical Risk Mechanics: Liquidations & Insurance Funds

A deep dive into the architecture of exchange safety nets. I explain the flow of money during liquidations and why understanding these "zero-sum" mechanics is critical for assessing protocol-level risk and systemic stability in decentralized markets.

Key insight:
The Zero-Sum Dynamic: Explains that for every long, there is a short, highlighting that futures markets are a transfer of value based on risk appetite rather than asset creation.
Insurance Fund Architecture: Details how exchanges use insurance funds as a first line of defense to prevent "socialized losses," ensuring that winning traders are paid even when losers are liquidated beyond their collateral.
Liquidation as a Safety Valve: Reframes liquidations not as a failure, but as a necessary automated mechanism to protect the overall system's solvency and liquidity.
Risk Management Education: Advocates for data-driven trading by simplifying complex concepts like funding rates and maintenance margins for a broader audience.

Bitcoin, Transparency & the Early Crypto Thesis

A long-form educational commentary exploring Bitcoin's origin, the structural flaws of traditional financial systems, and why blockchain technology continues to represent a major shift toward decentralized infrastructure, transparency, and global accessibility.

Key insights:
Market Maturity Gap: Contrasts the $7.5 trillion daily Forex volume against crypto's current scale to demonstrate the massive potential for institutional expansion.
Financial Exit Velocity: Reframes Bitcoin as a "Freedom Tech" protest born from the 2008 banking crisis, designed to provide a trustless alternative to centralized bailouts.
The Scarcity Standard: Explores the logical long-term value of a 21-million hard cap in a world of endless currency printing and third-party intermediaries.

About Me

Ibraheem - Technical Analyst

Business Intelligence • Financial Analytics • Market Research

I am a Financial & Market Analyst with expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Market Research. I help transform complex datasets into clear, actionable insights that support strategic decision-making, operational improvement, and business growth.

My work spans the complete analytics lifecycle—from data preparation and transformation to dimensional modeling, KPI development, dashboard design, and business reporting. I have developed analytical solutions across retail, finance, media, and digital asset markets using Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel, Power Query, DAX, and SQL, with a strong focus on translating business questions into meaningful insights.

Alongside business analytics, I have spent over six years researching cryptocurrency markets, decentralized finance (DeFi), and blockchain infrastructure. This experience has strengthened my ability to analyze complex systems, identify emerging trends, and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

I am passionate about using data to solve business problems, improve decision-making, and uncover opportunities that drive measurable impact. Whether building interactive dashboards, conducting market research, or evaluating business performance, my goal is always the same: turning data into decisions.