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Reporting workflow automation

Power Query and advanced Excel systems that improve validation and reconciliation, cutting manual reconciliation time from days to hours.

Power QueryExcelData validationReconciliation logic
2 days → 3 hrs
typical reconciliation time
3
sales channels merged into one workflow
1 cycle
parallel-run validation before cutover
01 · Business problem

Where this started.

A retail business reconciled three sales channels by hand each week, a process that took a team member the better part of two days and still produced occasional mismatches that took longer to trace than to fix.

02 · Approach

How we worked through it.

  • Mapped every manual step in the existing reconciliation process to find where errors actually originated.
  • Rebuilt the data pull as a Power Query workflow that refreshes with one click across all three channels.
  • Added automated validation flags for mismatches instead of relying on manual eyeballing.
  • Ran the new and old processes in parallel for one full cycle before retiring the manual version.
03 · Screenshots

What the delivered work looked like.

A look at the views and outputs built for this engagement.

Power Query editor — the one-click refresh workflow
Before/after: manual reconciliation vs. automated flagging
04 · Files

Deliverables from this engagement.

Every file below is a fully worked sample — the same structure and formula logic we apply to live client work, built to demonstrate capability rather than serve as a template to copy.

05 · Delivered

What the client walked away with.

One-click Power Query refresh
Automated mismatch flagging
Process documentation for the team

This workflow is a fully worked sample — the same approach and structure we apply to live automation engagements. Company names and figures shown are fictional demonstration data.

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