Zakieh
Sharifian

Senior Data Analyst — Data Engineering

• Led design and implementation of a comprehensive financial analytics solution for a holding company with 30+ subsidiaries, consolidating SQL databases, SharePoint, and manual inputs into a unified reporting layer in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
• Led and coordinated cross-functional international team members across diverse cultural backgrounds to deliver complex data projects on time.
• Developed custom DAX measures and transformation logic for multi-currency handling (USD, IRR), enabling automated Gross Profit, Operational Profit, and EBT calculations across all entities.
• Designed modular dataflow architecture with centralised governance, improving maintainability and scalability as new subsidiaries were onboarded.
• Introduced data quality monitoring framework, reducing manual reporting efforts by over 40% and enabling near real-time financial insights for senior management including the CFO.
• Deployed data engineering pipelines using PySpark notebooks in Microsoft Fabric for scalable data processing and transformation.
• Developed mobile-friendly Power BI dashboards, enabling stakeholders to access real-time financial insights on the go.

Management Information System Analyst

Data cleaning, modelling, forecasting and cross-team reporting to support operational decision-making.

Lecturer & Research Assistant

Taught Database Systems, Cloud Computing, Networking, OS, IT Project Management, Algorithm Design, and Research Methods. Supervised master theses on IoT optimisation and leukemia detection using ML feature selection.

Data Analyst

Implemented ML models, risk assessment frameworks, and end-to-end analytics solutions for business intelligence reporting.