FinTech · Analytics · Business Intelligence · Consulting

Nasir Akhtar

People Leader turning data into decisions — 13+ years building analytics products, storytelling with data, and engineering process efficiency.

0+Years Experience
01 — About

Data-driven leadership

Experienced People Leader with expertise in Data Analytics, Storytelling, Visualization, ETL and Report Migration (Excel → Power BI), and setting up MIS for Operations. Skilled in managing cross-functional teams and creating positive work environments — with proven success in building efficiency, streamlining processes and enabling business controls through data-driven decisions.

Analytics & BI

Data acquisition, EDA, feature engineering, modeling and interactive storytelling.

Automation

Identifying repetitive work and engineering solutions — 10k+ hours saved last year.

Product & Agile

Partnering with tech to build products that track the life of financial services.

02 — Experience

A 13-year journey

EXL · CPA Global · Ameriprise Financial

2023 — Present

Manager — Reporting & Analytics

Ameriprise Financial
  • Lead the Reporting & Analytics team, supporting business owners with data-driven decision making.
  • Partner with the tech team to maintain and build products tracking the life of financial & non-financial services in an agile framework.
  • Delivered 10k+ hours of efficiency last year through automation.
2019 — 2023

Group Lead — Analytics

Ameriprise Financial
  • Scaled analytical workflows and storytelling across teams and stakeholders.
2017 — 2019

Team Lead — Analytics

Ameriprise Financial
  • Led reporting migration (Excel → Power BI) and MIS setup for Operations.
2014 — 2017

Sr. Business Analyst

Ameriprise Financial
  • Drove exploratory analysis, dashboards and business controls.
2012 — 2014

Software Engineer

CPA Global
  • Delivered 7 projects, building efficiencies that reduced 15 FTEs.
  • Involved across the full SDLC; built ETL process maps with Pervasive Data Integrator.
2010 — 2012

Senior Executive — Project Developer

EXL
  • Data analysis, reporting, dashboarding and process automation for business review & performance.
03 — Skills

Expertise & toolkit

Building Algo Trading Models AWS & Business Intelligence Data Visualization & Storytelling Process Efficiency / Automation Prompt Engineering & NLP Data Management & Governance Project & Stakeholder Management Power BI & Report Migration ETL & MIS Setup Python SQL VBA Agile Delivery
04 — Projects

Selected work

Live · Flagship

Workforce

workforce.nasirtech.in

A workforce management & analytics platform — tracking teams, productivity and operations through a data-driven, automated MIS.

AnalyticsAutomationDashboards
Live · Trading

Algo Backtest

alog-backtest.web.app

A backtesting platform for algorithmic trading strategies — testing signals against historical data to validate performance before going live.

Algo TradingBacktestingAnalytics
Live · Web App

BrushStories CRM

brushstories-crm-app.web.app

A customer relationship management web app — managing clients, orders and workflow through a clean, data-driven interface.

CRMWeb AppFirebase
Enterprise

Analytics Product for Financial Services

Product built with the tech team to manage and track the life of financial & non-financial services — agile, efficient, business-owned.

Power BIAgileProduct
Efficiency

Automation at Scale

Identified repetitive processes and engineered automation delivering 10k+ hours of efficiency in a single year.

PythonSQLVBA
Migration

Excel → Power BI Migration

Report migration and MIS setup for Operations, modernizing reporting and enabling business controls.

Power BIETLMIS
05 — Contact

Let's build something with data

Open to leadership, consulting and analytics conversations.