Harness the potential of Power BI to solve data challenges

Event information

Power BI is a powerful tool that can quickly transform data into insightful and interactive visualisations. But this isn’t always easy for finance teams dealing with large amounts of complex data from multiple sources.

In this webinar, Rishi Sapra, a Chartered Accountant turned Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), will explore how Power BI can be leveraged to address the common challenges and roadblocks finance teams face when using complex and large sets of data to create useful and advanced visualisations.

Rishi will also discuss finance-focused use cases and how financial reporting and review processes can be streamlined and automated, saving finance teams time and avoiding errors. Learn how your team can utilise the self-service capabilities of Power BI to share interactive dashboards and insights across your organisation that can be queried in natural language using Copilot.

This webinar will build on Power BI fundamentals so viewers must have basic knowledge of using Power BI.

Key benefits

• Learn how Power BI can address common challenges when using complex and large sets of data.
• Discover how your team can utilise the self-service capabilities to share dashboards and insights.
• Explore finance-based use cases and how interactive dashboards can simplify the reporting and review processes.

About the speakers

Rishi Sapra, Group Manager, Avanade Rishi is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, an Executive MBA (Hons) holder and a Group Manager at Avanade - a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft that has been Microsoft partner of the year for 17 of the last 20 years. He is formally recognised by Microsoft for technical expertise and community leadership as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), a Fast Track Recognised Solution Architect (FTRSA) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). His passion is in helping organisations achieve the holy grail of Self-Service BI and helping individuals learn the necessary skills to succeed. He runs two main communities - Learn Data Insights (LDI) which has quizzes and e-learning content for Microsoft certifications - and Power Platform Finance (PPF) which is aimed at helping accountants/finance professionals leverage the capabilities of MS Power Platform and related technologies in their role.

Ian Pay, Head of Data Analytics and Tech, ICAEW Prior to joining ICAEW in March 2022, Ian worked for over 10 years at PwC in Data Analytics, specialising in External Audit and Data Acquisition and developing robust and automated ETL processes to support the firm’s award-winning Halo suite of applications. Ian also played an active role in the development and delivery of training courses, with digital upskilling being an area he is particularly passionate about.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1 hour of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the webinar booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

Costs

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Data Analytics and Excel Communities.