BRIAN CHHENG SAHA
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Financial Analyst and Project Coordinator with 4 years of corporate experience across the credit card, digital payments, construction, and retail sectors. I specialize in building complex financial trackers, performing variance analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to optimize workflows. By leveraging technical expertise in Hyperion, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Essbase, and Power BI, I provide leadership with the data-driven insights needed to make sound financial decisions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Financial Analyst/Project Coordinator (Store Ops – Brand Maintenance & Repair)
Ross Stores Inc.
Dublin, CA
05.2023 - 02.2025
- Managed a bi-weekly tracking process for Ross and DD’s BMR repair and janitorial work orders within the $1.3M+ Signs Refresh Project (FY24–FY25).
- Developed ad-hoc executive walk trackers to rapidly dispatch urgent work orders to vendors for 4 high-priority locations.
- Audited and processed 100+ work orders, cancellations, proposals, and invoices weekly to maintain an accurate open-to-spend budget log.
- Utilized ServiceChannel analytics dashboards to forecast expenditure trends, delivering actionable cost-saving insights to executive leadership.
- Led quarterly and year-end soft close accrual processes to resolve outstanding work order commitments in 100% compliance with financial guidelines.
- Redesigned the biohazard reporting tracker (FY23–FY24) by introducing advanced KPIs to improve performance visibility.
Sr. Financial Analyst (Business Operations)
Equinix
Sunnyvale, CA
09.2022 - 12.2022
- Analyzed monthly actual vs. forecast variances for a $10M cash construction budget using Hyperion, Oracle Essbase, and Excel, significantly improving forecast accuracy.
- Resolved unpaid invoice discrepancies by partnering with cash CapEx construction teams, successfully reducing payment delays.
- Integrated Anaplan into the FP&A workflow to capture real-time budget updates, cutting forecasting report preparation time.
- Delivered comprehensive variance analyses comparing CapEx to general ledger OpEx for cash-approved and proposed retail and hyperscale projects.
- Automated global project-level reporting for AMER, APAC, and EMEA retail and hyperscale sectors, drastically reducing manual data entry time.
- Presented monthly FY23 budget decks to senior leadership, leveraging Think-Cell to dynamically link global construction headcount files.
Financial Analyst (FP&A)
Visa, Inc.
Redwood City, CA
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Optimized financial reporting for the $2B "Big Bird" Visa Global Technology program by consolidating and mapping data from TPM (Clarity) and Tableau to significantly reduce data errors.
- Delivered quarterly TPIC variance analysis reports and created executive-level commentaries for Visa Technology Portfolio Management to summarize key financial impacts.
- Restructured headcount bridge reporting for 3,000 full-time employees (FTEs), accelerating delivery times and improving data accuracy.
- Automated Hyperion data management by extracting source data from Tableau and Clarity ERP, streamlining revenue forecasting and budgeting workflows.
- Streamlined M&A technology integration reporting across Technology Business Planning & Operations (TBPO), Open VisaNet (OVN), and Visa Payments Limited (VPL).
- Partnered with Financial Business Partners (FBPs) to track spending, manage risks and benefits, monitor KPIs, and evaluate overall financial impacts.
Systems Analyst (FP&A)
Blackhawk Network
Pleasanton, CA
06.2019 - 05.2020
- Created and delivered PowerPoint training on Host Analytics and SpotlightXL for 5 business units, improving report-building capabilities during the national FP&A conference.
- Prepared and distributed daily executive summaries on cost of sales and line-item expense details (Levels 1 & 2) directly to the FP&A Director.
- Led the migration of 36 global financial reporting templates (AMER, EMEA, APAC) from BI360 to Host Analytics and SpotlightXL, accelerating the Microsoft Dynamics (D365) upgrade.
- Collaborated with FP&A leadership to build 3-year and 5-year revenue forecasting models for the WinCo partner gift card program.
Sales Associate
Yogurtland
San Ramon, CA
08.2015 - 11.2019
- Managed POS transactions, reconciled inventory logs, and trained 10 new team members to enhance store operations.
Education
M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS12-2021
B.S. - Business Administration in Finance
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA05-2019
A.A. - Associate Degree in Japanese
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CA06-2026
Skills
- Microsoft Excel/Office Suites
- Power BI
- Hyperion Smart View
- Oracle Essbase
- Anaplan
- BI360
- Host Analytics/Planful
- SpotlightXL
- ServiceChannel
- Microsoft Dynamics D365
- Data Visualization
- GIMP 210
Certification
- Microsoft Excel: From Beginner to Advanced Course, Udemy, 04/01/23
- Mastering Excel’s Forecasting: Techniques, Trends, Insight, Udemy, 08/01/25
- The Complete Financial Analyst’s Course 2026, Udemy, 01/01/26
- SAP for Beginners – SAP & ERP Practice, Udemy, 01/01/26
- The Complete Power BI Practical Course, Udemy, 05/01/26
Timeline
Financial Analyst/Project Coordinator (Store Ops – Brand Maintenance & Repair)
Ross Stores Inc.
05.2023 - 02.2025
Sr. Financial Analyst (Business Operations)
Equinix
09.2022 - 12.2022
Financial Analyst (FP&A)
Visa, Inc.
01.2022 - 07.2022
Systems Analyst (FP&A)
Blackhawk Network
06.2019 - 05.2020
Sales Associate
Yogurtland
08.2015 - 11.2019
M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration
Emporia State University
B.S. - Business Administration in Finance
San Francisco State University
A.A. - Associate Degree in Japanese
Diablo Valley College