Finance analytics · Data strategy · AI

Jim Powell

I turn messy operational data into decisions, and I build the tools (increasingly with AI) that make those decisions faster.

See the data What I build with AI

20+

years of experience

companies

years consulting

years leading teams

What I do

I build teams and tools that make numbers useful

Finance analytics leader

I built the Finance data-enablement team at Cox from scratch and set a 3-year analytics and data strategy supporting FP&A, Construction, Engineering, Field Operations and Network Reliability.

Storyteller with data

Monthly executive summaries of trends, risks and recommendations, plus business cases that moved leadership priorities, including a $97M revenue opportunity.

Builder, now with AI

From Informatica and Tableau to Python, FastAPI and React. I use Claude Code to ship in-house analytics platforms and an AI agent that answers finance questions.

Results

A few numbers I’m proud of

$97M

revenue opportunity found in "The Cost of a Missing Address"

30%

team efficiency gain while support requests grew 8% a year

15%

year-over-year Cost per Mile reduction supported by analytics

~3,500

views of the Time Tracking dashboard in 2025

23 to 1

dashboards consolidated onto one launch page

55%

fewer severity 1 and 2 defects (consulting era)

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Beyond work

An INTP who loves graphs

I’m a Logician by type, a Philomath and Analyst by strength: happiest with a hard problem, a clean dataset, and a team to share the discovery with.

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