Data cleaning and import macros
Repeatable transformation of the exports you get rather than the ones you wish you got. Often Power Query is the better tool here and we will say so, because a macro you cannot edit is worse than a query you can.
Australia · Sydney · VBA & automation
Automation here is often pre-submission checking: run the claim file against delivery records and list what will not pass before it is lodged rather than after a review.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
ShaktiA remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
A typical job here
Most of these run 12–20 hours. The estimate is written down before anything starts, and exceeding it needs your agreement rather than an invoice note.
| Automate pre-submission claim validation | 12–20 hours |
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Why Sydney specifically
Clients for this are typically in the Sydney CBD, Parramatta, Macquarie Park and North Sydney, across financial services and superannuation, construction and infrastructure, professional services, retail and franchising, and NDIS and aged care providers. Project cost reporting, franchise roll-ups and compliance claims that must reconcile.
For the wider picture of what we see in this market — the recurring problems, the source systems, how the time difference plays out — the Sydney guide covers it properly rather than repeating it on every service page.
12–20 hours is typical here. You get a number in writing before we start.
Unlocked files, documentation, recorded handover.
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Excel experts in SydneyScope
Two of the things this covers most often for Sydney clients. The vba & automation page sets out the full scope and method.
Repeatable transformation of the exports you get rather than the ones you wish you got. Often Power Query is the better tool here and we will say so, because a macro you cannot edit is worse than a query you can.
A new macro written to a brief, for a process that currently happens by hand. We watch the process first — what people actually do differs from the documented procedure, and the difference is normally where the bugs live.
Every run records what it did. When somebody asks why last month's numbers moved, the log answers it in seconds.
Any step that needs judgement stays manual. Automating a decision is how automation projects quietly produce wrong answers for months before anyone notices.
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Questions
Answers for this service in this market, including the ones that might cost us the job.
Ask us something elseIt can catch the rule-based ones — mismatched hours, missing records, duplicate entries. Judgement cases still need a person, and we design the routine to flag rather than decide.
Most macros are 8–25 hours depending on how many exceptions the process has. A single-report automation is usually at the lower end; anything touching several files or applications sits higher. You get an estimate in hours in writing before any work starts.
We work from the exports rather than integrating directly. For most project cost reporting that is sufficient and avoids a systems project.
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Most projects touch more than one of these. We scope them together rather than selling them separately.
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