Financial Analyst · Excel Specialist

The Economist Who Codes.
The Bookkeeper Who Models.

Advanced Excel Expert · Financial Economist · Bookkeeping Specialist

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Open to roles Financial Analyst · FP&A · Data Analyst · Accounting Remote or Davao City

The "Why"

Where Economics, Bookkeeping, and Excel Converge

I don't just build spreadsheets — I build financial models that drive decisions. My degree in Monetary and Financial Economics gives me the theoretical lens to see why a number matters; my bookkeeping qualification gives me the discipline to ensure every figure is reconciled to the source; and my advanced Excel expertise — Power Query pipelines, VBA automation, Power Pivot data models — gives me the engine to deliver those insights at scale.

The combination is rare. Most Excel specialists know formulas but can't read a trial balance. Most bookkeepers are precise but slow. Most economists are strategic but never open a spreadsheet. I work at all three intersections, which means I can take a question from a finance director on Monday morning and ship a model, a dashboard, or a reconciled report by the end of the week.

Toolkit

Built for Financial Decision-Making

A blend of technical depth and domain expertise that lets me move from raw data to board-ready insight without leaving Excel.

Excel Expertise

Advanced Formulas 83%

XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, SUMIFS, LET, LAMBDA, dynamic arrays, text/date logic

Power Query (M) 78%

ETL from CSV, Excel, SQL, web & SharePoint; merge, append, pivot/unpivot, parameters

VBA Automation 72%

Custom functions, event handlers, UserForms, scheduled refresh, error handling

Power Pivot & DAX 75%

Star-schema modeling, measures, time intelligence, CALCULATE & iterator functions

Financial Modeling 80%

DCF, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, three-statement models, KPI dashboards

Bookkeeping & Economics

Bookkeeping

Journal Entries General Ledger Trial Balance Bank Reconciliation Accounts Payable / Receivable Financial Statements Adjusting Entries Closing the Books

Economics & Analysis

Macroeconomic Analysis Monetary Theory Econometrics Time-Series Modeling Inflation Modeling Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis Forecasting Variance Analysis

Tools

Microsoft Excel Power BI SQL (basic) QuickBooks Xero SharePoint

Selected Work

Case Studies

Models and dashboards built for clarity, accuracy, and speed — the kind of work that turns a finance team's weekly question into a one-click answer.

Jill Frances Cabaluna holding her hardbound undergraduate thesis in front of the University of Southeastern Philippines seal
ARDL · Stata · Monetary Economics

Does Gold Hedge Against Interest Rate, Inflation, and Geopolitical Risk in the Philippines? An ARDL Approach

My undergraduate thesis in Monetary & Financial Economics — an ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag) model run in Stata on monthly Philippine data, 2010–2024. The finding I didn't expect: gold is not a reliable long-run hedge in the Philippine context. It behaves as a crisis-driven safe haven instead — the COVID-19 period stood out clearly in the model. Read the LinkedIn post for the full story.

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Loan Amortization Model — remaining balance and cumulative interest over 60 months
VBA · What-If Analysis

Loan Amortization Model

VBA-driven amortization schedule with sensitivity analysis across variable interest rates and prepayment scenarios — built for a regional credit union.

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Budget vs. Actual Reconciliation — diverging horizontal bars showing variance by category
Lookup · Conditional Formatting

Budget vs. Actual Reconciliation

A reconciliation workbook for a small-business client that flags every variance over a threshold using SUMIFS and conditional formatting — one tab, zero formulas to retype.

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13-Week Cash Flow Forecaster — three scenario lines (base, downside, severe)
DAX · Scenario Modeling

13-Week Cash Flow Forecaster

A rolling cash-flow forecast with three scenarios (base, downside, severe) built in Power Pivot. CFOs can swap assumptions and see the runway shift in real time.

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Multi-Source Sales Pipeline — 12-month stacked bars by source
Power Query ETL

Multi-Source Sales Pipeline

A Power Query pipeline that ingests twelve monthly CSVs, reconciles them against the ERP export, and produces a single clean Table — refresh, don't relink.

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KPI Tracker Dashboard — six KPI tiles with deltas
Pivot · Slicers · Sparklines

KPI Tracker Dashboard

A board-ready KPI tracker built on a star-schema Power Pivot model with slicers, sparklines, and conditional traffic-light formatting — one page, every metric.

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Credibility

Endorsements & Credentials

Recommendations

“Jill owns the books at the company I built with calm discipline, sharp judgment, and a habit of shipping fixes before anyone asks. The kind of operator every growing team needs.”

— Christian Macion, CEO of Quantivo · managed Jill directly

“Two or three sentences are enough — what we built together, what changed because of it, what you can expect from working with me. A LinkedIn recommendation is the fastest path to landing here.”

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Credentials

  • BSc Monetary and Financial Economics University of Southeastern Philippines · 2026
  • Bookkeeping Certification TESDA · 2026
  • Advanced Excel Specialist Power Query · VBA · Power Pivot · DAX

Perspective

My Economic & Financial Perspective

Notes on the modeling, automation, and analysis I do every day. Replace these titles with your first three posts once you start writing.

Finance · Modeling

How I Use Excel to Model Inflation Impacts on Cash Flow

A walkthrough of how I layered CPI scenarios onto a 12-month forecast to stress-test purchasing power — and why the choice of base year matters more than the choice of model.

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Automation · VBA

Automating the Bank Reconciliation Process with VBA

Step-by-step: a VBA routine that matches thousands of ledger lines against a bank statement, flags the differences, and writes a reconciliation report to a separate sheet — all triggered from a single button.

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Bookkeeping · Analysis

From Ledger to Dashboard: Closing the Bookkeeping-to-Analysis Gap

Why the most valuable analysts in 2026 aren't the ones with the deepest technical skills, but the ones who can take a clean trial balance and turn it into a board-ready chart in an afternoon.

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Get in Touch

Let's Build Something Precise

Ready to discuss how I can optimize your financial workflows. Let's connect.

Or email me directly at cabajilluna@gmail.com.