Lochanreddy MallakuntaAnalytics portfolio
Tax / FinanceIndependentMay 2024

H&R Block Tax Analytics & Automation

Analyzed filing patterns and bottlenecks, restructured ETL pipelines for about 40% faster processing, and delivered Power BI dashboards with automated validation.

Tools: Excel · Power BI · SQL · Power Query · Python · DAX

ETL efficiency

~40% faster processing

Reporting automation

~50% less manual effort

Leadership visibility

Power BI dashboards

Overview

Project-based tax analytics and automation work focused on filing-pattern analysis, ETL restructuring, Power BI error-tracking dashboards, and Python automation for recurring reporting and backups. Presented as a resume project—not as an implied endorsement by H&R Block.

Business problem

Where do filing workflows bottleneck, which error patterns need attention, and how can ETL and reporting automation improve processing efficiency and leadership visibility?

Analysis and approach

  • Analyze user filing patterns and process data for bottlenecks
  • Restructure ETL pipelines to improve processing efficiency
  • Create Power BI dashboards with automated data validation
  • Build Python scripts for recurring reporting and backups

Skills: ETL restructuring · Process bottleneck analysis · Dashboard design · Reporting automation

Evidence and visuals

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Findings and outcome

  • Workflow bottlenecks become actionable when filing patterns and exception categories are analyzed together.
  • ETL restructuring can reduce processing lag before dashboard work starts.
  • Automated validation improves trust in leadership-facing activity and error views.

Outcome: Analyzed filing patterns and bottlenecks, restructured ETL pipelines for about 40% faster processing, and delivered Power BI dashboards with automated validation.

Recommendations

  1. 1

    Keep exception categories and processing-time metrics on the same operating review cadence.

  2. 2

    Document ETL source-of-truth rules after inconsistency fixes.

  3. 3

    Restore or replace the public project page before relying on an external demo link.

Project details

Dataset / source
Tax filing process and platform activity data from the resume project. A previously provided Wix URL returned HTTP 404 and is not linked.
Data classification
Pending confirmation
Limitations
  • H&R Block naming follows the resume project title; no corporate endorsement is implied.
  • Resume metrics are candidate-reported and not re-measured in this repository.