Turning financial data
into accountability

I build cloud data platforms and AI systems that help organizations see what's really happening in their financial data. Currently leading data engineering and analytics at a large Media & Entertainment conglomerate, where I design multi-ERP data lakehouses and audit analytics tools that have caught millions in corrections.

Fahad Taimur

I'm a data engineering and analytics manager with 6+ years of experience building financial data platforms on AWS and Oracle Cloud. I hold a Masters in Data Science from Wake Forest and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. Before moving into data, I worked in M&A at a major petrochemical company. I currently lead a team at a large Media & Entertainment conglomerate.

My niche is the space where data engineering meets audit and financial analytics. I've built three production data platforms across two cloud providers, each designed to ingest multi-ERP financial data and surface the kinds of anomalies and misclassifications that traditional sampling-based audit would miss.

I'm now focused on integrating AI into this work: LLM-powered pipelines for risk prioritization, RAG systems over financial documents, and anomaly detection models running in production. The goal is always the same: designing analytics that live as close to the point of control as possible, so decisions get easier, not harder.

Unified Financial Audit Warehouse

Built a structured data warehouse combining core ERP modules, Payroll, and T&E into one model, powering continuous monitoring and a unified risk view that catches misclassifications and timing anomalies traditional siloed audits would miss.

End-to-End Revenue Tracing

Revenue recognition pipeline tracing from sales order to GL journal entry, identifying misclassification and timing issues that traditional audit sampling would miss.

Applied AI in Audit Tooling

Brought language-model tooling into production audit workflows to help prioritize risk and speed up review, alongside traditional analytics.

Current

Manager, Data Engineering & Analytics

A large Media & Entertainment conglomerate

Leading a team of data scientists, BI analysts, and finance liaisons at a $15B media and information conglomerate. Architecting cloud-native data platforms on AWS and Oracle Cloud that power audit analytics, continuous monitoring, and AI-augmented risk analysis across multiple ERP systems.

Platform Work

Three Production Data Platforms

AWS · Oracle Cloud

Built an enterprise analytics mart on Oracle ADW covering 100% of core ERP modules (GL, Journal Entries, AP, Payroll, T&E). Separately designed and built an AWS multi-ERP data lakehouse ingesting from NetSuite, Acumatica, and Sage Intacct for continuous monitoring and BI analytics.

Earlier

M&A Analyst

Large Petrochemical Company

Worked on several large-scale acquisitions in the petrochemical sector, developing a foundation in financial analysis, due diligence, and understanding how complex organizations move capital. This experience informs how I think about financial data systems today.

Education

MS Data Science · BS Chemical Engineering

Wake Forest University · Penn State

Masters in Data Science from Wake Forest grounded in applied statistics, machine learning, and data engineering. Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State built the analytical rigor and systems thinking that carries through everything I build.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (S3, Fargate, Step Functions, Glue, Athena, Bedrock)
  • Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Docker, DynamoDB, EventBridge
  • Oracle ADW

Data Engineering

  • PySpark, Python, SQL
  • DuckDB, Redis
  • Kafka, Flink
  • FastAPI, React

AI & Machine Learning

  • LLM API integration (RAG, function calling)
  • Anomaly detection with autoencoders
  • Neural networks from scratch

Financial Domain

  • Multi-ERP data (NetSuite, Oracle, Sage, Concur, ADP)
  • Audit analytics & continuous monitoring
  • Revenue recognition analysis
  • Statistical & ML forecasting
  • Fraud detection & forensic analytics

Batch GL Medallion Pipeline on AWS

Portfolio · GitHub

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Streaming Market Data with Kafka, Redis & Python

Portfolio · In Progress

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Why Audit Teams Need Data Lakes, Not Data Dumps

Blog

Coming soon

Working on something in audit analytics, financial data platforms, or AI implementation? I'd enjoy the conversation.