Business Performance & Analytics

Piran
Faroodi.

Currently
Deputy General Manager, VFS Global
Based in
Dubai, UAE
01 / About

A software engineer who became a strategic expert.

Thirteen years working the seam between data, software, and commercial decisions — eight of them at VFS Global, progressively promoted from analyst to Deputy General Manager.

I run enterprise performance reporting and revenue strategy for senior leadership. I design the dashboards the function operates on, support growth planning across multiple regions, and build the automation that compresses the work nobody wants to do manually.

The combination is unusual for the function: I can write the requirements and ship the tool. Most of my career is the grown-up version of that — turning messy commercial reality into something an executive team can act on.

02 / Three threads

What the work is, honestly.

Performance
Management
Reporting, governance,
and review cadence
Revenue
Strategy
Growth planning and
commercial analytics
Tools &
Automation
Apps and dashboards
shipped to the team
03 / Capabilities

What I’m fluent in.

/ 01
Performance & Executive Reporting

Designing and running the dashboards, scorecards, and review packs that senior leadership uses to track commercial health. KPI design, governance discipline, and the operating cadence behind board-level decisions.

Power BI · KPI · Governance
/ 02
Commercial Strategy Support

Partnering with regional and account-level commercial teams to shape sales strategies, identify opportunity, and structure new initiatives. Translating messy cross-functional inputs into board-ready narratives and decision frameworks.

Strategy · Pipeline · Competitive Intel
/ 03
Data Architecture for Reporting

Designing centralised data structures that replace fragmented multi-team data pulls with reliable, governed, single-source-of-truth reporting layers. Less dependency on individuals, more trust in the numbers.

Data Modelling · BI · Governance
/ 04
Internal Automation & Tooling

Building the apps and Power Platform tools that compress manual processes — turning hours of repetitive work into single-click workflows. The engineering background applied to operations.

Power Apps · Power Automate · VBA
04 / Experience

The timeline.

VFS Global
May 2018 — Present
Dubai, UAE
Jan 2024 — Present
Deputy General Manager, Business Analyst
Current role
2022 — 2023
Senior Manager, Business Analyst
2021 — 2022
Manager, Business Analyst
2019 — 2021
Deputy Manager, Business Analyst
May 2018 — 2019
Senior Executive, IT Analyst
Oct 2017 — Apr 2018: relocation to UAE. Continued freelance software work and used the window to deepen Power BI, Power Apps, and advanced Excel — the toolset I’d apply in the subsequent VFS roles.
Accenture
May 2013 — Oct 2017
Mumbai, India
Nov 2016 — Oct 2017
Software Engineering Sr. Analyst (Senior Software Engineer)
May 2014 — Oct 2016
Software Engineer
May 2013 — Apr 2014
Associate Software Engineer
First role
05 / Contact

If something resonates.