The Finangineers - Mike Givens on Making Finance Tasks More Efficient and Most Importantly, More Fun
Episode description
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11:30 - Introduction
12:54 - What's a Senior FinTech Automation Analyst (Analyst? Nope - Engineer!) and what do they do?
19:22 - Mike is an insta-hero - 2 weeks to create an automation the team had waited 1 year for! Auto-administration of email distribution lists.
21:29 - How do you differentiate between the tools Microsoft Power Platform - Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI?
27:31 - Do these new tools replace the "automations" from the good ol' days (macros and VBA)?
29:12 - Who owns the management and curation of automations after they are created?
- Mike's philosophy - teach people how to automate the catching of fish
- Power Automate "Flows" get put in "Solutions" that are monitored by dev ops.
32:40 - How do they go about building and nurturing an automation community of "citizen developers"?
- Mike's Weekly (... or minutely) tips and tricks channel
37:18 - What processes are ripe for automation, and which are not?
40:30 - What's Mike most excited about that's coming down the automation pike?
- OpenAI is exciting, but use it wisely.
- A useful approach to handling large data sets.
44:00 - When should you use Python?
48:35 - How to Be Like Mike - where to turn to become an automation expert.