Tim O'Flaherty
@timoflaherty
Senior Business Analyst turning complex data into adopted decision-making insights across government and healthcare.
What I'm looking for
Senior Data/Business Analyst with 30+ years of experience delivering reporting, portfolio analytics, and decision support across healthcare and government. Built Power BI reporting standards, financial models, and KPI frameworks used by executives and operational teams to manage multi-million-dollar portfolios and service performance.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Portfolio Reporting Specialist
IAWAI Flowing Waters
Aug 2026 - Present (2 months)
Set up monthly and quarterly portfolio reporting for a new water services entity’s capital portfolio (Water Supply, Wastewater, Stormwater). Took sole ownership of the reporting cycle in month one. Built a 700+ project status and budget workbook for committee reports, extended the inherited Water Services Strategy workbook, and started a Psoda data clean-up.
Independent Consultant
Tim O'Flaherty Consulting
Nov 2025 - Present (11 months)
Independent BA and analytical consulting practice. Engagements span requirements analysis, process mapping, BI development, and stakeholder advisory across government and commercial environments
Senior Business Analyst - Portfolio
Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora Waikato)
Jan 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year 10 months)
Senior analyst role in Community Funding operations. Built the demographic health equity framework, primary care analysis framework, and ED dashboard covering 523,000 annual presentations across 12 networks. Developed the $31M dental capitation mediation model
Business Analyst
Waikato DHB
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)
Senior analyst role in Community Funding operations. Built the demographic health equity framework, primary care analysis framework, and ED dashboard covering 523,000 annual presentations across 12 networks. Developed the $31M dental capitation mediation model. (267 chars
Principal Analyst & Business Advisor
Indo-NZ Enterprises (own practice)
Feb 2015 - Jan 2022 (6 years 11 months)
Provided independent business intelligence, market intelligence, and analytics/advisory services across New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets. Developed Power BI applications to deliver actionable insights for clients.
Strategic Advisor
Oceania Healthcare Ltd
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020 (2 months)
Identified and resolved critical gaps in a clinical reporting tool related to data quality and operational continuity during a divisional restructure. Supported patient incident management and data purification activities in the final phase of transition.
Strategic Business Analyst
Costing and Business Solutions Ltd
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020 (6 months)
Led proof-of-concept development for prospective clients in Australia and the United Arab Emirates, improving data quality and financial accuracy. Used the improved data to secure new international business.
Senior Business Advisor
Ministry for Primary Industries
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018 (7 months)
Established a sustainable funding and service delivery framework for a nationwide network of regional support trusts and contracted policy agents with minimal ongoing central agency presence. Managed vendor/contract relationships, developed master services agreement materials, and supported procurement and tender processes.
Business Intelligence Analyst
HealthShare Ltd
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016 (3 months)
Developed reporting templates and Excel-based dashboard solutions, including advanced macro functionality. Supported reporting and dashboard creation for business intelligence needs.
Strategic Planning & Market Analyst
DHB Shared Services / Central TAS
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)
Provided analysis and advisory for aged care capacity planning within a national shared services context. Built long-term capacity planning models to 2032 and coordinated annual budgeting processes across a multi-organizational financial planning environment.
Project Manager & Business Analyst
Pub Charity
Jan 2011 - Jan 2013 (2 years)
ole-charge PM/BA on a ~$250K platform refresh migrating a Visual Basic system to cloud, automating paper-based approvals. Produced BPMN 2.0 process maps; ran the RFQ tender process.
Advisor / Program Coordinator
Department of Labor
Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years)
Conducted reviews of an in-house data capture system used by a large portion of the department and delivered validated recommendations that were implemented. Delivered program and project work using PRINCE2 and structured program methodologies.
Business Advisor
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Provided sole-charge financial oversight of annual payments to bilateral and multilateral partners, including UN agencies. Conducted budget variance analysis, accrual accounting, and financial reporting.
Clerk, Business Analyst, COBOL
Inland Revenue Department
Held early-career technical and analytical roles within New Zealand’s national tax administration. Worked as a clerk and business analyst with COBOL programming responsibilities.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Wellington Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Counselling, Counselling
Bachelor of Counselling coursework (partially completed), completing 2.5 of 3 years before completion status changed.
Microsoft
Power BI Data Analyst Associate, Business Intelligence (Power BI)
Earned the Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate credential for data visualization and business intelligence.
Anthropic
Certificate of Completion: Al Fluency Framework & Foundations, Artifical Intelligence
Credential ID 79h8vi7go5eh
Anthropic
Certificate of completion: Introduction to Claude Cowork, Artifical Intelligence
Credential ID m8hzvm5xdmft
Anthropic
Certificate of completion: Claude 101, Artifical Intelligence
Credential ID uvxheu7yyhve
edX
DAT201x: Querying Data with Transact-SQL, T-SQL
Credential ID df8f9583d5014ef4b1f4a8dc86c46846
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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