Corporate Excel Training by Jifry Issadeen

★★★★★
4.9 / 5 — 18 participants
Rated by corporate trainees

As the founder and lead trainer at LearnNow.lk, Jifry specializes in corporate Excel training, financial modeling, and Microsoft 365 applications tailored for professional teams. His programs combine real-world finance expertise with the latest Excel technology, ensuring participants gain both skill and confidence to apply what they learn effectively at work.
Jifry Issadeen (ACMA, CGMA) is a finance professional and corporate Excel trainer with over 15 years of experience in financial management and data analytics. Having served in multiple finance roles across leading organizations, he brings deep practical insight into how Microsoft Excel drives accuracy, efficiency, and better business decisions.

Fluent in English, Sinhala, and Tamil, Jifry delivers accessible, bilingual corporate training across Sri Lanka. Continuously updating his curriculum to include AI-driven Excel tools, automation, and Power BI integration, he is widely recognized as one of the best Excel trainers in Sri Lanka.

Why Every Company Needs Proper Excel Training?

  • Efficiency gains: Reduces time wasted on manual errors, formula mistakes, and redundant tasks.
  • Standardization: Everyone works with consistent templates, naming, data rules, reducing confusion and rework.
  • Data-driven culture: Empowers team members to analyze, visualize, and draw insights without always relying on IT.
  • Error reduction & auditability: Better validation, checks, and formula hygiene reduce risk.
  • Scalability & future readiness: As Excel evolves (new functions, AI features), your team can confidently adopt innovations.
  • Employee morale & retention: Investing in skills development shows you care, staff feel empowered, not left behind

Why Choose Jifry Issadeen as Your Corporate Excel Trainer?

In today’s fast-paced corporate environment, data fluency matters more than ever. Microsoft Excel continues to evolve, with Microsoft 365 enhancements, Power Query, dynamic arrays, and AI-powered features, yet many employees still rely on outdated techniques

As Sri Lanka’s leading corporate Excel trainer, Jifry Issadeen brings a unique blend of:

  • Deep technical mastery of Excel, Power Query, MS365 New enhanced functions and emerging tools.
  • Customized corporate Excel training designed around your team’s learning needs.
  • The ability to teach in English, Sinhala, and Tamil, so every participant learns without language barriers.
  • A commitment to real transformation, not just theory. Jifry tailors training so employees leave more capable than when they arrived.
  • Constant upskilling, he stays updated with the latest Microsoft & AI changes, so you won’t get old Excel content.
  • Experience in both individual coaching and corporate group delivery, across Sri Lanka and remote/virtual settings.

Unlike many traditional trainers, Jifry keeps pace with evolving Excel technology, ensuring that learners benefit from the latest global tools and trends rather than outdated practices.

The Corporate Training Process

Every organization’s goals are unique. Here’s how Jifry develops tailor-made training programs to meet each client’s exact requirements:

  1. Requirement Assessment: Understanding your business processes and identifying Excel skill gaps through consultation and pre-assessment.
  2. Customized Training Design: Creating a syllabus and training outline that directly align with company objectives, whether financial modeling, dashboard automation, or project reporting.
  3. Interactive Delivery: Conducting the training through real-life scenarios, practical exercises, and guided analysis, either onsite or online.
  4. Feedback and Improvements: Gathering participant feedback and evaluating progress to measure learning success.
  5. Post-Training Support: Providing continued support and resources to ensure your team keeps applying Excel skills effectively after the workshop.

Corporate Training Area Descriptions

Our corporate Excel training takes every participant on a clear, structured journey, starting from the proper basics to building a strong foundation, and then advancing step-by-step into modern Excel functions and tools. We ensure that by the end of the program, your team can confidently handle any Excel challenge they face in their daily work environment, from data analysis to automation, with accuracy, efficiency, and confidence.

  • Getting to Know Excel: Covers foundational concepts, including understanding the structure of columns, rows, and cells, navigating efficiently between cells, using the Name Box, Formula Bar, and learning basic data selection techniques and shortcuts.
  • Dealing with Cell Values and Data: Focuses on essential data manipulation skills, such as using Copy, Cut, Drag, and the Fill Handle, adjusting spreadsheet structure by inserting/deleting and resizing rows and columns, and understanding simple formula construction.
  • Math and Statistical Functions: Teaches core calculation functions like SUM, MIN, MAX, AVERAGE, SMALL, and LARGE , along with number formatting, ROUND, PRODUCT, and the advanced SUMPRODUCT function. It also covers SUBTOTAL and filtering.
  • Text Functions: Explores functions for extracting, combining, and manipulating text strings, including RIGHT, LEFT, and MID, calculating text length with LEN, combining text using CONCAT and TEXTJOIN, cleaning data with TRIM, and using FIND, SEARCH, SUBSTITUTE, and REPLACE for precise text changes.
  • Date and Time Functions: Provides an understanding of how Excel processes dates and times, covers various date formatting techniques, teaches how to get the current date and time , and uses functions like DATE, TIME, DAY, MONTH, YEAR, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND as well as advanced functions like DATEDIF and EOMONTH.
  • Financial and Other Functions: Covers financial modeling with functions used to construct a Loan Amortization Schedule (PPMT, IPMT, PMT), and analyze investments using PV, FV, NPV, IRR, and RATE. This section also includes Information Functions, UNIQUE, and functions for generating number sequences and random numbers.
  • Logical Functions: Focuses on conditional decision-making using the IF Function (simple and advanced), the IFS function for multiple conditions, the AND and OR functions, and combining them for complex logical tests. It also covers conditional calculations with SUMIF/SUMIFS, AVERAGEIF/AVERAGEIFS, and COUNTIF/COUNTIFS.
  • Lookup Functions: Teaches methods for searching and retrieving data, including the classic VLOOKUP, the modern and powerful XLOOKUP (and its comparison to VLOOKUP), and the flexible combination of INDEX and MATCH.
  • Other Features & Functions: Covers a broad range of essential features like Conditional Formatting, Pivot Tables and Dashboards, Data Validation, Goal Seek, Freeze Panes, and Formula Auditing. This also includes functions like OFFSET, TRANSPOSE, ROW, COLUMN, ADDRESS, and INDIRECT.
  • New Functions in Microsoft 365: Focuses on modern array and spill functions introduced in Excel 365, such as IMAGE, LET, advanced text functions like TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, and TEXTAFTER, data transformation with TOCOL and TOROW, and functions for managing arrays like CHOOSECOLS/CHOOSEROWS, TAKE, and DROP. It also covers LAMBDA and related functions like MAP, BYCOL, and BYROW.
  • AI in Excel: Covers how Artificial Intelligence enhances Excel, including Flash Fill, AI-enhanced FORECAST, and features like Recommended PivotTables/Charts and Analyze Data. This section also includes using ChatGPT for formula help, error handling, and finding shortcuts, as well as the specialized AI functions like AI.ASK, AI.LIST, AI.TABLE, AI.TRANSLATE, AI.FILL, AI.EXTRACT, and AI.CHOICE.
  • Discussing Practical Issues & Doubt Clearing: This vital session is dedicated to bridging the gap between training and real-world application. At the conclusion of the course, we will host a specialized Work-Relevant Q&A Session. Participants are encouraged to bring their day-to-day work challenges and questions related to Excel. We will collectively address these practical issues, helping staff understand the appropriate use of specific functions and features in real-world scenarios. This ensures every candidate leaves with a clear path to immediately apply their new skills to improve their efficiency in the office environment.

Contact

Mobile: +94 777 57 6887
Email: jifry@jobbees.lk / jifrydeen@gmail.com