Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
Excel Consulting Services in Downtown Las Vegas
JAAD Group builds the spreadsheets, automations and financial models that Downtown Las Vegas businesses actually run on — then makes them fast, accurate and hands-off. A Las Vegas Excel consultant with twenty-five years behind him, working on-site from Fremont Street to Symphony Park.
- Excel automation & VBA
- Reporting & dashboards
- Financial modeling
- Workbook rescue & cleanup
Why downtown is different
Excel Consulting Built Around How Downtown Las Vegas Actually Operates
Downtown Las Vegas is not a single industry. Inside a few square miles you have casino and hotel operators along Fremont Street, restaurant groups and bars in the Arts District, healthcare organisations in the Las Vegas Medical District, law firms clustered around the Regional Justice Center, county and city government offices, and a genuine startup and small-agency scene that grew up around Container Park and Symphony Park.
What those organisations have in common is not their business model. It is that a surprising amount of the work still happens in Excel — nightly revenue recaps, food and beverage cost sheets, payroll allocations across entities, grant and compliance reporting, matter budgets, occupancy and labour forecasts. The spreadsheet becomes load-bearing long before anyone plans for it to be.
That is where the trouble starts. A workbook that one person built in 2019 gets inherited by someone who was never shown how it works. A tab gets copied for a new property or a new client and the formulas quietly stop pointing where they should. A report that took twenty minutes now takes half a day because nobody wants to be the one who breaks it. That is usually the point at which Excel consulting costs less than carrying on.
We are brought in at exactly that point. Sometimes the answer is a rebuild. Often it is smaller than clients expect — restructuring the data properly, replacing array formulas with tables and pivots, adding a macro that does in five minutes what a person was doing across three days. The goal is never a more impressive spreadsheet. It is a spreadsheet nobody has to think about.
Being in the valley is the practical part of this. We can be in your office on Fremont Street or in Symphony Park the same week you call, sit with the person who actually builds the report, and see the workarounds nobody thinks to mention on a phone call. That is where most of the useful findings come from.
The goal is never a more impressive spreadsheet. It is a spreadsheet nobody has to think about.
What we do
Our Excel Consulting Services in Downtown Las Vegas
Six areas of work, delivered on site or from across town. Most engagements start in one and naturally pull in a second.
Automation
Excel Automation & Workflow Automation Services
If someone on your team spends part of every week copying, pasting, reformatting and reconciling the same files, that work can almost always be automated. We map the process end to end, then replace the manual steps with macros, Power Query transformations and scheduled refreshes.
- Recurring report automation — daily, weekly and month-end packs that build themselves
- Multi-source consolidation — pulling dozens of files or exports into one clean document
- Data cleanup pipelines — messy exports normalised automatically instead of by hand
- Scheduled refreshes — live connections so numbers are current without anyone clicking
More on Excel automation services
Development
Excel Programming, VBA & Macro Development
When Excel's built-in features run out, we write code. As an Excel macro developer and VBA consultant, JAAD Group builds spreadsheet applications that behave like real software — with forms, validation, permissions and error handling rather than a wall of exposed formulas.
- Custom VBA macros for multi-step processes that must run identically every time
- Excel add-in consulting and development for tools your whole team needs
- User forms and controlled input so data goes in clean at the source
- Legacy macro repair — inherited code that broke and nobody can read
Reporting
Excel Reporting Solutions & Dashboards
Numbers only help if the person reading them can act on them. We design automated Excel reports and dashboards that turn raw operational data into something a manager can scan in thirty seconds — with drill-down available when the summary raises a question.
- KPI dashboards with slicers, filters and dynamic charts
- Ad hoc report tooling so your team stops asking IT for one-off extracts
- SQL, ERP, CRM and API connections feeding reports directly
- Power BI alongside Excel where the audience needs a published view
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Modeling
Excel Financial Modeling & Forecasting
Custom financial modeling services for budgeting, forecasting, valuation and scenario planning. Models are built to be audited — assumptions in one place, calculations traceable, and no hard-coded numbers buried three tabs deep where a reviewer will never find them.
- Budgets and rolling forecasts, including multi-entity roll-ups
- Cash flow and scenario analysis with switchable assumption sets
- Valuation models using DCF and comparable-company analysis
- Project cost and ROI models for capital decisions
More on Excel financial modeling
Optimisation
Excel Consulting, Optimisation & Workbook Rescue
The most common call we get is not "build us something new." It is "this file is slow, we do not trust the numbers, and the person who built it left." We audit the workbook, find what is actually wrong, and fix it — usually without starting over.
- Performance repair — volatile and array formulas, bloated ranges, circular references
- Formula debugging — broken lookups, silent errors, wrong-by-a-little results
- Structural redesign — proper tables, named ranges, one source of truth per figure
- Custom Excel solutions for payroll, inventory, scheduling and budgeting
Enablement
Excel Expert Help & MS Office Training
On-demand Excel expert help for teams that need an answer today, plus structured training so the same question does not come back next quarter. Sessions are built around your actual files, not generic exercises.
- Live screen-share support for urgent spreadsheet problems
- Team training on the specific workbooks your staff use daily
- Handover documentation so tools survive staff turnover
- Ongoing retainer support for organisations without in-house Excel depth
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Common situations
Excel Problems We Solve for Downtown Businesses
These are the calls that come in most often, and roughly what happens next.
"Our month-end close takes three days and most of it is copy-paste."
Usually a consolidation problem. Data arrives from several systems or entities in slightly different shapes and someone reconciles it by hand — the messy exported data problem, repeated every month. We build the transformation once, in Power Query or VBA, so the same inputs produce the same output pack in minutes. One client's operations reporting went from up to eight hours to a few minutes this way — the same approach we walk through in our step-by-step guide to automating Excel reports.
"The file takes forty seconds to open and freezes when we type."
Almost always structural. Formulas applied across a million rows, volatile functions recalculating constantly, an array formula doing what a pivot table should. We profile the workbook, replace the expensive patterns, and the file usually comes back an order of magnitude faster without losing a single feature.
"We think the numbers are wrong but we cannot prove it."
The dangerous one. We trace every reported figure back to its source, document where the logic breaks, and restructure so each number has exactly one calculation path. Then we add validation that flags a mismatch instead of quietly reporting it — because the most expensive spreadsheet mistakes are almost never the ones that throw an error.
"The person who built this left the company."
Common in hospitality and professional services, where a capable analyst builds something excellent and undocumented. We reverse-engineer the workbook, write down how it works, simplify what is unnecessarily clever, and hand back something a competent successor can maintain.
"Every property/location/client has its own version of the spreadsheet."
Version sprawl. Five copies drift apart, then leadership gets five different answers to the same question. We consolidate to a single template with a proper data layer, so a change to the logic applies everywhere at once.
"Should we even still be in Excel for this?"
Sometimes the honest answer is no, and we will say so. But replatforming is expensive and frequently unnecessary. More often the issue is that Excel is being used badly rather than being the wrong tool. We tell you which situation you are in before you spend money on either path, whether that is a migration to Power BI or leaning on AI features in Excel.
Diagnostic
Signs Your Business Needs an Excel Consultant
Most companies wait far too long. The spreadsheet is technically working, nobody has time to look at it properly, and the cost of the workaround is spread thinly enough across the week that it never shows up as a line item. It only becomes visible when someone leaves, or when a number turns out to have been wrong for six months.
If several of these are true, the work you are absorbing manually is almost certainly larger than the cost of fixing it:
- A recurring report takes hours that are mostly copying, pasting and reformatting rather than analysis
- Only one person can run it. When they are on leave, the report does not happen
- The file is slow. It takes a long time to open, and typing a value causes a visible pause
- Numbers get corrected after the fact often enough that people quietly double-check them
- There are multiple versions in circulation and no one is completely sure which is current
- Nobody will touch the macros because the author left and there is no documentation
- New locations, entities or clients get onboarded by copying a tab and editing formulas by hand
- You have started saying "we should probably get a proper system" without ever costing what that means
What the cost usually looks like
The arithmetic is worth doing before you decide it is not a priority. One person spending six hours a week on manual reporting is roughly 300 hours a year. At a mid-range loaded salary that is a five-figure annual cost for work that produces nothing new — which is the arithmetic behind hiring a consultant versus building the skill in house — and it is the least interesting part of that person's job, which quietly affects retention as well.
The error cost is harder to quantify and usually larger. A budgeting spreadsheet with a broken lookup does not announce itself. It produces plausible numbers that inform real decisions, and the discovery comes later, from an auditor or a funder or a board member asking why two reports disagree.
What we do first
Before proposing anything, we look at the file and the process around it. Sometimes the finding is that a two-hour restructuring removes the entire problem. Sometimes it is that the workbook has been asked to do a job Excel is genuinely wrong for, and the useful advice is to stop expanding it.
Either way you get a straight answer at the end of a free consultation, including when that answer is that you do not need to hire anyone.
Real projects
What the Work Looks Like in Practice
Three engagements, with the numbers the clients measured afterwards. More in our full case studies.
66% accuracy
improvement
Interactive Budgeting Tool
- Issue
- A management company overseeing 30 companies needed an interactive budgeting tool in Excel with multi-level security.
- Solution
- A budget creation template with access-level security, VBA that rolls approved data up to a master sheet, interactive payroll, tax rate and benefits adjustments, and a direct load into the company's accounting software.
- Outcome
- Manual data entry was replaced by an automated system. Budgeting accuracy improved 66%, implementation speed by over 1000%, and continuous reforecasting became practical for the first time.
40 person-hours
saved per month
Operations Reporting Automation
- Problem
- Outdated operations reports, updated manually, used both internally and by external funding institutions. A single update cycle took up to three days.
- Solution
- An Excel operations report program that combines over 50 data sources into one document in five minutes, lets users inspect the sources before building, selects specific companies to import, and produces draft reports for comparison.
- Outcome
- Report update time fell from as long as eight hours to minutes, saving at least 40 person-hours every month.
9 minutes
to 30 seconds
Data Entry & Search Rebuild
- Poor design
- A 1,200-row Excel document took up to nine minutes to locate a specific record, caused by array formulas and inefficient programming.
- Solution
- The data was restructured using Excel's table features, pivot tables with slicers were added, and unnecessary VBA code and array formulas were removed entirely.
- Outcome
- Record retrieval dropped from nine minutes to thirty seconds — a 1700% improvement — on the same hardware.
On-site downtown
Excel Expert Help Across Downtown Las Vegas
Not every problem is a project. Sometimes you need an Excel expert in the room this week, not a proposal next month.
Urgent help, downtown
A formula returning the wrong figure the morning a report is due. A macro that stopped working after an Office update. A file that will not open. Being based in Las Vegas rather than another time zone means we can usually be looking at it the same week, and often the same day.
We work on your actual workbook while you watch, so the fix does not come back as a black box your team cannot maintain. Most of these are resolved in a single session.
We come to your office
Discovery work is better done in person. Watching how a night-audit pack or a weekly cost sheet is actually produced — who touches it, what they fix by hand, which step everyone dreads — tells us more in an hour than a week of emailed questions.
We visit offices throughout Downtown Las Vegas: Fremont East, the Arts District, Symphony Park, the Medical District and the government and legal blocks around the Regional Justice Center.
Retained local support
For Downtown Las Vegas organisations where Excel carries real operational weight but the volume does not justify a full-time specialist. You get a defined block of hours, a known local contact, and someone who already understands your files.
Typical use: a new column on a monthly report, onboarding a new hire onto an existing tool, a quarterly review of models before they go to the board.
Why a local Excel consultant makes a difference here
Downtown Las Vegas runs on schedules most consultants never encounter. Hospitality and gaming operators close their day at 3am, not 5pm. Restaurant groups in the Arts District count inventory on Sunday nights. A reporting tool built by someone who has never sat through a night audit will get the timing assumptions wrong, and those assumptions are the part nobody writes down.
Being in Las Vegas also means we understand what your reports have to satisfy locally — Nevada Gaming Control filings for licensed operators, Clark County reporting for government-adjacent organisations, the grant and compliance cycles that healthcare and non-profit clients work to.
Applications we work in
Excel
Access
Word
PowerPoint
Outlook
Excel is the centre of the work, but reports rarely stop there. We also handle MS Office training for teams that inherit a new tool.
What working with us looks like day to day
Most engagements combine an on-site start with screen-share sessions afterwards, because that is genuinely the fastest route: we see the process in person once, then iterate quickly without either side losing half a day to travel and parking around Fremont Street.
You deal with the same person throughout. There is no account manager, no offshore build team, and no handover to someone who was not at the first meeting. When a Downtown Las Vegas business calls JAAD Group, the person who scopes the work is usually the person who builds it.
If you want the longer version before picking up the phone, we have written about how many hours Excel automation actually saves over a year.
Who we work with
Industries We Serve in and Around Downtown Las Vegas
The service is the same. The spreadsheets are not.
Hospitality, Gaming & F&B
Nightly revenue recaps, labour and occupancy forecasting, food and beverage cost sheets, vendor price tracking, tip and gratuity allocation. High-frequency reporting where an hour saved per day compounds fast — and where a 3am day-close breaks tools built on ordinary business hours.
Finance & Accounting
Cash flow management, P&L tracking, budget variance analysis, multi-entity consolidation, audit-ready workpapers — plus the formulas and models finance teams lean on. See our Excel financial modeling services for how these are built to be reviewed.
Healthcare & Insurance
Policy and claims tracking, compliance and grant reporting, staffing schedules, benefits reconciliation. Relevant across the Las Vegas Medical District, where reporting deadlines are set by funders rather than by the finance team.
Legal & Professional Services
Matter budgets, realisation and utilisation reporting, trust account reconciliation, fee forecasting. Common among the firms clustered around the Regional Justice Center, and often the first real reporting layer a practice has had.
Government & Public Sector
Downtown is where Clark County and City of Las Vegas offices sit. Budget submissions, headcount reporting, capital project tracking and public-records extracts — work with hard deadlines and no tolerance for a figure that cannot be traced.
Nonprofits & Associations
Grant tracking against multiple funding sources, restricted-fund reporting, programme cost allocation, board packs. Usually built by one dedicated person with no budget for software, which is exactly where a well-built workbook earns its keep.
Real Estate & Construction
Investment and acquisition models, cost forecasting, draw schedules, portfolio-level expense tracking, rent rolls that reconcile to the accounting system rather than approximately agreeing with it.
Retail & E-commerce
Inventory monitoring, sales and margin tracking, reorder point modelling, multi-channel reconciliation across platforms that never quite agree. Often solved with Excel automation rather than a new system.
Logistics & Distribution
Supply chain analysis, production and delivery scheduling, vendor performance scorecards, freight cost allocation. Data usually arrives from three systems in three shapes, which is a consolidation problem before it is a reporting one.
How we work
Our Excel Consulting Process
Five steps. The first one is free and often resolves the question of whether you need us at all.
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Free consultation
You get in touch, describe the problem and, ideally, send the file. We tell you what is actually wrong and roughly what it would take to fix. Some calls end with a five-minute answer and no project.
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Workbook and workflow audit
We examine the file and the process around it — where data comes from, who touches it, what breaks. Most of the real problems live in the process, not the formulas.
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Scoped proposal
A written plan with what gets built, what it will do, and what it costs. No open-ended hourly commitments on a project we have already scoped.
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Build and review
We build in stages and show you working versions along the way, so course corrections happen early rather than at handover.
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Handover, training and support
Your team is trained on the actual tool, documentation is written down, and we stay available. A solution nobody understands is not a solution.
Who you will be working with
Jeff Mattus
Owner & President, JAAD Group
With a background in Computer Science and over 25 years of experience, Jeff founded JAAD Group to help businesses streamline operations through smart Excel and Office solutions. His work spans finance, healthcare, technology and real estate, always focused on improving efficiency through tailored automation and data tools.
That combination matters more than it sounds. A developer who does not understand finance builds something technically elegant that no accountant will use. A finance person without engineering discipline builds something that works until the day it silently does not. The projects on this page needed both.
When you call JAAD Group, you are talking to the person who will scope the work and, in most cases, do it. Downtown Las Vegas businesses get direct access to a senior Excel consultant rather than an account manager relaying messages.
Organisations we have built for
Trusted With Business-Critical Spreadsheets
Why JAAD Group
What You Get That a General IT Firm Cannot Offer
Excel specialists, not generalists
This is not one service line among twenty. Excel, VBA and Office automation are the whole business, which is why the diagnosis on the first call is usually right.
We fix before we rebuild
Rebuilding is the expensive answer and often the wrong one. If your existing workbook can be repaired and restructured, we will tell you that even though it is the smaller invoice.
Built to be maintained
Every tool is documented and handed over with training. Clever code that only its author understands is a liability, not an asset.
Actually local
Based in Las Vegas, on site downtown, in your time zone. Urgent problems get looked at the same day instead of queued behind a consultant three states away.
Measured outcomes
Hours saved, error rates, retrieval times. The case studies on this page carry real numbers because that is how the work gets evaluated.
Senior attention throughout
Scoping, building and handover are done by the person you spoke to. Nothing gets passed down to a junior after the proposal is signed.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you come to our Downtown Las Vegas office?
Yes. We are based in Las Vegas, not another state, so on-site visits downtown are routine rather than a billable expedition. We cover Fremont East, the Arts District, Symphony Park, the Las Vegas Medical District and the government and legal blocks around the Regional Justice Center.
Most projects start with an on-site session, because watching how a report is actually produced tells us more in an hour than a week of emailed questions. Follow-up work is then usually done by screen share to save both sides the travel.
Which Downtown Las Vegas areas and zip codes do you cover?
The downtown core — 89101, 89104 and 89106 — plus the surrounding neighbourhoods clients usually mean when they say downtown: Fremont East and the Fremont Street Experience, the 18b Arts District, Symphony Park, Container Park, the Medical District and Huntridge.
We also work throughout the wider valley: North Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Paradise, Enterprise and Boulder City.
How quickly can you get to us?
For urgent problems — a broken report the morning it is due, a macro that stopped working after an Office update — we can normally be looking at the file the same day and on site within a day or two, depending on the week.
Being a local Excel consultant is most of the reason that is possible. There is no flight to book and no time-zone gap before anyone reads your email.
Do you work with Las Vegas hospitality, gaming and restaurant businesses?
Frequently, and it is a large part of why local matters here. Downtown operators run on schedules most consultants never encounter — the day closes at 3am, inventory happens on a Sunday night, and labour forecasting has to survive a convention week that triples covers without warning.
A reporting tool built by someone who has never sat through a night audit gets the timing assumptions wrong, and those assumptions are exactly the part nobody writes down. We have built cost sheets, revenue recaps and labour models around those cycles.
What does an Excel consultant actually do?
An Excel consultant diagnoses and fixes the spreadsheet problems that slow a business down, then builds tools so those problems do not come back. In practice that covers four kinds of work: automating repetitive tasks with macros and Power Query; repairing workbooks that are slow, broken or untrustworthy; building reports, dashboards and financial models from scratch; and training the team that has to live with the result.
It is closer to software consulting than to Excel tutoring. The deliverable is usually a working tool plus the documentation to maintain it.
How much does an Excel consultant cost in Las Vegas?
It depends entirely on scope, which is why the first conversation is free. A formula audit or a single-report automation is a small fixed-price engagement. A multi-entity budgeting system with security levels and an accounting-software integration is a project with several stages.
We have written more on what an Excel consultant does and what they charge. What we will not do is start open-ended hourly work on something we have already scoped. After the audit you get a written proposal with a defined deliverable and a defined cost, so you can decide against it if the numbers do not work.
Can you fix a spreadsheet somebody else built?
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do. Inherited workbooks are the most common reason Downtown Las Vegas businesses call — particularly in hospitality and professional services, where a capable analyst builds something excellent, undocumented, and then moves on.
We do not need the original author. We do need to know what the numbers are supposed to mean, which is a conversation with whoever uses the report.
How long does an Excel automation project take?
A single automated report is often a matter of days. A workbook rescue depends on what we find during the audit — frequently a week or two. A full system, like a multi-entity budgeting tool with security and an accounting integration, runs across several weeks in stages.
You will have that estimate in writing after the audit, before any build work starts.
What happens to our files and tools when the project ends?
They are yours. You receive the workbooks, the macro source code, and written documentation of how everything works. Your team is trained on the actual tool rather than a generic overview. Nothing is locked to us and nothing requires an ongoing subscription to keep working.
Ongoing support is available if you want it, and being local makes that practical — but it is never a requirement for the tool to keep running.
Do you offer ongoing Excel support for Las Vegas businesses?
Yes. Several local clients keep us on retainer for on-demand help — a formula that stopped working, a report that needs a new column, a new hire who needs walking through the system. It suits Downtown Las Vegas organisations that depend heavily on Excel but do not have enough volume to justify an in-house specialist.
Because we are in the valley, a retainer can include periodic on-site time rather than being purely reactive email support.
Also serving
Excel Consulting Across the Las Vegas Valley
Downtown is the core of our service area, and we cover the rest of the valley from the same base — every one of these is a short drive, not a travel day.
Downtown districts we cover
- Fremont East
- Fremont Street Experience
- 18b Arts District
- Symphony Park
- Container Park
- Las Vegas Medical District
- Huntridge
- 89101 · 89104 · 89106
Elsewhere in the valley
- Excel consulting in Las Vegas
- North Las Vegas
- Henderson
- Summerlin
- Spring Valley
- Paradise
- Enterprise
- Boulder City
Looking for a specific service instead? See Excel Automation, VBA & Macro Development, Excel Reporting, Financial Modeling, Excel Consulting or Excel Expert Help.
Coverage radiates from Downtown — schematic, not to scale
Let's Look at the Spreadsheet
Send us the file or describe the problem. We will tell you what is wrong with it and what it would take to fix — before you commit to anything. Free consultation, no obligation.
949-464-7489JAAD Group Excel Consulting · 2937 Hawksdale Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89134
Serving Downtown Las Vegas and the greater Las Vegas Valley