Samuel Utaji

Result oriented Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst, with passion for examining data from numerous sources, including sales, demographic and financial data to draw business insight. And experience across Sub-Sahara Africa markets, with strong analytical skills, exceptional record in strategic business decision support, delivering cost-effective, high-performance solutions to meet challengi

Provide strategic support to all Managing Directors and Sales teams across the Sub-Sahara Africa Markets and the Finance Director for West, East and Central Africa (WECA) to shape business decisions, through business evaluations, exploit opportunities and deliver outcomes to the business - providing insight, challenge, and business analysis to enable informed decisions and actions that drive posit

Responsibilities
• Perform analysis of current and past trends in all areas of revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, and capital expenditure.
• Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining and continuously improving a suite of reports and dashboards
• Work closely with the Sales team and Business Partner analyst for all project costings and ensure that project costs are within Costing

Responsibilities
• Support the commercial team to ensure their strategy & plans are aligned with Finance plans and track delivery to ensure is in line with the plan
• Analyze the performance measuring metrics, sales forecasting indicators, budget model and economic trends to make financial strategies
• Receive analysis reports from the senior team and make PPT presentations to explain the analysis

Support the commercial team to ensure their strategy & plans are aligned with Finance plans and track delivery to ensure is in line with the plan.

• Prepare payroll of ad hoc and temporary staff
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements.
• Prepare bank payment vouchers and ensure that all bank transactions are properly and fully documented.
• Record payment vouchers daily, ensuring information in accounting system is as accurate as possible, including expense details.
• Prepare timely and accurate month end reconciliations, ensuring

Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements.

• Prepare payroll on or before the 20th of every month.
• Followed up on all pension matters with PFAs and ensure monthly remittance of same
• Input data relating to staff payments onto integrated payroll HR database on a regular basis.
• Conduct regular systems checks to ensure HR database is working properly and to identify any problems.
• Participated in projects that developed the integrated p

• Support the senior business analyst by collation sales data on ERP.
• Ensure the right SKUs for all products are allocated into their respective modules on the Portal.
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain data bases.
• Maintaining accurate records of all FMCGs for different clients (companies).
• Report data errors and product defects to managers.
• Maintain and ana