# Samuel Utaji

Samuel Utaji is a remote worker on Himalayas, Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst at Kantar, based in Nigeria.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@samuelutaji

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Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst at Kantar turning Sub-Saharan African market data into commercial decisions with Power BI dashboards.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Nigeria |
| Authorized to work in | Nigeria |
| Salary expectations | 30k+ USD |
| Job categories | Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst, Financial Analyst, Business Analyst |
| Skills | Commercial Finance, Financial Planning And Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Profitability Analysis, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Commercial Reporting, Sales Quota Setting, Sales Pipeline Management, Costing, Margin Analysis, Revenue Recognition, Long Range Planning |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-john-utaji-60882582 |

## About

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At Kantar, I support Managing Directors, Sales teams and Finance Directors across Sub-Saharan African markets with business analysis that informs commercial decisions. I prepare sales targets, monthly reports and variance analysis, and contribute to annual budgets, forecasts and long-term planning.

Earlier at Kantar, I developed and maintained reports and dashboards, analyzed revenue and costs, and supported project costing and gross margin analysis. I also bring experience in finance and business analysis at TNS RMS Nigeria Limited, Great Brands Nigeria Ltd. and Far East Mercantile limited.
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## Experience

### Commercial Finance Business Partner Analyst (current)

[Kantar](https://himalayas.app/companies/kantar). Jan 2020 - Present

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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
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### Commercial Business Analyst (current)

Sub-Sahara Africa. Jan 2020 - Present

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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
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### Decision Support Analyst (Commercial)

[Kantar](https://himalayas.app/companies/kantar). Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

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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
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### Junior Finance Business Analyst

TNS RMS Nigeria Limited. Aug 2014 - Jul 2017

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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
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### Junior Business Analyst

TNS RMS Nigeria. Aug 2014 - Jul 2017

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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.
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### Finance Support Executive

TNS RMS Nigeria Limited. Apr 2013 - Jul 2014

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• 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
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### Finance Executive

TNS RMS Nigeria. Apr 2013 - Jul 2014

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Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements.
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### Payroll Executive

Great Brands Nigeria Ltd.. Sep 2012 - Mar 2013

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• 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
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### Junior Business Analyst

Far East Mercantile limited. Mar 2011 - Jul 2012

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• 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
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## Education

### University of Jos

Bachelor's degree, Economics

### University of Jos

Bachelor of Science, Economics

### University of Lagos

MBA, Finance

### University of Lagos

Master of Business Administration, Finance, General

## Tech stack

- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office

To contact Samuel, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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