Amara Mensah

Data Analyst

[email protected]+233 24 123 4567Accra, Ghanalinkedin.com/in/amaramensah-exampleamaramensah-example.github.io

Summary

Data analyst with 3 years of experience in retail and fintech. I write SQL every day, build dashboards people actually use, and explain findings in plain language so teams can act on them.

Experience

Data AnalystKola Retail Group · Accra · 2024 – Present
  • Built a Power BI sales dashboard used weekly by 40 store managers, replacing 12 manual Excel reports.
  • Analysed basket data in SQL to find products often bought together; the bundle offers that followed lifted average order value by 8%.
  • Automated the monthly stock report with Python, saving the finance team about 2 days each month.
Junior Data AnalystPaylink Microfinance · Accra · 2022 – 2024
  • Cleaned and merged loan data from 3 systems into one reporting table used across the business.
  • Found that reminder messages sent 2 days before a due date reduced late payments by 11%, and helped roll the change out.
  • Answered 20+ ad hoc data requests a month from operations and marketing.

Education

B.Sc. StatisticsUniversity of Ghana · 2022

Skills

Analysis: SQL, Excel (pivot tables, Power Query), Python (pandas), A/B testing

Visualisation: Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio

Data: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Data cleaning, Data modelling

Certifications