Nathaniel Takor

I am a skilled, creative and talented master’s graduate in Data science, with in-depth skills and values such as commitment, respect. Well-trained in driving success through careful processing and knowledge of operating procedures. Strong skills in critical thinking and effective communication. Also, I am highly innovative and motivated person coming from an accounting background with the ability to adapt to any role which is being given and open to experiencing new challenges which are out of my expertise

SEO & WEBSITE BUILDER FREELANCER | 09/2015 to PRESENT

Self-employed – Salford quays, Manchester

• Tracking, reporting, and analysing website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns.
• Managing campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs and reconciling discrepancies.
• Optimizing copy and landing pages for search engine marketing.
• Performing ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimization.
• Researching and implement search engine optimization recommendations.
• Researching and analysing competitor advertising links.
• Developing and implementing link building strategy.
• Staying up to date with new SEO, social media and digital marketing industry trends, tools and practices, which are constantly changing.
• Meeting clients to identify their needs and liaise regularly with them.
• Drawing up detailed website specifications.
• Designing sample page layouts including font, text size and colors.
• Designing graphics, animations and manipulate digital photographs.
• Registering web domain names and organizing the hosting of the website.
• Presenting initial design ideas to clients.

FINANCE AND BUSINESS SUPPORT | 03/2022 to PRESENT

Manchester City Council – 40 Seymour Road, Crumpsall, Manchester

• Maintaining records and receipts for all daily transactions.
• Ensuring financial records are kept up to date with the latest transactions and changes.
• Performing periodic financial analysis to detect and resolve problems.
• Preparing bacs payments and petty cash.
• Maintaining IT systems, including local and corporate IT systems, spreadsheets, databases to be able to produce appropriate outputs, e.g. reports
• Updating IT systems to ensure that individual records are up to date with information required for statutory returns and local datasets, ensuring the data is up to date, accurate and reliable.
• Identifying discrepancies in data and identifying mistakes in calculations.
• Answering Incoming correspondence like calls, emails, post
• Processing internal paperwork e.g. fin7 application
• Working flexibly across different services like House Project, GMYN etc to provide proactive support to these service users. 

DATA ANALYST | 07/2019 to 08/2020

Rokatan Multi-Service Cameroon – Douala, Bonamousadi

• Interpreted the raw data and identified any patterns in it to provide clarity to the non-technical audience.
• Verified data quality to ensure accurate analysis and reporting.
• Helped identify the business data needed to produce the most useful insights and future analytics.
• Utilized data to make actionable recommendations at all levels.
• Developed and executed a regional business plan aligning with program goals.
• Communicated insights and recommendations effectively to the broader team.
• Monitored data management processes to ensure data quality and consistency.

JUNIOR DATA ANALYST | 05/2018 to 12/2018 

Ecobank Cameroon - Douala, Bonanjo

Ecobank is Pan-African bank with banking operations in 36 African countries. It is the leading independent regional banking group in West and Central Africa.

• Led data analysis defining Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on manual dashboard
• Assembled and reported data analysis for all network elements monitored by Ecobank Mobility.
• Created spread sheets and graphs to retrieve data analysis on approved/rejected contracts and rejection reasons.
• Analysed data stored in a database using statistical principles, SQL Queries, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel.
• Evaluated new system resources and processes.
• Helped the marketing team create new advertising materials.
• Developed workflow charts for system changes.

DATA ANALYST intern | 05/2016 to 10/2016 

PricewaterhouseCoopers Cameroon - Douala, Bonanjo 

• Used automated tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources.
• Identified, evaluated and implemented external services and tools to support data validation and cleansing.
• Liaised with internal and external clients to fully understand data content.
• Created data dashboards, graphs and visualizations.
• Performed analysis to assess quality and meaning of data.
• Filtered Data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to identify and correct code problems.

Salford University - - Manchester - England| Master of Science 

Data Science   September 2020 - 2021

Catholic University - - Buea - Cameroon| Bachelor of Science 

Accounting   September 2015 – December 2019