Ajike Taiwo

About Me

An analyst with commercial and strategic instincts.

My career began in finance, where I learnt to understand businesses through their numbers. Research taught me to question assumptions and communicate findings clearly, while working in financial markets strengthened my commercial judgement.

Today, as a Senior Data Analyst, I combine these experiences to bridge business problems and technical solutions.

Portrait of Ajike Taiwo

My approach

How I think. How I work.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Get to the heart of the business problem and the decisions it affects.

    Seen in actionTraced customer complaints about interest payments back to a 13-hour query.Financial Process Optimisation
  2. 02

    Question

    Challenge assumptions and identify what the evidence needs to establish.

    Seen in actionChallenged whether broad industry risk labels reflected the actual customer base.Customer Risk Assessment
  3. 03

    Build

    Develop practical solutions that balance technical quality with business needs.

    Seen in actionBuilt lightweight alerts and trackers with tools teams already used.Monitoring & Workflow Automation
  4. 04

    Connect

    Translate findings into meaningful insights and informed action.

    Seen in actionSet shared metric definitions, then built dashboards adopted by 8 of 10 teams.Scaling Business Intelligence
See these principles in real projectsExplore My Projects

Toolkit

Data Engineering

  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • BigQuery
  • Data Modelling
  • Query Optimisation

Business Intelligence

  • Metabase
  • BIPower BI Certified
  • Looker Studio

Automation & AI

  • Python
  • Google Apps Script
  • Webhooks
  • OCR
  • Gemini
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT

Strategy & Insight

  • Financial Modelling
  • Forecasting
  • KPI Design
  • Cohort Analysis
  • XLAdvanced Excel
  • Google Sheets

Career map

The Journey Behind My Perspective

Select a milestone to see what it added. RoleInternship or qualification

    7,000 → 2.7MCustomer accounts the analytics function scaled with
    99%+Trade-processing accuracy, with zero failed settlements
    ~$2.5MFX trading income generated by the desk during my tenure
    30 min → <1 minExecutive summary drafting, automated

    Beyond the dashboards

    Years in research and on a trading desk taught me to explain complex things clearly, to clients, to journalists and live on CNBC Africa.

    In the media

    CNBC AfricaInterview · Oct 2018Nigeria's inflation rate rises againWatch on CNBC Africa ↗CNBC AfricaInterview · Aug 2019Nigerian equities reverse Monday's gainsWatch on CNBC Africa ↗CNBC AfricaInterview · Aug 2019NSE reverses gains as macro concerns persistWatch on CNBC Africa ↗
    Vanguard · May 2019
    “Explaining the basis for the 2.48 percent GDP growth rate for Q1’19 forecast by FSDH Merchant Bank, Ajike Taiwo said…”
    From “Rising inflation to halt MPC’s pro growth direction” by Babajide Komolafe
    Read the Full Article ↗

    Next step

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