Emmanuel Annoh

Business Intelligence and Data Analytics professional with 15+ years of progressive experience spanning ICT, statistics, data analytics, BI development, reporting automation, and departmental leadership. Experienced in transforming large and complex operational datasets into Power BI/Tableau dashboards, KPI frameworks, automated reports, and actionable management insights. Strong hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Advanced Excel, Power Query, Python, PostgreSQL, EMIS, Git/GitHub, REST APIs, and cloud technologies.

Proven record of improving data quality, automating repetitive reporting processes, reducing manual effort, and supporting evidence-based resource allocation and operational decisions. Currently serving as Head of Department / Data Analyst, supervising four staff and leading reporting priorities, quality assurance, automation, stakeholder communication, and management reporting. Experienced in working with district management, regional offices, schools, IT teams, Finance, and other stakeholders.

Head of Department / Data Analyst - Afigya Kwabre South District Education Office - Ghana

(2023-01)

Lead the department's data, reporting, BI, and analytics activities, with responsibility for reporting priorities, data quality, automation, team supervision, stakeholder communication, and management decision support.

• Supervise and provide quality assurance for 4 staff members, reviewing data accuracy, completeness, calculations, source-data consistency, formatting, report quality, and deadline compliance.
• Set departmental reporting and analytics priorities based on reporting delays, manual workload, data-quality issues, tight deadlines, decision-making needs, and staff capacity.
• Identified excessive manual reporting and data preparation as a departmental bottleneck and prioritized reporting automation and improved data consolidation, reducing manual work by approximately 40% across the department.
• Led implementation of reporting improvements, including requirements definition, solution design, task assignment, testing, validation, staff training, and final quality review.
• Used Excel, Power Query, Power BI, SQL, EMIS, Python, Tableau, and Git/GitHub across reporting and analytics workflows.
• Reallocated time saved through automation toward deeper data analysis, data-quality checks, dashboard development, management support, resource planning, and staff training.
• Developed and presented quarterly Power BI dashboards to district management and heads of schools, covering data completeness, submission timeliness, error rates, and schools requiring intervention.
• Identified schools with recurring late or inaccurate submissions and provided management with evidence-based analysis of the underlying data-quality and timeliness issues.
• Supported management's introduction of targeted training, follow-up, stricter submission deadlines, and ongoing monitoring, resulting in qualitative improvements in data quality, submission consistency, completeness, and reporting turnaround.
• Personally present quarterly findings and recommendations to district management and explain analytical results to support decision-making.
• Regularly support management decisions through data-driven reporting and analysis, including school performance, resource planning, staffing, and infrastructure needs.
• Assign reporting deadlines to team members, track progress, follow up on delays, and resolve delivery issues within the team.
• Supervise staff training on new reporting processes, BI workflows, data-quality procedures, and automation.
• Work with district management, regional education offices, schools/head teachers, IT teams, Finance, other government departments, and senior leadership.

Statistics Officer - Afigya Kwabre South District Education Office - Ghana

(2016-01 - 2023-12)

Progressed from ICT Officer into Statistics Officer responsibilities, taking on increased responsibility for education statistics, reporting, data validation, and analytical outputs.

• Collected, cleaned, validated, analyzed, and reported school-level education data.
• Worked with large datasets covering school performance, enrolment, staffing, infrastructure, and operational indicators.
• Supported annual and recurring reporting requirements and contributed to district-level planning and resource allocation.
• Developed Excel-based reporting and validation processes to improve data quality and reduce manual work.
• Produced statistical tables, charts, summaries, and analytical outputs for management and regional reporting.
• Conducted data-quality checks and followed up with schools to resolve incomplete or inaccurate submissions.
• Supported preparation of the Annual School Census, School Report Cards, and ADEOP reporting.

ICT Officer - Afigya Kwabre South District Education Office - Ghana

(2009-01 - 2016-12)

• Provided ICT and technical support within the district education environment.
• Supported users with technology-related issues and operational systems.
• Assisted with data and information management activities and supported staff in using digital tools for reporting and administrative work.
• Developed the technical foundation that later supported progression into statistics, data analytics, BI, and departmental leadership.

Data Scientist (Intern) - Amdari Inc. - UK

(2025-01 - 2026-12)

Worked across data science, BI, analytics, automation, and cross-functional delivery, supporting Data/IT teams and business stakeholders.

• Gathered dashboard requirements directly from Data/IT teams and translated business/reporting needs into Tableau solutions.
• Developed Tableau dashboards for business KPIs and quarterly reporting.
• Improved KPI visibility, data consolidation, automated calculations, trend analysis, historical comparisons, data freshness, visualization, and reporting workflows.
• Presented quarterly dashboard findings to the Data/IT team for communication to senior leadership.
• Worked with Excel/CSV files and PostgreSQL data, integrating sources where required and using separate sources for other dashboards depending on reporting needs.
• Cleaned and structured large datasets using PostgreSQL.
• Identified and resolved data-quality issues including missing values, duplicate records, inconsistent formats, incorrect values, source mismatches, invalid records, and anomalies.
• Used SQL validation queries to verify data quality before reporting and dashboard use.
• Identified data-quality issues and raised them with the relevant teams for correction.
• Achieved approximately 99% data accuracy across reporting pipelines.
• Worked on automation across data collection, data cleaning, transformation, reporting, dashboard refreshes, API ingestion, deployment, testing/validation, and repetitive analytical tasks.
• Used Python, SQL, Power Query, Apache Airflow, REST APIs, AWS/GCP services, Tableau automation, Git/GitHub, and Bash across automation workflows.
• Personally designed some automation solutions end-to-end while contributing to others.
• Automated reporting processes, including data refresh, KPI calculations, chart/table generation, multi-source consolidation, report distribution, and trend/anomaly flagging.
• Achieved approximately 50% reduction in manual analysis effort through automated reporting.
• Contributed to approximately 50% improvement in data freshness and 40% increase in data availability.
• Supported initiatives that reduced average implementation time by approximately 30%.
• Coordinated 4 data-driven initiatives involving Data Science, Business, and IT teams.
• Served as the main point of contact between teams for data access, technical issues, deliverables, timelines, and dashboard/report requirements.
• Held responsibility for ensuring deliverables were completed on time.
• Used automation to improve implementation efficiency, contributing to the approximately 30% reduction in implementation time.
• Documented KPI/metric definitions, data sources, SQL/query logic, and dashboard structures.
• Used Git/GitHub for both BI files and analytical code.

MSc - Data Management and Analysis - University of Cape Coast (2023-06)

Diploma - Education - University of Education, Winneba (2017-06)

BA - Management Studies - University of Cape Coast (2011-09)

HND - Statistics - Kumasi Technical University (2004-12)