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Richard Kanyesigye Data that drives confident decisions.
Data Analytics Consultant, Advanced Excel and Power BI Training Facilitator, and Published Author. Known by clients and students as “Mr. Excel”, Richard transforms fragmented datasets into clear, automated business-intelligence assets for decision-makers.
Profile overview
A data specialist who turns complex information into practical intelligence.
Richard Kanyesigye is a data consultant, corporate trainer and published author with over a decade of technical experience spanning data management, IT forensics, internal audit and business analytics. His work connects complex data infrastructure with the reporting and analysis leaders need to make better decisions.
Known as “Mr. Excel”, Richard specialises in building clear, automated business-intelligence assets from fragmented datasets. He designs training and advisory engagements around real-world workflows so that teams can improve reporting, reduce manual bottlenecks and use their own data with more confidence.
Richard is Director Data Analytics at The Data Consultant. Earlier roles at Uganda Revenue Authority included Manager Internal Audit, Supervisor Forensic Investigations and Officer Internal Audit, where he contributed to data-analysis capability, investigative training and audit innovation.
“Useful data is not just collected. It is structured, tested and translated into decisions people can act on.”
How Richard contributes
Four connected areas of expertise.
Engagements combine technical depth with practical teaching and implementation so that data capability is both robust and usable in the workplace.
Business intelligence & dashboards
End-to-end Power BI development, data models, DAX, reporting dashboards and Row-Level Security implementation.
Advanced Microsoft Excel
Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic arrays, VBA automation, business models and complex formula architecture.
Data integrity & forensic analysis
Data-extraction and analysis methods informed by computer forensics, ICT investigations, IDEA, ACL and audit practice.
Corporate training & advisory
Custom workshops using real organisational data to improve skills, reporting standards and operational decision-making.
Career record
Experience built across analytics, audit and investigation.
Director Data Analytics · The Data Consultant
Delivers data-management and analytics consulting and training, with a focus on helping professionals get better results from their data.
Manager Internal Audit · Uganda Revenue Authority
Led teams and applied audit and data-analysis expertise within a large public institution.
Supervisor Forensic Investigations · Uganda Revenue Authority
Helped establish a computer-forensics laboratory and introduced practical in-house training for investigators in evidence handling and data analysis.
Officer Internal Audit · Uganda Revenue Authority
Designed an Excel-based VAT decision-support tool that received a 2009 innovation award and introduced electronic working papers for the internal-audit function.
Selected impact
Technical depth applied to real business and audit decisions.
Richard’s profile brings together data-training practice, internal-audit leadership and a strong foundation in forensic investigation and evidence-led analysis.
- Established a computer-forensics laboratory at Uganda Revenue Authority that became a support destination for stakeholders, including Uganda Police.
- Introduced investigator training in first response for computer-related evidence, advanced analysis using IDEA and Excel, and extraction from accounting packages including QuickBooks, Tally, Navision and Microsoft Dynamics.
- Built a VAT decision-support tool in Microsoft Excel for audit work, recognised with a 2009 innovation award.
- Designed and introduced electronic working papers for the internal-audit function, which were immediately implemented by the Commissioner.
- Delivers Advanced Excel Analytics, Power BI, IDEA and Audit Command Language training and consulting.
- Builds Microsoft Excel business models and automated analysis workflows to reduce manual operational bottlenecks.
Professional standing
Data, project and forensic credentials.
Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate with Power BI
Professional certification in data-analysis and Power BI capability.
Certified PRINCE2 Project Practitioner
Credential in structured project-management practice.
Certified EnCase Computer Forensics Investigator
Specialised certification in computer-forensics investigation.
Power Query, Power Pivot and DAX
Professional learning focused on data transformation, modelling and analysis in Excel.
IDEA and Audit Command Language
Training and consulting capability in specialist audit-data tools.
VBA, SQL and Microsoft technologies
Technical capability supporting automation, data preparation and reporting workflows.
Academic foundation
Information technology and software-engineering education.
MSc Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University · 2010
Software Engineering concentration
Advanced academic focus within the Master’s programme.
Applied data systems
Related coursework included a Microsoft Access payroll system.
Author and thought leader
Making advanced analysis accessible to professionals and students.
Richard is an Amazon-published author whose work helps corporate professionals and learning institutions apply data analysis, business intelligence and modelling in a structured, understandable way.
Published work
Microsoft Excel 2019: Advanced Techniques for Data Analysis, Business Intelligence and Modelling is available globally through Amazon.
Curriculum and workplace roadmaps
Designs practical paths for modernising higher-education curricula and standardising workplace reporting frameworks.
Participant-friendly material
Creates step-by-step reading material that makes sophisticated data modelling and analytical tools accessible for self-paced mastery.
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