Power BI vs. Looker vs. Fabric for Nigerian finance teams in 2026
11 min
Practice · Data Analytics & AI
Your ledger is data. Treat it that way.
Power BI dashboards, modern data warehouses, ML forecasting and AI copilots — engineered by finance people who actually read the trial balance.
40+
Board dashboards in live production
T+1
Real-time daily P&L for our anchor clients
30%
Forecast error reduction vs. spreadsheet baseline
01 · What we doSub-practices.
Sub-practices.
One accountable senior consultant.
Every Outliers engagement is leadership-led. You get one named senior consultant, one accountable team and one model that travels across the full scope of the practice.
01
Board & Exec Dashboards
Power BI / Looker boards mapped to the metrics the board actually asks about.
02
Finance Data Warehouse
Snowflake / BigQuery / Fabric warehouses with dbt-modelled finance marts.
03
Forecasting & Planning
Driver-based FP&A models, scenario engines and ML-augmented forecasts.
04
Audit Analytics
100% population testing, journal-entry analytics and continuous controls monitoring.
05
AI Copilots
LLM-powered finance copilots for AP automation, contract review and variance commentary.
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Data Governance
Catalogues, lineage, role-based access and NDPC-aligned data protection.
02 · How we work
A method, not a moodboard.
01
Listen
We sit with the CEO, CFO and board chair to understand the decisions the data must serve.
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Model
We engineer the warehouse, semantic layer and metrics with versioned dbt models.
03
Ship
We deliver dashboards in 6–8 weeks — not 6–8 quarters — with the business in the loop.
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Operate
We run the platform, monitor data quality and extend it as new questions emerge.
03 · Who we serve
Built for boards that own the number.
- CFOs replacing Excel-stitched board packs with a single source of truth
- Banks, fintechs and insurers needing real-time risk and exposure views
- Manufacturers tracking unit economics across SKUs, lines and plants
- Audit committees demanding 100% testing and continuous monitoring
- PE-backed groups consolidating portfolio reporting across entities
- NGOs measuring programme outcomes for donors and boards
Gated download
Download: The Outliers Finance Data Maturity Scorecard
A 40-question scorecard that benchmarks your finance data stack against Big-4 reference architectures.
04 · Related insights
All insights Recent thinking from the desk.
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9 min
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7 min
From trial balance to live dashboard in 8 weeks.
Leadership-led discovery. Fixed-fee build. Production-grade Power BI on day one.