Discover Hidden Savings: Forensic Contract Audits Uncover $297k

Discover Hidden Savings: Forensic Contract Audits Uncover $297kDiscover Hidden Savings: Forensic Contract Audits Uncover $297k

The network for creativity

Join 1.25M professional creatives like you

Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free

Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started

Back to feedPost

Eva D

• Jun 7

I conducted a forensic contract audit for a corporate customer, reviewing 18 months of spending across six vendors and four main areas. By comparing current contracts to market rates, I discovered $297,800 in total fiscal leakage.

Key results:

Leakage discovered: recovered $297,800 in overpayments in categories such as freight (42% of scope), facilities (28%), and parcel (20%).

Methodology: We used benchmarks from 47 previous business portfolio audits to assure accuracy and actionable savings.

Financial Impact: Provided a clear capital recovery roadmap, including a phased recovery prediction for Q4.

Data Analysis Cost Estimation Microsoft Excel Financial Analysis

Oluwabusola Oyenuga

• Jun 5

A store made $2.3M in revenue and was still losing money. Here’s where it was going wrong.

I built a Sales & Profit Analysis dashboard covering 4 years of data

And the numbers told a story revenue alone would never show.

The findings:

📍Furniture had $740K in sales but only $20K in profit

📍Tables and Bookcases had negative margins which means selling more meant losing more

📍The South region was bleeding compared to every other region

📍Technology was quietly carrying the entire business

The fix wasn’t complicated once the data was clear:

✅Reduce Furniture discounts and renegotiate supplier costs

✅Invest more in Technology since it’s already winning

✅Study the West region and replicate it in the South

That’s what a good dashboard does.

Not just show numbers

It shows you exactly where to act.

This dashboard was built with Power BI.

The hardest part was knowing which questions to ask before touching the tool.

What’s one business decision in your industry that data could make obvious but most people still make on gut feeling?

Data Analysis Microsoft Power BI

Oluwabusola Oyenuga

• Jun 9

Thank you

igor coox

• Jun 6

Title: Sales Data Cleaning & Reporting

Description: Cleaned a messy sales spreadsheet — fixing inconsistent dates, text, and missing values — then auto-generated a polished visual report with revenue breakdowns and key metrics.