The client, a national printing company, was struggling to go-live with a new reporting capability based on Hyperion Financial Management. Some of the client’s key business and technical resources left the company and the project was lagging. My team was requested to re-prioritize all project activities to define a new plan to achieve the go-live in a very short timeline. The go-live of the project was achieved according the new plan.
Led pursuit and delivery of assessment of corporate financial processes and systems for high-tech start-up company. This company needed to bring its financial processes and systems to the next level to be prepared for financial audit certification. Timing was the critical component of this project as the company needed to achieve public audit certification very quickly. Developed a plan focused on key priorities so rapid process improvements could be accomplished.
Acted as a senior adviser to a global networking company which was undergoing the redesign of its performance management processes including financial consolidation & reporting and FP&A.
Led the assessment of the financial and statutory reporting architecture for a primary health insurance company. This engagement was part of a large finance transformation program. The outcome of engagement was a phased roadmap to improve the overall financial and statutory reporting processes.
Managed the analysis and design of a reporting solution for a global high-tech company. The legacy reporting system was based on PeopleSoft G/L with limited reporting capability. The new solution, which included Oracle Financial Management, OBIEE and Data Relationship Manager was able to cover all company reporting needs from transactional reporting up to high level management reporting in one architecture.
The client, a global engineering company, went through various mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations. This had resulted in the need to manage a patchwork of financial business processes and approximately 200 systems within the existing information technology infrastructure. The present legacy financial system was antiquated and did not take advantage of the technology that is now available for real time collection of detailed data, drill down to transactions, and reporting capability. Therefore, we implemented Hyperion’s Financial Management (HFM) web-architected application. The application was implemented to support the consolidation, external reporting, and managerial analysis functions of all the business units of the company.
Managed a complete software evaluation and assessment for the implementation of a new web-architected financial consolidation capability at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies. Assisted the client with the following primary activities:
With this new capability the company was able to retired 80% of the legacy tools and application devoted to reporting.
The Management of the client, a world leader mining company, wanted to address challenges posed, facilitate strategy execution and create the infrastructure required to support growth objectives. As a result, the client identified the Close and Consolidate Books and Report Actuals an immediate priority. The recognized that this process had become overly complex and cumbersome especially because mergers and acquisitions had significantly changed the size and structure of the organization. In addition, the regulatory control procedures introduced by the Sarbenes-Oxley Act, needed to be supported by a robust set of functionalities to allow full auditing of users’ interaction with the application. Therefore, my team led the software selection and technical delivery of a complete financial reporting and statutory consolidation solution. The technical scope included the design/build/test of a packaged web-based financial consolidation application supported by Hyperion Financial Management. The application was distributed to more than 30 subsidiaries of the company and our team delivered UAT and end-user training.
Developed the post-merger integration approach for financial consolidation, reporting, planning and forecasting applications for a major Hollywood studio. The client needed a temporary application able to report financial results of the two merged companies on day 1 after deal-close. The major challenge of this project was the limited time, but the project was successfully completed on time and on budget. The temporary consolidation and reporting application was developed using Hyperion Enterprise.
Designed and implemented the company’s Management and Statutory Reporting system. Analyzed and implemented company’s Dashboard (Executive Information System). Our team also provided temporary management for the administration of the application. As a result of our project, the company had better tools to communicate financial results to stakeholders and investors.
Our client was undergoing a major finance transformation program including re-engineering all back-office processes and technology. As part of this program, the client wanted to select the next generation technology to manage internal and external reporting as well as planning and budgeting processes. The project had a large number of stakeholder organizations that needed to be involved in the selection process. I managed a team of consultants that assisted the client with selecting the IT solution. We prepared vendor RFP, proof of concepts and conference room pilot to facilitate the selection of the software. The result was a comprehensive presentation of software selection process and the winning vendor.
End-to-end implementation of a management reporting application for a leading Italian apparel manufacturing company. The project included the analysis, design, build, test and deployment of a complex management reporting model to measure the financial performance of all brands and collections owned world-wide by the company.
Developed a three-day training course for the administration of Hyperion Enterprise to train junior resources. This course was used to train over 30 internal resources and several client resources.
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