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Pleasanton, California, Us

Responsible for the Workday on Workday team part of Business Technology.Workday Integrations / Workday ExtendReporting & Analytics (including Prism)Adaptive InsightsIT General Controls

Pleasanton, California, Us

Leader in Business Technology team who is responsible for Workdays application across all finance functions, as well as, analytics. Areas of support for finance include:Order to CashSource to PayRecord to ReportTreasury & TaxBusiness Finance/ FP&AReporting & Analytics support is across all of Workday's application, including Prism (HCM, PSA, and Financials).

Pleasanton, California, Us

Led a team of 8 business system analyst across the entire Workday platform (Financials, HCM, Payroll & PSA) delivering reporting & analytic solutions to help drive efficiencies and surface insight. Established an internal community of report writers and Prism analyst to help drive adoption, drive best practice standards, and foster collaboration as we shift towards a decentralized reporting & analytics model internally. Increased Prism adoption by delivering an average of 7+ Prism use cases since joining the team, which included defining Enterprise Analytic approach across various stakeholders. Developed self-service web site highlighting delivered solutions for our presales, sales, services, and customer success managers

Pleasanton, California, Us

Managed a team of 10 consultants (~$3.8m in annual revenue) focused primarily on Large Enterprise customer deployments across various financial customers. Consistently mentored new and experienced consultants on various projects, including new industries, such as, healthcare. Maintained relationship with product management to provide feedback across the financial application, as well as, reporting & analytic tools.

Pleasanton, California, Us

As the first financial reporting consultant, I helped build the financial reporting & analytics team to 11 consultants responsible for approximately $4.2m in annual revenue. The team focused on deploying solutions globally for our Education, ME, & LE customers. Help drive various enhancements across the financial application and reporting & analytics product, which included early involvement with Composite Reporting.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Worked across the entire platform to deliver reporting & analytic solutions to all customer types, including E&G. Became first financial reporting product lead to help our ecosystem gain the knowledge and skills related to financial reporting. Presented across multiple Altitudes and Rising sessions around various tools and solutions built for customers. Heavily involved in our successful go lives of our first 100 financial customers. Built a creative reporting solution for the City of Orlando which helped deprecate their dependency on their planning solution reducing their cost by ~$200k a year. Received the OCA award Q214. Part of 5 team awards, including involved in our first BDA financials deployment.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Perform monthly & quarterly forecast vs actual analysis and surface anomalies to management. Designed and deployed a consolidated yearly budget package across the business unit to help drive efficiencies. Supported month-end / quarter-end close activities, including the support for our external financial audit. Help maintain and drive improved processes related to CAPEX reporting for manufacturing and R&D business functions.

Worked across various projects related to cost savings given the global financial crisis. These projects were closely related to F/X modeling, developing COGs model for m365 business, assisted with data cleansing effort with IT, and assisted with the development of various M&A models, to name a few. Regular tasks included, assisting with the consolidation and delivery of quarterly earnings release reports to CFO & Sr. VP’s, administrator for Essbase / Hyperion (alternate structures and security), annual planning process, maintained product revenue reports for product marketing, and internal audit related to CAP software SOX compliance testing, to name a few.

Monthly activities included the successful payments of over 150 sales individuals in APJ territory. This resulted in the development of compensation statements to allow sales teams to reconcile between the sales deals closed and payments received, resulting in less time reconciling and more time selling. Participated in the implementation of a new compensation tool, Varicent, for 1,200 employees globally. Responsible for developing a forecast / accrual automated tool utilizing excel.

San Francisco, California, Us