Gideon Gabriel Email & Phone Number

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Running the Cognos BI team which supports reporting across the group as well as implementing Anaplan as we move away from our legacy Cognos Planning implementations

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Focusing on managing the Cognos BI Team, delivering Allied World's Lloyds Syndicate Reporting to the business (using Cognos BI) as well as providing Cognos Planning expertise to the business

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Cognos Consultant implementing changes to the Enterprise Data Warehouse and associated Reports

Hamilton, Bm

Gideon joined Hiscox to implement integrated Best Practice Cognos Planning & BI solutions. Responsibilities included:•The design, build, testing and delivery of a Best Practice Direct Expense Management system to 120 Budget Holders using Cognos Contributor. Doing so reduced time to complete the Budget from 4 months to 6 weeks•Gideon administered and managed the entire Cognos infrastructure, including working with IT to implement all Cognos upgrades as well as managing the Virtual Environment. •Integrated Cognos Planning with Cognos 8, greatly enhancing the reporting of planned data versus Actuals or other versions. Key reports utilise colour coding and rankings to highlight the variances that matter to management. This has meant that the management reporting cycle is completed by Working Day 5 (down from Day 8)•Reviewed and re-engineered the process of allocating costs to Products. Using Analyst, costs can now be allocated by one person in 2.5 hours where it used to take two people 2.5 days (using Excel)•Working in conjunction with SQL DBAs, created automatic Data Feeds from 12 different General Ledger systems as well as a group-wide HR system. This meant that the entire Expense Management System is now run out of a single system (Cognos), and that there is total acceptance of the “single version of the truth” by the business•Project managed the software selection, design, build and testing of a consolidation software package (Cognos Controller) to produce the statutory accounts. Trained the End-User community (20 Users world-wide)•Gideon also established and recruited for a 4 person Cognos Competency Centre to ensure that Hiscox had an appropriately staffed “centre of excellence”. The Cognos Competency Centre is there to assist any of the 500+ Cognos Users throughout the company with any issues they have, communicate best practice methodologies, provide Cognos training and value-added Cognos consulting that the business requires

New York, Ny, Us

Gideon joined Sony BMG to lead the project team in the design, implementation, training and rolling out of a sophisticated planning, forecasting and reporting system based on the Cognos Planning and Business Intelligence product suite (Analyst, Contributor and Cognos 8 BI)Reporting directly to the Sony BMG Special Project’s Director, responsibilities included:•Provision of advice and recommendations to the Special Projects Director and successfully influenced outcomes of design decisions. This ensured the optimum User experience was enjoyed by stakeholders•Successfully resolved a number of challenging technical issues and software bugs encountered during the development and live running of the applications (both Contributor and Cognos 8 BI). Developed and implemented contingency plans to ensure that live operations were minimally impacted.•Working with local IT teams, developed and tested interfaces with General Ledger systems (such as SAP and Navision) to bring in Actuals and thereby minimise duplication of effort and re-keying by the Users into Contributor•Developed and delivered a training programme to the World Wide Finance team (including the Finance Directors and Financial Controllers of several territories including the UK, S. Africa, Norway, Russia & Brazil)•Working alongside Cognos consultants, developed a suite of 40 key business reports and activated advanced features such as detailed security settings, burst reporting and updated Framework Manager Models created as part of Contributor’s BI Extensions•Acted as the Export Transform and Load (ETL) co-ordinator between the data-warehouse design and reporting team and the Sunopsis ETL programmers. Ongoing liaison between all parties to ensure Best Practice database design was achieved (following Kimball’s use of Business and Surrogate Keys)

Worldwide, Oo

Gideon joined Deloitte’s as part of a rapidly growing project-based team implementing Corporate Performance Management solutions for clients. These focused on delivering web-based budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting solutions that met specific business needsResponsibilities ranged from project management to detailed systems implementation consulting. The major clients and packages are:•Brake Brothers, Ashford (May 2003 – July 2003) – Cognos•Time Life Europe, Amsterdam (Dec 2002 – Apr 2003) – Cognos•Sea Containers, London (May 2002 – Oct 2002) – Cognos•Diebold Inc, Leeds (Feb 2002 – Apr 2002) – BaaN ERP•PruTech, London (Nov 2000 – Dec 2001) – Comshare•Global Marine, Chelmsford (Jul 2000 – Oct 2000) – Comshare•Dutton Forshaw, Bicester (Mar 2000 – Jun 2000) – ComshareResponsibilities included:•Project management of the design, build & delivery of complex Cognos and Comshare web-based budgeting and planning systems for over 200 End-Users•Responsible for all aspects of project management, including scoping, change management and billing•Leading / presenting at monthly steering committee meetings and weekly project team update meetings•Lead technical consultant responsible for resolving complex technical issues raised throughout the various implementations. •Review and improve budget & planning processes, translating client requirements into the build of the solutions•Instrumental in gaining appropriate approval from across the clients’ business areas, including via workshops with key stakeholders, as well as ensuring that training & support mechanisms were in place•Successful implementations of these web-based solutions provided clients with an integrated system enabling them to focus on the delivery of strategic goals, modelling complex 'what-if' scenarios as well as collection and reporting of P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow data•Awarded Deloitte’s Performance Award for Exemplary Client Service

London, Gb

Gideon’s roles at Barclays included Cost Management, Business Process Reengineering, conducting a number of special finance-led projects and managing the Budget & Planning process

Acma, Chartered Institute Of Management Accountants

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geography