Joonas Ojala Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki

I lead M&A Tech practice & team at PwC Finland, and sell and deliver consulting projects for corporate, private equity and PE PortCo clients. I work on versatile engagements, including: 1. Strategic carve-out, integration, commercial (DD) and other value creation projects for/on TMT companies2. IT DD, carve-out and integration engagements across industries3. Technology/Software DD projects on tech/tech-driven companies4. IT/Technology consulting engagements, often in post-deal context, covering areas such as IT/digital strategy, operating models, enterprise architecture, and sourcingKey projects (from commercial to technical):* Investment material preparation & valuation in TMT industry* Commercial DD on TMT companies (several projects)* Strategy, business and operational planning in TMT industry (several projects)* Carve-out blueprinting/planning (sell-side) in TMT industry (several projects)* Operational/Carve-out DD (buy-side) in TMT & other industries (10+ projects)* Tech DD on tech companies (10+ projects)* IT DD in various industries (10+ projects)* IPO readiness, uplifting & DD for IT in various industries (10+ projects)* IT carve-out/integration/standalone planning in various industries (10+ projects)* Digital/IT/AI strategy and roadmapping in various industries (several projects)* IT transformation planning (IT operating model, IT architecture & applications)* Technology platform and IT implementation & maintenance services sourcing for CRM, field sales application, marketing automation, online portal, integration platform, ERP and other technologies (several projects)* Program/product management for a multi-purpose Salesforce platform implementation* ERP, CRM (marketing, sales & customer service) and other major IT platform pre-studies in carve-out / standalone planning context (several projects)* Data strategy and master data management (MDM) maturity assessment* Digital workplace strategy/roadmap* ERP program audit (Microsoft D365)

Helsinki Area, Finland

Helsinki, Stockholm

Northstream is a boutique management consulting firm serving Nordic and international ICT and telecom clients. Northstream was acquired by Accenture in August 2019.Key projects:* M&A: technical due diligence, carve-out/integration planning (several projects)* IT transformation planning and rollout (Group and regional operations)* IT operating model analysis, transformation planning and program ramp-up* Fiber network rollout strategy and business case development* Networks and IT sourcing support (systems and services)* Operating model optimization for network organization (Group and regional operations)* Vendor price benchmarking for networks and IT (systems and services)Key themes: M&A, strategy, digital transformation, IT transformation, Business Support Systems (BSS), operating model, agile enterprise, sourcing, IoT, 5G, fiber, enterprise networks

Helsinki

Comptel is an OSS/BSS software company serving communications service providers globally. Comptel was acquired by Nokia in 2017.Member of Service Orchestration business unit (BU) leadership team. BU sales +20.1% in 2015 vs. 2014 (55.2M€ vs. 46.0M€). BU's strategic focus areas: digital customer journey for quote-to-cash, IT consolidation, network function virtualization (NFV).Responsible for governance and management processes; key contributor to business unit strategy & action planning, budgeting, resource planning, revenue forecasting, performance / KPI management, sales & delivery practice development, sales operations, pricing, competence development, information/knowledge management, and other cross-organizational initiatives. All these contributed to meeting the BU's overall targets for profitable growth and successful scaling up of operations.Actively advocated data-driven decision making, and e.g. initiated and built a mechanism to pull together all company financial, revenue forecast, sales pipeline, project delivery and resourcing data, in order to increase transparency and awareness between different decision makers.

Consultant for telecom IT (BSS/OSS), focusing on service fulfillment, billing mediation, charging, policy control and analytics domains. Some assignments also in media and utility (energy) industries.Responsibility for the whole lifecycle of consultancy services: engaging customers, scoping offered services, creating proposals and executing deliveries. Provided consulting services varied from business case analysis to more technical process, architecture and information model assessments and definitions, typically aiming for improvements in operational efficiency, decreased OPEX and enhanced customer experience.Actively involved also in solution sales & delivery practice development, and in selected strategic, multi-million € solution sales opportunities.

Charging and Policy Control OSS/BSS solutions.Successfully executed both product manager (PM) and product owner (PO) responsibilities. Gained a strong experience in selling, scoping and building multi-million € software solutions for global Tier 1/2/3 telecom operators.PM responsibilities: product strategy and business case analysis, presales material development, sales support (customer workshops and demos, RFx responses, proposals, sales trainings etc.), marketing support (white papers, expo & user group presentations), etc..PO responsibilities: acting as a product owner in agile software development process for one local and one offshore team (15+ FTEs), release planning, product backlog management, etc..

Interconnect Billing and Data Retention OSS/BSS solutions.

Technical product and SDK training for telco customers, SI partners and internal employees. Successfully led 10s of multi-day trainings for experienced IT/telecom experts, while working with a master’s thesis.

Development and maintenance of an online portal used for collecting clinical trials patient data.Implemented successfully numerous change requests in a rigorously controlled environment, and initiated and built an export tool saving weeks of manual work and shortening the delivery time of a critical project.

Course assistant for two Java programming courses at the Laboratory of Information Processing Science. Lead exercise sessions, tutored students, graded course assignments, etc..Received excellent feedback scores for expertise and teaching skills from the students.

Improved the operational efficiency of actuary and customer service teams by automating numerous manual activities (using Visual Basic, advanced MS Excel & MS Access).Significantly reduced the time spent on data collection and analysis on the daily basis, and sped up the migration from legacy systems to a new platform.