David Powell F.C.A.

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Chief Executive Officer at Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network USA @ GlobalWelsh
David Powell F.C.A.'s Location
Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, United States
About David Powell F.C.A.

David Powell is Chief Executive of Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network USA (CAW Network USA), based in Boston MA. This organization is also known as the Association of Chartered Accountants in the USA (ACAUS). David had previously been president of ACAUS 2015 - 2018 and before that Chapter President of its New England chapter. The focus of the organization is on networking and education for Chartered Accountants living / working in North America. David is a thought leader on the future of the finance profession, working with major accounting bodies and professional firms on the impact of technology on future talent and skills requirements. Has lived and worked in multiple countries/cultures and has been both a consultant and a ‘customer’. David was born and raised in Swansea, Wales. He attended Cardiff University and earned a degree in Accounting and Management Studies. He did further professional studies and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte Haskins and Sells. He spent 10 years with DH&S / Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte. Here. he focused on selling / implementing /supporting / training clients and internal staff on financial consolidation and management reporting solutions. David is an FCA of the England & Wales Institute.David has significant experience in hotel software management and accounting systems, having worked at senior levels at Holiday Inn Worldwide (now Intercontinental Hotels Group) in Brussels, Belgium and Starwood Hotels (now part of Marriott) in Braintree, MA. He moved from Brussels to the USA in 1998 as the worldwide process owner for accounting for JD Edwards (ERP software), in Denver.After leaving Starwood David was recruited by Cognos at the start of 2007, to build a North American specialist services practice for Cognos’s Consolidations software. Cognos was later acquired by IBM and David moved into Global Business Services as a Finance Leader in the Business Analytics Global Center of Competence. He was responsible for Finance focused solutions using IBM software assets. He then moved into a Global Brand Manager / Finance leader role for IBM's Outsourcing division (Cognitive Process Transformation), until January 2018, when he started working as an independent financial transformation consultant. David took on what became his current role with ACAUS / CAW Network USA, in February 2019.

David Powell F.C.A.'s Current Company Details
GlobalWelsh

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Chief Executive Officer at Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network USA
David Powell F.C.A. Work Experience Details
  • Globalwelsh
    Global Welsh Connector
    Globalwelsh Jan 2022 - Present
    Cwmbran, Torfaen, Gb
    GlobalWelsh CIC is the diaspora network for Wales. Through our network of Welsh people and friends of Wales, we are focused on connecting people, businesses, and opportunities, globally.As a GlobalWelsh Connector, I am helping to uncover inward investment and collaboration opportunities for Wales through my connections in the USA and global network across telecom and technology.The Connector program is currently in the pilot stage. This is a pro-bono role.
  • Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa
    Chief Executive - Caw Network Usa
    Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa Nov 2020 - Present
    Braintree, Massachusetts, Us
    On 19th November 2020 at the ACAUS Virtual conference, we formally announced that ACAUS is now rebranded as Chartered Accountants Network USA (CAW Network USA), an extension of Chartered Accountants Worldwide.. As such we provide US based networking and education for members of all CAW institutes. To find out more visit https://cawnetworkusa.com
  • Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa
    Chief Executive - Acaus
    Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
    Braintree, Massachusetts, Us
    Following on from increased webinar and website activity, ACAUS added an eLearning portal and in September 2020 launched an on-line IQEX course to help members prepare to take the IQEX exam, which enables Chartered Accountants and Canadian CPAs to sit a single exam to qualify as US CPAs. In addition added the ability for members to sign up for and take AICPA CPE eligible classes. We have continued to run CPE eligible webinars and are planning a virtual conference for November 2020.
  • Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa
    Executive Director - Association Of Chartered Accountants In The Us (Acaus)
    Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Usa Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
    Braintree, Massachusetts, Us
    Following the departure of our former executive director, David stepped down from the Board to take on the executive director role, as we geared up for our first ACAUS conference on April 25th 2019 in New York. This was very well received - see postings on Linkedin and our conference video. Role also includes working with the executive team on strategy and formulating an overall business plan for ACAUS, in conjunction with our key stakeholders and partners.
  • Protiviti
    Finance Transformation
    Protiviti Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
    Menlo Park, California, Us
    Finance / Technology executive, working with clients on Finance Transformation projects. Includes KPIs, reporting and overall governance.
  • The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The Us
    Board Member, Past President, Focus On 'Future Skills'
    The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The Us Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
    Stepped down as president after completing 3 year term. Continuing on the ACAUS Board for 2 years to support the incoming president and provide continuity. Working with the President to agree priorities and contribute as needed. Initially to continue our focus on 'current and future skills' and strategy for ACAUS members, given the range of technology based solutions that are now creating significant opportunities for our profession. Resigned from the Board in March 2019 to take on the Executive Director position (part time) for ACAUS., alongside being conference chair for our first conference - to be held in New York on 25th April 2019. Continued in this role as we started to build out and implement our strategy. This led to several new initiatives including working more closely with our home institutes, updating our member management system (Salesforce / best of breed) and implementing in Match 2020 a new website https://acaus.org Alongside this supporting in person events and restarting online webinars in February 2020. This positioned us well when covid-19 arrived in March 2020 to switch to on-line activities. With the suspension of most in person events we could focus on webinars and having accreditation from NASBA for group live CPE events, we added group internet in May 2020.
  • The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The United States
    President
    The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The United States Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
    Braintree, Massachusetts, Us
    Appointed President on a 3-year term with a focus on increasing the profile of our over 8K members in the USA, by active contact with our Home Institutes (England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia/New Zealand and South Africa) and key accounting bodies. Also, to promote and support chapters where there is significant membership geographically in the USA. • Increased event profile by running panel events (i.e. Banking, Technology, Talent and skills) in major chapter locations, including New York, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Several events were run jointly with the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).• Presented on technology / assisted in workshops with several IFAC committees.• Updated our website www.acaus.org, and increased activity using social media and online meetings. This included starting a webinar series which kicked off in February 2018 with a focus on technology / current and future skills for accountants.
  • The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The United States
    Board Member Acaus And Chapter President - New England
    The Association Of Chartered Accountants In The United States Jan 2005 - Mar 2015
    Braintree, Massachusetts, Us
    Having been involved with the New England Chapter of the Association of Chartered Accountants since 2005, David took over as the New England chapter head at the start of 2010. ACAUS is a non-profit organization representing members of the Chartered Accounting institutes in: England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the United States. In 2013 6 of these Institutes (excl Canada) formed Chartered Accountants - Worldwide, the brand being launched at the subsequent ACAUS AGM in New York.
  • Ibm
    Global Brand/Content Manager - Finance / Procurement Services (Outsourcing) Practices
    Ibm Apr 2015 - Jan 2018
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Accountable for brand management, analyst relations and strategy / practice support including internal/external webpages/wikis. With a strong background in finance and technology, significant consulting and hands on industry experience - providing a unique perspective.• Collaborated with the leadership team, writing content to support the practice for RFI responses, analyst meetings, internal and external presentations. Focused on the global finance and procurement outsourcing teams. • Planned and engaged the leadership team in events and conferences (SSON, Hackett, SharedServicesLink, IAOP and IBM own events) whitepapers, executive briefings, blogs and social media with a focus on technology (Cloud, AI, Cognitive, Automation, Blockchain, IoT) and its impact on the accounting profession of the future.• Marketing campaign management / leadership / Agile focus
  • Ibm
    Global Finance Leader - Strategy & Analytics Integrated Center Of Competence
    Ibm Jan 2012 - Apr 2015
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Part of a global team providing leadership for finance-focused solutions, including ones based around IBM's own software. Participated in client facing ‘C suite’ presentations and discussions, led workshops and solution design sessions. Focused on reviewing business needs and client priorities, including - financial consolidations, reporting, metrics evaluations and metrics workshops, as well positioning IBM’s Finance facing transformation and consulting capabilities. Examples:• Led requirements review and overall design for a Financial Consolidation and reporting system at a major distribution company headquartered in Jamaica. Reduced close cycle and made month/year end process more efficient, resulting in reduced cycle time, improved reporting and tighter control. • Conducted predictive analytics ‘proof of concept’ with a global hospitality company working with an IBM Research algorithm. Verified improved results using client data.• Completed current state analysis/ gap analysis and visioning, helping a US corporation agree their key performance metrics, which then became the foundation for an overall business intelligence road map.• Implemented a Leadership Dashboard for a US-based industrial client, including KPIs and key reports. • Delivered presentations and created / facilitated follow-up activities with "CFO performance insight," allowing clients to deploy a value add dashboard, with KPIs, KRIs, what if analysis, metric reporting and integrated predictive analytics. Either client owned/hosted or cloud based.• Acted as project lead on a financial reporting project, running current state and vision workshops (Europe, Asia, Americas), resulting in a roadmap for reporting and associated priorities, for a global life sciences client.• Project managed a global analytics/reporting implementation - cloud based, which was time challenged, with all having to be completed within 3 months. (SoftLayer, dashDB, Info-server, Tableau). Met target delivery date.
  • Ibm
    Global Interlock Lead - Ibm Software
    Ibm Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Member of the GBS / Business Analytics (Finance, Risk, Fraud) team in a global role, focused on how the Business Analytics & Optimization team went to market with IBM Software, especially newer acquisitions.• Collaborated closely with the Software Group and other internal / external teams with an initial focus on OpenPages, then Cognos optimization for legacy Cognos customers.• Promoted / demonstrated the value of the "CFO Dashboard", a powerful 'accelerator' built on Cognos C10, Metric Studio, TM1, with SPSS and an IBM Research algorithm for predictive analytics.
  • Cognos
    Practice Area Lead - Consolidation Software (Cognos) North America
    Cognos Feb 2007 - Dec 2010
    Worked in the Americas Services Organization, under the 'Office of Finance'. Cognos was acquired by IBM in 2008.• Recruited to build and run a services field practice for North America for the Controller financial consolidation software product. Financial consolidation and reporting (legal, management, compliance), covering small/midsize companies while scaling to fit large multinationals with complex requirements. Built the team to 10 direct staff plus multiple 3rd party consultants, with a focus on staff utilization and profitability.
  • Data Stream Services Inc
    Sr. Project Manager; V.P. Business Development
    Data Stream Services Inc Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
    • Accountable for business development activities geared to launching a new card payment processing software product. The company was also a Business partner of Exact software and implemented its software internally. Resold Merchant Services solutions and offered specialist IT consulting - mainly for Hospitality, Banking and Financial companies.
  • Starwood Hotels And Resorts Worldwide
    Director, Senior Project Manager
    Starwood Hotels And Resorts Worldwide Jan 2001 - Jul 2005
    Stamford, Ct, Us
    Led a major corporate capital initiative for Starwood. • Project managed the Global Revenue Management System project with a budget of $30M, focusing on reducing reliance on contractors, recruiting a team of full time support and development staff, building clear relationships with stakeholders, and being the single point of contact for escalation and issue resolution, resulting in the creation of a stable support group with 24/7 systems support coverage. • Managed technical teams to develop and support 100 web-based shopping bots (RPA) for revenue management applications, and managed relationships with internal stakeholders, 3rd party vendors and outsourced activities.
  • Jd Edwards And Company
    Worldwide Process Owner - Accounting
    Jd Edwards And Company Jan 1998 - May 2000
    Moved from Brussels to Denver CO, to be JDE's worldwide Process Owner for Accounting, Fiscal and Statutory reporting. This was part of a global process re-engineering and best practices initiative. Accomplishments included the facilitation of current state workshops for global finance staff, implementation of quick wins and the creation of a corporate vision document. This also included streamlining the production of key statutory reports, for each country JD Edwards did business in directly. In addition, led training efforts for project team staff, using the OneWorld application software, and prepared a detailed project plan for the implementation of OneWorld. Also attended supply chain management (SCM) training, and established a commodity management function for procurement, focusing on professional services. This resulted in direct savings of $300K.
  • Intercontinental Hotels Group (Formerly Holiday Inn Worldwide)
    Director Hotel Systems
    Intercontinental Hotels Group (Formerly Holiday Inn Worldwide) Mar 1992 - Dec 1997
    Windsor, Berkshire, Gb
    Led on implementing common back office accounting and consolidation/reporting systems in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Responsible for 17 countries and a budget of over $1million. The project was a success. Also took an active role in vendor user groups, resulting in increased efficiencies and cost savings by discussing and sharing solutions with other clients. Led on a review to select an alternate accounting system for countries where it was not practical to implement JDE Financials. On promotion to the position of Director – Hotel Systems, led a team dedicated to specifying standards, recommending common hotel systems in the EMEA region. Was the overall program manager for all implementations at owned, franchised and managed hotels. These included projects such as interfaces, electronic credit card processing and yield management implementations. Worked closely with the business teams and other IT groups, as well as managing key customer and vendor relationships.
  • Amstrad Plc
    Group Reporting Manager
    Amstrad Plc Jan 1991 - Nov 1991
    Gb
    • Worked within group finance and with the systems development team. Reviewed reporting requirements with end users and liaised with all stakeholders, resulting in focused development of key reporting solutions.• Ad hoc projects such as the development of cash flow forecasts, report development, deputizing for peer managers and liaising with subsidiaries for weekly/monthly data collection, to re-forecast operating statements.
  • Coopers And Lybrand Deloitte
    Senior Associate
    Coopers And Lybrand Deloitte Jun 1985 - Dec 1990
    • Consultancy - selling and supporting management reporting, forecasting, budgeting and consolidation software (PlusPlan). Direct responsibility for a portfolio of external clients. These solutions increased the efficiency of Clients management and statutory reporting. Completed assignments on time/within budget.• Taught internal and external application based training courses, as well as leading/teaching internal management development and communications skills courses.• Project management, including software development lifecycle procedures, the implementation of reporting systems and disaster recovery/backup procedures.• Computer audit, internal controls audit, microcomputer security consultancy and security audits, selling and supporting the ‘Fortress’ PC security product. Focus was on systems controls and security.
  • Deloitte Haskins & Sells
    Chartered Accountant
    Deloitte Haskins & Sells Mar 1981 - Jun 1985
    Worldwide, Oo
    • Four year post graduate training, with full time audit and accounting work alongside occasional block release, to prepare for professional examinations. Experience included audit, accountancy, taxation, insolvency, liquidation, cash flows and business analyses. Also secondments within the UK and to Zurich, Switzerland

David Powell F.C.A. Skills

Leadership It Strategy Auditing Team Building Consulting Business Transformation Sdlc Accounting Executive Management Enterprise Resource Planning Cognos Forecasting Crm Business Development Business Analysis Finance Process Improvement Erp Strategic Planning Strategy Management Consulting Consolidation Budgeting Professional Services Program Management Risk Management Business Analytics Business Process Internal Controls Training Financial Analysis Business Intelligence Enterprise Software Business Process Improvement Budgets Saas Management Financial Reporting Project Management Software Development Life Cycle Dashboard Outsourcing Analytics Cloud Computing Analysis Internal Audit

David Powell F.C.A. Education Details

  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Accountancy And Management Studies
  • Ffynone House School, Swansea
    Ffynone House School, Swansea
    Geography
  • Wycliffe College, Stonehouse
    Wycliffe College, Stonehouse

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