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Heroes
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Heroes
Revelwood honors corporate heroes that make a difference in their
organizations with performance management solutions. Revelwood heroes
are fundamental to their company's success and are recognized within
their organizations for their outstanding contributions and achievements.
Dina Bank is a Revelwood
Hero
As director of financial systems of a full-service
media and marketing communications agency, Dina is responsible
for providing management with information about staff
costing, as well as business unit and client profitability.
When Dina joined the company, the management team
had already selected a business performance management
(BPM) solution and Dina was charged with overseeing
the implementation of their new budgeting, planning
and reporting system. When completed, Dina unveiled
a dynamic financial system that enables her team to
perform 360-degree analytics by "slicing and dicing”
information on unlimited business scenarios, sharpening
forecasting accuracy and giving management insight into
data they never had before. Dina's work enables management
to identify potential problem areas quickly and easily,
keeping them apprised of the company’s financial health.
With resounding success on the initial implementation,
Dina expanded the scope of the project to include salary
forecasting, the monthly payroll reconciliation and
client profitability, making the work for those teams
more streamlined and infinitely easier. Dina’s current
short-term goal is to roll out the system to the operational
staff, effectively decentralizing forecasting in the
company.
Dina has received recognition at a global level for
her work and is often invited to transfer her vast knowledge
as a speaker at industry events and as a contributor
in financial publications.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Darris Crandall is
a Revelwood Hero
As VP in accounting and finance in a full-service
investment bank, Darris works directly for the controller
and CFO, managing the internal and external financial
reporting and budgeting for all domestic and international
business lines. Shortfalls in the reporting process
and difficulty managing different divisions led Darris
to seek and implement a business performance management
(BPM) solution for his firm.
The results have been tremendous – far exceeding
original expectations. The time savings are unquantifiable
– “countless man hours saved”. Reporting is now done
on a regional, individual entity and consolidated basis,
quickly and easily. The system has also proven adaptive
in expanding from a private to a publicly held company
listed on the NYSE. Darris is able to meet strict government
requirements including Sarbanes Oxley compliance and
he uses his system as a management tool for reporting
and vendor spend analysis.
Darris and his team have garnered continuous praise
from top management for their ability to easily adapt
to business decisions in a short time frame and accommodate
tight deadlines while complying with all regulatory
issues.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Barry Ferguson is
a Revelwood Hero
As senior director of finance of one of the nation’s
fastest growing voice and broadband Internet providers
focused exclusively on serving small businesses, Barry
has ownership of budgeting, planning and analysis, as
well as overseeing stock option valuation and administration.
Rapid and continued growth made using spreadsheets for
modeling, forecasting and sensitivity analysis cumbersome
and unmanageable. Often, there was little time to understand
the data or see what was behind the numbers. A more
robust solution was needed for timely and accurate forecasting.
Barry and his experienced team thoroughly researched
the many options for a business performance management
(BPM) solution. His leadership and his team’s determination
resulted in taking a quantum leap from their primitive
spreadsheet structure to a powerful and unified analytics
platform. With all necessary data residing in one place,
Barry is able to ‘slice and dice” the data for improved
visibility and flexibility. Moreover, it is now possible
to easily marry the financial and operational data so
Barry and the groups he supports can make better and
more informed decisions that affect the company’s bottom
line.
Initially deploying the solution in the finance area,
Barry and his team are now learning new ways to apply
their BPM solution to other functional areas in the
company including HR, operations and accounting. Barry’s
team has been recognized by top management all the way
down to individual contributors for what they have been
able to accomplish. Known by his team for his high quality
and efficiency expectations, Barry has created a world-renowned
finance group everyone at the company appreciates and
respects.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Brian Johnson is a
Revelwood Hero
As VP and global finance systems leader for a leading
financial services company with more than 15 million
customers in over 26 countries, Brian is responsible
for providing innovative processes and advanced technology
to enable his organization to effectively utilize financial
data.
A multitude of disparate financial systems and a
lack of transparency into corporate consolidation and
global expense budgeting results led Brian to spearhead
a BPM initiative. With an enterprise-wide expense budgeting
solution firmly in place in less than 140 days, more
than 850 worldwide users participate in the workflow-based
budgeting process, utilizing more than 20 defined currencies.
Through Brian’s efforts, the company now has one global
expense budgeting solution and an 800% cycle time improvement
on expense allocations. Overwhelming user acceptance
has resulted in immediate system adoption.
A visionary, Brian’s future plans include enabling
the entire company to budget, report, model and forecast
through a single global solution that allows continuous
improvement, sustainability, growth and low cost of
ownership.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Jonathan Kahan is
a Revelwood Hero
As director of finance and research for a division
of a top media and entertainment company, corporate
management relies on Jonathan to provide insight and
visibility into financial and operational data. Struggling
with disparate data and multiple spreadsheets involving
thousands of calculations, creating an accurate forecast
was a daunting and time-consuming task, often prone
to error with little time for analysis.
Jonathan was integral in spearheading the initiative
to select and implement a dynamic business performance
management (BPM) solution for his division’s budgeting,
forecasting and reporting within just eight weeks. The
speed with which he can gather information, along with
the breadth and depth of the information, allows him
to devote more time to analytics. Rather than give a
single metric or number, Jonathan can tell a story,
helping management make strategic decisions to increase
revenue.
Jonathan’s ability to transform financial data has
not only earned him top recognition from his corporate
management and peers, he is also sought after for speaking
opportunities at industry events.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Jeff Polner is a Revelwood
Hero
As director of corporate reporting for a leading
provider of educational services, Jeff is responsible
for providing accurate budgeting and planning data to
management. When the company recently experienced rapid
growth, keeping track of financial data from multiple
groups in many locations was an enormous and time consuming
task.
Jeff led the initiative to replace the company’s
unwieldy spreadsheet system with a single platform business
performance management (BPM) solution for budgeting,
planning, forecasting, financial consolidation, reporting
and analysis. The system he implemented vastly streamlines
the budget process by empowering users with fast and
easy access to a greater variety of real-time data.
Thanks to Jeff’s efforts to ensure timely and precise
data, his team spends less time gathering data and more
time managing the strategic aspects of the business.
Jeff’s expertise with the BPM system and ability to
create financial models and reports has earned him frequent
recognition by his peers and management. No longer drowning
in a sea of spreadsheets, Jeff’s team has all the financial
information they need at their fingertips to make informed
decisions, on-the-fly. This has reduced the cost of
preparing budgets, increased productivity and improved
employee morale.
Today, Jeff is known for his technical expertise
and as the “go to” person who is always available to
offer help. With an expedited budgeting process firmly
in place, Jeff continues to find innovative ways to
present unique data sets to his team.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Allen Schatz is a
Revelwood Hero
As director of financial reporting and planning for
a division of a leading media and entertainment company,
Allen is responsible for collecting and disseminating
financial information. A plethora of multi-linked spreadsheets
scattered over a multitude of revenue and cost centers
made data gathering manual and time-intensive.
Allen helped replace the company’s archaic spreadsheet
system with a multi-dimensional business performance
management (BPM) solution that automatically gathers
and aggregates data in real-time from the disparate
centers. With a centralized repository, planning and
reporting can be done in real time and reports that
used to take hours to create are now done with the push
of a button in only minutes, leaving more time for Allen
to analyze the results. This allows him to help management
make important decisions.
Allen’s passion for the solution led to his endorsement
of a corporate-wide initiative. This will align all
the different divisions, enabling everyone to accomplish
more by working smarter, not harder.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
Chris Wright is a
Revelwood Hero
As a senior business analyst for one of the nation’s
fastest growing managed services providers of IP-based
communications and IT services to small businesses,
Chris is responsible for compiling and interpreting
company data to support senior management’s decisions.
With rapid growth, reorganizations, and new markets
came an unruly array of disparate systems and a budget
model consisting of over 200 spreadsheets. Gathering
data and verifying its accuracy left little time for
analysis.
Chris’s department made the choice to find and implement
a robust, driver-based, budgeting and forecasting system
that would allow scenario analysis and ad-hoc reporting
on all of the company’s systems. With a background in
software engineering, Chris was able to work with IT
to construct data feeds for the new system and translate
business rules into calculations as part of the implementation.
The result is that Excel-based reports that used to
be static are now dynamic with the touch of a button.
Interlinking data with all the functional groups in
the organization has allowed Chris to tie together granular
data such as customer, employee headcount and compensation
and company financials to give instant answers to managers
at all levels. Reported information is more timely and
accurate, which has greatly improved reaction time.
Chris and his team now have a system that leverages
their expertise in modeling while scaling to the growing
needs of the business. No longer simply trying to tread
water in a sea of data, Chris is able to focus his time
on analyzing the issues that matter most to senior management.
At Revelwood, we make heroes of our clients by empowering
them with BPM solutions. To learn more about becoming
a hero, click here.
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Parsippany, NJ 07054
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