• Put in place the systems and processes to support the studio’s growth to 1,000 employees and revenue of $1Billion.
• Projects
  • Accounting (Oracle Financials)
  • Budgeting (Oracle Financial Analyzer)
  • Human Resources (PeopleSoft)
  • Payroll (ADP)
  • Asset Management (Wisetrack)

The program goals were achieved through:

• Close working relationship with stakeholders including senior executives.
• Establishing common language for terms across departments.
• Integrating all systems to eliminate redundancy and ensure data integrity.
• Re-engineering processes to optimize efficiencies across departments.
• Successful management of cross-functional team and external consultants.

Key accomplishments:

• Efficiency gains from streamlined processes and an integrated application architecture succeeded in reducing the monthly close cycle by 2 days.
• Re-engineered on-boarding process for new hires resulting in greatly improved data integrity through elimination of redundant data entry across several departments.
• Managers had on-demand, up-to-date, reliable view of key performance measures, including headcount and budget performance, for the first time.
• Studio consolidation and relocation of three offices to a new building resulted in no reported losses of key assets.