{"id":241,"date":"2018-04-18T03:33:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/?p=241"},"modified":"2018-04-30T01:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:48:29","slug":"241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/2018\/04\/18\/241\/","title":{"rendered":"Program: Financial Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"MsoTableGrid\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.8pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"85\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: gray;\">Client:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 408.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" width=\"544\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">Developer and publisher of video games<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.8pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"85\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: gray;\">Employees:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 30.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">8,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 259.6pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"346\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 77.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"104\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Program objective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implement the systems and processes to support more efficient financial forecasting and reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Projects\n<ul>\n<li>Forecasting System (Clarity, Hyperion Essbase)<\/li>\n<li>Financial Data Warehouse and ODS (Oracle)<\/li>\n<li>Financial Reporting (Cognos)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The program goals were achieved through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Securing commitment from senior executives to standardize the chart of accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Setting common definitions for key terms critical for project accounting.<\/li>\n<li>Successful management of internationally dispersed team including external developers.<\/li>\n<li>Close involvement of Finance stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key accomplishments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provided the systems and means to produce the company\u2019s first automated consolidated financial reports, aggregating data from 13 independent financial systems (and charts of accounts). Quarterly close was reduced by 4 days.<\/li>\n<li>Initiated the replacement of 13 different charts of accounts with a single corporate standard.<\/li>\n<li>Established the basis for effective project accounting across all studios<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Client: Developer and publisher of video games Employees: 8,000 Program objective: Implement the systems and processes to support more efficient financial forecasting and reporting. Projects Forecasting System (Clarity, Hyperion Essbase) Financial Data Warehouse and ODS (Oracle) Financial Reporting (Cognos) The program goals were achieved through: Securing commitment from senior executives to standardize the chart of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/2018\/04\/18\/241\/\" class=\"more-link\">more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Program: Financial Reporting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34,12,57,63],"tags":[48,78,33,26,27],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-intelligence","category-development","category-erp","category-financials","category-interactive-entertainment","tag-agile","tag-cognos","tag-data-warehouse","tag-financials","tag-oracle-ebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}