Anna Thompson

• Part of Global Cross Functional core team responsible for implementing Anaplan for Financial Forecasting. The scope included all aspects of the P&L and Balance sheet. Initially responsible for supporting third party implementation partner with data and logic definitions but gradually took over design and model building in Anaplan.
• Expanded analytical capabilities for the Manufacturing organization creating dashboards saving approximately 100 hours of manual tracking across the globe every month.
• Hired analyst responsible for global training program to increase impact of OBIEE reporting capacities
• Project Manager for initiative to streamline intercompany recharges and improving visibility, resulting in a custom portal in JD Edwards and analytics in OBIEE
• Transitioned Management Information Group to Riga, Latvia. Providing training and documentation to support the successful centralization of Global Business Services.
• Introduced Power BI Dashboards for Technology and Business organizations combining information from data warehouse, SharePoint and Excel sources.

• Built Customer Margin subject area and standard reports to help allocate cost to customers beyond gross margin. Costs included inventory holding cost, R&D, accounts receivables, sales commissions, customer service cost etc. to define true profitability of customers. This internal initiative resulted in a $1 M savings from the external proposal considered.
• Incorporated the Management Information Group (team of 3) into the Business Intelligence organization to run monthly close process. Trained team lead and supported monthly closes as needed.
• Created reporting to dollarize the orderbook to help forecasting Variable Margin. Created customized daily orderbook flash reports for each business leadership team, driving actionable insights.

• Part of global multi-year OBIEE initiative to digitize all aspects of the P&L and Balance Sheet including creating and automating rules for business allocations, customer segmentation and master data management.
• Created circa 20 subject areas for ad hoc reporting and established training programs for global finance and operations teams.
• Established Standardized Reports to support financial processes and regulatory requirements

Managing team responsible for reporting Consulting and Training KPI's for the Global Services Division such as Bookings, Revenue, Utilization, Backlog and Scorecards.
• Providing Operational Support for $250 M Consulting Business including ad hoc analysis and building tools and processes for Resource and Capacity Planning.
• Leading effort to automate all standard reports, which has greatly increased the efficiency of the team.
• Represented Global Services in the cross functional OBIEE team to build a data warehouse and reporting tool with financial reporting for the Consulting and Training Business.
• Part of team building Forecast Management Tool and Reporting Portal in Cold Fusion/Flex for a single point of information from various Business Systems, including Clarity (CA), SABA, Oracle modules, Business Objects and Oracle OBIEE.

Part of project team responsible for a phased global roll out of Clarity modules including Project Management, Resource Management, Financials and Time Entry for 1000 users. Implementation eliminated several un-integrated systems and provided substantial improvements in capacity planning and project management practices
• Delivered Training Programs in multiple countries
• Responsible for integrations between Clarity and other Global Services Systems and tools including Oracle Projects
• Designed and implemented Project Lifecycle Management solution in Clarity from concept to full implementation, including migrating manual reports to standard Clarity portlets
• Responsible for requirements gathering, functional solutions design, testing and implementation of new functionality
• Defined, documented and rolled out best practice for project staffing, project setup and time entry world wide
• Implemented Business Objects for project reporting out of Clarity
• Responsible for requirements gathering and testing for financial business reports out of OBIEE

• Managed a group responsible for all North American Consulting revenue recognition and billing in Oracle Projects.
• Responsible for finance process documentation and compliance for the Consulting Revenue cycle within the Sarbanes Oxley initiative
• Provided global quarter end support to world wide consulting administration to enable timely closes
• Provided guidance to Global Services Project Managers to support efficiencies within the project revenue recognition process
• Educated new team members, cross functional teams and Global Services as needed in regards to reporting, project query and weekly process
• Hired and trained a Business Analyst to increase the support for Global Services around revenue recognition and reporting

• Implemented project financial processes (PFP) that streamlined the revenue recognition process in Oracle and allowed for greater operational efficiencies as well as improved financial reporting and control for the Global Services Consulting Organization in Asia
• Created training materials and trained worldwide project administrators, project managers, client managers, and Global Services management
• Documented management reporting requirements and worked with IT to develop and test the reports. An example is a Timecard report for Japan that helped customers track their prepayment balance
• Provided international support with assignments in Japan and Hong Kong

• Reviewed offers, contracts, statement of works and gave guidance on requirements for proper revenue recognition
• Participated in Deal Review meetings for European Services Deals over 100K USD providing guidance from an accounting perspective
• Assisted in establishing and maintaining Internal Control Plans for Sarbanes Oxley
• Performed and reported VSOE testing on Consulting and Training orders
• Processed all labor and expense billings with overall responsibility for the setup and maintenance of Global Services Projects
• Supported Global Services Project Managers in the Project Financial Process
• Established a Certified Training Provider procedure for Scandinavia
• Supported Training Delivery Manager with revenue and cost analysis based on Brio Reporting