Winston Pickett

About Winston Pickett

Senior Finance Professional | Performance-Driven Leader | Expert in Process Optimization…

Experience

1. Consultant

   RGP

   Feb 2018 — Present

   As an RGP consultant, served as the iterim controller and Sr Director of FP & A for the gene therapy clinical research team for one of the world\'s largest biopharmas. · As an RGP consultant, worked on behalf of accounting, finance and tax for a multinational power management company to transition from HFM to Oracle’s Financial Close and Consolidation System (FCCS). Responsible for extracting fifteen years of legacy financial data as Essbase cubes and validating the file extracts to ensure the integrity of the cubes (101GB worth of analysis); assisted with the validation of FCCS loads with accounting to ensure integrity of data between HFM and FCCS; and manually transitioned over 100 reports serving all levels of the organization from Financial Reporting Studio (HFM reporting) to Reporting Web Studio (FCCS reporting). · As an RGP Consultant working on behalf of accounting and finance for a large energy generation and retail entity, created the normalized consolidated income statement; producing the monthly 50-page executive leadership results package; analyzing, generating and posting all revenue for the entity into SAP; producing and analyzing the trended active accounts by segment and channel; and creating a process to map customer acquisition glidepaths by channel to achieve multiyear revenue targets. · As an RGP consultant for a publicly traded manufacturer of alloy carbon and micro-alloy steel and precision steel components, served as a project team member for lease accounting software implementation across 144 legal entities globally. Created actionable project analytics dashboards, executive summaries, and implementation validation system testing. Successfully completed 10K roll-forwards of leases on the largest entities within first two weeks of assisting the team. Developed an Excel based VBA conversion template that saved the team 48 hours by correcting errors in previous submissions and pushing data into a uniform production template.

Skills

• Powerpoint
• Marketing
• Obiee
• Financial Analysis
• Sales
• Process Improvement
• Business Process Improvement
• Budgets
• Marketing Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Crm
• Data Analysis
• Hyperion Enterprise
• Access
• Microsoft Office
• Financial Planning
• Financial Reporting
• Value Equation Modeling
• Financial Modeling
• Analysis
• Product Planning
• Business Analysis
• Hyperion Financial Reporting
• Competitive Analysis
• Finance
• Executive Management
• Sap
• Management
• Business Development
• Hyperion Financial Management (Hfm)
• Analytics
• Business Planning
• Microsoft Excel
• Corporate Finance
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Leadership
• Strategy
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Business Strategy
• Project Planning