In Part 1 of this article, we explained the data challenges faced by FP&A as well as how the expectations of the FP&A user community has evolved through the generations. In this article, we will explain how the boundaries have changed and the implementation framework.
Santosh Kudva
Santosh Kudva is currently the Chief Data Officer of GE Gas Power, a $13 Billion business that is pushing the boundaries of what's possible within gas power generation to help our customers achieve the right balance between power plant performance & environmental sustainability.
Santosh is responsible for delivering business outcomes through data-driven solutions to grow the business, drive productivity, improve cash & manage risk in the services portfolio. He is working on delivering exponentially increasing business value with Certified Data, Machine Learning, native Cloud services & Innovative technology solutions. He is driving a campaign to improve data literacy & foster a culture to get data right at the source. He is driving adoption by deploying a self-service data democratization framework.
Santosh manages analytics delivery, data governance, master data management, data retention/archival, data support operations & cloud platform operations for data platforms. He joined the GE Power business portfolio in 2008 and has been leading Data & Analytics initiatives in various capacities for the past 12 years.
Before moving to GE Power, Santosh led the Oracle ERP Center of Excellence at GE Healthcare a $12 Billion business providing transformational medical technologies & services including medical devices, healthcare IT, life sciences, contrast media & nuclear medicine. During the 10 years in this business, he led the strategy & execution of building a global financials, distribution, sourcing & manufacturing solution deployed in 100 countries, 120 Legal Entities, 25 Manufacturing Plants & 150 Parts Warehouses used by over 12,000 users.
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Any activity or business process executed in the various departments across the enterprise has an impact on the financials. At a macro level, the interaction of the Finance organization with the rest of the enterprise can be bucketed into three categories: