In this slide deck, Workday and Alight share how a full-platform solution for finance, HR, and planning can help organizations rebuild, drive efficiency, and emerge stronger.
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8. Gain real-time insights into
people, projects and
financials to plan for the
future
Evolve your operating
models with a foundation to
support continuous change
AgilityInsight
Your Partner During Changing Times
Adjust recruitment and
engagement strategies for a
new era
Experience Efficiency
Reduce your back-office
costs and increase
utilization to drive
efficiencies
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Alight’s Perspective Deploying Workday and
Supporting our Clients Through Challenging Times
- Ethan Carlson, Warren Butler & Les Wright
Plan for Disruption: Emerging
Stronger in Uncertain Times
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Les Wright
Principal Consultant
Les.Wright@alight.com
Ethan Carlson
VP, Adaptive Insights Business Unit
Ethan.Carlson@alight.com
Introductions
Warren Butler
European Practice Leader –
Workday Financials
warren.butler@alight.com
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Deployment experience across Workday’s full suite
65Procurement / Inventory
deployments
44AMS Financials Clients
Unmatched Workday Financial
Management experience
550+Workday Adaptive
Planning Deployments
50+Workday Adaptive
Planning Dedicated
Consultants
132Consultants dedicated
to Workday Financials
167Financial deployments
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Phase 2
Go-Live Q3/4, 2019
Phase 3
Go-Live, 2020
USA
Singapore
Uruguay
Malta
Portugal
Germany
Italy
Spain
Venezuela
Austria
France
Germany
Switzerland
Belgium
Ireland
Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
Chile
Spain
Poland
Canada
Mexico
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
Bermuda
Cayman Islands
Barbados
Trinidad &
Tobago
South Africa
Estonia
Lithuania
Kazakhstan
Slovakia
Romania
Latvia
Russia
Czech Republic
Croatia
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Qatar
Bahrain
Australia
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Fiji
Vanuatu
India
Alight – Workday deployment scope
& countries
Financial
Accounting
Multi-book
Budgets/forecasts
Alternate accounts
Allocations
Revaluation
Banking &
Settlement
Supplier settlements
Expense settlements
Ad hoc settlements
Projects with
Billing
Customer projects
Capital projects
Manage work
Manage cost
Business Assets
Book & tax depreciation
Physical tracking
Supplier
Accounts
Invoices & adjustments
Returns
Tax
Expenses
Travel integration
Spend
authorizations
Credit cards
Customer
Accounts
Invoices & adjustments
Collections
Tax
Time
Tracking
Employee self-service
Calculations & validations
Procurement
Manage processes
Manage approvals
Phase 1
Go-Live January 1, 2018
Denmark
Sweden
Luxembourg
UK
Netherlands
Norway
Finland
Adaptive Planning
Budgeting, Forecasting and
Reporting
HCM suite
Manage employees
Manage absence
Manage compensation
Payroll
UK
USA
Canada
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Alight - Finance Transformation with Workday
Alight has $2.5bn in global
revenue managed in Workday.
Phased deployment starting in
2018 (EMEA) culminating in North
America PSA go-live in 2020 Q1.
• 30 revenue scenarios
– Automated previously manual processes for most T&M contracts.
– Automated process for commencement of fixed fee revenue.
– Usage based charges managed through EIB upload from proprietary calc tools.
– Commission revenues managed through cash sales.
– Managing US sales tax through two-way Vertex integration.
– Significant automation of intercompany cost transfer.
• 40,000 projects, 5,000 contracts, 3,000 clients
– Projects re-mapped mid 2019 to enable users time to adjust in more familiar legacy systems.
– Enabled 1-1 project conversion.
– 99.6% conversion success rate.
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Key Benefits of Workday Adaptive Planning
• Enabled a shift to 100% remote deployments and management
• Integrated Financial Planning > Workforce planning in sync
with financial forecasts
• Increased ease of monthly financial reporting
• Reduced cycle times/faster data refreshes
Deploying Adaptive Insights
to maximize value and to
incorporate best practices
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What we are hearing
from our Clients
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Cloud based solutions are a must to enable a remote
workforce
Business is continuing through
the Covid-19 pandemic… but
the way we work has changed,
potentially forever.
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Significant Increase in Forecasting Cycle Frequency/Types
Quarterly/Monthly Weekly/Daily
Original Budgets Adoption of Rolling forecasts
Regular Cadence Reporting Impromptu Board/Bank Reviews
One Version of the forecast Multiple Scenarios (V, W, U shaped recoveries)
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Automation and Integration a must have
• Increased frequency and speed of forecasts increases the
demand on data integration.
• Less time to manually update data.
• Staff constraints inconsistent with business demands
• Focus on details of a forecast
• Constant changes impossible to keep up with across
disparate systems.
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New Areas of focus from different Stakeholders
Increased Scrutiny on health of financials from Investors, Banks
– Large focus on key metrics, covenants and other indicators.
– Increased interest in Executive Dashboards.
– Cash flow reporting is of increased importance/focus.
– More slices/views of the business required, larger reporting packages.
– Tracking specific COVID risks to deals/The revenue margin Impact of COVID.
– Planning for different recovery paths/timing.
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Re-allocation of resources to minimize long term business
impact
• Reductions in discretionary spending (T&E)
• Shift towards more virtual offices/colleagues
• Staff furlough modeling
• Reduction in overhead positions/re-allocating resources to new projects
• Modeling new lines of business products/Business Model Pivots
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