BELL FINANCE
“ Beginning with leadership sponsorship , one of the first things we did in the early phases was to focus on people , and to find those within their finance function who had leading-edge skills in some of these technologies and to bring them together , and that really formed the nucleus of our centre of excellence ”
MATTHEW MACEWEN VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE TRANSFORMATION , BELL
At Bell , as the Director of Finance and Analytics at the CoE , we are trying to help use data to enable transformation and drive better insights – and there are so many others in the team that share this alignment between what we enjoy and the work we get to do ,” he says .
The Financial Analytics CoE is focused on the finance 2025 transformation program data and analytics delivery , seeking to complete its transformation in the next few years ; a transformation that will reshape Bell Finance from the bottom up and inevitably evolve the organisation closer to the Finance of the Future .
“ I lead the financial data development team ,” explains Kirsten , “ alongside the solutions development teams that focus on visualisation , reporting automation , and financial data science initiatives like intelligent forecasting ; we ' re currently focused on using the data and technology work-stream within finance 2025 to enable the transformation .”
Asked about the genesis of such a program , MacEwen says : “ A program like this starts with leadership support and commitment . We had crucial and very strong support from our senior leadership