Colt Meraw is a director with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. He brings more than 13 years of experience in government contracting, finance and digital transformation working on both the consulting and industry side of the business. Colt is an innovative and transformative leader with a passion for incorporating strategy, data and technology to enhance finance functions and operational processes. He has a proven track record of delivering digital transformation results for numerous organizations with expertise leading implementation, integration and optimization projects across several performance management, enterprise resource planning and business intelligence solutions.
- Led multiple OneStream implementation projects including cube architecture, metadata automation, people planning, cost center planning, cost allocations, project budgeting and reporting
- Spearheaded the design and build of an allocation engine and indirect rate cube within OneStream for a large defense contractor to calculate, allocate, and analyze cost pools on plan and actual scenarios
- Oversaw the development of a custom project budgeting solution within OneStream to enable estimate-at-complete budgeting by resource and incorporate calculations for raw costs, applied burdens and revenue on various contract vehicle types
- Managed a Deltek Costpoint integration project of a multibillion dollar acquisition including oversight of all workstreams, redesign of more than 100 pools, data conversion, validation, testing, deployment and change management
- Led functional and technical assessment of FP&A processes and tools
- Supported the Annual Operating Plan process, formulation and forward pricing rate calculations for a large government contractor
- Facilitated the implementation of PowerBI dashboards to monitor key performance indicators leveraging data from multiple systems
- Implemented UIPath Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to streamline processes for clients using Deltek Costpoint
- Formerly the senior director of finance and business analytics at a mid-size not-for-profit government contractor overseeing the FP&A, pricing, financial systems and business intelligence functions. Responsible for the entire cost estimating system including submission of the forward pricing rates, provisional billing rates and supporting disclosures
- Certified JAMIS Prime Technician
- Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional
