Rob O’Brien is a principal with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. He has supported multiple clients in the government contracting sector as a consultant, controller, and financial planning manager where he has participated in financial system selections, upgrades, implementations, financial management, financial reporting enhancements, and budgeting and planning process improvements.
- Led system implementation activities within multiple workstreams through the requirements gathering, design, build, test, and deployment phases for a leading Fortune 500 government contracting firm. Applied subject matter expertise to the project, account, and org design and related configurations to meet the requirements of highly sophisticated cost accounting practices.
- Assessed current state and facilitated requirements gathering workshops with multiple cross-functional teams to support ERP selection processes for complex government contractor.
- Developed functional design documentation for multiple system implementations.
- Led data conversion, migration and business process reengineering efforts for two strategic acquisition integrations to Deltek Costpoint.
- Led multiple cross-functional training initiatives in support of system upgrades, process redesigns and departmental reorganizations.
- Provided IBM Cognos TM1 implementation support including the design, construction, and delivery of reporting templates and forecasting interfaces as well as integration with Costpoint.
- Designed new organization, account and project structures in Deltek Costpoint to support a corporate restructuring that separated a company from one legal entity to four.
- Supported the financial reporting, analysis and planning initiatives of various business units at a large government contracting firm.
- Streamlined financial close and planning processes through procedural changes, system optimizations and staff reassignment.
