Implementing Oracle/Hyperion Financial Planning At Airways New Zealand

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Airways New Zealand is one of the worlds' leading providers of commercial Air Navigation Services, responsible for managing all domestic and international air traffic operating within New Zealand's 37 million square kilometres of airspace. In September 2007 they embarked upon a process of implementing the Oracle/Hyperion Financial Planning application. A year down the road and the system is just about to run it’s 3rd Budget round and Airways have laid a foundation for the development of new processes for the organisation including dynamic budgeting and forecasting which they plan to have in place by January 2009. In this presentation Kevin Grosvenor, the Airways Financial lead for the project and Peter Walters from Indigo New Zealand and the Project Manager responsible for the implementation, look at the objectives, process and some of the major lessons that have been learned in implementing the product.

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Peter Walters / Kevin Grosvenor
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Indigo / Airways New Zealand
Presenter: 
Peter Walters / Kevin Grosvenor
Presenter Biography: 

Peter is currently a Director at Indigo New Zealand where he has responsibility for all implementations of Financial Applications. He joined
Indigo in October 2007 after ten years working for Artemis International. At Artemis, Peter was Vice President of UK Consulting responsible for implementing enterprise-wide Project and Portfolio Management Solutions. Peter has undertaken many implementations at some of the largest companies and Public Sector organisations in the UK and Australasia including BAE Systems, BAA Heathrow Terminal 5, UK Regional Development Agencies, DHL, Bank of England, UK Ministry of Defence, Department of Science and Training (Australia)and Ergon Energy, amongst
others. Peter is a PRINCE 2 Practitioner with a BA(Hons) degree in Politics from Portsmouth University and an MBA from the same institution. Peter moved from the UK to New Zealand in 2007 with his wife and two young children.

Kevin is the Finance Systems Manager at Airways New Zealand, responsible for system reviews, upgrades, implementations and change management. While the Finance Systems Manager's role is relatively new, Kevin has been with Airways for 12 years; six of those years as a Management Accountant. Kevin is an Associate Chartered Accountant. Airways New Zealand is one of the worlds' leading providers of commercial Air Navigation Services, responsible for managing all domestic and international air traffic operating within New Zealand's 37 million square kilometres of airspace.

Airways financial systems are reliable, but fair to say most are nearing their life expectancy. At the top of the replacement list was budgeting and reporting. Airways budgeting system was universally disliked, tying up significant resources, and delivering an outcome that becomes rapidly out of date. Similarly, reporting was becoming far too complex; data rich but
information poor. After completing the obligatory reviews, Airways selected Oracle Hyperion as the product tool set to address budgeting, forecasting and reporting issues, and Indigo NZ Limited as the implementation partner.

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