What Do You Get When You Cross Two Senior Directors at ADP & a Big Idea for Managing Human Capital Using Hyperion

1. What Do You Get When You Cross Two
Senior Directors at ADP & a Big Idea for
Managing Human Capital Using Hyperion?
Presented by:
Josephine Niemiec, ADP
Marianna Yachmetz, ADP
and
Gary Serrao, Innovus Partners

2. Presentation Agenda
• Presenter Biographies
• Company Profile
• HCM Initiative at ADP Overview
• Phase I
• Phase II
• Project Insights
• Panel Discussion

3. Presenter Biography
• Josephine Niemiec, Sr. Director Finance Operations, ADP
 Twenty-five years of Management Reporting, FP&A and Financial
Systems experience
 SME in design and deployment, upgrades and enhancements
 Formed and currently leading Hyperion Center of Excellence for
Administration
 Application Expertise includes:
Hyperion Planning and Workforce Planning
Essbase ASO/BSO
HFM / FDM
Oracle General Ledger
Oracle Billing

4. Presenter Biography
• Marianna Yachmetz, Sr. Director Finance Decision Support, ADP
 CPA/MBA with 25 years of financial management experience
 Experience in the design and improvement of financial process,
reporting and analysis
 Core competencies include:
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Forecasting/Budgeting
Strategic Planning
Financial Systems

5. Presenter Biography
• Gary Serrao, EPM Specialist, Innovus Partners
 Expertise in the implementation of Essbase & Planning
 Primary Application Experience
Budget & Forecasting Solutions
Management Reporting Applications
 Integral member of a consulting team who is changing the way ADP
handles their human capital management using the Oracle Hyperion
EPM Suite
 Oracle Essbase Certified Consultant

6. Company Profile - ADP
• Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) is one of the largest providers of
business processing and cloud-based solutions
 Provides payroll, talent management, human resource management,
benefits administration and time and attendance to employers around
the world
• ADP serves about 620,000 organizations in more than 125 countries
• Over 80 percent of FORTUNE 500 companies and more than 90 FORTUNE
100 companies use at least one of ADP's services
• 1 in 6 U.S. workers are paid by ADP
• Oracle customer since 1994
• Hyperion products in-use include:
 Essbase (BSO & ASO), Revenue and Expense Planning, Workforce
Planning, HFM

7. Human Capital Management Initiative at
ADP
• Standardized and socialized definitions for headcount
and FTE across an organization of 30,000 employees
in the US
• Increased ability for detailed reporting and analytics
• Implemented a data governance and reporting
solution
• Streamlined and regulated process

8. HCM Phase I - Goals
• Create one version of the truth
• Standardize calculations for headcount and FTE that
were formerly disparate across business units within
ADP
• Adapt existing technology to fit the solution
• Integrate HR systems into automated solution

9. Phase I - Technology
Integrate Human Capital Actuals into existing Oracle
Hyperion Workforce Planning Applications
 Phase 1 approach
 Employed a solution leveraging Workforce Planning to
prove the process was adaptable to the organization
 Centralized data storage via Essbase

10. Phase I - Design
WFP BU1
WFP BU2
WFP BU3
WFP BU4
Revenue &
Expense
Planning
Consolidated
Reporting
(ASO)
WFP BU5
Oracle
Staging
Layer

11. HCM Phase I Challenges
• Never underestimate the time it takes to successfully bring change
management to your organization
• The more decentralized the process is, the more time it takes
• You can have the best automated system in the world but if your
organization does not embrace it, it will fail
• Frequent communication to your business partners on the value of
the process or system goes a long way to support change
management

12. HCM Phase II - Goals
• Scale to include additional business units
• Create a consolidated reporting solution
• Enhance Phase I with additional dimensionality for a deeper
level of analysis including:
 Tenure
 Utilization
 Productivity
 Job Function
 Span of Control

13. Phase II - Technology
• Oracle Database Staging Layer
• Oracle Hyperion Essbase
 Block Storage (BSO) Cube for Calculation
 Aggregate Storage (ASO) Cube for Reporting
• Highly Formatted Reports in Microsoft Excel

14. Phase II - Design
HCM
Calculation
Cube
(BSO)
HCM
Consolidated
Reporting
(ASO)
Revenue &
Expense
Planning
Consolidated
Reporting
(ASO)
Oracle
Staging
Layer

15. HCM Phase II Challenges
• Learn from phase I and not make the same mistakes
• The more in depth data and analytics you automate, the
more challenges you will receive from the business units
 Avoid the “That can’t be right…”
• Let the data speak for itself
• Phase II is currently a WIP, more challenges may arise

16. Project Insights
• Adopt a structured governance / change management model
• Get clearance from your HR Department and understand the
approval levels
• Leverage expertise from a consulting partner
• Be methodical and thorough in UAT
• Have a plan to address the learning curve
 Proper training plan
 Detailed documentation
 Thorough training sessions
• Be prepared for a support-intensive first year(s) as the users adopt
the system
• Used a Phased approach to create momentum to move forward

17. Panel Discussion
• Josephine Niemiec,
Sr. Director Finance Operations, ADP
• Marianna Yachmetz,
Sr. Director Finance Decision Support, ADP
• Gary Serrao,
EPM Specialist, Innovus Partners

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