The OpEx Budget Game: Make Sure You Win!1. The OpEx Budget Game:
Make Sure You Win!
David Kaminski, Senior Vice President, Client Engagement
Steven Braud, Vice President, Solution Architect
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2. Today’s Moderator & Speaker
Steven is a Solution Architect with Sutherland’s Finance & Accounting
Outsourcing Practice. With over 30 years of experience, Steven has
worked for Fortune 50 companies in Strategy Formulation, Business
Performance Management, Accounting, Transformation, General
Accounting and Close & Consolidation. He is an industry expert in
Order to Cash for outsourcing and has consulted with several Fortune
50 Companies for Cost Reduction, Performance Management, Shared
Steven Braud, VP
Services, Finance Transformation and ERP Implementations.
Sutherland Global Services
F&A Services
David is the Senior Vice President of Client Engagement for
Sutherland’s Finance & Accounting Outsourcing Practice. With over
30 years of experience, David has worked as a Partner with
Capgemini, and has served as General Manager of Worldwide
Financial Services for Microsoft Corporation. During David’s 9 year
tenure at Microsoft, his responsibilities were split between running
two global businesses as Chief Credit Officer of Microsoft Corporation
and President of Microsoft Capital Corporation. David and his team of
David Kaminski, SVP
Sutherland Global Services 400 professionals managed a global asset of $8 billion in more than
F&A Services 180 countries.
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3. The Opex Budget Game:
Make Sure You Win!
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4. The Opex Budget Game:
Can you tell our listeners
what you mean when you
say Opex Budget Game?
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5. What are you seeing and
hearing when you travel to
see CFOs and Controllers
from both enterprise and
SMB firms?
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6. Do you see this “Budget
Game” being played out at
all types of companies?
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7. Can you walk our listeners
through the scope and size
of one of the leading
software manufacturers
when you were there?
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8. How did the Budget Game
get played? What
challenges did you face,
and were the challenges
limited to the U.S. market
or were they global?
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9. Why didn’t you simply
embrace a staff
augmentation approach
and utilize a temporary
agency?
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10. How effective was the
solution and what
particular geography did
you start in and why?
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11. Why is it easier to get
vendor spend dollars than
budget to hire FTEs?
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12. Were there other
geographies that did not
embrace the outsourcing
approach and what impact
did it have on metrics,
performance and morale?
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13. If you had it to do all over
again, what would you
change?
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14. Thank You
Steven Braud—Moderator
Vice President,
Solution Architect
Finance & Accounting Outsourcing
Sutherland Global Services
steven.braud@sutherlandglobal.com
David Kaminski—Presenter
Senior Vice President,
Client Engagement
Finance & Accounting Outsourcing
Sutherland Global Services
david.kaminiski@sutherlandglobal.com
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