Manager Project

DOUGLAS E. MCLAUGHLIN

DOUGLAS E. MCLAUGHLIN

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WOODSTOCK, GEORGIA 30188

************@*****.*** 770-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

MBA graduate financial professional with client service, project management & control, financial planning & analysis, learning

and talent development and operations experience in the professional services industry. Strong financial budgeting, forecasting,

planning and analysis capabilities. Creator of technology solutions to complex business problems within budget.

COMPETENCY SUMMARY

Financial Planning &

Analysis Project Management Technology Learning & Development

Learning technologies

Forecasting Non-financial reporting MS Office

Competency modeling

Budgeting Vendor and resource Excel expert

Curriculum

management

Variance analysis Hyperion

Learning plans

Deliverable, risk, issue

Management reporting SAP

management

Facilitation

Benchmarking SharePoint

Project estimation

Onboarding

(ETC, EAC, Variances)

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Manage planning, analysis, forecasting and operations processes for combined $327M technology practices.

• Budget and forecast modeling for revenue, profitability, utilization, headcount, AR investment and cash flow on

monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

• Prepare annual financial plan in accordance with service area and regional goals. Prepare and manage regional

contribution for rolling 3, 5 and 7 year strategic business plan.

• Perform variance analysis on monthly, quarterly and annual results from plan and forecast

• Summarize results for period and year to date for executive leadership in presentation and dashboard form.

• Manage ad hoc business support including custom scalable reporting and modeling, engagement and/or client analysis

and strategic account, client, or market review and analysis dependent on evolving business needs.

• Provide expertise and leadership in finance G&A Benchmarking and assist in framing and positioning project

expansion work at existing clients through knowledge of Hackett portfolio.

• Build pricing proposals and profitability analysis (margin, ROI, cash flow) in response to RFP, RFI and ITN

solicitations from State and Local Government entities for $20M+ pursuits.

Project Mangement

• Managed relationships and liaise between multiple stakeholders and business partners to enable Consulting learning

function to deliver outcome driven, leading edge, and customized learning solutions to the practice.

• Develop tools to adequately track, reconcile and analyze key financial and budget performance metrics for large scale

multi-year systems integration projects in the Public Sector market in order to complete strategic and ROI analyses.

• Provide staffing support to leadership by reviewing candidates, sourcing subcontractors, and on/off board staff

members.

• Develop and manage Issues, Risk and Change databases for multiple projects within the same client.

• Conduct financial and business risk and quality assurance reviews and present to partners on a periodic basis.

• Manage a team of 4 at various levels to develop and analyze financial and PMO tools to help successfully meet the

needs of consulting engagements by auditing PMO and financial results.

• Deliver on client expectations while also identifying areas of opportunities for the client and engagement team to

continue the relationship.

• Responsible for $53MM portfolio of public sector projects.

Technology

• Analyze and document current business processes and document to-be business processes per SAP methodologies.

DOUGLAS E. MCLAUGHLIN

• Leverage relationships with client SMEs to develop integration strategy for SAP ERP financials for Public Sector.

• Develop functional specifications to identify SAP configuration steps and/or technical enhancements to be completed

to deliver an effective efficient integrated business solution.

• Configure Funds Management to integrate with SAP FI-CO and MM modules.

• Launch system utilizing SharePoint to advertise learning programs, track registrations, track learning hours

accumulated per person and collect program evaluation data to enhance programs for future delivery

• Deploy 3rd party solution to enhance the onboarding experience for new hires to the Firm

• Design and develop SharePoint solutions to facilitate execution of business’s learning and development plan.

• Identify, design and manage implementation of technology solutions to achieve world class learning solutions to the

Consulting practice of 14,000 US practitioners.

Learning & Development

• Improve learning strategy to establish an effective blend of Technical (CPE) training, leadership and professional skills

and new hire onboarding

• Strategically align competency models for each level and practice in the Firm, socialize the models and align available

learning opportunities to the competency model to establish expectations for each level and function within the Firm

• Establish a ‘safe place’ for individuals to get advice and guidance, engage in 1:1 learning or to devise individual

development plans through coaching, outside learning, mentorship or on the job skills development.

• Build and deploy strategy for improved budgeting and learning participation forecasting outcome by developing

processes, schedules and tools to empower stakeholders with information that enables strategic decision-making.

• Facilitate and coach programs at leading-edge, state of the art learning environment for new hire, professional and

leadership development

• Responsible for $53MM portfolio of public sector projects.

• Provide leadership as a career counselor and mentor to five junior staff members.

• Recruit screen and interview candidates to join the Firm.

WORK HISTORY

Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP, Atlanta, GA - Certified Public Accountants (March, 2013 – December, 2014)

Director of Learning & Development

The Hackett Group, Atlanta, GA - Professional Services Firm (June, 2012 – March, 2013)

Consulting Manager

Deloitte Consulting LLP/Deloitte Services, LP, Atlanta, GA (February, 2002 – June, 2012)

Learning and Talent Development Finance & Operations Manager – (May, 2009 to June, 2012)

Finance and Operations Manager – (November, 2006 to May, 2009)

Enterprise Applications Consultant (Public Sector SAP) – (November, 2005 to November, 2006)

Project Controller/Manager – (September, 2003 to November, 2005)

Project Controller/Senior – (February, 2002 to September, 2003)

The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA - Beverage Manufacturing and Distribution Company

Operations Analyst - December, 2000 – February, 2002

Unisys Corporation Atlanta, GA and Blue Bell, PA - IT Services Corporation (November, 1995 – December, 2000)

Order to Cash Analyst – November, 1995 – July, 1996

Practice Financial Manager – July, 1996 – December, 2000

EDUCATION

University of Rhode Island - Bachelor of Science – Business Administration, Finance Major - 1995

Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business – MBA – Finance - 2009

SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Software Packages

• Certified Integrator – mySAP Public Sector, Trained in SAP FI/CO.

• User/SME Level - SAP BW, SAP Professional Services, Business Objects, Hyperion Essbase

DOUGLAS E. MCLAUGHLIN

• SharePoint Configuration and Development

Technology

• MS Office, Excel (Expert), PowerPoint, Access (Advanced to Expert), Hyperion/Essbase, Saba LMS, SQL, SharePoint

• SilkRoad OpenHire and RedCarpet SME for implementation.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

• Deloitte IMPACT - Multiple Community volunteer activities

• Flourtown (PA) Volunteer Fire Company (1990 – 1996) – Volunteer fire, rescue and EMS

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