Issue Our client desired a replacement for an aging and inflexible global risk reporting system, impacting offices in three countries, which would improve the daily reporting cycle and reduce the constant maintenance required by IT staff. Solution Our consultant’s broad business acumen and technical skills lead to a strong design based on the client's requirements. […]
Issue A client had a program equipped to calculate complex price data conversions between schemas, but it had not been tested. A number of differences had been noted, but the full extent was not known. Our objective was to determine the scope of differences and provide an accurate solution. Solution Our consultant combined extensive understanding […]
Issue As part of an initiative to improve the corporate reporting process, the client requested a KPI based dashboard providing O&M, capital, and HR information on a monthly basis. Due to the project’s high visibility among executives, the project incurred multiple requirement changes. Solution Our consultant, along with the project team, was able to creatively […]
Issue Emissions trades listed on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) were originally modeled as physicals creating problems with present value mark-to-market (MTM) valuation and settlement resulting in double discounting of MTM. Solution Our consultant identified the problems and applied business knowledge to design a solution that eliminated the valuation problem. The consultant performed extensive […]
Issue The client operated its business in two different time zones and experienced difficulty integrating the data to maintain the accuracy of the daily P&L, value at risk (VaR), and invoicing reports. In attempting to standardize the trading position, the client entered the transactions as one time zone. This created a problem when the trades […]
Issue This client’s corporate executives did not have visibility into a broad range of human capital measurements. Although a Human Capital module operated within the company’s ERP framework, the reports were cumbersome and inefficient. Reporting required gathering information from 18 sources for 60 business units and each unit required 21 pivot tables consolidated into spreadsheets […]
Issue A large investor-owned utility, with multiple geographic and business unit operations, was utilizing Excel spreadsheet reports from over 30 separate data sources and measuring various business drivers from their customer facing operations. This client requested an automated and simplified visual display of trends and alerts for key customer facing business drivers. Solution Our consultant […]
Issue A Fortune 500 commodity trading client maintained over 3,000 various financial reports from its ETRM system. Many of the reports were redundant and some were inaccurate resulting in “multiple versions of the truth.” Due to the excessive number of reports, month-end close was taking longer than desired. The client requested to develop a more […]
Issue A client’s Risk and Trading groups were in disagreement about the valuation of certain option instruments. Proper valuation was needed for mark-to-market disclosure. Our objective was to determine the source of the discrepancy and gain agreement between Risk and Trading. Solution Our consultant combined his knowledge of the mathematical models supporting option valuation and […]
Issue Our client, one of North America’s largest power producers, was in the midst of a corporate merger with another large power producer. Our client needed to integrate the acquired company’s ETRM system (Endur®) into our client’s ETRM system (Zainet®/Aligne™). In addition, all risk management reporting needed to be re-engineered to accommodate the acquired company’s […]
