Aaron Walcott

Learn How to Integrate PDW Into Cognos & SAP. The Team Won the Medtronic Star of Excellence Award!

Aaron Walcott, Finance Systems Manager with the $5B Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management Division of Medtronic, and his group faced a large problem: How to integrate manually collected project labor data into the financial reporting systems, so that finance can obtain cost data, update project forecasts and participate in Go, No Go project decisions. Walcott will review the background and process of integrating the PDW tool into the COGNOS Planning System in order to achieve the long term benefit of allowing finance to react in a proactive, rather than a reactive mode.

Aaron Walcott is a Finance Systems Manager for Medtronic. He was responsible for the requirements and validation of interfacing PDW to Cognos and SAP. Aaron is a member of the RM advisory council in CRDM and responsible for ongoing Finance training and support. His team also provides the financial planning and reporting support to ensure that PDW data is properly costed and available to senior management for rolling portfolio balancing. The CRDM PDW team received the Medtronic Star of Excellence award in 2008 as a result of this project. Walcott sits on several standards committees at Medtronic.

Cognos best practice award winner
MBA - St. Thomas University
BS - Colorado State University

 

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