- Shared vision and more effective communication between Central and Field Business Units
- Sustained management focus on resource analyst needs, roles and responsibilities
- Define critical services, accountabilities, and decision-making processes;
and clarify roles, responsibilities and accountability
- Define and apply common set of Division financial standards along with
strengthened and consistent quality assurance controls and processes
- Identify, define and share best financial practices and process controls
and make consistent across the Divisions with documented procedures for
core functions
- Cross-division benchmarking and best-practice
sharing; drive towards commonalities and creation of a community of practice
- Establish mechanism to surface business issues with collaborative problem
resolution; coordinated improvement of financial processes and systems implementation
with effective Division participation
- Update personnel practices: define common set of core performance standards
and expectations based on professional standards and critical knowledge
and skills; clarify job family and standardize position descriptions; establish
more standardized process for recruiting and hiring new staff; obtain Division
input and review of PRD’s
- Build and sustain a competent, highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce
by developing and implementing technical skills training
- Implement new employee orientation program for Division resource analysts
- Help recognize and solidify financial management as a discipline; promote rotational opportunities between central office and Divisions