by "PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
Published 02/01/2017 at 09:19
by "PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
Published 02/01/2017 at 09:19
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Hurrah for Year-close!
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/01/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 0
My work does year-end close as of 11/30 and we just finished (most of) it last week. That means quarter end is just 27 days away, hooray!
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
02/01/2017 at 09:31, STARS: 0
We’re calendar. But a “partner” organization that is 30% of our volume is Oct-Sept, so I close their data in Nov to early Dec.
Thankfully they are relatively data-agnostic so I get a lot of freedom on what I do/show for them. If anything it’s a repeat of the previous year with small updates and areas of note for them. Pretty boilerplate by now.
This analysis is for my own org’s overall business so I make it a goal to get the presentation full of advanced stuff so that, should they feel the need to push it upstream, they’ll call me into the meeting to explain why the analysis works and how it supports the business.
Then at the end, there’s the “Everything in two slides” summary for the annual state of business our COO gets to deliver. Which is always met with, “Why didn’t you start here”
“Because you wouldn’t believe 45% of this slide without the evidence I just walked you through. There’s a reason court cases end with closing arguments AFTER the evidence has been presented and vetted.”
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/01/2017 at 09:41, STARS: 0
I feel you...I think about 95% of my work never sees eyes above my direct boss. But without those hundreds of hours of work each quarter (and with 100 other people), you never get those nice, neat, five little Powerpoint slides that end up in front of senior management. Thankfully, there are so many scrambles and ad-hoc scenarios, my job is safe and can’t easily be automated. I can use Access and Excel to answer questions in an hour that would take the mainframe programmers weeks/months to do. It’s a hard niche to find in the data world, but I’m glad I found it. Let’s hope the company doesn’t finally institute a proper BI tool or a lot of us will be out of work :D