New Team Members since March 2022
Finance Systems Accomplishments
Core Financial Asset Project Accomplishments
Learning & Development Accomplishments
Finance Portfolio Management Accomplishments
100

Joined the Team in March after our last Division Meeting.  Hint: She was already a familiar face at Kemper!

Who is Hajar Habbal?

100

Effective as of this accounting date, the overhauled Ledger Governance Process successfully deployed in Workday.

What is April 1st?

100

The CFA has go-forward data running through our foundation for these 2 data domains.

What are policy and claims domains?

100

A tool developed to share relevant information, including but not limited to existing training that complements the L&D-created formal content, Kemper-specific best practice examples, and awareness of subject matter expert contacts.

What is the Kemper Finance Knowledge Sharing Framework?

100

This individual joined the organization to lead Finance Portfolio Management and to enhance coordination with other Kemper project portfolios.

Who is Catherine Barron?

200

2 new additions to Kemper and the Finance Strategy Team in March to lead Finance Portfolio Management and Data Governance for the Core Financial Asset!

Who is Catherine Barron and Danny Leonard?

200

Prototypes of these visual reporting tools from Workday were featured in our Q2 FinSys Governance Series.

What are Worday Dashboard and/or Worklets?

200

During testing, the team designed a way to use testing scripts in a faster, more efficient way.

What is automating the testing scripts?

200

This is a story-telling technique that is used to communicate in an efficient and effective manner.  Hint: It starts with stating what the situation is.

What is Situation-Complication-Resolution?

200

Compiled information regarding the utilization and available capacity of these type of resources (hint: they are not IT resources)

What are business resources?

300

Joined us in April as project manager for the Core Financial Asset Project!

Who is Deb Mason?

300

May featured multiple tips & tricks on how users can customize these 'out of the box' Blackline visual features.

What are cards?

300

This Data Governance item was officially moved this artifact into the enterprise catalog as the source of truth.

What is the Business Glossary?

300

This analysis framework enhances variance analysis by breaking it down to component pieces.

What is volume-rate-mix analysis?

300

Enhancements of been made to this key project artifact that helps stakeholders understand critical information about in-flight projects.

What is the project status report?

400

Joined us in May after playing a critical role on the Core Financial Asset Project as a contractor!

Who is Ankita Talla?

400

The FLASH report, a new standardized P&L report for consolidated management reporting, utilizes these two powerful report writing functions that enable (1) repeating tabs for each segment and (2) automated, consistent formatting of an output file.

What are (1) bursting and (2) embedded excel templates?

400

This zone model was design and developed by one of our own within Finance Strategy.

What is the CFA trusted zone?

400

Representatives identified from each Finance department that partner with the Finance Strategy L&D Team to identify and understand team needs and to assist with developing content and L&D processes.

Who are the L&D partners?

400

Developed holistic view of all in flight big rocks projects, their value and the people delivering them.

What is building an enterprise prioritization process

500

Our Summer of 2022 interns who had conflicts today with scheduled Kemper-wide internship orientation!

Who are Johnny Wu and Luke Gifford?

500

The phrase used to describe select, bundled features accessible for seamless integration between Workday & Adaptive. One of our primary drivers for the Adaptive Rebuild is to enable this bundle of tools/features.

What is the Power of 1?

500

How data in the trusted zone was cleansed and conformed during Phase 3.

What are via data quality rules and reference/master data management?

500
In the 70-20-10 learning model, 70% of learning takes place in this manner.

What is on-the-job learning?

500

Initiated a consolidated Kemper-wide prioritization process which will result in the production of this artifact (hint: you find something like this in an atlas)

What is a roadmap?

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