Darren is a finance leader with over 25 years of experience by helping clients in their selection and implementation of finance applications, so they can successfully achieve their objectives with best practices using current technology. Darren has extensive hands-on implementation experience with Workday from both a consulting and project management perspective to make sure clients have a good understanding of each task and activity during an implementation. Darren’s previous roles include Project Lead and Solution Architect, Finance Lead, and Reporting and Analytics Lead for full life cycle Workday implementations, working to align finance, integrations, conversions, and reporting for long term success for clients, including those in the financial services industry. Within his roles, he has provided guidance to leads on solution approach, project planning/management and product functionality as well as led client specific topics such as finance transformation enabled by the technology and organizational change management as it applies to the enablement of the technology.
Darren also has prior experience as a Controller and Director of Finance for an agile lifecycle management software company and he led the accounting department for a food refiner / manufacturer. Darren’s education background is in Accounting and Information Technology. He has also received his CPA in Canada and an MBA from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business.
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