At the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Dallas, regulatory reporting used to take weeks. Now it’s done in minutes. In this deck learn how the bank’s accounting team is using Workday Accounting Center and Workday Prism Analytics to gain insight into data—dramatically improving confidence in the organization’s financial information.
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1. Accounting on the Rise: Greater Control,
Better Data and Reporting at FHLB Dallas
2. Accounting on the Rise: Greater Control, Better
Data and Reporting at FHLB Dallas
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5. Rudy Martinez
Director of Corporate
Accounting FHLB Dallas
FHLB Dallas
Sam Buchner
Solution Marketing Director
Workday
Ellen Callahan
Senior Solution Consultant
Workday
6. Agenda
01 What is a Data Hub?
02 FHLB Dallas Journey
03 Workday Intelligent Data Foundation
04 Demo
05 Q&A
8. Workday Financials: 2017
Workday HCM: 2018
Workday Adaptive Planning: 2019
Workday Accounting Center and
Prism Analytics: 2020
200+ employees
Created by Congress in 1932 to
facilitate housing finance
One of eleven regional Federal
Home Loan Banks
in the United States
9. The Beginning
Housing Grants
Application
Letters of
Credit
Wire System
Member DDA
Accounting Logic
Front Office
Mortgage
Finance
Hedge Accounting
Member Loans
System
Investments
General Ledger (GL)
Actuarial, statutory, and
management reporting
ALL REPORTING
RECONCILED TO FINANCE
(MANUAL AND COMPLEX)
Finance
Uni-directional, reduction of operational data
Financial Controller
(Internally Developed Application)
IT
10. The Beginning…
Internally built software
Dependency on 3rd
Party IT Staff
Limited Control
Lack of Error Handling
Black box of unknowns
Housing Grants
Application
Letters of
Credit
Wire System
Member DDA
General Ledger (GL)
Actuarial, statutory, and
management reporting
ALL REPORTING
RECONCILED TO FINANCE
(MANUAL AND COMPLEX)
Uni-directional, reduction of operational data
Accounting Logic
Finance
Front
Office
Mortgage
Finance
Hedge
Accounting
Member Loan
Systems
Investments
IT
Financial Controller
(Internally Developed Application)
12. Journey to Go Live on Accounting Center and
Prism Analytics
2017
Workday
Financials
2018
Workday
HCM
2019
Workday Adaptive
Planning
2020-
present
Go-live in October 2020:
• Workday Accounting Center
• Workday Prism Analytics
Project Highlights
Overall smooth
Eliminated manual processes
Automated error handling
Identified new use cases (regulatory reporting)
Engage in a “learn as you deploy” approach
No additional support needed since go live
13. Today
Visibility into how data is
enriched & transformed into
accounting
Total control over the data
transformation process
No longer dependent on IT
contractors
19. Workday Intelligent Data Foundation.
Transactional Data Planning Data
Operational Data Benchmark Data
20. +% -%
Operational
Insight
P&L
Plan vs. Actual
Forecast
A Look Inside the Intelligent Data Foundation
Operational &
Benchmark Data
Accounting
Engine
Create Trusted
Insights
Ingest and
Enrich Data
P&L
General
Ledger
Operational
Insights
+% -%
Operational
Insight
Data mapping
Anomaly Detection
Recommendations
Matches
Predictions
Guidance
Plan vs. Actual
Modeling &
Forecasting Forecast
22. Accounting Rules
Engine
Business Process
Orchestration
Always on Audit
Data Transformation and Enrichment
Data Lineage and Error Handling with Drill Back
Claims
Commissions
Policies
DEBITS CREDITS
Ingest
Operational Data
Enrich
Data
Create
Accounting
Surface
Reportable Insights
Policy
Region
Customer
Retention
Policy
Type
Car
Make
24. Enterprise Wide Insight
VP FP&A
Deeper insight into
business drivers
One data set for
variance analysis
Controller
Greater system
ownership and agility
One system for
all accounting
Internal Auditor
Always on audit
Business process
orchestration
IT
Reduce cost of system
ownership
Redirect focus to
front office applications
25. Data Processes People
The Result
Anticipate and predict outcomes
Operate without friction Analyze and recommend action
P&L
+% -%
Operational
Insight
Plan vs. Actual Forecast
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