Specifications include, but are not limited to: Qualified consultants to provide a System Manager/Business Analyst to support various systems related to Authority's financial function. FP&A is in the process of migrating away from a custom application that was used for budgeting, budget maintenance, variance reporting, and ad hoc analysis. This application, Budget/Budget-to-Actuals Reporting (BUDBAR), was developed in Microsoft Access with a Microsoft SQL back-end. BUDBAR functionality, as well as Excel forecasting models will be migrated to: • Oracle’s Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS) – a SaaS application offering annual and long-range planning and forecasting. • FP&A Working Budget – an Access-based system using a SQL server backend to provide support for transactional activity that cannot be performed in the cloud environment. This application will also provide support for processes that require a live connection to onsite accounting and procurement systems. • Qlik Sense Dashboards – these workspaces will provide data for departmental research into budget status, position control, contract analysis and archived data.
