Panelist

Jim Williams

Co-Founder and Partner of R-CUBED Consulting, Jim brings over 33 years of experience in managing strategic initiatives to achieve business results.  Jim started his career in finance as an Accounting Manager.  Technology intensive projects pushed Jim’s career into business case development and project management, starting with supply chain modernization and other mission-critical projects ranging from small revenue cycle process improvements to multi-year enterprise transformations.  Successful completion of these projects propelled Jim into IT Leadership where he was responsible for enterprise applications, business case development and project execution leadership.  This became the genesis for launching Jim’s first consulting firm. Acquired by The Hackett Group, Jim was responsible for Hackett’s Strategy Practice, bringing highly experienced teams to our client’s most challenging problems to design and implement world class solutions.

At R-CUBED, Jim leads growth and expansion bringing the best people together to surpass client expectations in delivering successful engagements.

Jim is an accomplished, visionary leader and highly sought-after consultant.



Select experiences include:

§15 years in progressive management roles leading significant transformation projects across finance, supply chain, human resources, project accounting and analytics for several industries
§17+ years experience as a founder and leader of technology, process and applications consultancies.  Lead and participated in hundreds of engagements driving high-value achievement
§Recent Engagements as Executive Lead:
§$15B (USD) international brand sports and entertainment client executing a multi-phased digital transformation of transaction processing, finance planning and analysis, shared services, procure to pay and project financial management
§$1.6B (USD) international brand sports and entertainment client executing a divisional spin off and modernizing their financial close processes
§$2.2B (USD) global shipping and logistics service provider transforming their ERP, financial operations, intercompany and close processes while at the same time enabling a divisional spin off.
§$1.2B (CAD) gaming and hospitality client modernizing their financial forecast and planning & budgeting processes
§$3.5B (USD) North American insurer transforming their ERP, financial operations, analytics and close processes.
§Engagement Lead for the ERP transformation of a biotechnology company from pre-FDA approval to post-FDA approval productization and scaling to identified and new markets.
§Lead a spend analysis benchmarking engagement for a $18B (USD) Health system identifying $43M+ in savings.