Self-Service Data Analytics and Governance for Managers

About the Authors

Nathan E. Myers, MBA, CPA, Six Sigma Black Belt, has over 20 years of public accounting and investment banking experience at flagship organizations including Ernst & Young, Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. He received both his bachelor's degree in Accounting and an MBA in Accounting from the Indiana University, Kelley School of Business. Much of his career has been spent in finance functions as a controller and as a change manager for products such as FX spot, forwards, and options, securities lending, margin, and equity finance at global investment banks, building scalable controls and delivering strategic technology change. In the recent past, his career has evolved from owning a portfolio of large-scale technology change, to putting data analytics tooling into the hands of users to drive aggressive digital transformation. Nathan has worked to build rigid data quality standards to drive rich and accurate datasets as inputs to processing, has managed robotic process automation (RPA) portfolios, and has scaled end-user data analytics across organizations to capture control and efficiency benefits. He has seen firsthand the requirement to build and maintain close governance over these toolsets, as they rapidly proliferate across banks and large organizations. He resides on Long Island, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.

Gregory Kogan, CPA, is a professor of practice in accounting at Long Island University, focusing ...