Black Diamond Podcast

Welcome to the BDA Podcast! Join us each week as we dive into the latest trends, insights, and best practices that are shaping the fintech landscape. Our expert guests—from seasoned consultants to industry leaders—share their experiences and strategies for success in the ever-changing world of financial technology.

Black Diamond Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Black Diamond Podcast, a business show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  S2E9 | OneStream Director Reveals Why ML Isn't Scary

  Nov 20, 202521 minS2

  <p><br> Tiffany Ma, Director of Product Marketing for AI and Operational Analytics at OneStream, returns for her second podcast appearance to share what's really happening with AI in finance. From 100+ live customer implementations to natural resource forecasting, the AI hype is meeting actual results.</p> <p>Remember when Tom Shea showed IBM Watson back in 2017 and shocked everyone by saying "this is really hard, I'm not gonna sell it to you"? That honesty was refreshing, but also showed the problem - AI was expensive, complicated, and required data scientists writing Python for years. Fast forward to today and OneStream's...

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  Episode #8

  S2E8 | $5B Distributor's OneStream Rescue

  Nov 6, 202517 minS2

  <p>John Kowalkowski, Senior Manager of Financial Systems at BradyPLUS, shares the wild story of taking over a failing OneStream implementation, managing consolidations across 35-40 different ERPs, and building a roadmap for a newly formed $5 billion distribution company. Plus, insights on AI from someone with actual machine learning background.<br> John started when an implementation was at a "trainwreck status". Everyone was overwhelmed with too many responsibilities. John took it over, spent a year getting everything in place amid ongoing organizational change. The data wrangling nightmare included 35-40 individual ERPs and ended up being organized and usable.</p> <p>John's...

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  Episode #7

  S2E7 | Cutting Planning Time By a Week

  Oct 23, 202512 minS2

  <p>Ricky LaBerge shares how a global manufacturing company transformed both consolidation and planning processes with OneStream. </p> <p>Their old planning system was basically just a repository. Offline models everywhere, constant data loading issues, and fire drills that ate up valuable time. Instead of discussing the business, they were stuck trying to get numbers into the system. </p> <p>After their OneStream implementation, there were no more fire drills. They were consistently closing books and issuing results to management on day four instead of day five. On the planning side, they started working before books are even closed thanks to...

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  Episode #6

  S2E6 | Running a Complex Aviation Services Business

  Oct 9, 202515 minS2

  <p>Phil Kaplan, FinTech Manager at Unifi, joins Cameron and Celvin to discuss running OneStream for a complex aviation services business. From contract-level planning across US, Canada, and UK airports to exploring AI for flight forecasting - this is real-world FP&A in action.</p> <p>Unifi is doing everything at airports except flying planes - baggage handling, cleaning, maintenance for Delta, Southwest, and other airlines.</p> <p>They have a CFO-driven AI initiative with a tangible use case: improving flight count forecasts. Weather, events, and seasonal patterns make flight forecasting ideal for AI. External data sources could dramatically improve...

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  Episode #5

  S2E5 | OneStream Power User Talks AI

  Sep 25, 202515 minS2

  <p>Heather from Attain Finance sits down with Cameron and Celvin to share her journey from the early days of Hyperion consulting to running OneStream at a financial services company today. This is a refreshingly honest conversation about career transitions, platform evolution, and trying to figure out what AI actually means for finance professionals.</p> <p>Like everyone else at Splash 2025, AI came up a lot. Heather's take is refreshingly measured - she describes herself as "excited but optimistic but skeptical." It's an initiative for Attain Finance this year to figure out where AI fits, so she's attending sessions and...

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