Grant Thornton names Will Whatton to lead OneStream Software practice

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grant Thornton, one of America’s largest brands of professionals providing end-to-end audit, assurance, tax, and advisory services, has named Will Whatton to lead the firm’s OneStream Software practice.

OneStream is the leading enterprise finance management platform that unifies core finance and operational functions – including financial close, consolidation, reporting, planning and forecasting – to modernize and increase strategic impact of the Office of the CFO.

Grant Thornton is a OneStream Global System Integration Partner, delivering strategic solutions with the OneStream platform for our clients’ business operations. Grant Thornton and OneStream work together to help companies optimize their corporate performance management with a focus on quality, scalability and value all within the secure OneStream platform.

In this role, Whatton will lead the practice to deliver innovative solutions to clients focused on the OneStream platform which encompasses solutions such as financial close, consolidation, reporting, planning, forecasting, artificial intelligence (AI)/sensible machine learning, environmental, social and governance (ESG) and others.

“Our dedicated OneStream practice specializes in providing strategic direction, system implementation and managed services support for Grant Thornton clients, and focuses on personal collaboration to help meet our clients’ evolving business objectives,” said Nick Vellani, national managing principal of Grant Thornton's Technology Modernization practice at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. “Will has many years of technology strategy and engineering experience, and his wealth of knowledge means he is keenly suited to lead our OneStream practice to new heights.”

As a principal within Grant Thornton’s Technology Modernization practice, Whatton leads the firm’s enterprise data capabilities focused on maximizing enterprise data value through strategy, governance, engineering, analytics and advanced data capabilities such as AI and data science. He brings deep data expertise to help clients design, execute and support large enterprise transformations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), enterprise strategy and technology product capabilities.

Based in Houston, Whatton has more than 20 years of practical technology strategy and engineering experience and during his career, he has supported data solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and systems implementations, M&A transactions and digital solutions for Grant Thornton clients. He has spent his career delivering innovative technology solutions across many industries including not for profit, healthcare, energy, financial services, construction, life sciences, manufacturing and asset management.

For more information on the Grant Thornton-OneStream alliance visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/services/alliances/onestream.

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About OneStream Software
OneStream is how today's Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further by steering the business to the future. It's the leading enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the Office of the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. With more than 1,400 customers and 250 go-to-market, implementation and development partners, our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance.