Phoenix, Arizona · working with teams across the US
Pigment architecture and AI for the CFO's office
Hibana Solutions is Brian Barnett's practice. Senior Pigment solution architecture for Pigment partners and finance teams and, alongside it, careful AI for finance operations.
- Pigment Pro Partner Certified
- 28+ Pigment implementations
- 115+ EPM implementations
- Former FP&A manager
Pigment solution architecture
Senior architect capacity for Pigment partners when the pipeline outruns the bench, and direct engagements for finance teams that want to own and extend their model themselves.
- Model architecture that survives scope growth: dimensionality, calculation logic, security, reporting
- Data integration with NetSuite, BigQuery, Workato, n8n and SQL
- Migrations from Anaplan and Planful
- Enablement, including Pigment's AI modeling features
Co-founded one of the first two Pigment partner practices in North America.
Alongside Pigment: AI for the CFO's office
Before AI touches a finance process, the work has to be understood and controlled.
- Map how close, billing and reporting actually run, not how the process document says they run.
- Decide what to delete, what a simple rule can handle, what an agent can draft, and what stays with a person.
- Build inside the systems you already use: read-only by default, a person approving anything that posts or pays, and an audit trail behind every number.
- Measure a baseline first, so the improvement is real.
Taking on a small number of design partners.
About Brian
Before consulting, Brian was an FP&A manager at Sprouts Farmers Market, where he built the five-year model used for its IPO roadshow, and worked in finance at First Solar. He has since led EPM implementations across Pigment, Anaplan and Planful.
BYU MBA. Passed Level II of the CFA Program.