1.1 Roles in Balance Sheet Planning

OFS Balance Sheet Planning functionality is divided into three distinct roles:

  • System Administrator
  • Planning Administrator
  • Planning User
  • Auditor

This User Guide is intended primarily for BSP System Administrators. See the OFS Balance Sheet Planning User Guide for details on the Planning Administrator and Planning User roles. For information on granting roles to OFSAA users, see the OFSAA Infrastructure User Guide.

Four user types operate the Balance Sheet Planning Application as follows:

Table 1-1 User Roles in Balance Sheet Planning

Role Description Responsibilities
System Administrator BSP System Administrators are super-users who have access to 100% of BSP’s functionality
  • Loading, cleansing, and reconciling all business fact data
  • Maintenance of metadata (dimensions, attributes, hierarchies, and so on)
  • Building and maintaining all Cash Flow Modelling assumptions including Interest Rate Forecasts
  • Processing and validating current position forecasts
    • Once validated, BSP Planning Administrators import current position forecasts to load or “initialize” each new Forecast Set
    • Once a Forecast Set has been loaded with an initial current position forecast, Planning Users can begin forecasting new business and processing their forecasts
  • As super-users, System Administrators also have access to all of the functionality provided within BSP’s forecasting users interfaces

The BSP System Administrator also:

  • May share some of these responsibilities with other administrators who are responsible for other business areas/disciplines
  • Can also fill the role of Planning Administrator

Exports finished balance sheet and net interest margin forecasts to external planning systems
Planning Administrator Planning Administrators are responsible for overseeing the planning process
  • Defining and maintaining Planning Center User Maps that control Planning User access to Forecast Sets
  • Administering Forecast Sets through their lifecycle
  • Oversight of the Planning Process
  • Planning Administrators have unconstrained access to every Forecast Set but are not involved in the maintenance of any Cash Flow modeling assumptions.
Planning User Planning Users are granted access to the planning functionality documented in the BSP Planning Administrator and Planning Analyst User Guide

Within their assigned Planning Centers, their role includes:

  • Forecasting new Business Volumes and pricing margins
  • Processing new Business Forecasts
  • Analyzing and approving the results
Auditor The auditor has Read-Only access for review purposes