Senior Pigment consultant
- Certified Master Anaplanner, working exclusively in Pigment since 2023
- 20+ Pigment clients across finance, supply chain and workforce planning
- 15 years in finance, accounting and EPM, including as a chief accountant
Senior Pigment people, hands on the model.
Hibana Solutions is a team of senior Pigment consultants who design, rescue, support and teach Pigment, the business planning platform, for finance teams and for the partners who implement it.
The name Hibana 火花 (HEE-bah-nah) means “spark” in Japanese: the moment the plan catches and starts to move.
Brian’s record
- Founded Hibana Solutions in 2019 as an EPM consultancy working as an embedded subcontractor to consulting firms; relaunched it in September 2025 focused on Pigment
- Co-founded one of the first two Pigment partner practices in North America, led its delivery, wrote its Pigment architecture standards and best-practice guidelines, and recruited and trained the solution-architect team behind the 2024 Pigment North American Impact Partner of the Year
- Pigment certified
- Earlier, as a senior solutions architect at a CPA firm, led EPM implementations for 97 organizations and was a thought leadership speaker at Planful’s annual conferences
- FP&A manager at Sprouts Farmers Market, where he built the five-year model used for its IPO roadshow; before that, finance at First Solar
- Integrations with NetSuite, BigQuery, SQL, Workato and n8n; migrations from Anaplan, Planful and Host Analytics
- BYU MBA. Passed Level II of the CFA Program
The team
Brian Barnett
Founder and lead solution architect
- Pigment certified, with 115+ EPM implementations across Pigment, Anaplan and Planful, 28+ of them in Pigment
- Co-founded one of the first two Pigment partner practices in North America; wrote its Pigment architecture standards and built the solution-architect team behind the 2024 Pigment North American Impact Partner of the Year
- FP&A manager at Sprouts Farmers Market, where he built the five-year model used for its IPO roadshow
- BYU MBA. Passed Level II of the CFA Program
Pigment model builder
- Holds Pigment’s Pro Advanced Model Builder certification, which Pigment offers only to partners
- Former Big Four consulting analyst
- Driver-based models processing 5M+ data points across 15+ business units
Full profiles are shared with clients and partners on request.
Firm facts
- Founder
- Brian Barnett
- Based in
- Arizona, in the Phoenix area
- Works with
- Pigment customers and Pigment implementation partners, remotely, across the United States and beyond
- What we do
- Hibana Solutions is a team of senior Pigment consultants who design, rescue, support and teach Pigment, the business planning platform, for finance teams and for the partners who implement it
- Independence
- Not affiliated with or endorsed by Pigment
- Contact
- [email protected]
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