01 - 02 June, 2021
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Agenda Day 2
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CET
Strong Finance Leadership as the key for Successful Digital Transformation and Culture Change
Jose Sorondo -
Director Global Finance Shared Services,
Lululemon
· Change is rarely simple and internal friction is inevitable – how can strong leadership change the way that transformation is viewed and received?
· How can we foster a culture of innovation when it comes to Finance Transformation?
· Creating the transformers of the future: Driving long term transformation requires more finance transformation leaders who are prepared to push through the change, how can we find and nurture these future leaders?
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
CET
Automating AP Processes to Enhance Business Value and drive Efficiencies
· The AP process is often time consuming, inefficient and confusing: Hear the panelists discuss their best practices for improving the workflow.
· How the technologies such as RPA, OCR & AI are driving new levels of finance and digital transformation.
· Payment approval can often slow down the process to a grueling pace: how can automation entirely revolutionize the workflow?
What benefits would automating the AP processes have to the business: how do you successfully quantify the benefit of AP-automation and convey this to key internal stakeholders?
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
CET
Lessons from the Frontline: Drive tangible value to your business through your AP process
Join industry practitioners as they share their top tips, ideas, and solutions on driving tangible value to your business through AP Transformation. Packed with tangible take-aways, and no-hold-barred insight into the challenges of establishing, improving and revolutionising AP within a business, this is the finance professional discussion which will give you the roadmap to innovation in 2021.
· Approaching your AP model right: what worked and what hasn’t
· Having the right skills for the AP GPO leaders to drive organisational change
· Executing a transformation agenda across the AP process for maximised business impact
· Developing GPO AP model in the outsourced environment
· Top tip for improving your AP process?
· Number one pitfall to avoid while transforming your AP process?
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm
CET
Break
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm
CET
Creating best-in-class Finance Operations through Finance Transformation, Technology Adoption and Structural Changes
Patricia Van de Sande -
Senior Vice President - Finance,
GFL Environmental
Robert Masson - Chief Financial Officer, Redberry Restaurants
Jeff Hope - Chief Financial Officer, Gibbons Whistler
· Reaching our potential to create world-class finance operations: outlining current objectives, priorities and foreseen challenges in end-to-end finance transformation
· Leading the change - automation and digitization becoming the new norm: why are we still spending more time on traditional finance activities than new digital trends?
· Coming to terms with data analytics: what steps must be taken to actively investigate how we must be using sophisticated, forward-looking analytics to enhance finance and organisational performance?
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm
CET
“Drowning in a sea of Invoices” – Overhauling the Invoice Processing process to save Time, Money and Energy
· Often inefficient, manual and time consuming, how can we bring the Invoice Processing process into the 21st Century?
· It may seem like a daunting task, but Invoice processing ought to be seen as a low hanging fruit of digital transformation where rapid results can be delivered – but where to start?
· The panelists will discuss their experiences with Invoice Processing and outline tips and solutions that have drastically improved the efficiencies of the process
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
CET
How to More Effectively convey the ROI of Financial Transformation Projects to ensure Internal Buy-In
· When making the business case for Financial Transformation projects, often the true value of the transformation is not conveyed: how can we analyze the true ROI?
· What metrics can we use to convey the value of investments and outline the compounding effect that transformation will have to ensure internal buy-in?
The Butterfly effect: traditional finance processes may be bottlenecking business-growth: how can we spot the tell-tale signs and what else may finance transformation make possible for the business?
