Tuesday, August 2, 2022

From improving forecast accuracy, to streamlining the financial close, one of the key selling points to shared FP&A is the ability to centralize financial strategy and mitigate disaster across multiple business lines. Glen Parillo is used to working across multiple lines of business. At Accuweather, he managed 10 unique lines and utilized FP&A as a crucial resource for navigating business analytics, reports and driving value inside the organization. This session will discuss how FP&A has been a crucial resource to Glen, and helped him weather both global supply chain slow-down and the disruption of the pandemic. This session will cover:

• How to better centralize your business lines
• Weave strategy into FP&A’s value proposition
• Properly resource the function accordingly

CPE: Finance - Technical 0.6 CPEs

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Delivering FP&A within the GBS model is a clear solution to ensuring financial shared services operates as a center of decision support that aligns with the business. As voted a Top 20 SSON Shared Service Provider, we could think of a better thought leader to join us to cover the foundations of FP&A success with the GBS model. It will include:

• Managing with lean methodology
• Creating capacity and resourcing targets
• Automating and standardizing processes

CPE: Business Management and Organization - Non-Technical 0.6 CPEs

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Many global organizations are shifting the countries their supply chains cross to ensure the most efficient access to resources. But how can AP ensure the company remains compliant with new local regulation? This fireside will discuss how companies can remain agile to regulatory compliance.

CPE: Finance-Technical 0.6 CPEs

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Jay Qatato has a deep understanding of financial/operational audits and has the scars and the stories to prove it. He has spent his career in the world of operations and auditing, mostly working with Fortune 500 companies including KPMG, Hewlett Packard and is now Senior Director of Internal Audit at Calpine (One of America’s largest independent generators of electricity). Jay has built his career by monitoring financial/operational controls to minimise risk, errors, fraud and making the most of internal and external resources. He talks about monitoring the health of finance relative to physical health, and remarks that “You never stop checking your own health, and the same should apply to your financials”.

In this webinar, Jay will discuss his approach to:

•           Audit best practice

•           Letting the data do the work

•           Transforming the financial/operational controls

CPE: Business Management and Organization - Non-Technical 0.6 CPEs

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