Disrupting Finance: Delivering next level 
strategic, digital and operational transformation

Australia’s No. 1 Event for Finance Leaders! Celebrating 14 years!

16 - 17 September, 2025 | Sydney, Australia

Presentations

Is the Best Automation Technology Good Enough to Ensure the Success of Process Automation? A Review on Accounts Payable.

Is the Best Automation Technology Good Enough to Ensure the Success of Process Automation? A Review on Accounts Payable.

In this presentation from Future of Finance ANZ, Luciano Albaytero Lead Project Manager at Automotive Holdings Group discusses:

  • End to end process review and redesign.
  • Cultural heritage against change and how to bring it down.
  • Why is segregation of duties so important? Are we completely safe from fraud?
  • Is the best technology good enough by itself? What are the risks of assuming it is?
  • What’s the next step?
Case Study: Automation & RPA as the Key to Continuous Cost Reductions and Process Improvement

Case Study: Automation & RPA as the Key to Continuous Cost Reductions and Process Improvement

In this presentation from Future of Finance ANZ, Shari Frew, Head of Finance Transformation at Griffith University discusses:

  • Exploring how automation continuously drives value and unlocks trapped cash
  • Avoiding high costs and common pitfalls associated with integration challenges
  • The extent of value add to business when reducing thousands of hours of repetitive manual tasks
  • Taking your automation to the next level – gaining control over processes to free up time for strategic value add tasks (Griffith has increased their process efficiency by 22% in the last year)
ANZ Case Study: New Ways of Working - Transforming Finance Through People, Process & Technology

ANZ Case Study: New Ways of Working - Transforming Finance Through People, Process & Technology

In this presentation from Future of Finance ANZ, 2017 - Luke McConnell, Head of Operations & Transformation, Financial Control at ANZ discusses:

  • How transformation is a total body of work its not just about headcount or savings
  • How to develop a structure for success
  • Pursuing “Quick wins” is a dangerous long term game
  • How to manage execution tightly in regards to KRAs, Metrics, Check-in meets, etc.