Future of Finance & CFO Summit Asia
14 - 15 July, 2021
| Singapore
Agenda Day 1
Moving Beyond Traditional Finance Functions
9:00 am - 9:50 am
Morning Refreshments & Registration
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Chairperson Opening Address
10:00 am - 10:40 am
Big Idea Keynote: Exploring the Role of a “Part-time CFO” in the Gig-economy in Helping Businesses Survive the Pandemic
Vijay Maheshwari -
Chief Financial Officer,
Yoma Bank
· Leveraging on the expertise of a part-time CFO who can help drive your business strategy in this volatile market
· Understanding the key considerations before hiring a part-time CFO
· Learning how you can fully maximise the experience of a part-time CFO to ensure the survival of businesses
10:40 am - 11:30 am
CFO Panel: Taking on the Role of a Next-Generation CFO – the “Creative Finance Officer”
Shavanka Ratnayake -
Chief Financial Officer, nexus (BaaS),
Standard Chartered Bank
Puneet Sabharwal - Chief Financial Officer, Stellantis India
Elyn Chen - Group Chief Financial Officer, Laird Performance Materials
· Exploring what the role of a “Creative Finance Officer” entails and why it is crucial to embrace this change given market disruptions and changes
· Moving beyond responsibilities of a “traditional” CFO
· Discussing critical skill sets required to move towards building a “Future of Finance” team
Accelerating Finance Transformation
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Maintaining a Holistic Approach During Accelerated Transformation – People, Process and Technology
Aris Castro -
Country Chief Financial Officer,
Microsoft Philippines
· Ensuring employees are skills-future ready to help with the transformation agenda
· Recognising that digital acceleration is an ongoing process of constantly adapting to new technologies, and changing customer and employee expectations
· Enabling process improvement and transformation as key to successful transformation
12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
Prioritising Key Transformation Projects Based on a 2-3 Year Plan
Jayanta Chatterjee -
Chief Financial Officer,
Former - Gloves Business, Indo Rama Corporation, South East Asia
· Defining prioritisation factors and criteria and weighting based on your business model
· Discussing with stakeholders on the impact of project will have on the current objective
· Leveraging your transformation Committee to ensure stakeholder buy-in and enterprise-wide adoption
Jayanta Chatterjee
Chief Financial OfficerFormer - Gloves Business, Indo Rama Corporation, South East Asia
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm
Lunch
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Designing your Tech-Stack and Ensuring your Digital Eco-system is Flexible and Scalable
Choo Yee Ling -
Finance Director, Asia Pacific Middle East & South Africa,
Electrolux
· Understanding the needs of your users and improve user experience
· Determining which are the best solution which can give you the flexibility in your tech-stack
· Identifying fixed business processes, adapting operating models and technologies to scale
Adopting Real Time Data Analytics
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Adopting Business Intelligence to Help Organisations Ride the Wave Towards Recovery
Paul Lennie -
Chief Financial Officer, South East Asia,
Asurion
· Reviewing what is required to build a solid foundation when adopting BI
· Identifying your cross-functional collaborators to support your efforts in digitalisation
· Digitising enterprise-wide data to ensure quality and timely input for accurate budgeting, planning and forecasting
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm
Afternoon Tea Break
3:20 pm - 4:00 pm
Achieving Budgeting and Forecasting Accuracy Through Real-Time Data Visibility
· Evaluating the impact of centralised data have on business strategy and decision making
· Designing an internal framework where everyone has access to the same usable operational and transactional data
· Addressing data security concerns when moving to CLOUD to enable real-time data visibility
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm
Ensuring Key Stakeholders are Working Collaboratively Towards a Common Goal with Data Unification
· Reducing risk of a divided workforce operating in diverse geographic locations around the world
· Communicating important developments, metrics and key indicators to stakeholders
· Removing data silo to create a more collaborative culture
