How advanced analytics and agile planning unlock clarity in an uncertain world

Akash Jalan

Global Head FP&A
JLL

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Rabi Patro

VP Finance Business Partner – International Corporate Banking
Barclays

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Yoav Narkys

Executive Director, Head of Business FP&A
Lonza

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Cristian-Stefan Straluciuc

Senior Finance Lead
On Location

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The CFO role has shifted decisively from financial steward to strategic co-pilot of growth. Today’s finance leaders must deliver more with fewer resources, balance permanent uncertainty with long-term value creation, and lead teams through cultural and technological transformation. Drawing on perspectives from Advisory Board members, this panel explores how CFOs are building influence across the C-suite and beyond, developing the leadership skills that matter most, and preparing finance organisations for the next decade.

Discussion themes:

• CFO as co-pilot: Building trust and influence with the CEO, board, and executive peers

• Doing more with less: Leading with credibility under budget, talent, and technology constraints

• Always-on crisis mode: Balancing short-term performance with courageous long-term investments

• CFO as coach: Inspiring teams, modelling behaviours, and embedding growth mindset cultures

• Stakeholder management excellence: Leading across IT, operations, and business units

• Trust and values-driven leadership: Meeting ESG and regulatory expectations while maintaining investor and employee confidence

• Leadership development: Soft skills, resilience, and communication as differentiators for CFOs preparing for CEO-level roles

Billie O'Connor

CFO
Mulberry

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Sharon Naidoo

Chief Financial Officer - UK and Europe
TransUnion

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Raphael Savalle

CFO
Montblanc

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Vivek Patankar

Divisional CFO
ConvaTec

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Dennis Sasse

Group Finance Director
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Roche

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Finance leaders are becoming the custodians of enterprise data, ensuring accuracy and integrity across financial, operational, and sustainability reporting. As AI and ESG converge, finance must guarantee that the data fuelling decision-making is trustworthy, auditable, and value driven. This session uncovers how CFOs are embedding data governance principles across finance, technology, and sustainability ecosystems.

For data, analytics and compliance partners enabling trusted, high-quality data across finance and sustainability reporting.

Volatility is no longer a phase to navigate; it’s the context in which finance must now operate. In this session, we explore how finance transformation can turn uncertainty into an advantage by strengthening visibility, resilience, and decision confidence. Drawing on experience leading commercial finance transformation within global operations, we’ll examine how finance can focus on what it knows, manage what it can control, and build repeatable change capabilities that sustain long-term business performance in an unpredictable world.

Key Takeaways:

• Treating volatility as a constant: Building finance functions designed to adapt and evolve

• Improving visibility through complexity: Making faster, more confident decisions with incomplete information

• Managing known risks and preparing for unknowns through stronger governance and data clarity

• Embedding transformation as a continuous capability, not a one-time initiative

• Redefining finance’s role from control to enablement in an era of perpetual change

For CFOs steering companies through major transitions, transformation is rarely linear. After external shocks reshape markets, the path from stabilisation to growth demands patience, clarity, and partnership at the highest level. This session explores how the CFO and CEO partnership can redefine an organisation’s future, rebuilding financial resilience, restoring credibility, and preparing the foundations for renewed growth. This session will examine how finance can lead from the front during consolidation, align boards and teams around a shared direction, and sustain momentum when transformation proves slower and harder than expected.

Key Takeaways:

• Building alignment with CEOs and Boards during multi-year transformation and recovery cycles

• Translating financial stability into a platform for sustainable growth and renewed confidence

• Balancing cost discipline with targeted investment in future value drivers

• Managing the realities of transformation fatigue while keeping teams focused and engaged

• Strengthening finance’s strategic role as both stabiliser and growth catalyst

Carl Rogberg

Group CFO
Oriflame Cosmetics

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In global sport and entertainment, finance operates where revenues are volatile, operations span jurisdictions, and deadlines are immovable. When a major event goes live, reporting cannot slip and forecasts must adapt in real time.

Drawing on experience within a complex, multi-entity organisation, this session explores how finance leaders manage cross-border reporting, dynamic forecasting, and capital discipline under constant pressure. It demonstrates how strong data foundations, governance, and scenario-led planning enable finance to deliver clarity, control, and strategic value when there is zero margin for delay.

Key Takeaways

• Managing multi-entity, cross-border reporting complexity under shifting regulatory demands

• Building dynamic forecasting models that adapt to event-driven revenue volatility

• Maintaining control, governance, and data integrity in high-pressure environments

• Strengthening liquidity oversight and capital allocation when priorities change rapidly

• Translating event-driven finance discipline into practical lessons for any global organisation

Cristian-Stefan Straluciuc

Senior Finance Lead
On Location

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Nearly there! Get Ready for the Final Stretch of the Exchange with our Last Keynotes and Roundtables This Evening. 

As ESG expectations evolve, finance leaders are shifting from compliance to value creation, turning sustainability into a driver of resilience, capital efficiency, and competitive advantage. This session examines how leading organisations are integrating ESG into core strategy, linking sustainability outcomes to measurable ROI, and aligning financial planning with long-term stakeholder value.

Updated Discussion Themes:

• Year one of CSRD: Lessons learned from reporting, assurance, and audit reviews

• Building the ROI case: Quantifying ESG-linked risk, opportunity, and capital allocation

• From compliance to performance: embedding ESG into budgeting, forecasting, and investment models

• Customer-driven sustainability: How demand across the value chain reshapes finance priorities

• Avoiding the credibility gap: managing greenwashing and greenhushing risks

• Integrating ESG data with financial and operational KPIs

• Investor and lender perspectives: how finance can lead credible, performance-linked ESG narratives

• What “good” looks like: peer insights on effective ESG governance and resource allocation

Raphael Savalle

CFO
Montblanc

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Kai Zinn

Senior Vice President of Sustainability Management
Merck KGaA

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