Barbara Hodge

Global Digital Content SSON Research & Analytics

Tuesday, March 17, 2026: Main Program

8:30 AM Workshop F: The Efficiency Mirage: What Tools Won’t Fix in Record-to-Report Automation

Are your finance operations truly automated? Redwood and SSON Research & Analytics reveal the truth behind the “Efficiency Mirage” in shared services. Get the first-look at new 2026 research exposing why most finance teams hit a ceiling with fragmented financial automation and compliance tools. Discover what the data uncovers about the hidden manual effort, rework, and risk still buried beneath “automated” processes.

Hear how leading enterprises like Siemens have been able to break the cycle with Redwood’s end-to-end Record-to-Report orchestration platform and achieve autonomous financial automation.

In this session, you’ll:

See exclusive new SSON research quantifying the hidden workload that tools don’t remove
How Siemens replaced patchwork automation with true orchestration— achieving faster closes, stronger control, and audit-ready accuracy
Understand why “compliance isn’t completion” and how orchestration runs through the process, not around it.
Learn practical steps to build a continuous, touchless close and reclaim time, confidence, and control in your finance operations.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026: Main Program

5:35 PM Benchmark Against SSON’s Top 20 Most Admired GBS Organizations

A hallmark of SSOW has always been the ability to meet the highest volume of true peers in shared services, so that you can make those connections that will allow you to benchmark and discover where your SSO is doing good work, average work, or, sometimes, mediocre work. This session gives you the opportunity to benchmark against the best of the best. Join SSON Research and Analytics as they detail the KPIs common to the Top 20 Most Admired GBSOs and see where your SSO stacks up.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Barbara.

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