NextGen Finance Transformation 2026 Day 2: Wednesday, 13 May 2026


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9:00 am - 9:10 am Chair’s Opening Remarks | The Big Picture: What’s Next in Finance Transformation

9:10 am - 9:40 am Leadership Discussion | Leading from the Middle: How Finance Directors Are Shaping Transformation from Within

This keynote addresses the real leadership tensions facing mid-to-senior finance leaders: securing executive buy-in for transformation investments, navigating competing stakeholder demands, managing constrained budgets, and building credibility as strategic advisors. A seasoned finance leader shares honest insights on wielding influence, making impact, and advancing your career while leading meaningful change.

Key Takeaways:

• Influencing upward: proven strategies to secure CFO and executive sponsorship for finance transformation initiatives without formal authority

• The credibility equation: how finance leaders build trust and strategic positioning with business stakeholders and senior leadership

• Navigating constraints: delivering transformation results despite limited budgets, resistance to change, and resource limitations


9:40 am - 10:10 am Beyond Excel Maze: Modern Platforms Transforming Finance Reporting from Burden to Asset

This tech talk showcases modern reporting platforms and tools that are fundamentally transforming how finance delivers insights—automating data consolidation, enabling real-time dashboards, reducing close cycles, and freeing finance professionals to focus on analysis and strategic decision support rather than report production.
Key Takeaways:
• The reporting burden quantified: how manual processes drain finance productivity and delay critical business insights
• Platform capabilities that matter: automated data integration, self-service analytics, real-time reporting, and intelligent variance analysis
• Real implementation examples: organisations that reduced reporting time by 50%+ while improving accuracy and stakeholder satisfaction

10:10 am - 10:40 am The Tech Panel | From AI Pilots to Production: Embedding Intelligence Across Finance Operations

Yenny Dewi - Global Decision Support and Analytics Strategy Lead, Sanofi
Stephannie Jonovska - Head of Commercial Services and Transformation, BlueScope
Yulia Didenko - Technology Business Partner for Finance, The Lottery Corporation

This panel brings together finance leaders who've moved beyond experimentation to achieve enterprise-wide AI integration—revealing how they overcame organisational resistance, technical fragmentation, and capability gaps to weave advanced analytics and automation into the fabric of everyday finance operations, delivering faster insights and smarter decision-making at scale.
Key Takeaways:
• Why AI remains trapped in isolated pilots: the organisational, technical, and cultural barriers preventing enterprise-wide adoption in finance
• Integration strategies that embed AI across FP&A, close processes, reporting, and business partnering without creating technical chaos
• Change management approaches that drive adoption when finance teams resist new intelligent tools and workflows

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Yenny Dewi

Global Decision Support and Analytics Strategy Lead
Sanofi
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Stephannie Jonovska

Head of Commercial Services and Transformation
BlueScope
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Yulia Didenko

Technology Business Partner for Finance
The Lottery Corporation
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10:40 am - 11:00 am Fireside Chat | What LEGO Can Teach About Finance Solution Delivery

Martin Culwick - Finance Transformation – Solution & Architecture Lead, Perpetual Limited

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Martin Culwick

Finance Transformation – Solution & Architecture Lead
Perpetual Limited
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10:55 am - 11:30 am Morning Break

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Panel Discussion | The Compliance Trap: How Finance Moves Beyond Risk Management to Growth Enabler

Min Su - Finance Director and Company Secretary, Ascom Asia
Shervina Tjawir - Finance Director, University of Sydney
Maria Ramos - Snr Change Manager -Finance &Supply Chain Transformation -ERP implementation, GPC Asia Pacific

This panel explores how forward-thinking finance leaders are fundamentally rebalancing their functions to maintain robust controls while simultaneously enabling business growth, supporting strategic initiatives, and building stakeholder confidence that finance protects the enterprise without blocking innovation or opportunity.
Key Takeaways:
• The compliance overload problem: why risk-averse finance cultures stifle business agility and damage stakeholder relationships
• Operating model strategies that separate "protect" activities from "enable" activities without compromising control effectiveness
• Building trust and partnership: communication approaches that position controls as business enablers, not bureaucratic obstacles

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Min Su

Finance Director and Company Secretary
Ascom Asia
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Shervina Tjawir

Finance Director
University of Sydney
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Maria Ramos

Snr Change Manager -Finance &Supply Chain Transformation -ERP implementation
GPC Asia Pacific
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION | Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving Finance's Persistent Data Integrity Problem

Thomas Lynch - Financial Controller and Head of Finance Transformation, Retail Food Group Ltd
Ozan Kahraman - Head of FP&A and Finance Transformation, Bapcor

This session confronts the data quality crisis plaguing finance organisations, exploring root causes of data inconsistency and revealing practical strategies to establish robust data governance, automate validation, create single sources of truth, and build stakeholder confidence in financial
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Key Takeaways:
• The hidden cost of poor data quality: quantifying time wasted, decisions delayed, and credibility lost due to data inconsistency
• Data governance frameworks that establish ownership, standards, and accountability across source systems and business units
• Technology solutions for automated validation, exception management, and continuous data quality monitoring in finance processes

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Thomas Lynch

Financial Controller and Head of Finance Transformation
Retail Food Group Ltd
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Ozan Kahraman

Head of FP&A and Finance Transformation
Bapcor
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12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Doing More With Less (Again): Managing Finance Transformation on Shrinking Budgets

Maria Ramos - Snr Change Manager -Finance &Supply Chain Transformation -ERP implementation, GPC Asia Pacific

This session tackles the investment dilemma head-on, exploring how finance organisations secure funding for critical transformation initiatives, make smart trade-offs between competing priorities, demonstrate ROI that justifies investments, and achieve genuine efficiency that funds future capability building without perpetual budget cuts.

Key Takeaways:

• Building compelling business cases: ROI frameworks and value narratives that secure transformation funding in cost-constrained environments

• Smart prioritisation: deciding which transformation investments deliver maximum impact versus which initiatives to delay or eliminate

• Self-funding strategies: using quick-win automation and efficiency gains to generate savings that finance future capability investments


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Maria Ramos

Snr Change Manager -Finance &Supply Chain Transformation -ERP implementation
GPC Asia Pacific
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break - Savor, Share, and Socialise

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