Maria Ramos

Maria Ramos

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

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

11:30 AM Panel Discussion | The Compliance Trap: How Finance Moves Beyond Risk Management to Growth Enabler

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

12:30 PM Doing More With Less (Again): Managing Finance Transformation on Shrinking Budgets

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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