SSOW ANZ 2026: The Next Frontier for Shared Services
12th – 13th May 2026
| InterContinental Double Bay, Sydney
Stephannie Jonovska
Head of Commercial Services and Transformation BlueScope
NextGen Finance Transformation 2026 Day 1: Tuesday, 12 May 2026
3:10 PM PANEL DISCUSSION | Targeted Tech Literacy: Building True Technology Fluency in Finance Organisations
This session tackles the uncomfortable truth: expensive technology sits underutilized while finance professionals struggle with basic digital skills, data literacy, and systems thinking. Leaders will explore proven strategies to build genuine technology fluency across finance organizations, turning software investments into actual capability and competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways:
• The utilization crisis: quantifying how much technology capability remains untapped due to skills gaps in finance teams
• Capability frameworks that move finance professionals from basic tool usage to advanced analytics, automation design, and data storytelling
• Blended learning approaches: combining technical training, hands-on sandbox environments, and peer mentoring for sustainable skill development
NextGen Finance Transformation 2026 Day 2: Wednesday, 13 May 2026
10:15 AM The Tech Panel | From AI Pilots to Production: Embedding Intelligence Across Finance Operations
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
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Stephannie.
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