Tom Elkins

Tom Elkins

Finance Transformation & Digital Director Lion
Tom Elkins

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

4:40 PM PANEL DISCUSSION | The Fragmented Finance Tech Stack: Building a Digital Core That Actually Connects

This panel explores how leading finance organizations are building truly integrated digital cores—unified technology architectures that enable seamless data flow, real-time insights, and agile operations. Leaders will share their strategies for connecting fragmented systems and creating the connected, data-driven foundation essential for strategic finance.
Key Takeaways:
• The integration crisis: how fragmented finance technology creates inefficiency, data inconsistency, and limits strategic capability
• Architecture principles for building a cohesive digital core: platform selection, API strategies, and data governance frameworks
• Overcoming common obstacles: legacy system constraints, vendor lock-in, budget limitations, and organizational resistance to integration.

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

9:40 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

3:00 PM Global Finance Delivery at a Crossroads: When Automation Challenges the Offshore Business Case

This session tackles the difficult decisions finance leaders face: continue investing in offshore centers, bring work back onshore with automation, or find hybrid models that balance technology and location arbitrage while managing workforce transitions and political sensitivities.

Key Takeaways:

• The economics shift: how RPA, AI, and intelligent automation are changing the cost equation for offshore versus onshore finance operations

• Strategic decision frameworks: evaluating which finance activities stay offshore, which return onshore with automation, and which require hybrid approaches

• Workforce transition challenges: managing talent implications, morale, and retention when automation threatens offshore center viability

This session tackles the difficult decisions finance leaders face: continue investing in offshore centers, bring work back onshore with automation, or find hybrid models that balance technology and location arbitrage while managing workforce transitions and political sensitivities.

Key Takeaways:

• The economics shift: how RPA, AI, and intelligent automation are changing the cost equation for offshore versus onshore finance operations

• Strategic decision frameworks: evaluating which finance activities stay offshore, which return onshore with automation, and which require hybrid approaches

• Workforce transition challenges: managing talent implications, morale, and retention when automation threatens offshore center viability


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