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18 - 21 May 2026 | Estoril Congress Center, Estoril, Portugal

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Chris Kier

Solutions Engineer Redwood Software

Chris Keir is a Solutions Engineer at Redwood Software specialising in Record-to-Report finance automation. He works closely with finance teams to automate core close activities. With over six years’ experience across finance and enterprise automation, Chris helps organisations move towards a more touchless, predictable close — turning period end into a non-event and giving finance teams time back to focus on higher-value work. In his role at Redwood, he leads value-driven engagements, solution demonstrations, and technical evaluations, partnering with customers to modernise and standardise their financial close.

SSOWOMEN Leadership Day & Excellence Labs: May 18th, 2026

2:30 PM JOURNALS ARE NOT THE WORK

What accruals, provisions and reclassifications really reveal about R2R health

This session reframes journals as signals of upstream breakdown, not finance activity to be optimised. It explores why high journal volumes persist even in “automated” environments and how accruals, provisions and reclassifications point to failures in timing, data and control design. The session shows how orchestration and preventative controls inside SAP reduce journals to true exceptions — improving close predictability, audit confidence and finance capacity.

Presented by: Redwood Software

Aaron Veach, Executive Director, Finance Automation, Redwood Software

Chris Kier, Solutions Engineer, Redwood Software

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