Agenda

In this workshop, we will take you through some key principles to consider getting you started with predictive planning. Let’s discover together; 

• Data – why Predictive, why now? 
• What to consider getting started on the journey. 
• Adopting a new way of thinking.
• Steps to bring it together into a tangible pilot case. 

A couple of real-world examples will be shared to show you why now is the time to consider a bold move to incorporate predictive in your financial planning and analysis.

• How organisations are driving finance and accounting transformation through a digital lens
• How RPA, Machine Learning and AI is changing the finance and accounting landscape
• Business, accounting and finance functions that are being transformed by these technologies
• Required culture and organisational capability that facilitates successful digital transformation of financial services organisation
• Characteristics of successful financial service organisations that are capturing value from these technologies.

• Session A: Building An Agile Finance Function
  

• Session B: Addressing Challenges In The Finance Function Using Emerging Technologies
  

• Session C: How Are You Going To Navigate The Road To Recovery?
  

How are you preparing for the post covid-19 growth? As we are coming out of the pandemic, forecasters are predicting certain trends which will support growth centered around digital organisations who can future proof their operations and business models.

In a recent podcast published by Mckinsey and Company  ‘The great acceleration’ they see trends of outperformers extending their profits and it sets the scene that companies need to set a path for growth.

Let us discuss how are you planning for growth with your organisation? How will you allocate resources, use technology to improve performance and maximise the right opportunities on the road to recovery.

• COVID-19 is still a challenge to businesses and organisations. Everyday we got good news of vaccination program and at the same time, deadly variants of the virus across the world. Hence, the recovery phase of Australia economy is still in uncertain stage.
• Automation is no longer to be debated, especially in Financial Services. The current workforce simply overwhelms with demands for rapid turnaround on reports, analysis and predictions. Automation would be applicable to more than back office functions such as AR/ AP, but to the point of value added works for Compliance and Customer Services.
• The question for Automation from the business leader is now over: business values, critical impacts and timely result. So far, automation programs purely / solely focus on the delivery of platform and IT-led will struggle to come up with the right answer.

In this session we will explore two real world examples for FP&A professionals; one with manual processes and disparate systems and the other with integrated systems and automated processes to show how organisations can improve performance and collaboration across various departments to maximise opportunities across their value chain.

• How could analytics help us to identify drivers of data variance or draw insights we might have missed
• Embedding analytics into processes and leveraging machine learning
• Leveraging analytics to extend FP&A
• Enabling analytics to not only manage and improve finance processes, but to accelerate business decisions on a wider scale

With the uncertainty of how recent events will impact the global economy, many top executives believe that the next few years will be more critical than almost any time before.

For most companies, recent software innovations will be the key to survival during these uncertain times, and as a result, CFOs and finance teams are now tasked with making critical decisions regarding both current and new Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) investments.

So, what critical steps should your company be thinking about in terms of your FP&A investments in order to maintain speed and agility?

Join us in this conversation as we discover the tools and technologies that would effectively armed the Office of Finance towards growth now and beyond.

In a fireside chat-style conversation with AP automation solution provider, Basware, and  agriculture company, Pāmu, two leaders discuss how having a vision for data-enabled decision-making is helping turn farmers into data creators and willing collaborators. Then they’ll reveal how advanced analytics is helping Pāmu identify what they actually bought – not just what they spent – to enable data-driven innovation to transform their procure-to-pay processes.

• Session A: Internal Controls To Prevent A New World Of Scams
  

• Session B: The Unified Platform For The Office Of CFO: Finance Transformation To Modernization
  

Join us as we share practical hands on experience on successfully navigating finance transformation projects.

• Session C: Data, Vision, Trends And The Right KPIs
  

• Why are so many finance leaders struggling to find top digital talent?
• Develop a vision for the digital finance organization and build an explicit talent strategy to enable it.
• Augmenting your strategic workforce-planning capabilities by working closely with HR
• What are the most popular and most successful upskilling strategies?