CFO ANZ HYBRID SERIES - SEPTEMBER EDITION 2021
CFO and The Art of Leadership During Times of Uncertainty
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 13471 hours
Overview
Once a month, industry leaders in Finance will be at the Chief Financial Officer Live Series. They are committed to delivering transformation strategies that will build agility, speed, intelligence and innovation. CFO ANZ Live is a hub space for all finance leaders, where you can gain insights, hear about solutions or simply join as a silent observer!
What to expect
- Speakers 10+
- Virtual Attendees 150+
- Roundtables 5+
- On-site Attendees 60+
What we will cover
- Unifying and Harmonising all Business Units
- Financial Analytics
- Transformation & Innovation
- Intelligent Automation
Agenda
- Financial Transformation is the new Digital Transformation(Plenary) How digital solutions are solving for operational efficiency: The term ‘digital transformation’ has become somewhat synonymous with COVID-19. As teams and operations became decentralised, companies looked to quickly build their remote tech stacks, striving for ‘business as usual’ despite the circumstances.
- 6 Practical Tips That CFO’s Need to Know to Drive Their Cash Conversion Cycle(Plenary) Sean has years of experience in helping businesses around the globe maximise their potential. Join this session to understand insights that can help your business today, including: Cash flow initiatives How to manage behaviours How to lead across your organisations transformation journey
- Expanding Enterprise Planning Beyond Finance(Plenary) FP&A has evolved and finance professionals are expanding outside of finance, breaking down silos to drive value with enhanced collaboration. xP&A extends the wisdom of FP&A to all areas of a company, incorporating a financial perspective into a broader range of decisions. How do you integrate all planning processes in the organisation? How do you make sure your top-down and bottom-up planning processes are harmonised beyond the finance function? xP&A offers a solution for the path forward. Coined by Gartner, this buzzword is gaining a lot of momentum in the FP&A space and it requires the right corporate culture, tools, and techniques to make it work effectively. The methodology behind xP&A applies FP&A tools and related processes to additional departments within an organisation, and links data, systems, and people both horizontally and vertically. This enables organisations to unify, integrate and align planning and forecasting activities throughout the entire value chain. In this session you will hear valuable insights into how organisations are leveraging this methodology to increase collaboration and drive performance improvements and growth.
- The Place of Social License in a Finance Organisation(Plenary) Join Chief Financial Officer Wayne Andrews as he shares practical ways to implement social license across your organisation, to help navigate through good times and challenging times and foster a strong culture of collaboration, trust and transparency.
- The Tech-Savvy CFO: How CFOs are Utilising Technology to Stay Agile and Efficient(Plenary) Technology helps businesses deliver better performance by increasing visibility into operations, automating processes and allowing finance teams and CFOs to be more strategic. The tech-savvy CFO knows that embracing technology is key to great financials, and a great customer experience. Like many businesses, BioPak was forced to adapt in 2020, but the slowdown was a temporary blip and the company’s stellar growth trajectory continues at pace. As CFO at BioPak, Kim Jeanneret has utilised technology to help the business navigate past challenges, while simultaneously plotting its pathway to future success. Join us for a Fireside Chat with Kim and Jason Toshack (VP – ANZ, Oracle NetSuite), where they’ll discuss the digital CFO’s toolbox, how technology helps businesses stay agile and what tech savvy CFOs are anticipating will impact the role in the future. About BioPak: BioPak is an award-winning foodservice packaging and catering disposables company that puts the planet first. With a focus on innovation and customer service excellence, you can find their products in major supermarkets, office supply stores, direct from their website and more.
- The Future of Digital Finance and What it Means for Your Organisation(Plenary) The Future of Digital Finance and What it means for Your Organisation, our panel will discuss: The current business climates essential to driving finance transformation, integrating data and digital to operate on new levels The top challenges faced by the CFO and the finance team when setting out to redefine finance processes, and the steps towards streamlining them Business partnering – an essential for finance transformation and how to equip people with the necessary skills and technology to build solid relationships The required skill shift in the finance professional – will future finance professionals require an accounting qualification?
- Integration of Process and Systems- How Automation Can Help(Plenary) Hear from Bradley Kyne , Financial Director of East Kimberly Services.
- Networking Break(Plenary) Networking break - Sessions will start at 11.50 again
- Understanding Cyber Risks to Grow a More Resilient Financial System(Plenary) Join Kelly Butler as explore how the pandemic has forced so many companies to accelerate their digital transformation to service demand but it would appear the cyber risk considerations are playing catch up. Discussion points include: Disconnect in the cyber-risk conversation and what you need to know to build a more resilient financial system Understanding the difference between: Customer data risk Operational internal risks
- The Challenge of Digital Transformation, and How to Drive Efficiency(Plenary) The COVID-19 pandemic is a time of great uncertainty, but it is also an opportunity for financial leaders to demonstrate the critical strategic role they can play in helping transform the future of the enterprise. However, doing so will likely require major changes in how Finance leaders act and think — their “DNA.” A recent EY CFO survey identifies three fundamental ideas for CFOs to consider: Be smarter about the emotional intelligence that underpins collaborative leadership • Reframe what value means for the organisation Make bold and innovative choices to reframe finance for a very different future While the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a huge humanitarian and economic cost, it has also changed how we think about the world. As well as protecting their people and their communities, innovative and bold companies are also pioneering new business models, accelerating digital priorities and transforming how they work.
- Closing Remarks(Plenary)
Speakers
Gareth Lewis · Content Creator, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
Julie Gerlach · Account Director ANZ, Jedox Julie joined Jedox at the beginning of 2021 as an Account Director for Australia/ New Zealand. Julie is currently working with several enterprise accounts in the region to deliver successful FP&A projects. After graduating with a master’s degree in Economics and Communication in Germany, Julie spent the majority of her career working with a range of different FP&A solutions in commercial and government organisations across New Zealand. In 2019 Julie moved to Brisbane and started working in the AI/ML space to deliver some high impact projects for the Queensland Government and other clients in the Utility and Finance sector. Julie is currently broadening the Jedox footprint in the ANZ region to now include Queensland.
Wayne Andrews · Chief Financial Officer, University of Sydney 20+ years proven “C” level experience in demanding large cap multinational environments in across Asia Pacific, with a passion for developing and driving strategy. The passions and skills that drive my career include; • A passion for marrying strategy with deep financial insight underpinned with the capacity and presence to explain and evangelize strategy in a way that mobilizes stakeholders. • Proven capacity to manage large multi-disciplined (and multicultural) teams, across the Asia Pacific, adopting a coaching strategy underpinned by KPIs. • A background in engineering offers practical perspectives and an ease in operational settings. • Seasoned communication and negotiation skills, proven in the board room, with customers and key external stakeholders.
Sean Goonan · CFO - Concrete, Holcim Australia Pty Ltd Senior Executive with international experience in leading finance and commercial functions. Solid achiever who can make things happen and deliver results in ambiguous situations through excellent external and internal networks. Specialist in driving a cash culture and delivering working capital improvements. Previously had 20 years in the food industry (B2B & B2C) including 12 years with Associated British Foods Plc (baking, ingredients and FMCG grocery across 3 geographies, UK, Australia and Asia) Sunrice and Bonlac Foods (now Fonterra) in finance and customer fronting commercial roles.
Matt Clohessy · Finance Director, GameStop I am a highly accomplished CPA-qualified senior finance executive and ‘hands-on’ business partner, with international experience working for several high profile US listed companies, experienced in managing the full finance function of large businesses across multiple countries, in Europe, Middle East, Africa & Australasia. I have provided business insights that has improved profitability and created incremental value through identifying operational efficiencies and investment opportunities in diverse cultures and environments over successive years, through the development and implementation of strong financial and commercial strategies. I have a proven track record in new business development, having provided direct support to multiple successful new business openings and several business sale processes throughout Europe, Middle East and Australia. This included providing in depth feasibility analysis on potential performance in key metrics, and review of these forecasts through openings. I am also experienced in the implementation of new financial systems, with direct involvement in review of audit processes to manage risk and ensure the highest standards of corporate governance are adhered to. I am passionate about creating high performing teams through genuine leadership interactions and mentoring, to enable individuals to simultaneously contribute to both organisational and personal success. Having a strong track record being part of a successful senior leadership team that has driven improvement in business performance through developing our teams.Sandeep Mehta · CFO ANZ, Tech Data Senior Finance Professional with 29 years' regional business & financial management experience, mostly in the Technology & Semiconductor distribution industries, and currently serving as ANZ CFO for Tech Data, a TD Synnex company, world's largest technology distributor. Lived & worked in Singapore and India; currently based in Sydney. Specialties: Financial Stewardship and Business Partnering, Finance Transformation and Change Management, M&A and integrations, Organic business set up, Risk Management & Facilitating Financial Training.
Partners
GoCardless · Event Partner A global leader in bank-to-bank payments, GoCardless was founded on the belief that the way businesses collect recurring payments is broken. Companies of all sizes spend too much time and money trying to collect what they are owed – whether due to manual processes relating to credit transfers, or high costs and failure rates from credit cards. GoCardless is passionate about payments and dedicated to helping solve this issue. GoCardless democratises bank-to-bank direct debit, commonly known as Direct Debit, and makes the ‘pull function’ capability accessible and easy to use for small businesses while bringing automation and operational efficiencies to enterprise organisations. With 60,000 customers globally across a range of industries, GoCardless provides access to a Global Bank Debit Network that covers 35 countries and nine Bank Debit schemes across the UK, North America, ANZ and Europe.- Sage · Event Partner Sage is the global market leader for technology that helps small and medium businesses perform at their best. Sage is trusted by millions of customers worldwide to deliver the best cloud technology and support with our partners to manage finances, operations, and people. We believe in doing everything we can to help people be the best they can be, so the combined efforts of 13,000 Sage colleagues working with businesses and communities make a real difference to the world.
Oracle NetSuite · Event Partner Founded in 1998, Oracle NetSuite is the world’s first cloud company. For more than 20 years, NetSuite has helped businesses gain the visibility, control and agility to build and grow a successful business. First focused on financials and ERP, we now provide an integrated system that also includes inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 24,000 customers in 215 countries and dependent territories.Jedox · Event Partner Jedox is a leading global Enterprise Performance Management solution provider. Over 2,500 organizations in 140 countries use Jedox for real-time planning on the web, the cloud, and on any device. Jedox’s unified planning, analysis and reporting empowers decision-makers across your organization. Jedox helps business users work smarter, streamline business collaboration, and make insight-based decisions with confidence.
Factor · Host Sit-Down helps senior thought leaders and executives, stakeholders, advisors and suppliers, interested and passionate about what they do. With years of track record in the business matching services industry we specialise in helping creative business build, change and maintain their profile. With years of enthusiastic and passionate experience of working with fortune 500 companies and over 125000 CXOs, we now are one of the leading providers, enabling government agencies and enterprises advance their operational initiatives through engagements with those facing the same challenges.
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