CFO ANZ Live May Edition 2021

Overview

Insights from CFOs and finance leaders on how their roles and teams are being re-shaped into the future.The roles and responsibilities of CFOs and finance teams were already evolving before the global pandemic hit, but the challenges of COVID-19 have accelerated the pace of this change. Finance leaders are being asked to assist in ensuring business resilience in the short term, support commercial and operational recovery and drive the change required to adapt to the new business reality

What to expect

• Attendees 200+
• Sessions
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Hours

What we will cover

• Take Advantage Of The Digital Acceleration
• Automation and Impacts from a CFO's perspective
• The Evolving Role of the CFO: From Scorekeeper to Business Partner
• Corporate Performance Management Effective Methods and Planning Strategies

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.
• Pasquale Guerrera · Chief Financial Officer & VP Corporate, Toyota Finance Australia Pasquale Guerrera joined Toyota Finance Australia Limited (TFAL) in April 2016 as the Chief Financial Officer. TFAL is Australia’s largest automotive financier and is the first finance company Toyota established outside of Japan, in 1982. Prior to this, Pasquale has more than twenty years’ experience in investment banking in various finance roles across Australia and Asia. Pasquale commenced his career with Arthur Andersen in the Financial Consulting division. Pasquale holds an Economics degree from the University of Sydney, a Diploma of Applied Finance from FINSIA, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and NZ and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. On a personal note, Pasquale loves most sports especially football, rugby league and motorsports.
• VICTOR PINEIRO · MD Confirmation APAC, Thomson Reuters
• Victor Walter · Deputy CEO Corporate Services & Chief Financial Officer, NDIS An experienced CFO with over 30 years in the financial services industry, exceptional technical skills, strong business acumen and commercial pragmatism. Strengths lie in the delivery of long-term shareholder wealth, a strong social conscience, high levels of staff engagement, change and transformation and strong control frameworks. A broad range of experience across the global financial services and government sectors driving transformational change across the business. Successful large-scale systems implementation across multi-divisions and countries. Over 20 acquisitions and divestments undertaken. An experienced executive director with experience on multiple commercial boards and commitment to community as a non-executive director on not-for profit boards.

Partners

• Sage
• Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading provider of news and information-based tools to professionals. Our worldwide network of journalists and specialist editors keep customers up to speed on global developments, with a particular focus on legal, regulatory and tax changes. Our customers operate in complex arenas that move society forward — tax, law, compliance, government, media. In a disruptive digital age, we help professionals reinvent themselves.
• Esker · Event partner Esker helps organizations eliminate paper and improve business processes by integrating on-premise and on-demand document automation with applications — for higher efficiency in sales order processing, invoicing, accounts payable and purchasing to shorten order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles. Built on patented technology, Esker solutions address the challenges of manual document processing that limit an organization’s ability to increase speed and accuracy, raise productivity, reduce complexity, control costs and improve customer satisfaction. Over the past two decades Esker has become a worldwide leader in document process automation with offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, and partners in more than 80 countries.
• Confirmation · Event Partner Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters, is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, law firms, and credit managers to quickly and securely verify financial data. Founded in 2000, we invented electronic confirmations and have reshaped and modernized the audit confirmation process. Today, Confirmation helps nearly 1.5 million users across 170 countries confirm more than $1 trillion in financial data every year. Our patented service minimizes fraud and brings efficiency to the confirmation process, plus our guaranteed in-network responses and global team of 200 people in 10 offices worldwide ensure a premium service for our clients.

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