CFO ANZ Live Series - February Edition 2022

Overview

With coronavirus restrictions easing in some countries and tightening in others, chief financial officers (CFOs) face tough choices between shoring up finances, guarding against future shocks and investing for post-pandemic growth. Companies face different threats and opportunities. But those that have embraced digital transformation with careful, data-led planning and analysis have been agile enough to survive the past 12 months in good shape and have the best chance of grasping post-pandemic opportunities. Join this months edition to learn:

The implication on talent and workforce management

How has hybrid working transformed best practice and how to strike the perfect balance in flexibility.

The impact on supply chain and logistics moving forward and how can finance leaders meet the evolving new expectations?

How are finance leaders leveraging new developments in automation and data analytics whilst prioritising their investment spend?

The war on talent and how to turn the talent challenge into opportunity.

What to expect

• Attendees 100+
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Hours

What we will cover

• Workforce Challenges How to navigate the ongoing challenges in hybrid workforce realities and the great re-shuffle
• Leadership Expectations How can we ensure we have the support needed to meet expectations from the executive board
• Talent and Opportunity Thinking differently on how we can utilise our existing talent as well as ways to attract new.
• Automation and analytics investment How do we prioritise our data & analytics investments

Agenda

• 9:00 am Integration of Process and Systems- How automation Can Help(Plenary) Hear from Bradley Kyne, Financial Director of East Kimberly Services.
• 9:18 am Keynote: How the Pandemic has Changed Finance & the Role of the CFO Forever(Plenary) Join Moazam A. Shah to discuss how the pandemic has changed the the role of finance forever, with over 20 years of international experience we will explore how CFO's need to move forward into 2022 and gain insights into: The changing evolution of the CFO role Key lessons learnt and how to develop core skills around: Resilience Adaptability Agility
• 9:33 am CFO’s Toolbox for 2022: Remaining Future-Ready with Technology(Plenary) Finance is sometime perceived as being the last ones to change, set in their ways, ways that work one way or another to deliver results in a predictable and repeatable manner. But over the years as the importance of data and technology evolves, so do the strategic imperatives driving organizations; imperatives the CFO needs to own. With the uncertainty of how recent events will impact the global economy and increasing global concerns including ESG initiatives, inflation, supply chain issues, and hybrid workforces, many top executives believe that the next few years will be more critical than almost any time before. For most companies, the importance of accurate and timely data in conjunction with 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 transformation investments. So, what critical steps should your company be thinking about in terms of your financial transformation investments to maintain speed and agility? Join us in this conversation as we discover the importance of data and how the tools and technologies effectively arm the Office of Finance towards growth now and beyond.
• 9:48 am Keynote: Developing Your Own Authentic Leadership Skillset to Unlock Business and Personal Growth(Plenary) Join thought leader and CFO Lorna Raine as we journey through her remarkable career, explore her current role with George Weston Foods, as well as gain insights into: Why authenticity and leadership matter more now than ever Why working on ourselves will underpin our ability to handle complexity and ambiguity How to drive personal growth and business outcomes
• 10:10 am Keynote: Financial transformation - The Last Mile of Digital Transformation(Plenary) Companies today are recognising that a shift in their digital strategy is required. Increasingly, they are reshaping their digital presence to focus on the “last mile” – the hardest part of the customer journey that requires an individualised experience. Join this session to explore the four key pillars of digitalisation: Technology advancement and decision making Data mgt Process, resourcing and upskilling Managing organisational change
• 10:31 am Panel: 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?
• 10:58 am Keynote: How to Shift Your Internal Operating Systems as a Leader(Plenary) High performance is an inside job. What is your current default way of thinking? And does it help or hinder what you’re building as a leader? Ram Castillo will share tools, techniques and frameworks to access empowered, value-aligned behaviour shifts. Learning outcomes: Why our results start with our mind How to identify behaviours that aren’t serving us What to do when our thoughts and beliefs need to change
• 11:20 am Keynote: The Effective CFO - How to Stay Close and be a Leader to Your Team?(Plenary) How do you stay close and be a leader to your team in a post-pandemic era? Join this session to explore how as leaders we can embrace the changing work landscape of remote and hybrid teams and gain insights on evolving leadership skills and how this translates across your organisation. Key learnings include: Developing stakeholders relationships How to support and build resilient teams How to support team to achieve results
• 11:45 am Keynote: Growing Finance Teams and Business Acumen(Plenary) Attend this session and hear from Chief Financial Officer at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Mistelle Jack as we gain insights on: Identifying the value each individual brings to the team Building the business financial acumen to support better decision making Growing talent and growing your business at the same time
• 0:04 pm Roundtable - The Evolving CFO Mandate and What The Future Holds for Finance Leaders(Plenary) The past year has been a game-changer for companies worldwide, not because it demonstrated the importance of digitalisation but also because it revealed the crucial need for agility and resilience in disruptive times.And so, financial planning and streamed lined workflows are continually proving to be the key driver of future business models to provide the optimum experience for internal and external stake holders and enable growth. However, the rules and the landscape have accelerated. Finance leaders must rethink their strategy as they leverage the power of the data science, analytics and optimised processes. Join us as we unwrap: Case studies Discuss recent strategies implemented Outcomes and success and failure stories Takeaways: During this edition of the CFO Executive Sit-Down we will discuss: What leading organisations do to enable digital transformation and set the right path Actionable insights to streamline your financial close & consolidation, regulatory compliance and planning Communication and planning; harmonising all business units for quicker and better outcomes

Speakers

• Gareth Lewis · Head of Production, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
• Ralph Stein · Finance Transformation Consultant, Wolters Kluwer Ralph is an associate member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of ANZ, and has over 25 years of experience in finance & accounting, financial applications, reporting, performance management and analytical software space. He is currently the Financial Transformation Consultant at CCH Tagetik, specializing in the Planning, Forecasting and Consolidation business across Asia Pacific and is also coming up to speed in the Supply Chain Planning software.
• Sanj Ahuja · Chief Financial Officer, Probe CX I am an experienced, competent and respected finance professional and CPA with strong capabilities using financial management to deliver exceptional business outcomes. Professionally, I am respected for my ability to use the financial results of an organisation and business unit to drive strategic planning and decision making initiatives. I effectively engage with fellow department heads to understand their objectives whilst ensuring that they have the capabilities to drive a high degree of financial acumen. I am commercially astute, able to analyse operational and capital expenditure to determine the best ROI and business outcomes. I drive a high degree of focus on forecasting and budgeting, regularly reporting against outcomes and analysing business expenditure and expected revenue. As a people leader, I am regarded for my strengths in mentoring and coaching. I work closely with my team, personally developing their capabilities and ensuring ongoing performance management. I regularly provide feedback to my team, ensuring that they understand expectations on them whilst allowing them to enhance their own capabilities. Professionally, my core strengths are recognised as: • Budgeting and forecasting • Financial control • Business restructure • Offshoring • Business partnering • Cashflow management • Audit & Assurance • Mergers & Acquisitions • Investor Relations • Acquisition Integration • Private Equity I am an effective communicator, focused on using relationships to enhance outcomes and drive business performance. I am a contributor to strategic planning, using my commercial understanding and professional acumen to conceptualise strategic goals to support organisational development.
• Andrea Kraus · Chief Financial Officer Oceania, Prysmian Group Chief Financial Officer Oceania at Prysmian Group. Andrea started his career in Investment banking working in London, Paris and Milan for Merrill Lynch advising clients across different industries. In 2014 he joined Prysmian Group in the HQ controlling department, he became the Controller of Brasil operations and later took over the role as CFO Oceania for 3 years in Australia. During 2019 he moved to Berlin as CFO of Germany and Head of Controlling CEE. Andrea is passionate about sailing since a young age, he makes sure he spends his vacation in the island of Elba every Summer. He is married to Hannah, a very talented Australian designer working in sustainable fashion.
• Lisa Weber · CFO, ETC Lisa is an innovative c-suite executive with extensive experience managing financial, IT, HR, risk, and corporate governance functions. She is a strong leader that develops stakeholder relationships with customers and Board alike. Lisa has scoped, implemented and project managed HR, Finance, and IT software solutions that have produced efficiencies and driven results. As the CFO at ETC, Lisa has been instrumental in the creation of a financially stable business that achieved a 300% growth over a few years, with revenue exceeding $38 million. With unwavering integrity, Lisa brings professional advice to the organisation, that continually improves business performance and sustainability. Throughout Lisa’s career, she has shown an aptitude for developing new processes, policies, and frameworks that guide the business through any corporate governance requirement. As a key member of the Executive leadership team, she has been an invaluable resource for the C-suite and Board of Directors. Lisa has accumulated an exceptional 25 years of experience. This experience has been developed within numerous professional services firms, not-for-profit businesses, State Government enterprises, and SME businesses.
• Rachael Coupe · CEO, The Key Advisory I am an experienced strategist and general business advisor across multiple industries. I specialise in strategy, business mentoring, management consulting, finance and operations management, project management, financial control, business administration systems and advisory services. I am a solutions-based individual with a strong work ethic who can strategise, plan, create, and execute appropriate business methodologies, financial control systems, implement operational and business administration systems to produce strong strategic outcomes for a variety of different industries and clients.
• Melanie Holdsworth · Head of OPEX, Teachers Mutual Bank Limited Melanie is passionate about people, processes and innovative technologies across both the commercial environments and within community and Not for Profits. Melanie is the Head of Organisational Process Excellence Manager for Teachers Mutual Bank LTD, she has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services Industry. Melanie has held a number of senior operational, people and change management roles. In her current role Melanie leads the OPE team using systems thinking and technologies like Robotic Process Automation & AI to improve internal & external experience, create competition while maintaining a 21st Century business design focus. In addition to this she is creating a new bank that is not just digital and based on human centre design but perhaps most importantly ethical and responsible. Melanie's industry experience is broad and varied, it includes leading teams in the development and delivery of solutions, process improvement initiatives, sales and service distribution, product development, risk management and business management and strategies. Melanie's focus is people and to lead, motivate, coach and mentor people to be the best they can be and to build high performing agile teams. As a qualified and experienced health professional and change practitioner, Melanie is a visionary in the area of youth, education, culture and disadvantaged groups. A believer in using pragmatic solutions for positive outcomes.
• Lorna Raine · Chief Financial Officer, Gwf I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and also completed my articles with KPMG. I always wanted to get out into a commercial role as soon as the opportunity presented itself. My first job out of articles was with Malbak Limited, a company listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange. When I got the opportunity to work for McDonald’s South Africa I jumped at that. The brand had entered South Africa after apartheid had been dismantled and I was very keen to work for a multinational with such a great brand. It was fantastic to be part of a business in its growth phase and at the helm of the finance function during that time. In 2002 I was offered a role to work in Australia as planning and strategy director for Yum Restaurants International (brand owners of Pizza Hut and KFC). Both the role and working in Australia for another highly successful business was appealing. During the course of my time at Yum my career really developed – I was not only given the opportunity to further my finance career as CFO, I also moved laterally into operational roles that enhanced my skillset. Working for Fairfax Media Limited was also an exceptional experience. I had never worked in an industry that was so disrupted. It was exciting to be part of a team that was developing a strategy to adjust the economic model to respond to the change in reader behaviour onto digital media. More recently I joined George Weston Foods which is a large FMCG in the food manufacturing space as their CFO. The fact that these businesses are such low margin, high volume operations brings about a different set of challenges for the finance folk.
• MIstelle Jack · Chief Financial Officer, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Finance professional with extensive commercial and financial experience. Broad skills base and business acumen gained across a range of industries including retail, banking and insurance. Proven ability to deliver positive results, achieve targets and improve processes whilst maintaining high levels of integrity and ethics. Fosterer of talent and ambition for great workplaces.

Partners

• Sage 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.
• Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, finance, risk & compliance, and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. CCH Tagetik, a part of the Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting division, provides solutions to CFOs for Corporate Performance Management. For over 20 years, CCH Tagetik has collaborated with finance organizations to optimize multiple business processes including budgeting, planning & forecasting, consolidation, reporting, analysis and disclosure management in one unified platform, available on Cloud and On-Premise. We have implemented a full range of Corporate Performance Management processes including more than 2500 applications at more than 1300 customers across various industries. Recently recognised by Gartner as the Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions (FP&A) and 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions (FC), and we are ranked among the highest level of customer satisfaction in the market every year. CCH® Tagetik is one of the fastest growing global software companies in the industry. A global vendor exclusively focused on simplifying and streamlining business processes for the CFO and the Office of Finance.

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