CFO ANZ SERIES - JULY EDITION 2021

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+
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Roundtables 5+
• Virtual Attendees 200+

What we will cover

• Solutions to make an end-to-end strategy possible Exploring the technologies and implementations currently in place in leading organisations and the outcomes thus far
• What to consider moving forward An honest conversation with 6 CFOs, the winning moments in the past 2 years, the challenges, the 'aha' moments and what to consider moving forward
• Challenges organisations face in Financial Transformation A deep-dive into proven use cases and transformation journeys undergone through COVID-19 pandemic

Speakers

• Zain Hoosen · Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, McCann Worldgroup An experienced, approachable and effective finance and business services leader with a quantifiable career that has been defined by success in implementing and leveraging technology as a key tool in fostering the growth of an organisation. Recognised as a strategic “achiever" with an energetic and professional presence, and the ability to quickly assimilate and establish credibility with all aspects of a company. Recent focus areas include, acquisitions, ERP SaaS implementation, IT Infrastructure - migration to cloud, outsourcing and financial and operational process optimisation.
• Victor Walter · Deputy CEO Corporate Services & Chief Financial Officer, National Disability Insurance Agency 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Arun Sebastian · CFO, IBM NZ I'm honored to lead IBM New Zealand as its Chief Financial Officer & Board Director. In this role, I assumes a strategic role in the overall management of the company. My team is responsible for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial-related activities, sales operations, risk management, procurement, legal, and property management. I joined IBM in 2008 as a university graduate. Prior to joining IBM New Zealand, I've held various finance leadership roles in Boston, New York, and Dubai. I received my BBA in Accounting & Finance from the University of Houston. I'm also a Chartered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.
• Kevin Goh · Chief Financial Officer, Siemens Digital Industries Software 15+ years in finance and operations executive – strong passion on technology especially the cloud and SaaS business. Joined Siemens in 2018 to embark a new journey as divisional CFO for the Industry software business in ANZ Always passionate about cloud technology and sees real opportunity for business to adopt and create real value.

Partners

• GoCardless 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.
• Oracle NetSuite 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.
• Anaplan Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN) is a cloud-native enterprise SaaS company that enables enterprises to orchestrate business performance. Based in San Francisco, Anaplan has over 20 offices globally, 175 partners and 1,600+ customers worldwide. Business leaders rely on our platform to connect supply chain, finance, workforce planning, sales & marketing teams, systems, and insights from across their organisations to continuously adapt to change, and transform how they operate, create, and accelerate business success. At Anaplan we challenge legacy thinking and software that isn’t flexible for the modern organisation. We put our customers first to create heroes, unlock potential, build trust and confidence. We have architected the only platform offering that will take the time from planning to decision to zero. Together with an ever-growing number of users, a rich partner ecosystem and an active community, we all work together to deliver business value with the power of Connected Planning at every level within in every organisation. To learn more, visit anaplan.com
• 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.
• Esker 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.

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