The Strategic Role of Finance in Business Today
Given the rapid pace of change and level of uncertainty facing businesses today, finance teams need to adapt to shorter cycle times as executives push for weekly or even daily reports and forecasts. Yet, many finance teams are faced with rapidly snowballing data volumes spread across an increasingly fragmented data and application landscape, and they lack the tools necessary to access accurate data to extract business insights.
The result? FP&A struggles to get accurate, timely historic data at a sufficient level of granularity. In this session, we’ll address these challenges head-on on how to eliminate repetitive, manual processes through automation and direct connection to your ERP data, as well as, measures organizations need to put in place to save time and cost, reduce human errors, and improve data quality.
Webinar agenda includes:
· What are the traits that separate higher-performing finance teams from the rest?
· Identifying and eliminating upstream bottlenecks in finance processes to support more frequent and more precise planning
· Why the relationship between capital management, controllership, and FP&A is critical to uncovering timely forward insights that drive desired business outcomes
· Connecting directly to your ERP to ensure all team members are reporting off a single source of truth via reports and plans that refresh in seconds
Speakers
Rohan Liyanage
CFO-Pacific
Signify (Philips Lighting)
Rohan Liyanage is currently the CFO, Pacific, at Signify (Philips Lighting), the world’s leading lighting company. He is a trusted business partner to the CEO and the rest of his colleagues on the executive leadership team. He has extensive experience across a wide range of areas, including commercial leadership, treasury, manufacturing, IT, tax, supply chain, M&A and business transformation.
Shantanu Gupta
Partner — Finance Transformation for APAC
IBM, Singapore
Shantanu Gupta leads the Finance Transformation practice for APAC. Before this role for the last 6 years, he was CFO for IBM’s Asia Pacific and China for GBS and Infrastructure services business for Asia Pacific.Over 17 years experience in finance in various leadership roles in IBM, working across India, multiple countries, geographies and functions spending time in planning, strategy, controllership, controls, finance operations and finance transformation. Extensive experience in APAC market leadership covering finance strategy and managing P&L in (India, China, ASEAN, ANZ, Korea markets) and acquisitions process integration.
Shirley Riddick
General Manager
insightsoftware APAC
Shirley Riddick is the General Manager, APAC at insightsoftware with close on 20 years of experience in the IT industry focusing across ERP and EPM software sales and operations, software design and development, consulting, implementation and training for companies across all industries and geographies. Shirley is a highly motivated strategist and critical thinker able to navigate complex tasks and manage multi-disciplinary projects and initiatives. She has worked closely with many companies to help them see the story behind their financial data and empower finance teams to save hours on their reporting, planning, and analytics. She is passionate about streamlining business processes, optimizing operations, and enabling companies to achieve better business outcomes.
Ran Zou
Senior Transformation Manager
Jardine Restaurant Group
Ran Zou is a Senior Manager of Transformation at Jardine Matheson. He is focused on the digitization and transformation of Jardine Restaurant Group (JRG) at the moment. JRG is the YUM! Brands Franchisee in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Myanmar with over 700 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. Before joining Jardine Matheson, Ran worked at A.T. Kearney, American Express and Restaurant Brands International. Ran has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
