As the first half of 2021 comes to a close, Chief Financial Officers and their finance teams begin looking forward to the remainder of the year. Finance executives have remained resilient and withstood historical challenges, and finance teams will continue to overcome unprecedented obstacles.
The role of the CFO continues to evolve, and these executives have embraced new responsibilities to promote the continued success of organizations while protecting vital assets. New critical tasks include meeting growth and profit expectations, ensuring compliance with finance regulations, communicating value to investors, and managing a remote finance team.
In this two-day virtual summit, like-minded finance professionals will cover essential topics for CFOs and finance executives, sharing actionable insights and solutions.
Topics of discussion will include:
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to routine and preventive care was limited and millions of people stayed home to “flatten the curve”— in doing so, they put off screenings, check-ups, vaccinations, and elective surgeries. In fact, 1 in 3 Americans delayed or skipped medical care during the pandemic. The downwind effects may impact your business and healthcare spend for years to come.
This keynote will discuss:
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Launching a finance transformation is an ambitious endeavor during the best of times; forging ahead while the landscape is constantly shifting, new working and collaboration environments are unfolding, and business processes and models are evolving is extraordinary. With an eye on the noble objective of helping Americans secure their future and protect the ones they love, MassMutual embarked on the innovation they deemed paramount. Led by finance, with an impressive cross-functional team, they built an infrastructure to support faster access to information, interpretation of business environments and events, and better decision-making every day that will benefit their customers.
Join Greta Hager, MassMutual Head of FP&A, Nima Rashidi, EPM Technology Leader at EY, and Danielle Dahlstrom, Anaplan Director of Finance Solutions, as they discuss:
Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
Director of Product Marketing, Finance Solutions
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Technology Leader - Financial Services
Diversity and inclusion have always played a critical role within organizations, and in the new year inclusivity is more important than ever. D&I initiatives start from the top, and finance leaders are tasked with supporting and integrating these efforts. A diverse finance team will not only boost company morale, but it will also lead to increased profits through varied ideas and collaboration.
In this interactive panel discussion, topics will include:
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Adjunct Professor, Fintech & Financial Innovation/COO
Global Head of Digital Finance, Data and Tools - Novartis Technical Operations
Former Chief Financial Officer
The realm of corporate business travel research has a long-existing gap that needs to be addressed, which is what is the ROI of T&E spend? Furthermore, the nature of T&E spend has been evolving as the financial impacts on companies of all sizes across all industries continue to unfold. There is also a need to benchmark how companies are leveraging technology to manage and mitigate spend, mitigate fraud exposures, and process expense reports.
In addition, many important questions remain:
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Executive Vice President of Finance & Corporate Controller
Finance teams are simplifying complex work by accelerating digitization in cloud-based platforms as a service (PaaS) over the last year. Teams are transforming the most challenging areas of corporate reporting including processes and analyses based on estimates; new data gathering; maintaining and executing controls over financial reporting remotely; documenting governance reviews and the inclusion of new, ESG and non-financial reporting into the published financial statements.
This session examines the practical steps you can take to increase operational resilience, build scalable automation and efficiency while delivering simplification across your finance teams through cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Senior Director, Statutory Accounting
The best investment a CFO can make, is the investment in its finance team. Employees have been under extreme stress, from extra workloads to navigating the new work-from-home model, which makes focusing on company culture critical. Finance teams have worked hard throughout the global pandemic and surging chaos, so it is important to find ways to motivate and reward them.
In this session, topics will include:
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Vice President, Global GTM Finance Leader
Transformation Lead - FP&A and Business Decision Support
Chief Financial Officer, US Operations
Chief Financial Officer
Sustainability is a major focus for organizations that continues to grow in importance, so how can CFOs and finance executives leverage this area of concern? Finance teams are able to evaluate the benefits of investing in sustainable economic activities and make appropriate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments.
This Fireside Chat will explore:
Regional Chief Financial Officer
Chief of Procurement
2020 was a defining year for the Office of the CFO as they broke out of the compliance box and returned to their role as an essential strategic leader of the organization – one relied upon to shape critical business decisions when COVID-19 impacted businesses of all sizes. As companies transitioned to remote operations, organizations that relied heavily on manual processes for their financial close found it difficult to continue to do their jobs at the same level – let alone deliver on the new expectations required of them to provide timely, critical business insights to guide important decisions.
Trintech conducted a global survey of 486 financial professionals across 430 organizations in the first half of 2021 to evaluate which parts of the financial close process have been automated, which are in the process of being automated and where finance and accounting (F&A) teams are looking to adopt automation in the future.
During this session, Trintech will discuss:
President, Mid-Market
Before the second quarter of 2021 comes to a close, CFOs and finance executives should start planning for future budgetary pressures now. By utilizing planning and forecasting, finance teams will be able to make predictions for the second half of the year including potential costs, future investments, and justifying value spends.
This keynote will address:
Chief Financial Officer
Payments fraud is a growing risk in today’s business environment, as fraudsters focus their attacks on new digital B2B payment systems. Companies that don’t modernize their payments fraud prevention efforts risk being left vulnerable to not just monetary losses, but a loss of trust as well.
Join Capital One to understand the common types of payments fraud and best practices you can implement to help mitigate risk and prevent losses.
Regional Vice President - East Region, Commercial Card
Senior Vice President, Financial Crimes Risk Management
The last year and a half have truly been historical, with influential women securing positions of power in government and large corporations. So, what impact does this have on women in finance? Organizations continue to encourage the promotion of strong female leaders to bridge the gender gap and strengthen diversity initiatives.
In this panel discussion, topics of discussion will include:
Executive Vice President & Corporate Controller
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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Vice President of Financial Services
Partner
77% of CFOs and finance leaders say that their role is expanding to see digital transformation within their enterprise. That is why cardable expansion and increasing Spend Under Management (SUM) is an important initiative for many CFOs today.
In this session, TCG and SAP Concur will address how card expansion and SUM can be managed:
Vice President, Value Experience Group
Senior Advisor, Consulting Excellence
Associate Director, Expense & Invoice
CFOs and finance leaders are tasked with developing a resilient finance team. So, how can leaders find, hire, and retain the best talent? Since the global pandemic forced millions of organizations to go remote, the talent pool has expanded to well beyond specific cities. There is new opportunity for organizations to acquire the greatest talent with fewer limitations.
Join this panel discussion, which will discuss:
Executive Vice President & Corporate Controller
Former Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy
What is standing in the way of your company growing globally?
Forty percent of CFOs across regions are reporting accelerated growth, according to a survey by Globalization Partners and CFO Research of Industry Dive, and your company can’t stay behind. Market expansion will play a key role into this added dynamism, and among the most common reasons companies decided to expand and hire internationally, the top four included market share capture (50%), sales presence (45%), investment diversification (31%), and the ability to acquire top talent (29%).
There is little doubt that the post-Covid-19 business environment presents opportunity, however zeroing in on the opportunities that will benefit your company’s growth will not be as clear-cut.
Join Diane Albano, Chief Revenue Officer at Globalization Partners, in an insights-rich discussion on how to capture new, sustainable growth in an increasingly dynamic and borderless business world and overcome the top barriers in your way. You will learn:
Chief Revenue Officer
