The Evolving Role of Financial Controllers

The use of technology within finance remains a critical focus, and organizations are eager to gain insight into what the future holds. Finance and accounting teams can harness predictive analytics to create more accurate revenue projections, create efficient operations, improve supply chain processes, and identify the most profitable path for their enterprise.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Hire and retain finance talent while competing for talent
• Make technology a differentiating advantage for your finance team
• Deploy new predictive strategies to generate profit for your business
• Predictive analytics can assist in cost reduction, especially during times of unforeseen disruption

Christian Mezger

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Anuvu

The almost daily, rapid and unprecedented change in the business environment today is driving financial experts to reimagine how to pivot and identify the right metrics, offer the forward-looking analysis and find the appropriate levers to quickly to inform the organization and respond and adjust with agility.

Finance leaders need complete access to all organizational data and the ability to examine this data at a transactional level and do so in real time in order to provide the most precise analysis needed to offer direction and compete in today’s uncertain business environment.

In this insightful thought leadership presentation, you will learn:

• How to improve accuracy of insights with direct access to every transaction, and self-service analytics for accurate and trusted reporting
• Why unifying data in a common environment drastically improves consolidation, planning and operational analysis and reporting
• Drive immediate action with data that is readily available to for real time decision making

Ryan Garrett

Sales Engineering Team Lead

Incorta

Stephen Ibach

Vice President of Financial Services Solutions

Incorta

As we begin a new year, CFOs and their teams must overcome unforeseen challenges and focus on implementing new strategies for organizational success. Talent is fast becoming a key aspect of profitability and maintaining a competitive edge.

Attend this fireside chat to learn how your organization can retain and attract the right finance team as the “Great Resignation” sweeps the nation.

This Fireside Chat will explore:

• How to recruit, retain, and engage finance talent during the “Great Resignation”
• The need for digital transformation and new technology investments
• Ways to overcome the unprecedented talent crisis and strengthen your finance team

Josh Gertsch

Senior Industry Principal

Workiva

Moderator:

Eric Wallace

Event Producer

Argyle

Resiliency and risk management remain top priorities for organizations, and financial controllers have been forced to rethink how they work. This means heightening risk management efforts to identify potential cyber and financial threats that would devastate an organization and understanding the financial repercussions of these dangers. Alongside their CFO, financial controllers must ensure they are well prepared for any future disruption and build resilience within the finance department.

Join this panel discussion to learn:

• How to stay ahead of potential threats and increase security
• Implement a risk-adjusted cost optimization to address potential threats
• Different scenario planning models to understand weak points and enable resiliency

Moderator:

Louis Fanzini

Chief Financial Officer

Panelists:

Richard Corn

Senior Product Manager

Divvy

Glen Parrillo

Chief Financial Officer

McCrossin

Stressful deadlines, stretched resources, and limited budgets.

The close must go on, but manual accounting processes are not sustainable.

Champions of controllership find ways to innovate, automate, and scale accounting processes amidst continued disruption and despite a host of challenges. They have a vision for the future, believe in using technology to bring about change, and activate teams to modernize accounting.

Attend to understand how your peers and competitors are advancing with technology. You will learn:

• Why traditional close processes continue to challenge accounting teams
• Leading practices for optimizing and automating despite disruption
• How technology improves accuracy, saves time, and benefits everyone

Michael Shultz

Solutions Marketing Director, Strategic Accounting

BlackLine

During the afternoon break there will be an INVITATION-ONLY, closed-door roundtable session brought to you by Incorta:

Navigating Disruption: Real-life Digital-First Approaches to Finance

By sharing best practices, lessons learned, and challenges with your finance peers, you will learn:

• How companies are improving access to financial and operational data for a more proactive reporting process.
• How your peers are bringing together data from multiple locations to improve accuracy of reports and analysis.
• Strategies top organizations have used to make more confident data decisions and hurdles they faced along the way.

Request to join the roundtable here: https://bit.ly/36hW4X5 or email [email protected].

People hear about “financial transformation” or “digital transformation” and all the benefits that are awaiting them – but have no idea where to start. How do you know you need change; how do you identify which processes need to change, then how do you build the internal business case for those changes?

One place to begin is in learning the best practices around starting a financial transformation project and technology’s potential for positive impact on your processes AND people. Register to this session that features 3 finance executive panelists from HP, ABB and Boston Scientific who share their financial transformation journeys, including:

• The first step their organizations took in standardizing and automating finance and accounting processes
• Understanding the connection between your people, processes, and technology
• Benefits achieved from automating key processes such as reconciliations, journal entries and close tasks

Luca Condosta

Former Record-to-Report Group Finance Process Owner

ABB

Russ Hubbard

Chief Revenue Officer

Trintech

Jackie Peters

General Accounting Design, Process and Systems Senior Manager

HP

Nicole Tuttle

Director, Account to Report, Global Business Services

Boston Scientific

The corporate card market is a $14 billion dollar industry—and for a good reason. Corporate cards are a lifeline for corporations and deliver benefits far beyond what a personal credit card can offer. But as valuable as corporate cards are, there are still a lot of misconceptions.

In this fireside chat, join Bryn Knox, Vice President of Finance at BenchSci and Austin Aboav, Senior Product Marketing Manager for TripActions Liquid as each expert demystifies the corporate card space and explains how:

• Using digital payments can unlock different access to capital
• Implementing the right corporate card can empower employees to spend while also giving finance leaders control
• Utilizing corporate cards with real-time visibility into spend can bring company revenue full circle

Austin Aboav

Senior Product Marketing Manager

TripActions Liquid

Bryn Knox

Vice President of Finance

BenchSci

It is no secret that digital transformation and automation are top of mind for organizations, especially those looking to update their outdated finance processes. With the implementation of new automation technologies, financial controllers are able to update their processes and procedures to be more efficient and impactful. Traditional accounting and finance operations are often manual, tedious, and time consuming, but that can all change with a successful digital transformation implementation.

In this keynote presentation, you will learn how to:

• Increase efficiency and productivity through time savings
• Understand the cost associated with digital transformation initiatives
• Replace human error with automated accuracy

Moderator:

Veronica Uwumarogie Obianwa

Controller

Sam's Club

Panelists:

Saurabh Jain

Senior Vice President and CFO, Endovascular Robotics

David Levi

Senior Vice President Controller, Principal Accounting Officer

Vonage