Finance Leader Priorities – How Does Technology Enable Delivery?
Join our expert panel as they explore how technology, including AI, data analytics, and automation, empowers finance leaders to achieve key priorities like driving transformation, enhancing strategy, and optimising costs. Discover actionable insights from industry leaders on leveraging technology to revolutionise the finance function and create a future-ready organisation.
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In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, finance leaders face the challenge of managing organisational financial health while driving transformative change, increasing ROI, and delivering strategic insights. Gartner’s 2024 top 5 priorities for finance leaders included leading transformation efforts, enhancing finance strategy and design, improving metrics and storytelling, managing change, and optimising costs. But how can technology enable the achievement of these goals?
Join our expert panel as they delve into how technology and advancements in AI, machine learning, data analytics, and automation are revolutionising the finance function. Drawing from Gartner’s Top 5 Priorities for CFOs 2024 report and CIMA’s Future of Finance report, our speakers will share actionable insights on leveraging technology to drive finance transformation and functional improvements.
Featuring Matt McManus, Services CFO at Kainos, Sarah Courtman, Senior Finance Lead at Marks and Spencer, and Nick Read, Group CFO at The Doctors Laboratory, this webinar brings you key insights and practical strategies for creating a resilient, future-ready finance organisation from proven finance leaders.
Join this insightful webinar to discover finance leader’s top priorities and how technology can enable their delivery including:
- Explore how technology can drive transformative change within finance.
- Learn how technology can enhance financial strategies and deliver actionable insights.
- Discover how technology can streamline operations and reduce costs.
Speakers
Nick Read – Group CFO, The Doctors Laboratory.
Nick is a highly regarded CFO with international, commercial and transformation experience working at board level in a range of sectors, including clinical services, real estate, media, IT, and supply chain. His finance career spans over 20 years working with household names such as Deloitte, Warner and Harper Collins. He has a strong record of delivering digital transformation and enabling finance teams to become better partners to the overall business through improving financial planning, reporting and forecasting.
Matt McManus – Services CFO, Kainos
Matt joined Kainos in 2016 and is responsible for the full group Finance Team, including FPA, Investor Relations, Treasury, Reporting, Tax, Payroll. He’s a qualified Chartered Accountant who received his training at PwC Belfast. Before Kainos, he gained previous experience at Citi and CME. Matt will share insights from the Kainos rapid growth journey covering business re-organisations, acquisitions, and geographic expansion and how the agile strategies and technology deployed ensured that finance and the wider business stayed on track with its digital transformation and growth ambitions.
Sarah Courtman, Senior Finance Lead M&S.
Sarah is an experienced finance professional and accountant, whose career has focused on Business Partnering, Transformation and Change Management. She has over 10 years experience in Business Partnering roles within the cost optimisation space and then moved into a Transformation Manager role to help align people, processes and systems ensuring the company is set up for success. Optimisation and efficiency have been key themes through all roles and businesses she has worked. She has worked closely with senior executives to deliver key iniatives and also as part of the leadership team in a start-up.
Paul Turner FCMA, CGMA, Regional Vice President UK & I, AICPA & CIMA
In his role as Regional Vice President UK & Ireland at the Association, Paul is responsible for the regional strategy to support the Association and manages a large team to deliver an outstanding value proposition for members, students and our key partners in the region.
Paul is a senior voice of experience for the organisation and leads teams in Business development, Project Management, Operations, Member Engagement and a full market team in Ireland. Before joining the Association, Paul worked as a tax specialist for the Australian Government.
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