The Role of Technology in Unlocking the Power of Planning

Simon will outline the increasingly critical role of financial and business planning to enable organisations to survive and thrive in these challenging times, together with the need to replace static budgets with more agile rolling forecasts and scenario planning.

He will draw on his vast finance experience from working with small UK businesses through to large global organisations to outline best practices, approaches and techniques successfully adopted to dramatically improve forecasting across finance and the wider organisation.

He will review the common barriers to effective planning and how implementation of new technology together with improved processes can unlock dramatic improvements in forecasting speed and accuracy together with a deeper understanding of business performance leading to improved business agility and decision making.

You will leave this keynote session with valuable insights and practical approaches on how to improve forecasting for your organisation.

Speaker

Simon Foley, Workday Adaptive Planning EMEA Capability Lead, Kainos

 Simon is a highly experienced finance professional and Chartered Accountant (ACA) with over 25 years of experience working with multinational companies in the UK, Americas and the Caribbean. He has extensive digital finance transformation experience including ERP, BI, and other finance system implementations, process and control improvement and organisational change. This in-depth expertise covers a variety of functions including accounting, financial control, planning and performance reporting.

In his current role, he helps customers across a wide range of sectors drive improvements to their Finance / FP&A functions drawing on his broad experience working with small UK businesses through to large global organisations. Taking a consultative needs-based approach he empowers Kainos customers to successfully scope, implement and fully adopt best-in-class FP&A cloud-based software, integrating processes and systems to dramatically improve planning and reporting for finance and the wider organisation. This enables these organisations to make smarter business decisions faster and improve ROI.

Sponsor

At Kainos, we've helped hundreds of forward-thinking organisations maximise the power of data through connected financial planning and reporting solutions to enable smarter strategic decision-making that saves time, reduces manual effort, boosts agility and fast-tracks growth. We do this through leveraging our market-leading expertise and best-in-class Workday Adaptive Planning software.

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