Practical Examples for Optimizing Effectiveness,

Control, Visibility & End-to-End Process Quality

In 2004 – 24% of executives worldwide thought that shared services were “strategic for their business. In 2012 89% thought it was. Maybe that’s why this conference witnessed a staggering 68% increase in attendance in 2012.

The 13th Annual Shared Services for Finance & Accounting 2013 is set to be bigger and more tailored than ever with two tracks catering to your level of F&A expertise. Whether you’re planning and launching a shared services center for finance, or moving beyond a cost center to profit center, this event brings you a structured and interactive agenda.

Move your center from point A to B with a practical and “how to” approach to each and every session

Track A:
Designing, Building & Implementing Finance Shared Services

Track B:
Beyond the Transaction: Growing More Proactive in Providing Insights to Business Operations

  • Designing an effective business case for shared services justification and sustainability
  • Standardizing regional & global end-to-end ownership & processes
  • Keeping up appearances: defining & building brand equity
  • Safeguarding your SSC with effective change management techniques
  • Maturity benchmarking: see how you stack up against your peers
  • Building a talent pipeline that promotes operational leadership
  • Automation excellence: driving implementation of standardized procure-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report processes
  • Communicating the value of shared services: It’s there but how do we show it?
  • Health check your metrics & KPIs: a management indicators guide
  • Learning how BPM & lean will help you create the intelligent enterprise
  • Increasing the efficiency of your finance shared services center with hybrid & selective sourcing options
  • Moving beyond standardization to optimize value-add activities across multiple business units
  • Leveraging data analytics & integrity to drive operational efficiencies
  • Treasury & Finance: The synergies between corporate finance & shared services
  • Aligning Finance & Procurement: monitoring purchasing spend and analysis
  • Process enabled technologies: how well can you access off the shelf tools and create value?
  • Is Labor Arbitrage Dead? building the next locations for delivery
  • BPO think thank: how 3rd parties can help differentiate the offerings
  • Creating the resilient enterprise: It all starts with risk & resource management

Plus, don't miss our best ever offerings of PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS designed to tackle your key challenges. Here are a few of the benefits our past workshop attendees have realized;

  • Cost per invoice decreased from $1.03 to $0.84 over a 15 month period.
  • Reduced unbilled DSO from 33 days to 21 days. Reduce attrition in the Finance Department In India by 20 percentage points
  • Working in partnership with commercial teams globally, delivered cash benefits of £0.9bn and 16 day lower DSO
  • Building a new SCC during an M&A deal, in less than one year, which included the integration into ERP platform, in a new location, with a new staff, and achieving top customer survey scores in the first year

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