This document advertises and provides information about the Finance Transformation Summit 2014 conference. Some key details include:
- The conference will take place from October 22-23, 2014 in Sydney, featuring workshops, presentations from industry leaders, and case studies.
- Early bird registration before September 12th saves up to $400 on registration fees.
- The agenda covers topics like people strategies, data analytics, organizational structure, and process optimization to help finance professionals transform their teams into strategic business partners.
- Interactive workshops will focus on developing a finance transformation strategy and change management best practices.
- Over 25 speakers are scheduled from leading organizations like Telstra, NAB, Flight Centre, and Monash University.
1. EARLY BIRD OFFER! Register and pay by 12 September and save up to $400!
n Main Conference: 22 – 23 October 2014
n Workshops: 22 – 23 October 2014
n Venue: Swissôtel, Sydney, NSW
Incorporating
Talent Management, Predictive Analytics, Business Model Innovation, Process Optimisation and Procure-to-Pay
MAXIMISE YOUR TIME OUT OF
THE OFFICE AT THE INTERACTIVE
WORKSHOPS:
www.fi nancetransformation.com.au
FEATURING 27 INDUSTRY LEADERS INCLUDING:
Justine Waddick,
Director of Purchase
to Payment Services,
Monash University
James Marsh,
Chief Financial Offi cer,
Vodafone
Matthew Ricker,
General Manager,
Financial Reporting
& Management
Information, NAB
Josee Lemoine
Director Innovation &
Business Performance,
Telstra
Adam Campbell,
Chief Financial Offi cer,
Flight Centre
Paul Pemberton,
Manager Corporate
Accounting,
DB Schenker
Workshop A:
Finance Transformation 101
Workshop B:
Change Management Strategies for Transforming
the Finance Function
Event Partners: Exhibitors:
22 case studies
from leading
organisations such
as Telstra, GE,
Optus and
Woolworths
Networking Partners:
Organised by:
2. Dear Finance Transformation Professional,
This year’s Finance Transformation Summit is all about giving you the
tools required to make your Finance team true strategic business partners,
moving them from reactive to proactive, by focusing on the following key
topics:
• People: Strategies for moving staff up the value curve, and change
management tools for bringing them on the journey with you
• Data: Maximising the value of the data at your disposal for advanced
reporting and forecasting
• Structure: Deciding on the right blend of shared services, outsourcing
and automation for your organisation
• Process: Reducing waste and ineffi ciency through automation, process
excellence and end to end process owners
To help you achieve these goals, this year the event is much more case
study focused than ever before, with insights from leading organisations in
Australia and New Zealand.
Also, new for 2014, the 10th Annual Procure-to-Pay Forum has been
incorporated into the event, to refl ect the increasing strategic importance of
the P2P process.
To register your place, call +61 2 9229 1000, email
registration@iqpc.com.au or visit
www.fi nancetransformation.com.au
I look forward to seeing you in October.
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Kind regards,
Ross Clayton
Head of SSON A/NZ
EARLY BIRD
OFFER!
Register and pay
by 12 September
and save up to
$400!
6 REASONS
why Finance Transformation
2014 is the event to attend
this year:
The CFO Boardroom, a closed door
interactive session enabling you to
build a network of senior fi nance
peers
22 case studies from leading
organisations such as Telstra, GE,
Optus and Woolworths
The integration of the 10th Annual
Procure-to-Pay Forum, refl ecting
the increasing strategic importance
of the end to end process
2 workshops on Change
Management, and Developing a
Finance Transformation Strategy
‘Big Ideas’ speakers – out of the
box speakers designed to get you
thinking
A combination of presentations,
panel discussions and
roundtables, designed to give you
the right blend of case studies and
interactive content
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5
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Exclusive Sponsorship
Opportunities
Could your company benefi t
from two days of senior level
networking and exposure in front
of decision makers actively seeking
innovative and effective solutions
for their global or regional fi nance
transformation projects?
If the answer is yes, then Finance
Transformation 2014 is the perfect
platform for your business.
Exhibition and sponsorship options
are extensive but strictly limited
to 10 solution providers. Packages
can be tailor-made to suit your own
business development needs.
For more details, call 02 9229
1050 or email sponsorbranding@
iqpc.com.au.
3. 2014 SPEAKER FACULTY
Josée Lemoine,
Director Innovation &
Business Performance,
Telstra
Nigel Clarke,
Outsourcing Relationship
Manager, Asia Pacifi c,
Tyco
David Lynch,
Chief Financial Offi cer, Life
Without Barriers
Julie Wynne,
Financial Director,
Hudson
Steven Raynor,
Head of Organisational
Effectiveness & Change,
QBE
Paul Pemberton,
Manager Corporate
Accounting,
DB Schenker
Wayne Morgan,
Chief Financial Offi cer,
Victoria University of
Wellington
Ben Gray,
Director of Financial
Operations,
Singtel Optus
Renee Armstrong,
Procurement Operations
Manager,
Woolworths
Justin Savaille,
Business Services Manager,
APAC/Africa,
Ausenco
Greg Dennis,
Corporate Administration
Programme Manager,
Austrade
Martin Kizek,
Asia Pacifi c Shared Services
Centre Manager,
Unisys
Morag Leith,
LEAP! Project Director,
Holcim
Alex Kathestides,
Finance Director,
KONE
Adam Campbell,
Chief Financial Offi cer,
Flight Centre
Matthew Ricker,
General Manager, Financial
Reporting & Management
Information, NAB
Darrell Farley,
Finance Transformation,
Auckland Council
Mirijana Jovic,
ANZ Operations Manager,
GE
Sarah Gray,
Manager, Billing &
Credit Management
and Requisition to Pay,
Auckland Council
Michael Pole,
Finance Operations
Manager,
ElectraNet
Justine Waddick,
Director of Purchase to
Payment Services,
Monash University
Patrick Eustace,
Finance Transformation
and Project Management,
Ruralco Holdings
Limited
Nick Johnson,
National Customer
Administration Manager,
Fuji Xerox
James Marsh,
Chief Financial Offi cer,
Vodafone
Grant Johnstone
Commercial Payment
Solutions,
MasterCard Worldwide
Ann Furlong
Director of Operations,
BlackLine Systems
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4. INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
Workshop A:
22 October 2014 • 18:00 – 20:00
Finance Transformation 101
Finance Transformation enables CFOs and fi nance executives to improve business
performance and shareholder value while actively improving operational effectiveness
and effi ciency. In this session, Patrick will outline how to get started on your Finance
Transformation journey by focusing on the following key factors:
• Developing a transformation roadmap
• Understanding which processes and functions to centralise
• Retaining a decentralised fi nance function to provide commercial support to the
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business
• Streamlining business processes in order to reduce waste and ineffi ciency
• Identifying and recruiting staff who offer additional value to the business
Workshop Facilitator:
Patrick Eustace
Finance Transformation and Project Management
Ruralco Holdings Limited
Patrick Eustace is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years senior fi nance and business
experience gained in leading blue chip organisations internationally.
Currently he is Finance Transformation and Project Manager at Ruralco Holdings Limited
(ASX listed with sales of $1.2bn), leading the Network Finance transformation and Record
to Report automation projects.
Prior to that, Patrick had a 14 year career with George Weston Foods Limited (Subsidiary
of Associated British Foods Plc, sales of $2bn and well-known brands – Tip Top and
DonKRC), including fi ve years as General Manager of the Ingredients Division and
culminating in Director, Finance and Business Improvement roles at the Group Corporate
Offi ce.
Patrick led several signifi cant cross functional transformational projects and supported
the Group CFO to transform GWF’s fi nance function to an effi cient centralised shared
service, effective decentralised commercial support partners and for high performance.
Workshop B:
23 October 2014 • 17:30 – 19:30
Change Management Strategies for Finance
Transformation
As the requirements of the fi nance change, so an inevitable clash occurs between those
who are pioneering the new role for fi nance, and those who were educated in the ways
of the past. In this master class Michelle will outline how to bring your fi nance team on
the transformation journey, through a focus on:
• Your role as an agent of change and your impact on the wider transformation
• How the brain reacts to change, and how to avoid a fi ght or fl ight response
• Learning how to adjust your communication style, both verbal, written and nonverbal,
to the needs of a particular situation
• Using effective conversation to drive the performance of your staff
Workshop Facilitator:
Michelle Gibbings
Change Expert
Michelle is a transformation and change expert who is dedicated to working with
organisations to help facilitate and guide them through complex organisational changes.
She has worked across multiple industry sectors and disciplines, holding senior leadership
positions in project management, change management, risk management and strategy.
Her most recent roles were the General Manager of Strategic Change and Engagement
for NAB’s NextGen Program, and Transformation Management Offi ce and Change
Director for AMP’s transformation program.
Having hands on experience in the challenges and opportunities that come with building
and implementing transformation pathways in organisations, she is able to share practical
ideas along with the latest thinking on how to optimise change outcomes by building
capability and buy in.
5. CONFERENCE DAY 1
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
08:30 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Chairman’s Opening and Welcome
09:10 Keynote: Transforming the Finance Function at Telstra
In her role as the Director of Innovation and Business Performance, Josee is responsible
for maximising the benefi t that the fi nance function provides to the rest of the
organisation by:
• Consolidating the fi nance shared services organisation
• Rolling out a centre of excellence for analytics to generate insight, and attracting the
necessary talent
• Creating a single source of truth through the Business Intelligence Centre of
Excellence, which houses the biggest data warehouse in Australia
Josée Lemoine
Director Innovation & Business Performance, Telstra
11:30 Developing a Self Service Reporting Capability
Moving to self-service will enable fi nance to focus on value
added deep dive analysis and modelling, rather than pulling
retrospective reports for decision makers.
• Working with IT to develop the necessary functionality
• Creating a user-friendly, interactive interface
• Using dashboards that quickly convey business
performance and areas to be addressed
• Conveying data using the appropriate charts and
mechanisms
Matthew Ricker
General Manager, Financial Reporting & Management
Information, NAB
09:50 Delivering Value: Shifting the Mind Set from Reactive to Proactive
Flight Centre have a fi nance function of over 250 people, the majority of which report
directly into operational leaders across the business. In his session, Adam will talk about
changing their mind set by:
• Shifting their perceived value from being seen as a necessary overhead to strategic
partners
• Delivering reporting that is not just data, offering subjective viewpoints and
engaging with stakeholders on matters beyond the traditional fi nance realm
• Getting operations to raise their expectations of the fi nance function
• Focusing on marginal, incremental gains rather than a big bang approach
Adam Campbell
Chief Financial Offi cer, Flight Centre
11:00 Morning Refreshments and Networking Break
Reducing the Cost-per-Transaction at the Victoria
University of Wellington
The Victoria University of Wellington have, in ten years,
moved from a largely paper based process, to one that
is consistently rated as having one of the leading set ups
in Australia and New Zealand. They have achieved this
through:
• Restructuring and realigning the fi nance operations
team at the university
• Maximising the functionality of their ERP system
• Automated processing and user support
• Giving strategic emphasis to the use of procurement
cards, and enable greater spend control and analysis
• Creating and sustaining a continuous improvement
culture
Wayne Morgan
Chief Financial Offi cer, Victoria University of
Wellington
CFO BOARDROOM
CFO Boardroom: Guiding Strategic Decision Making
CFOs are taking on a more strategic decision-making
function, and increasingly relying on fi nancial planning to
guide overall corporate strategy.
The fi nance transformations of years gone by focused
primarily on savings: cutting costs, gaining effi ciencies, and
streamlining risk management. In today’s fast changing and
competitive environment, it is that and much more. Like the
CFO position itself, fi nance transformation includes a new
focus on enabling corporate strategy, capital agenda and
competitive advantage in the marketplace.
With that in mind, this year’s closed door CFO Boardroom
will help participants improve the value they offer their
business, by facilitating a peer network with interactive
discussions on the following key topics:
CASE STUDY
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6. CONFERENCE DAY 1
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
CFO BOARDROOM
Business Planning and Analysis
• Leveraging the ever increasing amount of data available
to organisations to drive competitive advantage
• Effectively blending data from both internal and external
sources
• Avoiding organisational blind spots– how to fi nd
meaning in the data beyond the traditional human bias
for particular outcomes
Finance Staff as Business Advisors
• Devising recruitment strategies that attract individuals
with the right combination of technical and strategic
skills
• Change management strategies for moving staff up
the value chain
• Facilitating a culture of fi nance as key business
partners
Operating Structure
• Operating models that reduce the transactional
workload, enabling greater provision of value-adding
business partnering activities
• Integrating the front and back offi ce to drive
organisational performance.
Previous attendees of our CFO Series include the likes of
Telstra, American Express, Shell, Coles, NAB, the ATO and
Metcash.
12:10 Event Partner Presentation: MasterCard
Grant Johnstone
Commercial Payment Solutions, MasterCard Worldwide
13:20 Networking Lunch
14:20 Integrating Financial, Operational and Social Data
to Create a Single Source of Truth
All too often fi nance are unable to generate meaningful
predictive insights due to having a fractured view of the
business, based on disparate data sources. Decision makers
can spend far too much time urgently scanning irrelevant,
disconnected data to fi nd the right information when they
need it. Life Without Barriers have looked to address this
through:
• Integrating data from across the business, and using it to
understand linkages between client information and
fi nancial data
• Moving to infrastructure as a service
• Accessing cost effective big data through partnering
• Moving to predictive analysis to better target services to
clients
• Incorporating mobility into the wider analytics capability
David Lynch
Chief Financial Offi cer, Life Without Barriers
Event Partner Presentation: BlackLine Systems
Anna Furlong
Director of Operations, BlackLine Systems
Embedding the Procure-to-Pay Transformation at
Monash University
In 2011 Monash University undertook a transformation
of their procure to pay process. In this session Justine
will give an overview of their subsequent continuous
improvement efforts.
• Consolidating the principles borrowed from shared
services to generate further effi ciency gains
• Implementing an expense management tool within the
organisation
• Incorporating more services into the procure-to-pay
remit
Justine Waddick
Director, Procure to Payment Services
Monash University
CASE STUDY
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7. CONFERENCE DAY 1
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
15:00 Streamlining Month End Accounting and Reporting CFO Boardroom continues.
at Optus
In 2012 Optus created a Shared Service “Finance Operations”
team, to better support the Australian business following
the reorganisation of the Singtel Group along global
customer verticals.
In his presentation, Ben will outline how the Financial
Operations team have been able to deliver real cost
effi ciencies and move towards best practice (top quartile -
cost per revenue) through:
• Reducing the days to close from 6 to 4 (with plans for a
2 day close in 2014)
• Improving reporting system response times by over 90%
(including enabling big data / in memory processing);
• Process standardisation and simplifi cation, and removal
of handover points and buffers
• Automating the balance sheet reconciliation process
Ben Gray
Director of Financial Operations, Singtel Optus
Transforming Procurement at Holcim through a
Focus on Process and Centralisation
Morag is responsible for Project LEAP! at Holcim Australia,
which is Holcim’s global procurement program to
improve the way we manage purchasing at all levels of
the business:
• Reviewing and analysing purchasing activities across the
whole business with the aim of greater centralisation
• Improving supplier management and ensuring greater
savings are captured
• Assessing administration activities with a view to
streamlining tasks (including purchasing) and reducing
duplication and rework where possible
Morag Leith
LEAP! Project Director
Holcim
CASE STUDY
15:40 Afternoon Refreshments and Networking Break
16:10 Utilising Outsourcing to Drive up the Value of the Finance Function
Tyco recently undertook a fi nance transformation in order to increase the value Finance
delivers to the organisation as a strategic business partner while reducing costs.
Specifi cally, by working with an external partner for their Accounts Payable, General
Accounting and Tax Reporting they have been able to:
• Realign & delayer organisation
• Leverage technology intelligently
• Eliminate redundant processes
• Rebalance fi nance work
• Redesign for effi ciencies
This has resulted in projected savings of up to 20%, and a decrease in the cost per
transaction of 30%.
Nigel Clarke,
Outsourcing Relationship Manager, Asia Pacifi c,
Tyco
17:10 Lessons Learned from Setting up an Offshore Shared Service Centre
Ausenco have recently offshored their shared services team to Malaysia, which took
only 6 months to set up and has had minimal attrition and higher than anticipated
performance levels to date. In this session Justin will shared their lessons learned,
including the good and bad, by focusing on:
• Identifying locations that give you access to talent at the right cost
• Differentiating your offering from those organisations already established offshore
• Keeping processes stable during the transition process
Justin Savaille, Business Services Manager, APAC/Africa, Ausenco
17:50 Chairman’s Close
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CASE STUDY
CFO BOARDROOM
8. CONFERENCE DAY 2
Thursday, 23 October 2014
08:30 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Chairman’s Opening and Welcome
09:10 Keynote Panel: Shifting the Focus of the Finance Function from Reactive to
Proactive
In this session, the participants will discuss how they are increasing the value that their
fi nance function offers the rest of the business by focusing on the following key areas:
• Organisational Structure – what operating model strikes the right balance between
value and cost
• People – moving fi nance staff up the value chain, from transactional to value adding
activities
• Data – integrating data from across the business, and using it to support decision
making
Alex Kathestides, Finance Director, KONE
Julie Wynne, Financial Director, Hudson
James Marsh, Chief Financial Offi cer, Vodafone
09:50 Operational and Cultural Transformation on a Global Scale
QBE recently initiated a global transformation program to create an effective, effi cient
and scalable operating model that will enable the organisation to work as ONE QBE
across the globe. In this session Steven will outline how QBE’s innovative, people-focused
approach has enabled:
• Accelerated build-up and delivery of capability overseas;
• Embedding of a new culture and ways of working across multiple regions; and
signifi cant people and business benefi ts
Steven Raynor
Head of Organisational Effectiveness & Change, QBE
10:30 Morning Refreshments and Networking Break
11:00 Finance Skill Sets that Drive Strategic Decision
Making and Support Operational Growth
Finance functions are at the forefront of enabling
companies to deal with market shifts, growing product
complexity, and increasing regulation. At the same time,
they are under pressure from senior management to cut
costs, while providing more effective advice and support as
business partners.
• Improved people and communication skills, refl ecting
the need for greater stakeholder management and
consultative conversations
• The ability to distil increasingly complex data into
digestible outcomes and conclusions for business leaders
• Scrutinise existing organisational design to identify
potential effi ciency and performance gains
Darrell Farley
Finance Transformation, Auckland Council
Procure-to-Pay Integration Across Multiple
Organisations
Auckland Council recently went through a process of
integrating 8 previously distinct councils, each with a
different level of procure to pay maturity. Through this
process, they have reduced the cost of processing an
invoice from $10.12 to $3.73 by:
• Rolling out a new ERP system that replaced previous
legacy systems
• Successfully initiating OCR technology, achieving a 50 cost
savings over two years
• Utilising business improvement methodologies to reduce
waste
• Creating vertically integrated processes with suppliers
• Next step: developing a vendor portal
Sarah Gray
Manager Billing & Credit Management and Requisition to
Pay, Auckland Council
“I got a lot of value from the
presentations and some great thought
provoking information.”
Lyndal York, Group Financial Controller, Cochlear Limited
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9. CONFERENCE DAY 2
Thursday, 23 October 2014
11:40 Shifting the Skills Sets of your Finance Function
Nick is in the process of overseeing a transformation in the
role of Fuji Xerox’s fi nance function, shifting their
capabilities from transactional to true business partners.
• Identifying the critical skills for the a forward looking
fi nance function
• Restructuring the organisation: creating new roles and
shifting personnel
• Improving the communication with fi nance and the rest
of the business
• Maintaining FTE while shifting capabilities
Nick Johnson
National Customer Administration Manager, Fuji Xerox
13:20 Networking Lunch
14:00 Moving to Shared Services to Enhance Business
Performance in a Low Margin Industry
DB Schenker is one of the leading international providers of
integrated logistics services. Given the low margins that
characterise the industry, they have been able to drive
business growth through:
• Moving common processes from operations to a
centralised back offi ce function
• Standardising common processes across the business
• Eliminating rework and improving invoice matching
through the establishment of effective exception based
reporting
• Reducing costs through further automation and
continuous improvement
• Rolling out shared services globally
Paul Pemberton
Manager Corporate Accounting, DB Schenker
Improving Technology Use through Change
Management
Often P2P ineffi ciency is driven not by a lack of the
appropriate technology, but by a lack of uptake across the
business. Address this through:
• Active and visible change sponsors
• Developing a structured change management approach
• Establishing frequent and open communication around
the need for change
• How to ensure dedicated resources for the change
management programme
• Securing buy in by facilitating employee participation
Greg Dennis
Corporate Administration Programme Manager, Austrade
Building a Business Case for P2P Automation
In the current environment, senior decision makers can
often be focused on short term cost savings, or otherwise
prioritise investment on customer facing technology.
Address this by:
• Focusing the conversation on value rather than cost
• Effectively quantifying the business benefi ts of the
procure to pay solution
• Understanding the potential for signifi cant spend and
operating cost savings generated by greater visibility
• Highlighting the potential for reducing and managing
risks through common procedures and enforced
standards
Renee Armstrong
Procurement Operations Manager, Woolworths
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10. CONFERENCE DAY 2
Thursday, 23 October 2014
14:40 Optimising Shared Services Support as a Key
Enabler of Finance Transformation
Unisys have been through a process of moving the vast
majority of their transactional work offshore, resulting in a
smaller onshore team focused on higher value tasks for
the rest of the business. This has meant:
• Standardising processes to improve data quality and
situational awareness across the business
• Automating transactional processes to free up
resources and time for knowledge based activities
• Providing a future talent pool for the rest of the
business
Martin Kizek
Asia Pacifi c Shared Services Centre Manager, Unisys
Moving to Paperless Expense Management at
Electranet
As part of an overhaul of their procurement processes,
Electranet recently automated their expense management
by:
• Utilising mobile technology to remove the need for
paper receipts
• Enabling staff in the fi eld to code their own payments
• Extending the electronic system to include out of pocket
and petty cash
Michael Pole
Finance Operations Manager, ElectraNet
15:20 Afternoon Refreshments and Networking Break
15:50 Achieving Transformation through Automation and Simplifi cation at GE
• Reducing the resources required for transactional processes through automation
• Eliminate paper at the source: making information available instantly
• Improving workfl ow and visibility across the business
Mirijana Jovic
ANZ Operations Manager, GE
16:30 Career Progression and Talent Management within the Finance Function
Talent management is often highlighted as the number one challenge facing fi nance
leaders. In this roundtable, participants will discuss how to:
• Develop a career path within your department that incorporates both strategic and
operational roles
• Establish recruitment procedures based around core competencies rather than a
predefi ned skill set
• Create a training plan that up skills fi nance staff in soft skills, to compliment the
traditional fi nance competencies
• Attract and retain scarce analytical talent
17:10 Chairman’s Close
End of the Conference
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CASE STUDY
ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION
“Excellent forum, I enjoyed the
presentations and opportunity
to network and seek out other
professionals undertaking business
transformation in their organisation.”
Peter Gray, Chief Accountant, ACARA
“Great range of speakers, good venue
enabling connection with audience
and opportunities to mingle and
network with other attendees.”
Mick Myers, Vice President, ASSA
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Founded in 1999, Spendvision is an award-winning global technology company
specialising in integrated travel, expense, payment and reporting solutions. Spendvision’s
intelligent technology, services and support enable customers to achieve fi nancial benefi ts,
visibility and control of their transactions.
Spendvision is headquartered in the UK with offi ces in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and is delivered to
over 100,000 organisations direct and through partners across the banking and travel sectors. Spendvision is a Hogg
Robinson Group plc company. For more information, visit: www.spendvision.com.
Esker is a worldwide leader in document process automation solutions for SAP® and other ERPs.
Esker cloud solutions enable companies to automate their accounts payable, accounts receivable,
customer order processing and procurement.
Esker works with over 80,000 companies worldwide to eliminate paper and manual processes to improve their
productivity and effi ciency. Since 1997 Esker ANZ has worked with over 1,800 companies in Australia and New Zealand
to help them run their businesses leaner, smarter and more agile.
Christophe DuMonet
Phone: +61 2 8596 5107 • Email: christophe.dumonet@esker.com.au • Web: www.esker.com.au
PRGX is ANZ’s and the world’s leading provider of recovery audit services. We mine procure-to-pay
data to detect lost profi ts driven by overpayments, duplicate payments and lack of compliance
with negotiated contract terms or internal policies. We recover an average of $1B a year for our
clients. With over 1,600 employees, we operate and serve clients in more than 30 countries which include some of
Australia and New Zealand’s largest companies.
Effi ciency Leaders’ vision is to be the Most Innovative, Customer Focused, Leading Provider
of Effi ciency Solutions, in the World!
Global award winning Effi ciency Leaders’ solutions provide automatic extraction, validation and export of business critical
information from documents into back offi ce systems. We save organisations time, money and make their jobs easier!
Whether you’re interested in simple data capture, electronic workfl ow or dynamic case management, come and see how
Effi ciency Leaders’ innovation can help you become a Leader in Effi ciency!
TransformIT Systems are experts in fi nancial process improvement. We have a
track record of delivering automation, cost savings and effi ciencies over the past
two decades.
We have a range of enterprise strength process transforming solutions that cover the breadth of fi nance functions
including AR, AP, Tax, GL, Billing, Journals and Capital Accounting.
Our software integrates BPM functionality with powerful enterprise data analytics to enable business users to automate
process execution, so they can get work done faster, cheaper and smarter. We integrate with existing corporate IT
environments to remove the traditional IT barriers, empowering end business users.
Capgemini Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) collaborates with some of the world’s
largest, corporations to transform their business processes in Finance & Accounting,
Supply Chain Management, Procurement, and Human Resources. With its unique Global
Enterprise Model (GEM)™, Capgemini engineers and delivers powerful analytics-driven BPO solutions calibrated to each
client’s individual needs. As part of Capgemini’s Rightshore® delivery network, a team of over 16,000 BPO professionals
provide services to more than 180 clients in 38 languages.
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