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Jeff was responsible for all activities in loan portfolio acquisitions, real estate, high yield debt and special opportunities. Under Jeff, the Value Investment Group activities grew from less than $50 million in assets to over $10 billion in assets, consistently exceeding 20% annual returns. In 2007 Value Investment raised its first global third party fund with over $5 billion in institutional capital.
We are leading GRC technology solutions provider offering Compliance Management, Internal Financial Control & Litigation management solutions.
In current regulatory framework an SME has to report ~ 3000+ compliance under ~90+ Central & State Acts applicable on them; complexities increase with size.
“LexComply.com” enables organizations to plan, report, monitor and execute its compliances with updates on any changes in acts governing them.
Optimizing order to-cash (e-business suite) with GRC Advanced ControlsOracle
Mark Stebleton, Oracle GRC Advanced Controls Product Management and Daryl Geryol, Navillus Partners explain how to optimize your Order to Cash process.
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Jeff was responsible for all activities in loan portfolio acquisitions, real estate, high yield debt and special opportunities. Under Jeff, the Value Investment Group activities grew from less than $50 million in assets to over $10 billion in assets, consistently exceeding 20% annual returns. In 2007 Value Investment raised its first global third party fund with over $5 billion in institutional capital.
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Video/Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/events/automating-account-reconciliation-mitigate-compliance-risk
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Wendy Shapiro, CPA, Senior Director, Corporate Accounting, Atlas Air Worldwide
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
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Rethinking Segregation of Duties: Where Is Your Business Most Exposed?SAPinsider Events
View this session from GRC 2015 in Las Vegas. Coming to Europe! www.GRC2015.com
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Automating Account Reconciliations to Mitigate Compliance RiskProformative, Inc.
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Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Change Anticipation & Readiness | Session: 2
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Video/Presentation: http://www.proformative.com/events/automating-account-reconciliation-mitigate-compliance-risk
The role of Accounting and Finance Professionals is ever evolving. Demands are increasing; regulations are even more stringent; and areas of focus are expanding. All of these make it more challenging for companies to efficiently close their books while ensuring they have balance sheet integrity. The account reconciliation process is an under-appreciated, yet critical, control which helps ensure financial integrity. By leveraging technology, a company can automate its reconciliations and link accounts across different standards to minimize the amount of manual labor required and ultimately the risk of errors. This session is designed to inform finance and accounting leaders of how account reconciliation process optimization can create a foundation for streamlining the overall financial close process and more importantly, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for greater accuracy in the numbers.
Speakers:
Susan Parcells, CPA, Director, Finance Transformation, Blackline Systems
Wendy Shapiro, CPA, Senior Director, Corporate Accounting, Atlas Air Worldwide
Presentation delivered at CFO Dimensions 2013 - http://www.cfodimensions.com
Track: Finance Technology | Session: 5
Rethinking Segregation of Duties: Where Is Your Business Most Exposed?SAPinsider Events
View this session from GRC 2015 in Las Vegas. Coming to Europe! www.GRC2015.com
Rethinking Segregation of Duties: Where Is Your Business Most Exposed? by Erin Hughes, SAP
Changes in technology and/or the structure of an organization can quickly cause segregation of duties (SoD) policies to become obsolete and dated, yet many companies fail to periodically reassess them as identifying where poor segregation of duties exist continues to be challenging. During this session, gain:
- Practical advice for staying on top of your current policies and segregation of duties rule set
- A clear understanding of the cost and impact of access control violations
- Tips to govern access across your entire landscape and understand financial exposure due to SoD violations using SAP Access Control and SAP Access Violation Management by Greenlight
- Guidance on how to centralize monitoring, investigation tracking, and resolution of access violations
Automating Account Reconciliations to Mitigate Compliance RiskProformative, Inc.
Today’s CFOs are challenged with meeting tight deadlines, operating with limited resources and serving in more strategic roles. In this session you will discover how leveraging technology and automating traditionally manual accounting processes, like account reconciliations, can help optimize the financial close process and free up some of the critical time needed from accounting and finance teams. You will learn how your organizations can virtually eliminate spreadsheets and the errors and headaches that come with them; increase control and visibility; facilitate timely, accurate and documented communications between all stakeholders; gain exceptional ROI in a very short time; improve the accuracy and timeliness of compliance reporting; define responsibility and process ownership; and manage compliance while serving multiple locations.
Speaker: Michael Gilmartin, Solution Consultant Manager, BlackLine Systems
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Change Anticipation & Readiness | Session: 2
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Hi my name is (name), regional manager with 170 Systems. I’d like to spend the next few minutes discussing the opportunity that lies ahead in helping your organization achieve world class status in processing financial transactions.
If you are involved in any of these processes on a daily basis you know that they are high volume, time consuming, and costly endeavors that involve many departments, many people, and many steps - both manual and automated. Finance organizations are continually improving the speed, cost, compliance and quality of service for these transactions areas.
Think about your finance organization. What if <company name> could cut its processing costs in half by increasing employee productivity in Finance; eliminating all the costs associated with paper documents – the filing, transport, and storage; capturing every possible discount while avoiding all late payment penalties; reducing days sales outstanding; and reducing both the costs of audits and the burden that supporting audits place on your Finance organization?
What if <company name> could reduce its processing times by 70% by eliminating non-value added tasks such as handling documents that slow down the process; completely automating the approval and review process; leveraging the ERP system’s structured data; and enabling self-service for suppliers, customers and line-of-business managers?
What if <company name> had the visibility needed to monitor, sense and respond faster to its business operations by immediately capturing all liabilities at the start of the process; being able to access all documents on-line safely and securely through your company’s system of record (the ERP); and having real-time reporting and monitoring of key metrics of the status, productivity and throughput of your financial processes.
What if in a Sarbanes Oxley world, <company name> could strengthen, enforce and document all of its internal controls, policies and procedures by capturing and documenting every financial transaction’s entire lifecycle and enforcing policies as part of the process; implementing best practices to ensure optimized throughput; and maintaining compliance with federal guidelines and regulations?
What if <company name> could do all four of these (cut processing costs, slash processing times, respond faster to changes in your business, strengthen internal controls) all at the same time ? This is the classic Finance dilemma - strengthening internal controls usually raises costs; reducing processing times usually means sacrificing control…. With 170 Systems, <company name> can achieve these goals at the same time AND have it all pay for itself in under a year!
This is what we have heard from our customers regarding their daily challenges….
The problem is it is only going to get worse…everyone is being asked to do more with less or the same. Corporations are starting to spend more as their revenues grow, placing more strain on Finance to keep up with the increased transaction workload. They need to consolidate and standardize to gain economies of scale. They are looking for ways to be more efficient and be more effective but the answers aren’t obvious. Some have turned to outsourcing, but have found that outsourcing ineffective processes just transfers the problems and can make them worse due to distance and time zone differences….
There are two driving reasons behind this problem: 1 – Paper still dominates transactions resulting in time-consuming manual processes. Many of our customers use online solutions such as e-invoices and we add value in that area through workflow with the ERP system. Even those that have used e-invoices have found that less than half their suppliers are able to participate in on-line billing. 2 – ERP systems are not designed to solve this problem. They are great at capturing the data and being the system of record, but they are not automating the entire process, do not enforce best practices, and do not build compliance into the processes. Traditional document management solutions are designed for document handling (scan, file, retrieve) with the focus on the document, not the process. The fact that they exist outside of the ERP system with their own representation of the data leads to control issues as well.
For 15 years we have been helping some of the best companies in the world become more competitive - decreasing their transaction processing cost by providing them a more efficient and compliant way to run their operations. The volume is amazing: currently over 7 million invoices per year are processed with our Accounts Payable solution. 170 Systems is uniquely positioned to help an organization like yours because we have the technical know how, the application knowledge, and the business process expertise of implementing best practices for 100’s of customers around the globe. And we are able to deliver these turnkey solutions with a fixed price implementation solutions that deliver rapid results.
Our solutions are based on 3 key elements: Technology, Knowledge, and Execution. Technology – We have developed an unmatched solution that includes a combination of imaging, workflow and ERP integration that provides the foundation of our unique product offering. Knowledge – 170 has unmatched knowledge and experience in financial processes and best practices which will enable your organization to benefit from both the technological benefits as well as our experience of improving effectiveness and efficiencies of operations at some of the world’s largest companies Execution – Finally we are able to implement these solutions with a fixed price offering. Removing those “surprises” in the budget and maintaining your own credibility and allowing you to accurately cost out the project. Also it should be pointed out that our implementation methodology requires very few on site IT resources for success and completion.
The 170 MarkView Financial Suite consists of the “Procure to Pay” solutions: Procurement, Accounts Payable, and Expense Management, along with Accounts Receivable, GL and Asset Management. We also have solutions for other ERP-centric business processes such as contracts, HR, Order Management, Project Management, and Property Management. All of these applications have multi-step processes for completion, review and approval, and include the need for associated supporting documents
170 Systems’ solution is complementary to your Oracle or PeopleSoft system. It augments what you already have in place. Over the past 15 years we have worked closely with Oracle and PeopleSoft to create a truly integrated system. You’ll see the results in the demo. We were the first software company welcomed into Oracle’s CAI program and have achieved the highest level of partner certification with Oracle and PeopleSoft Enterprise. This ensures compatibility through joint development and early access to releases. When Oracle releases a new version of its applications, 170 Systems is ready. We are the leading provider of financial transaction automation solutions for Oracle and PeopleSoft. Within the user community of OAUG we remain the #1 3 rd party solution that has been presented by Oracle customers via whitepapers. In fact, Oracle shows our solution in their booth at tradeshows such as OpenWorld.
The Hackett Group is the leading benchmarking firm concerned with financial processes and operations. They have done extensive studies into how companies perform with respect to their effectiveness and efficiencies in SG&A. In addition to a number of services that they offer and data that they have published their real focus is on Best Practices. 170 has become a partner of the Hackett Group based on the solutions we put forth in helping companies achieve financial goals, implement best practices and and assisting companies to attain world class status as a transaction processing operation. As you can imagine due to the nature of our product we are often required to assist customers in generating an ROI. This ROI that we employ has been certified by a third party for accuracy and a random sampling of our customer yielded an average 300% ROI for our solutions at just over 7 months payback. Not coincidentally these operational improvements have also helped these customers get categorized as “world Class Status “ within the Hackett measurements
As mentioned before there is tremendous opportunity for improvement on efficiencies, costs and quality of Service. This data details the wide range of performance that companies field and that with the use of prescribed solutions can make you significantly more competitive.
What are the overall cost savings of being “World Class”? In 2004, Hackett’s “World Class” companies spent .7% of revenue on Finance while the average company spent 1%. For a $1 billion company, the difference is $3 million, all of which goes to the bottom line. And the “World Class” companies do this without sacrificing control or service levels.
Let’s look at some specific transaction areas. IOMA (the Institute of Management and Administration) has published data on the cost of processing vendor payments and they have found a significant gap in costs between the leaders in automation and the laggards in automating financial processes. Highly automated Finance organizations spend 41% less to pay a vendor invoice. That is almost $5 less for each and every invoice!
Looking at this another way, IOMA has found the AP staff at the highly automated companies is about twice as productive as the those with low levels of automation in processing non-PO invoices and 50% more productive in processing P.O. based invoices.
Headquartered near Harrisburg, PA, Select Medical operates 98 hospitals in 26 states and has revenue over $1 billion. They chose 170 MarkView in 2002 and currently have our solutions for Accounts Payable, Expense Management, Asset Management, and General Ledger. They went live with the system in March 2003. Select Medical realized over a half million dollars in savings in the first year alone.
Headquartered in St. Louis with 4,000 employees and $1.2B in annual revenue, Maritz is the leading provider of incentive travel programs. Ranked in the Fortune 500 list of largest private companies, Maritz chose 170 MarkView for Accounts Payable in 2003. They more than doubled AP productivity in terms of the number of invoices processed per person per day (from 50 to over 140). More impressive is the $1.5M Maritz saves annually by taking advantage of early payment discounts. Think about what you spend on an annual basis and now if you do a quick calculation on saving 2 percent on lets just say 10 percent of your spend. What would that be worth? With 170 MarkView for AP, you will be able to pay bills faster by removing all the non-value added tasks from the process.
The University of Pennsylvania found itself in that classic Finance dilemma discussed earlier - how to improve the quality or service while simultaneously reducing operating costs. All these stories come straight from the customers and were presented at annual OAUG meetings. OAUG maintains a library of the many whitepapers that have documented other success stories involving 170 Systems. There are more case studies on our web site. [Introduce the concept of the ROI study here and/or the free performance benchmark assessment if you feel it would be appropriate]
Our solutions are deployed in over 40 countries. These are large mission-critical deployments --- often in large shared service centers.
[This slide puts the best known “brand name” customers on one slide; substitute for # 26-27] Our customers include the world’s largest organizations, in a broad variety of industry and public sectors: large corporations, global companies, universities…… We have many mid-sized customers as well.