The document outlines the expertise of Jennifer Loughridge and Tushar Belapurkar in finance transformation and operational excellence. It emphasizes the importance of AI, automation, and digital skills for CFOs in 2022 to unlock value in organizations and describes a data science deployment strategy. Key steps include creating a vision, assessing capabilities, designing recommendations, planning action, and governance for successful transformation.

1. Data Science –
Enabling FinanceTransformation
to Evolve
JENNIFER LOUGHRIDGE
TUSHAR BELAPURKAR

2. YOUR SPEAKERS
FEEL FREETO GET INTOUCH!
§Senior Executive Finance professional with
20+ years’ global experience.
§specialises in Finance
Transformation and Continuous
Improvement, with particular expertise in
Strategy, Performance Management,
Business Partnering, Commercial Decision-
Making, Corporate Governance &
Valuation.
§an experienced leader of large and complex
teams in a global, virtual environment.
§a significant track record exploiting virtual
technology and developing innovative
practices to deliver world-class
transformative process, system and
behavioural change in a complex and
challenging global environment impacting
5000+ FTEs with multi-year, multi-million
US$ budgets
Jennifer Loughridge
jennifer.loughridge@loughridgetransformations.com
§Senior Business & Digital Transformation
professional with 20+ years’ global
experience in Operational Excellence and
Process Improvement Leadership.
§offers services on a project basis.
§most recent assignment was with Shell,
based in Chennai, India, as a Continuous
Improvement Deployment Lead.
§Specialises in Lean Six Sigma, Project
Management, Data Science, Commercial
Acumen, People Leadership and large-scale
Organisational Change.
§delivered US$500 mln+ value across
manufacturing and service functions and
has transformed 30+ functions and
processes over the last 10-12 years of his
career.
§passionate about building upon his existing
skills and leveraging them to create value
for his stakeholders.
Tushar Belapurkar
hptushar40@outlook.com
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3. AREYOU ABLETO UNLOCKTHEVALUE FORYOUR
ORGANISATION?
“2022 will be a make-or-break
year for CFOs when it comes to
unlocking the value of AI, hyper-
automation, digital skills,
continuous processes and data
management. CFOs who
continue to drive toward the
future of autonomous finance will
unlock immense value for their
organisation in the years to
come.”
Source:
Garter for Finance: Top Priorities for Finance Leaders in 2022
©2022 Gartner
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PROTECT
Maintain oversight of assets, value and risk and ensure compliance
OPERATE
Deliver efficient, effective, well-controlled processes
Partner the business with value-based, commercial thinking
IMPROVE
Drive value-based improvement across the business
DIGITISE
Drive use of data, analytics and build of digital capability
INNOVATE
Ensure rigorous, value-based decision-making for innovation
programmes
Robotic Process
Automation
Mimics Human Actions
Software used to capture and
interpret existing
applications for the purpose
of automating transaction
processing, data
manipulation and
communication across
multiple IT systems
Intelligent Automation
Mimics Human
Judgement
Automate non-routine tasks
involving intuition,
judgement, creativity,
persuasion or problem
solving
Artificial Intelligence
Augments Human
Intelligence
The theory and development
of computer systems able
to perform tasks that
normally require human
intelligence
© Deloitte

4. ELEMENTS OFTRANSFORMATION
Process &
Data
Systems
&Technology
§structure
§capability
§culture
Organisation
Risk &
Controls
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5. DATA SCIENCE DEPLOYMENT – OUR STEPPING STONES
TO DELIVERY
1 Create Vision &
Identify Opportunities
• UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS
MODEL
• IDENTIFY KEY CHALLENGES
AND OBJECTIVES
• IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES
AND SET PRIORITIES
2 Assess Existing
Capabilities
• UNDERSTAND EXISTING
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND
EVAUATE DATA
AVAILABILITY, QUALITY ETC
• UNDERSTAND CURRENT
ANALYTICS,
INFRASTRUCTURE AND
RESOURCE SKILLS
3 Design & Recommend
• DATA AND INFORMATION
STANDARDISATION ACROSS
SYSTEMS
• DEFINE ENGAGEMENT
MODELS - IN-HOUSE, OUT-
SOURCED OR COMBINATION
4 Detailed Action Plan
• DETAILED ROADMAP
• DETAILED PHASED ACTION
PLAN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE,
TOOLS, RESOURCES ETC
5 Governance
• GOVERNANCE MECHANISM -
TEAM ALIGNMENT AND
STRUCTURE
• SENSITISING KEY
STAKEHOLDERS
• INTERNAL TRAINING
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RESISTANCE TO READINESS: © IMA Worldwide
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CHANGE MANAGEMENTTOTARGET MINDSET & BEHAVIOURS

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Jennifer
§www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-loughridge
§Jennifer.Loughridge@loughridgetransformations.com
Tushar
§www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-belapurkar/
§hptushar40@outlook.com
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