18th Annual Shared Services for Finance and Accounting | IQPC | 27 June 2018 | Hilton Dallas/Southlake Town Square, 1400 Plaza Pl, Southlake, TX 76092, USA

Evolution, Not Revolution Is The Future of Finance.

Finance Needs to Transform or Risk a Regression to the Back Office.
When it comes to connecting you with industry leaders who know how best to simplify, standardize, centralize, and optimize your finance shared services, no other event compares.
The 2018 program enables you and your team to work smarter, scale faster, and create greater value for your organization. Attendees will come away better equipped to evaluate the impact of intelligent automation, grow their shared services operations from a North American focus to a global one, fight the war on talent, and transform their service delivery into the indispensable backbone of the business. Our session tracks based on the maturity level of your FSSO will equip you with the necessary tools to go from launch to the next level of value creation. This event should not be missed if you’re serious about taking your FSSO to the next level.

What You Will Gain From Attending:

• OPTIMIZE the performance of your finance teams—from structural shifts to cultural ones—learn how to foster a continuous improvement mindset
• PARTNER SAVVIER with 3rd party providers to achieve new heights in service delivery
• CAPITALIZE on emerging Smart Technology to streamline your automation workflows
• MASTER data excellence for increased accuracy in your reporting and forecasts

Past F&A Coverage:

• Build global capacity and streamline workflows across time zones
• RPA and Intelligent Automation
• Credit Verification & Collections Processing
• How to attract and retain offshore talent through improved employee engagement
• Master Data Management and optimization of your controls environment
• Enhanced working capital management

2018 Speakers

Laure Browne
Global Finance Services, Director Record to Report Operations Americas, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Naresh Srinivasan
Vice President – Controller & Shared Services, Brinks Financial Shared Services

Gabriel Lantos Gabriel Lantos
Director, Global Process Owner Record to Report, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Ethel Tamondong
Director, Transformation and Service Management, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Robert Lahr
Exec. Director, Global Invoice to Cash, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Michella Wiggins
Customer Financial Services Business Process Optimization Director, PepsiCo

Joel Luxenberg
CEO, Deep Current

Kane Peschl
Robotic Solutions Specialist, Redwood Software Inc.

Shivani Sharma, MBA, PMP
Director, Accounts Receivable, McKesson

Jon E. Theuerkauf
Former Managing Director of Performance Excellence. BNY Mellon

Nipun Sharma
Regional Head, Intelligent Automation, Avanade

Brad DeMent
Partner, ScottMadden

Cindy Pauls
Director of Shared Services, Borden Dairy Company

Tim Dorren
Senior Manager, Payment Analysis & Disbursements, Toyota Motor North America, Accounting & Finance, Accounting Shared
Services

Bryce Tawney
Fmr: Sr. Director Lead for Integration, Advisory Board Member, University of North Texas School of Accounting, Halliburton

Laure Brown
Global Finance Services, Director Record to Report Operations Americas, Bristol-Myers Squibb

John Hopkins
Director of Finance Shared Business Services, Abbott Laboratories

Bosede Hodo
Shared Services Director NOAM, Applus+ RTD

Becky Haynes
Director, US Finance Shared Services, Acxiom

Brian Yahne
Director, Accounting Services, Ascension Health

Michael Bostick
Head of Financial Operations, UniFirst Corp.

Hillari Shearin
Director, Program Management, McKesson Financial Center

Rich Benoit
Director of RPA, McKesson Financial Center

Steven R. Bott CTP, CPA
ASC Continuous Improvement, Manager, Ameren Services Center

Dan Davidson
Vice President of Global Finance Shared Services, Equifax

2018 Sponsors and Media Partners

• ABBYY
• Avanade
• Blue Prism
• Celonis
• DeepCurrent
• Information Services Group (ISG)
• Redwood
• ScottMadden
• Softomotive
• Ui Path

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• The Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG)
• Super CFO
• Houston Accounting & Finance Professionals
• Shared Services & BPO Network LinkedIn Group
• Outsourcing and Managed Service Governance LinkedIn Group
• Business Partnering Institute
• Finance & Accounting Professional People (FAPP) 2016
• Fintech Finance
• Shared Services & Outsourcing Network