Shared Services For Finance & Accounting

BEAT THE ECONOMY: Exceed business expectations – Measure results – Achieve cost efficiency, service and operational excellence

The SSFA 2009 Summit’s new interactive approach encourages you to network, benchmark and learn with top industry leaders during interactive roundtables, in working groups and from case study presentations, discussion panels and keynotes.

Learn how to take advantage of the following trends and opportunities

• TRANSITION from simple provision of information, data and snapshots of financial performance to performing a more sophisticated analytic and forecasting function to business units and SUPPORT the strategic direction of each business unit client
• ACHIEVE additional, incremental cost savings across the board from specific improvements to the delivery of processes and services in working capital management, dispersements, invoicing, and vendor management
• MANAGE the growth of your Financial Shared Services Center and the adoption of new complex processes such as general ledger, treasury and tax accounting from combining disparate technological platforms through tactical talent recruitment
• MAXIMIZE working capital through achieving greater visibility into cash positions and realize arbitration of internal and external cash flows
• BENCHMARK models of financial shared services delivery with your peers to understand current trends in offshoring and outsourcing

Our distinguished panel of Shared Services for Finance and Accounting speakers includes:

David Lambert, Director, The Charmer-Sunbelt Group Mark Weaver, Director, Finance & Accounting Shared Services and Systems, UPS Graham Allen, Director, Digital Solutions, Textron, Inc. Don Rohacek, Vice President, Liberty Mutual Greg White, Director of Accounting and Project Lead, ConAgra Foods

Bill Chase, Director, Order to Cash, Intuit Theresa Harris, Senior Manager of Business Operations, Harris Corporation Michael Cullen, Senior Vice President, Marriott International Craig Chapman, Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management Jake Farkas, Director of Financial and Accounting Business Process Outsourcing, Trinity Industries

Top Shared Services for Finance & Accounting TOOLS that you will take away: Analytic framework to determine categories of services and processes to include in your Financial Services Center such as: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit & Collections, Treasury and General Ledger A step by step strategy in migrating your focus on value creation from a primarily cost saving approach to becoming truly customer-centric stand-alone business unit Cost-benefit analysis to calculate implementation time and payback schedule from technology solutions to automating Accounts Payable Model outsourcing RFPs and renegotiations – tips to leverage the down economy to your advantage Communication tools and strategies with senior management and business units to align your financial performance objectives and financial compliance goals with corporate long and short term strategies Customer satisfaction measurement tools Dashboard views and corporate scorecards to ensure that your financial SSC can cope with increasing workload of absorbing additional processes from business units Key requirements checklist for a financial shared services center location, domestically and abroad

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time .

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