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REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

8:00 am -9:00 am

Keynote

9:00 am -9:30 am

Championing finance innovation in an ever-changing world

Months/years on from the pandemic/COVID, it’s clear that there is still a conversation that needs to continue with regards FP&A sustaining finance innovation while keeping up with the digital age and business needs. Is the jury out on which finance function is best suited to champion finance innovation?
Most studies suggest FP&A team is best placed to take an active role in leading organisation’s finance innovation journey, irrespective of team size. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have not spent a night with a mosquito – African quote”.
CFOs & their FP&A team’s access to strategy and cross organisational contacts, creates a platform to act as finance’s innovators and create an innovation lab which propels finance transformation across the 6 Ps.
During the session, steal time to reflect and create notes to self and identify key take aways to deploy within your team and organisation.

1.CREATING THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR INNOVATION
– What are my key successful procedural changes that could help my organization’s FP&A team transition?

2. FINISH OR FORWARD
– How do I sustain innovation & develop a kaizen approach within my team/organisation?

3. CHALLENGES OF COLLABORATION
– Is my team playing a key role in the Finance Innovation Lab?
This session is about sharing and finding ways to empower positive disruptors in the strategy/ finance/organisation eco-system.

Abby Obomighie, CFO, Europe Finance Director - Projects , Honeywell

Keynote

9:30 am -10:00 am

The strategic CFO: Maintaining a competitive edge in uncertain times

The past year has been extremely demanding for finance leaders. From balancing cutting costs and investing in growth to striving for financial health while building organisational resilience.

The inaugural edition of Coupa’s annual survey asked 600 finance leaders across North America and Europe how they cope with these uncertain times. Many finance leaders said they lack visibility into spend across the company—often because of legacy systems—making meeting these demands nearly impossible.

In this session, join Carl Thompson, Senior Value Solutions Consultant at Coupa, as he covers the UK findings of Coupa’s inaugural Strategic CFO Survey and how modern technology—automation especially—can help you respond to challenges and weather a recession without broad cutbacks. You’ll also hear perspectives on:

Financial performance and strategies for profitability
Internal pressures and external threats, from rising wages to supply chain disruption
Plans to drive growth in the event of a recession

Carl Thompson, Senior Value Solutions Consultant, Coupa

Keynote

10:00 am -10:30 am

Leadership, strategy and resilience

Join Afua, the Bank’s Chief Financial Officer responsible for Finance, Strategy and performance as she draws on her perspectives having been at the core of the Bank of England’s leadership during unprecedented times.

Afua Kyei, CFO, Bank of England

Afua Kyei

CFO, Bank of England

Afua Kyei is the Bank’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director responsible for Finance, Strategy, Performance, and Tax. She joined in June 2019 and has been at the core of the Bank’s leadership and decision making. Afua oversees the financial governance of the Bank’s balance sheet, which at its peak, grew to over £1 trillion during the Covid pandemic. Afua is a Director of the Bank of England Asset Purchase Facility Fund, Alternative Liquidity Facility, and also the Covid Corporate Financing Facility, prior to the cessation of its activities, and helped operationalise the Energy Markets Financing Scheme. She is a member of the Bank’s Executive Board overseeing the upgrade of the UK’s Real Time Gross Settlement System, Critical National Infrastructure, which processes over £720bn payments each day.

She is passionate about achieving better outcomes for society, and helping people. Afua seeks to pave the way for others through driving cultural changes within organisations. She is co-executive sponsor for Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and co-executive sponsor for the Bank’s Climate Change disclosure. Afua is a key note speaker and represents the Bank in the Community, with Businesses and at international fora e.g. IMF, G20, COP.

Afua was awarded CFO of the Year 2021 by the Women in Finance Awards UK. She was in the Cranfield FTSE Board Report ‘100 Women to watch 2022’ and was a 2022 listee in the Kindness & Leadership, 50 Leading Lights UK campaign. She was honoured on the Powerlist 2023 ‘100 most influential Britons of black heritage’ and was also named in the ‘2023 list of 100 Most Reputable Africans’ by Reputation Poll International.

Afua joined the Bank from Barclays Bank (2012-2019) where she was the Chief Financial Officer Mortgages and played a key role in Barclays’ strategic cost transformation program, TRANSFORM, whilst in the Investment Bank and in Group COO. She was a D&I ambassador, while at Barclays.

During the Global Financial Crisis, she was an Investment Banker at UBS (2007-2012) in the Financial Institutions Group and in Mergers and Acquisitions, Group Strategic Advisory. She was part of the team that helped advise RBS during the financial crisis in relation to its divestments mandated as part of EU State Aid remediation, its participation in HM Treasury’s £282bn Asset Protection Scheme and its capital issuance of £33.5bn to HM Treasury. Prior to that, Afua qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) with Ernst & Young, where she worked in Mergers and Acquisitions and Banking & Capital Markets Audit.

Afua read Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford University (2000-2004) where she was selected to be a member of Professor Sir Jack Baldwin’s research group; her Organic Chemistry research on the creation of anti-tumorous molecules using Organic Synthesis was published. She graduated with a Master’s degree and was also awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by Princeton University in Organic Chemistry.

Morning Coffee Break

10:30 am -11:00 am

STAGE ONE

11:00 am -11:30 am

Strategic finance - How to navigate the stakeholders’ map and get results!

A talk on how finance must act as a strategic partner for any organization – partnering with the CEO and other stakeholders to bring value to the organization and the people surrounding it, be it your customers or your colleagues. A step-by-step guide on value chain support and business partnering. Huiming draws to her own experience from GE and Illumina, plus synthesis of scholarly research on how to institutionalize strategy in any organization. Please join Huiming to demystify the illusive concept of “strategy”, bring it to life, and get results via navigating the stakeholders’ map. A down to earth 5 steps guide with examples and ideas!

Huiming Chen, Commercial CFO - Europe Region, Illumina

STAGE TWO

11:00 am -11:30 am

Courageous leadership

Typically, 80% of a leader ́s time is spent on normal day-to-day tasks. However, the other 20% of a leader’s time is crucial, the moments where a leader demonstrates 80% of their impact. These are the “moments of truth” that separate the great leader from the rest.

This session explains how courage is the key ingredient needed in these moments, to make that crucial difference and will explain how to step up.

The good news is that courage is not a character trait, but rather a skill that can be built. Courage can be learned. Applying methods from ancient philosophy and modern science, the session is packed with stories, examples and most importantly practical methodology of how to build leadership courage and
resilience.

Participants will be given tools to:

– Evaluate their own leadership style, identifying the gaps that need to be addressed.
– Massively reduce stress, build confidence, increase focus and become highly effective.

Peter McKenzie, CFO & Corporate Director, Anticipa

STAGE ONE

11:30 am -12:00 pm

How can analytics automation be the catalyst for finance modernization?

Navigating economic uncertainties and external risks is clearly high on the priority list for CFOs, amongst the need to re-invigorate business growth, manage costs and optimize cash. Data and analytics automation plays a pivotal role to modernize finance, however, this cannot be achieved without cultivating finance talent. In this presentation we’ll cover how people and technology are key levers for change. Hear from an Alteryx customer Sarah Belsham, Data, Analytics & Insights Partner at RSM UK, on how she has been driving the finance modernization journey within her organization through data and analytics automation… and how it helped to accelerate wider transformation initiatives across the firm.

Kathryn Pool, Regional Director, Alteryx

Sarah Belsham, Data, Analytics & Insights Partner, RSM

STAGE TWO

11:30 am -12:00 pm

Finance's role in AI commercialisation

With technological innovation, the promise of artificial intelligence is enormous. For some of us in the med tech industry, this is the next holy grail we have been waiting for as it presents a huge revenue growth opportunity. The journey in the commercialisation of artificial intelligence has just begun but the path to success is unclear. Is finance a bystander or a navigator in this journey? I will share my story so far and am interested to hear yours.

Michelle Tsang, Chief Finance and Operations Officer, Digital Surgery

STAGE ONE

12:00 pm -12:30 pm

Leadership in finance

Bhawna will draw upon her leadership experience in various Finance roles across a wide range of businesses such as Health systems, Consumer electronics, Label manufacturing and Sports and how sees finance function leading the way in many critical matters that influence business, taking a deeper look at role of Finance in ESG matters. Her talk will look at how to drive profitable growth as a CFO responsibly and how she is doing it today

Bhawna Menghnani, UK&I CFO, Head of Finance (Precision Diagnosis) Western Europe, Philips

STAGE TWO

12:00 pm -12:30 pm

Looking ahead: What are the key trends that will reshape accounting and finance in 2023

As we forge ahead in 2023, companies need to continue to embrace change, find new ways to grow and prepare for what’s ahead.

Sage has collaborated with their customers, partners and thought leaders over the past few months to gauge their insight on the key trends set to reshape accounting and finance in the upcoming year.

Join our panel of industry experts as they discuss the findings and analyse how innovative businesses can stay one step ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Key takeaways:

Will entering a recession during a labour shortage change your staffing practices?
Why will AI become more important than ever?
Now that we’re all in the cloud, how is cybersecurity changing?
How can the rise of super apps help you take your business to the next level and gain competitive advantage during a recession?

Sunil Kapur, Solutions Manager, Finance, Sage

John Chinery, Sage Intacct Commercial Lead

Lewis Dangerfield, Chief Financial and Transformation Officer, Osprey

Hester Scotton, CFO, Law Debenture

STAGE ONE

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

How to future proof financial reporting: A checklist from British American Tobacco & PwC

In an era of constant disruption, embarking on a financial transformation journey is not always straightforward. This is particularly true for multinationals.However, for many, some degree of change is necessary to meet new regulatory requirements and increasing stakeholder demands. To build trust, transparency and comparability, they need to make the best use of their limited resources and address challenges within their legacy processes and systems. There’s no longer room for data errors, inconsistencies and disconnected risk management within complex entity reporting processes.
In this session, you will hear from British American Tobacco and PwC as they discuss ways to create a unified reporting process that enables data connectivity, consistency, traceability and audit-readiness across all reporting workstreams and geographies.Session Highlights

How annual reporting is changing and the importance of visibility, efficiency and audit-readiness across all geographies.
Transforming financial reporting processes through shared services centers.
Use cases across different operating models that can be used to drive transformation
The expanding role of automation, collaborative decision-making models and accelerated pace of change in operating conditions.
How to develop a compelling business case for the financial transformation that meets your team and business goals.

Tony Price, Partner, PwC UK

Andromeda Wood, VP, Regulatory Strategy, Workiva

David Booth, Group Chief Accountant, BAT

STAGE TWO

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Finance business partnering: From crunching numbers to influencing decisions

Many organization have started their multiyear journey towards more digital future . Having more and more processes automated through blockchains and robotics , with an increase engagement of artificial intelligence Finance roles are facing a big transformation. Day to day data processing tasks and data input are more and more automated as well outsourced while business partnering becomes most important area in Finance to create value in the future.

Finance business partnership requires leadership, communication, building relationships, change management and strategic skills that look far beyond the routine crunching of numbers.

Defining a Finance business partnering model focused on companies goals , providing values to our internal customers, requires certain steps to be followed that will be covered during this session.

From my personal experience, implementing business partnering model requires time for updating professional and business skills, building trust with our internal customers in order to be accepted as their adviser, finding common language while approaching them and ensuring mindset change within organization.

We can talk about business partnering as present and future of Finance professionals, a growth opportunity into more senior roles.

Catalina Miklo, Head of Finance, Romania, Sika

LUNCH

1:00 pm -1:45 pm

ROUNDTABLES

1:45 pm -2:15 pm

Choose from our selection of interactive roundtables

RETURN TO SESSIONS

2:15 pm -2:30 pm

STAGE ONE

2:30 pm -3:30 pm

Panel: Future of the finance function

A discussion amongst our panel about the challenges on the horizon facing all aspects of the finance function – ESG, Cybersecurity, Strategy, Resilience, Talent and more.

more speakers to be announced.

Bhawna Menghnani, UK&I CFO, Head of Finance (Precision Diagnosis) Western Europe, Philips

Sarah Watson, Director of Finance & Technology, Make-A-Wish UK

Jabar Sadiq, Finance Manager - A.P. Moller

Chithra Rajagopalan, Head of Finance, Mystery

Raghavendra Reddy, Co-Founder, Bluecopa

STAGE TWO RESTARTS 3:00PM

STAGE ONE

2:30 pm -3:30 pm

Panel: Future of the finance function (continued)

see above.

Bhawna Menghnani, UK&I CFO, Head of Finance (Precision Diagnosis) Western Europe, Philips

Sarah Watson, Director of Finance & Technology, Make-A-Wish UK

Jabar Sadiq, Finance Manager - A.P. Moller

Chithra Rajagopalan, Head of Finance, Mystery

Raghavendra Reddy, Co-Founder, Bluecopa

STAGE TWO

3:00 pm -3:30 pm

Data, AI and finance: What will the future look like?

In this talk, Amit will give you a whistle-stop tour of the tools and technologies available in the data and AI space. He will then talk through the broad progression of these tools in industry and provide some examples of where they’re being used. Finally, you’ll be left with practical guidance on how to get started with these tools in your organisation, as well as some resources to support you.

Amit Sinha, Chief Technology Officer, SMB and Scale Up, Microsoft UK

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK

3:30 pm -4:00 pm

STAGE ONE

4:00 pm -4:30 pm

A strategy to grant magical wishes

Faced with so much disruption and volatility strategy becomes incredibly important to deliver on mission and vision, even more so when the outcomes are not financial but hope and joy for critically ill children and their families.

With a focus in three areas and a need to balance them carefully to ensure we reach every child, I will share the challenges, the successes and how throughout all of this our strategy has guided our decision making ensuring we maintain a long term view despite increasing short term pressures.

Make-A-Wish UK is part of a global movement that was established in the UK in 1986 to create life-changing wishes that revive the childhood that critical illness often takes away.

Right now, more than 60,000* children in the UK have been diagnosed with a critical condition, changing their lives and the lives of their families forever. For them, the joy of childhood is brought to an abrupt end with treatment plans, appointments and worry taking over. The power of a wish revives a childhood stolen by critical illness. It brings light and joy to children and their loved ones, leaving a profound and lasting impact on all their lives.   It takes a community of volunteers, supporters and staff to help these children feel like children again.

Sarah Watson, Director of Finance & Technology, Make-A-Wish UK

STAGE TWO

4:00 pm -5:00 pm

Panel: Women in finance

Navigating the c-suite, equity in leadership, inclusivity in the workforce – this panel will discuss the challenges, successes and experiences of women at the top of their finance function.

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini, Head of Finance, Air France

Huiming Chen, Commercial CFO - Europe Region, Illumina

Hester Scotton, CFO, Law Debenture

Catherine Wright, SVP, Corporate Finance, SVB UK

STAGE ONE

4:30 pm -5:00 pm

Cybersecurity: What are the threats and what can we do about them?

This session will focus on the cybersecurity threats that we all are faced with on an ever-increasing basis, with finance functions being particular targets for cyber criminals.

There are a plethora of mediums through which Companies and individuals are targeted, and we should all be aware of these risks and the nature of their manifestation.

The responsibility of the finance function is to act as a gatekeeper, working with other departments within the organisation to minimise the threats these pose to the Company, and how to mitigate any potential damage.

On a daily basis we are seeing attacks on Companies, from global disruption (see the latest attack on Royal Mail), to financial fraud, IP theft and general mischief making. All of this hinders the effectiveness of an organisation, not to mention the financial and reputational damage these attacks cause.

We will explore the common types of attacks, pitfalls and what we, as finance professionals, should be focussing on to help in the effort to mitigate these attacks.

Phil Richards, CFO, Corero

STAGE TWO

4:00 pm -5:00 pm

Panel: Women in finance (continued)

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini, Head of Finance, Air France

Huiming Chen, Commercial CFO - Europe Region, Illumina

Hester Scotton, CFO, Law Debenture

Catherine Wright, SVP, Corporate Finance, SVB UK

STAGE ONE

5:00 pm -5:30 pm

Recent fintech volatility & (systemic) financial crises: Are we there yet?

Recent events and their systemic significance – are they really black swans ? This talk will look at the current state of the Global & US financial systems and key vulnerabilities, from market segment to multiple market segments to national crises to global crises – as well as the role of regulation & innovation think tanks and key policy recommendations. We will discuss how we need to be going back to the basics.

Nashwa Saleh, Associate Professor of Finance & Fintech, Kingston Business School

Nashwa Saleh

Associate Professor of Finance & Fintech, Kingston Business School

Nashwa has more than 20 years of experience across global EM with a special focus on EMEA, holding various senior policy, equity, debt and capital markets roles with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies. Her track record spanned mandates with USAID, EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance.

She has covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including: Brazil, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and a number of Sub-Saharan African markets: Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa.

Nashwa was recipient of the Cass Business School bursary award and received her PhD degree from Cass in 2012, with her dissertation on Early Warning Signals for Financial Crises. She published a book in 2010 entitled An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Blowing Tumbleweed.

She is a Chevening Scholar, receiving her MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, member of the UK CFA Society. She also holds a CFA certification in ESG Investing and is a Certified Company Director from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD ) and holds a number of roles including non-executive director & board member, chair of the audit committee at Sandah Microfinance (founded by KfW & AAIB).

STAGE TWO

5:00 pm -5:30 pm

FP&A for a volatile market

This talk will cover:

Main pillars of FP&A
Traditional FP&A vs how Finance team’s approaches have changed
Where to shift focus to in a volatile environment

Chithra Rajagopalan, Head of Finance, Mystery

NETWORKING DRINKS

5:30 pm -7:00 pm

REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

8:00 am -9:00 am

KEYNOTE

9:00 am -9:30 am

Diversity in finance

Diversity is critical for any large publicly traded corporation in the banking, insurance, or industrial sectors, as it represents an essential component of long-term development, allowing organisations to positively impact society.

Therefore, promoting diversity in organisations is paramount, especially because it has undeniable benefits, particularly in Finance.

However, its implementation comes with challenges, especially if the related issues of equity and inclusion are not properly addressed.

So, does Finance implement the triad of « diversity, equity, and inclusion »?

This will be the focus of this session.

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini, Head of Finance, Air France

KEYNOTE

9:30 am -10:00 am

Retaining your top finance talent in 2023

Sarah Jayne-Martin, Director of Financial Automation , Quadient AR

KEYNOTE

10:00 am -10:30 am

Challenges facing today's CFOs

At the World Finance Forum, Microsoft UK CFO Mark McCardle will present an overview of the current operating environment, providing insights on the latest economic trends, their impact on businesses and finance leaders. He will discuss how macro-economic and geo-political trends have affected the job market, consumer spending and the overall economy. Additionally, Mark will provide a roadmap for finance leaders on how they should respond to the current economic challenges. He will share best practices for managing costs, mitigating risks, and making informed financial decisions that can help organisations weather the economic uncertainty and emerge stronger in the long run. In summary, topics covered will be:

Views on the current operating environment
Top of mind for today’s CFO’s
Looking Forward: Opportunities & Approach

Mark McCardle, CFO, UK, Microsoft UK

MORNING COFFEE BREAK

10:30 am -11:00 am

KEYNOTE

11:00 am -11:30 am

Finance transformation: We have an approved idea, now what?

Per Gartner, 85% of finance teams are planning or executing a Transformation but sadly most shall fail. Join Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi, former Finance Director – Performance and Group Finance at The Very Group for an interactive session that looks at transformation beyond the singular idea and instead at the pivotal, multi-hat wearing role you can play in order for your organisation to go against the odds in delivering systemic, transformative change.

Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi, Former Finance Director - Performance and Group Finance, The Very Group

KEYNOTE

11:30 am -12:00 pm

Transform finance and save the planet… FP&A, xP&A & ESG!

Everyone is all too aware of the intense economic pressures and geo-political changes that are shaping businesses and forcing finance leaders to be more agile and strategic.

In this context, two priorities stand out: xP&A and ESG

• both offer some hope and inspiration at a time of manic change

• both make new demands on finance that typify ‘modern’, data-driven finance

And, ultimately, both are joined at the hip: we cannot just report on our ESG progress; we must build it into our culture, our plans and every scenario.

So, what are the key trends, what is possible and how can you over-deliver?

Martin Watson, Director

STAGE ONE

12:00 pm -12:30 pm

Watch what you’re doing! – Moving beyond forecasting as a spectator sport

All too often, forecasting focuses too heavily on financial outcomes, and not on the actions that create them. Join me to talk about our journey to evolve cash forecasting, making it more meaningful and relevant to the day-to-day business, and share some of the pitfalls and success factors.

Michelle Hammersley, Finance Director, Maesa

STAGE TWO

12:00 pm -12:30 pm

Finance loves tech

This talk will look at the set up of a finance function in a tech company, the unique skills required from its team in a product-led tech company in its growth phase and how to build bridges across the wider organisation to improve business partnering and foster business maturation from the finance function out – and why finance needs to love tech!

Sebastian Greulich, Head of Finance & Strategy EMEA

STAGE ONE

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Crypto balance sheet considerations for finance leaders

Finance leaders may wonder what to weigh if they are considering holding or using crypto assets. This session describes some of the key intricacies of the crypto ecosystem, and then presents a high-level overview of the main financial reporting requirements to take into account–from fair value to impairment.

Suzanne Morsfield, Global Head of Accounting Solutions, Lukka

STAGE TWO

12:30 pm -1:00 pm

Marie Kondo your budgeting

The lovely mild-mannered Marie Kondo had taken the world by storm with her trademark “KonMari” method. We can, of course, question the fact that Marie preferred tidying the classroom to going out into the playground when she was a kid, however, she has, undoubtedly revolutionised the art of tidying and decluttering and created a movement of people trying to organise and simplify their homes, one jumper or book at a time. As accountants are notorious for having an organised and structured mind, we will spend a light hearted session discussing how the KonMari method can be applied to annual budgeting. Expect idle imaginings and exploring if certain budget lines “spark joy”.

Tatiana Doncaster, Finance Director, The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

LUNCH

1:00 pm -1:45 pm

ROUNDTABLES

1:45 pm -2:15 pm

Choose from our selection of interactive roundtables

RETURN TO SESSIONS

2:15 pm -2:30 pm

STAGE ONE

2:30 pm -3:00 pm

Leading change and driving operational excellence

Digital disruptors, volatile economic and political conditions have all highlighted the importance of business agility. Business leaders clearly recognise their organisations need to have more agility and resilience to future proof them in such a fast changing world.

Jonathan will talk about leading change to increase agility and resilience whilst also driving operational excellence :

Jonathan Smare, Consultant

STAGE TWO

2:30 pm -3:30 pm

Panel: Talent acquisition and retention

With employees often representing a company’s greatest cost and most important asset, investing in talent acquisition is vital to achieving high levels of productivity and profitability.

The process of talent acquisition involves not just the hiring of new people, but also identifying people with the right skills and qualities to become the innovators, leaders and executives of the future.

This session will focus on the process of identifying, securing and developing talent to support both short and long-term organisational strategy.

speakers to be announced soon.

Anna Zhirnova, Group FP&A Manager, Jones Knowles Ritchie

Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi, Former Finance Director - Performance and Group Finance, The Very Group

Kathryn Sherratt, Finance Director, Post Office

STAGE ONE

3:00 pm -3:30 pm

Sustainability: From intention to action

From consumer preferences to employee pressure and evolving regulations, more and more organizations are required to detail their carbon footprint, and share their approach towards resource management. But how can these disparate inputs be turned into a common language across your company, and a coherent business strategy? And what’s your role as CFO in making it happen?

In this session, Lara will draw from her Board and executive experience, to share insights into the latest for sustainability tracking and reporting, and a few concrete examples of how technology can help support better traceability across the supply chain, build sustainable investment strategies and take a more comprehensive approach to risk.

Lara Martini, Non Executive Director, AQA

STAGE TWO

2:30 pm -3:30 pm

Panel: Talent acquisition and retention (continued)

Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi, Former Finance Director - Performance and Group Finance, The Very Group

Anna Zhirnova, Group FP&A Manager, Jones Knowles Ritchie

Kathryn Sherratt, Finance Director, Post Office

Networking Coffee

3:30 pm -4:30 pm

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Day two

Championing finance innovation in an ever-changing world

Abby Obomighie

The strategic CFO: Maintaining a competitive edge in uncertain times

Carl Thompson

Leadership, strategy and resilience

Afua Kyei

Strategic finance - How to navigate the stakeholders’ map and get results!

Huiming Chen

Courageous leadership

Peter McKenzie

How can analytics automation be the catalyst for finance modernization?

Kathryn Pool

Sarah Belsham

Finance's role in AI commercialisation

Michelle Tsang

Leadership in finance

Bhawna Menghnani

Looking ahead: What are the key trends that will reshape accounting and finance in 2023

Sunil Kapur

John Chinery

Lewis Dangerfield

Hester Scotton

How to future proof financial reporting: A checklist from British American Tobacco & PwC

Tony Price

Andromeda Wood

David Booth

Finance business partnering: From crunching numbers to influencing decisions

Catalina Miklo

Choose from our selection of interactive roundtables

Panel: Future of the finance function

Bhawna Menghnani

Sarah Watson

Jabar Sadiq

Chithra Rajagopalan

Raghavendra Reddy

Panel: Future of the finance function (continued)

Bhawna Menghnani

Sarah Watson

Jabar Sadiq

Chithra Rajagopalan

Raghavendra Reddy

Data, AI and finance: What will the future look like?

Amit Sinha

A strategy to grant magical wishes

Sarah Watson

Panel: Women in finance

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini

Huiming Chen

Hester Scotton

Catherine Wright

Cybersecurity: What are the threats and what can we do about them?

Phil Richards

Panel: Women in finance (continued)

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini

Huiming Chen

Hester Scotton

Catherine Wright

Recent fintech volatility & (systemic) financial crises: Are we there yet?

Nashwa Saleh

FP&A for a volatile market

Chithra Rajagopalan

Diversity in finance

Marie-Anne Effa Nguini

Retaining your top finance talent in 2023

Sarah Jayne-Martin

Challenges facing today's CFOs

Mark McCardle

Finance transformation: We have an approved idea, now what?

Selina Butterfield-Mashoofi

Transform finance and save the planet… FP&A, xP&A & ESG!

Martin Watson

Watch what you’re doing! – Moving beyond forecasting as a spectator sport

Michelle Hammersley

Finance loves tech

Sebastian Greulich

Crypto balance sheet considerations for finance leaders

Suzanne Morsfield