Agenda
Returning to profitable growth is a career-defining opportunity for CFOs. To get this right, CFOs must avoid making blanket decisions and focus instead on strategic and deliberate reallocation of resources. Learn how leading CFOs are placing bets to reduce risk while maintaining the pace of innovation and transformation.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
Composable technology strategy is gaining traction among finance to enable agility and innovation in a dynamic business environment. However, finance struggles to close the gap between technology strategy and execution. CFOs should use the finance capability model as the first step in building their technology roadmap to visualize trade offs and align technology decisions with strategic objectives.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Caroline Walsh, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Women in the United States left the labor force in droves since 2020. As jobs return to prepandemic levels, women — especially women of color — are slower to return. The typical approaches organizations have of supporting women — parental leave, childcare subsidies, mentoring programs —aren't having the desired effect. Join this session for innovative approaches to redesigning work to better support all employees and drive stronger business outcomes.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Graham Waller, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As enterprises grapple to implement hybrid work models during 2022, there are large differences in the resulting outcomes. This session will highlight leading practices uncovered from our research that help drive talent attraction, retention, collaboration and performance outcomes.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM BST
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
Technology is becoming more important than ever, acting as a source and differentiating factor for CFOs to support their business optimize, grow and transform. However 60% of finance leaders still don't have a clear technology roadmap or framework to guide their technology decisions. This session will equip finance leaders with three best practices to incorporate into their technology roadmap process.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM BST
Dennis Gannon, VP Analyst, Gartner
In times of economic uncertainty, it is absolutely vital that CFOs are able to provide assurance to their boards that the organization is prepared for the unknown. Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to share how to form a strong relationship with the board, and the tactics that CFOs can use during and between board meetings to be a more effective partner.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Michelle Carlsen, Director Analyst, Gartner
Discovery-driven planning is a powerful framework for evaluating strategic undertakings with a high level of uncertainty. It uses reverse income statement analysis principles to challenge conventional thinking around key assumptions and operational requirements. CFOs with strategic investments will not want to miss this thought-provoking session on iteratively advancing an investment's potential.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Dennis Gannon, VP Analyst, Gartner
With cost pressures and macroeconomic headwinds compressing margins, digitalization is key to maintaining sustainable profitability, whether via new digital revenue or improved organizational productivity. Yet, 67% of companies do not realize the intended benefits from enterprise digital spending. This session will share how progressive CFOs are driving greater enterprise digital cohesion to realize better business outcomes.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
While the inflationary economy and recessionary headwinds are challenging CFOs to develop new, quicker ways to support their business, finance is constrained to adapt due to complex and siloed technologies. Learn how CFOs can increase finance agility by adopting a composable technology strategy that transforms their technology portfolio to be modular, flexible and adaptive to business needs.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Finance executives are balancing competing demands and challenges as they help their organizations build a strong environmental sustainability program. Part of operationalizing environmental sustainability is identifying KPIs that will measure the program’s effectiveness. This should include KPIs for strategic priorities and operating model enablers.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Jim McGittigan, VP Analyst, Gartner
CFOs should collaborate with CIOs to ensure they are running IT like a business and effectively managing their IT budget. They should then build a partnership with the CIO to ensure all IT and other technology spend is measured and effectively optimized, regardless of who owns the budget.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Graham Waller, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The only way to solve today’s talent crises, labor shortages and employee burnout is with work design that empowers human adaptability. Intelligent technology must also be unleashed to automate ethically. The future requires workforce autonomy and autonomous systems melded to drive sustainable growth.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Jim McGittigan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Explore the challenges with both IT and other technology spend. Assess who is doing this at all, should it be a priotiy and if so how to do it well.
Financial planning and analysis’s (FP&A’s) success will be defined by how effectively it is able to drive business performance during volatility and disruptions. Learn how to enhance FP&A’s predictive and preparedness capabilities to turn uncertainty into opportunity for your organization.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Nick Duffy, Director Analyst, Gartner
Zero percent of CFOs believe that FBPs primarily spend time on value creation. FBPs struggle to maximize their impact due to poor internal branding, unwieldy responsibility scopes and excessively siloed ways of working. Autonomous finance will offer eight actionable opportunities to overcome these three legacy shortcomings. Join this session to learn how to incorporate each opportunity into your business partnering strategy.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM BST
Valeria Di Maso, Director Analyst, Gartner
Selecting the correct KPIs for your organization can be challenging, particularly considering the complex data landscape and constantly evolving company goals and objectives driven by high uncertainty in the marketplace. Join this interactive session with Gartner experts to discuss how to choose actionable KPIs, connect them to the organization's goals; and develop a reporting strategy around them.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The prospect of an autonomous finance organization is compelling but getting started seems complex and difficult. This session introduces the AI-forward framework that includes the steps that leading companies are taking to bridge the gap between a semi-automated function of today and an autonomous function of tomorrow.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CEOs have tasked Finance with driving greater use of data in decision-making, but most teams have run into an age-old challenge: human nature. Human beings don't remember data, we remember stories. For teams creating self-service tools and black box advanced analytics, this session will provide guidance on how to tell compelling, data-driven stories in a digital world.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM BST
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Autonomous finance innovations are tackling traditional Finance Business Partnering (FBP) shortcomings, such as unsustainable responsibility scopes and excessively siloed design models. Join this facilitated session to discuss your current FBP challenges and improvement aspirations with peers.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Delivering an autonomous finance function requires new skills, such as coding, data science and more. This session will provide insight into how and when to best use internal talent, hire new talent, and leverage outsourced talent to most successfully deploy AI in Finance.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM BST
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is a relatively new topic to finance teams. Organizations are taking a variety of approaches when introducing AI to their teams. Use this session to hear what others are doing and learn what has worked, what isn't worked and explore which approach might be best for you. This is a peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to discuss experiments with AI in Finance.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
FP&A technology is underutilized and organizations continue to turn to spreadsheets to manage their planning processes. This session addresses the evolutionary path FP&A technology will take in the next three to five years, the impact it will have on the FP&A organization, and key actions to take now to maximize return on investment and avoid costly mistakes.
The finance function’s ability to deliver on its data and analytics promise to drive improved business decision making is being constrained by the slow pace of digital transformation in the controllership. Learn how to quickly advance the controllership’s digital maturity.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM BST
Dixie John, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A common failing of ERP strategies is lack of alignment to business value. Organizations know they need to 'be better', but they don’t know where and they don’t know how. This session will tell you why that is, and more importantly, how to engage business leaders to measure and observe business value of ERP initiatives.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM BST
The market for F&A BPO is mature, with many finance teams embarking on a sourcing and evaluation mission to find the most suitable outsourcing provider for digital transformation services. Join this session to learn how Gartner defines the market and what capabilities vendors offer in this space.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Eighty-three percent of digital finance talent believe the skills acquired in the finance function will help further their careers, but only 58% believe they currently have career advancement opportunities in finance. Finance teams struggle to attract and retain digital talent because the talent pool is unclear about their career possibilities. Join this session to learn how existing management practices alienate digital finance talent and how to improve the retention of this critical talent pool in Finance.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital transformation of the accounting close process can fail in the absence of a coordinated effort between the Controllership and other functions whose processes impact the close. Join this session to learn how to improve functional alignment when undertaking digital initiatives to transform your close process.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM BST
Digital transformation in the controllership can fail in the absence of a coordinated effort between the Controllership and other functions whose processes impact the close. We will discuss how to resolve points of disagreement with key upstream stakeholders and get the mindset of accountants on your team ready for digital transformation. (Credits: 0.5; Field of Study: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Technology changes and hybrid work models bring many benefits but can come with unintended costs like employee fatigue. Employee fatigue can damage employee engagement and intent to stay. Join this session to learn strategies to energize weary finance employees and reduce change fatigue — even though the pace of change shows no sign of slowing down.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Clement Christensen, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Autonomous finance is the catalyst we have needed to transform L&D within finance. By 2024, 33% of the skills needed in 2019 will be redundant, while the total number of skills will continue to grow at 5.4% annually. However, only 42% of staff currently feel supported in learning and developing new skills. Join this session to learn the four L&D actions that underpin successful autonomous finance journeys.
In uncertain times, organizations are focusing attention on activities that will bring immediate and short-term impact. This track provides guidance on building your technology roadmap, picking the right vendors, identifying the proper skills and sequencing change to provide a steady stream of value throughout an organization’s financial transformation journey.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What technologies are other finance organizations really using? Separate hype from reality in this session and learn about the technology investments other finance organizations are making. Gain a research-based understanding of various technologies’ current usage and perceived value, as well as where finance leaders intend to place technology bets in the near future.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM BST
Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on what to consider when evaluating the use of an outsourcing provider to take on the task of digital finance transformation.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
93% of finance leaders surveyed in 2020 subscribed to a common set of 2025 objectives — Finance was to become digital, data-driven and highly scaled. Three years on, many teams still lag behind these goals. Join this session to learn how to accelerate finance towards the consensus 2025 view across four non-negotiable pillars: data, delivery models, process and technology, and people.
Monday, 18 September, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM BST
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
A digital finance shared services organization can seize the opportunity to significantly reduce the cost of finance and set its course to become the finance function’s digital transformation partner. Transformation leaders should join this session to learn how the three-year strategic roadmap repurposes SSOs and pivots them to new responsibilities that enable accelerated and sustainable digitization efforts.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance professionals agree that finance teams will need new skills to support a more technologically sophisticated finance organization of the future. What do those skills look like? How will finance teams evolve? What can teams do now to prepare for the future without the disruption of retraining the entire organization? Use this session to prepare your teams for the near-term and long-term demands that lie ahead.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM BST
Marcus Marion, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations have made significant digital investments to transform and optimize business operations. Unfortunately, a corresponding investment in change management is not made in many instances, resulting in diminishing digital ROI. This session will discuss how best-in-class organizations establish change management plans that promote digital ROI preservation.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM BST
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance transformation complexity is consistently rising — most transformation programs today feature a diversity of data, people, process, technology and delivery model initiatives. This complexity amplifies the need to make smart up-front investments in finance transformation strategy development support. Join this session to learn the most disruptive trends shaping the direction of the finance transformation strategy consulting market.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BST
Geraldine Garaud, Director Analyst, Gartner
Sixty-nine percent of finance transformation leaders agree that their organization’s transformation is moving slower than expected. Yet, many fail to recognize the importance of discipline in finance transformation and project management methods they can use to continuously re-energize their initiatives. Join this session for advice on how to get your finance transformation back on track with lean methods.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM BST
Nick Duffy, Director Analyst, Gartner
No one would consider constructing a skyscraper without a team of engineers yet many finance teams are trying build a digital finance function without dedicated Finance IT expertise. Use this session to justify the need for finance IT and learn how to get it right.