Too many finance professionals close the month with a nagging feeling that they may have missed something. Sprinting to the finish line every month prevents finance professionals from taking their true place as business leaders and strategic visionaries.
Join SAP Pinnacle Partner of the Year, BlackLine, at Mastering SAP OnAir for a series of online sessions designed to help you understand the future of finance in the digital era.
BlackLine’s own Carmen Lyons and Joy Kennedy, Senior SAP Value Architect, will take you on a journey towards reimagining the role of finance across three sessions during the event.
1. What is the true cost of your lack of capacity?
Coca-Cola wasted 14,000 hours per month on manual accounting, stopping the team from operating at peak effectiveness. By automating these processes with SAP and BlackLine, Coca-Cola overcame capacity challenges to deliver vastly improved control and visibility. The business saved $600,000 by reducing manual processes by 55 per cent.
During this session, Joy and Carmen will provide valuable takeaways and practical advice that you can implement to overcome your own capacity challenges.
2. The Digital CFO – think beyond tomorrow
In this live interactive meet-up with Joy and other members of the SAP finance community, you’ll learn how automation can deliver significant productivity dividends. Freeing up talented finance professionals from the drudgery of manual tasks requires a strategic investment in the right technology alongside the flexibility to finetune business rules.
This session will advance your thinking regarding how to plan finance strategies considering the requirements of today and the future, including how to collaborate effectively.
3. What are you truly mastering in finance?
This BlackLine masterclass, led by Joy and Carmen, will focus on the importance of embracing digital transformation so your business can move beyond the legacy record-to-report process. By attending the masterclass, you’ll learn:
- why custom automation has failed to deliver on its promise and how to improve on it
- why you should focus on how you work rather than where you work
- why capacity issues can lead to hidden costs and risks beyond lack of efficiency
- why the future of finance isn’t just digital technology
- how using modern accounting can make you an employer of choice.
While many finance professionals are still acclimating to working remotely or with geographically dispersed teams, the future of finance remains unwritten. Imagine being able to combine ease of use with accuracy and completeness, so you can deliver trusted financials without the brute force finish to the month that can leave you feeling uneasy.
BlackLine is a platinum SAP partner and a premium sponsor of Mastering SAP OnAir.
Joy Kennedy, Senior SAP Value Architect in BlackLine’s SAP Centre of Excellence, is a passionate SAP specialist with more than 23 years’ experience with SAP solutions and more latterly, BlackLine. Her specialist knowledge of finance in S/4HANA has allowed her to provide digital transformation expertise to clients across various industries.
Carmen Lyons operates out of BlackLine’s SAP Centre of Excellence as an evangelist. She focuses on helping businesses optimise their financial close processes by eliminating manual processes, giving time back to finance professionals so they can spend more time on value-added activities.
Mastering SAP OnAir is an online event running from Tuesday, July 27 to Thursday, July 29 2021. It will bring finance professionals together to discuss transformation strategies, change management, and how to leverage SAP’s solutions to drive a high-performance finance function.
This article is sponsored by BlackLine
