Planning and Executing Successful Process Optimization

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 2:00pm - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 3:00pm

Recent research by APQC has found that a majority of large companies are currently planning or executing financial process improvement programs. They vary in terms of size of investment, urgency, and focus. But they share a common desire: to make finance more efficient and, at the same time, more effective.

Why this surge? CFOs know that legacy financial processes and systems are not adequate to address coming regulatory burdens and business managers’ growing needs for stronger analytical support from finance.

In this webinar, Mary Driscoll, Senior Research Fellow at APQC, along with Gary Callaghan and Ryan Senter from Protiviti, will examine the critical success factors in finance transformation.

Join us and you will learn how successful finance teams:

Assess process performance gaps and frame the improvement challenge;
Plan and implement improvement programs aimed at core accounting and reporting; and performance management and financial analytics;
Address needs for new talent, structure, and technology;
Measure program progress and communicate with business partners; and
Ensure that lasting benefits are delivered to the organization as a whole.

ABOUT The Dynamic Finance Webcast Series

In today’s volatile environment, if you're looking at numbers that were created two to three months ago, much less nine months ago, they’re useless. The Dynamic Finance Webcast Series has been created to help you to rethink and execute the design and operation of financial processes to achieve a more dynamic organization.

Learn what strategies and best practices dynamic organizations are today using to enhance and realign their budgeting and planning, reporting and analysis and financial consolidation processes. In this series of webcasts each presentation zeros-in on a specific dynamic finance discipline, allowing attendees to build upon their knowledge as they advance down the transformation path.

Find out how your finance team can break with rigid backward-looking practices and enhance its capability to take timely action.

About the Presenters

Mary Driscoll is an author, editor, and lecturer with expertise in corporate finance and business management. She serves as senior research fellow at APQC, a non-profit benchmarking and best-practice research center, where she leads the financial management research initiative.

Previously, Driscoll spent a decade as president of CFO Research, the research services arm of CFO magazine. Sbe has written several business books, including the professional reference guide Cash Management: Corporate Strategies for Profit (John Wiley & Sons). She has won journalism awards for corporate finance, treasury operations, and personal financial planning topics. She currently serves on the advisory boards of three technology start-ups.

Gary Callaghan, Protiviti
Ryan Senter, Protiviti