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24 - 27 May 2015 Crown Promenade, Melbourne

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Celebrating 10 Years of Community With Mastering SAP Financials

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SPECIAL FEATURES

Deep Dive SessionsBig picture thinking: it’s what every organisation pursues for strategic advantage and business performance improvement. It’s what’s expected from all of us if we are to succeed. The ability to read the signs and trends, formulate strategy, determine the way forward and drive towards our goals. Join us for these in-depth, interactive sessions delivered by thought leaders and experts. Each will take you outside the box and arm you with the ability to cut through the hype, deliver insights and high value to your teams and give you thoughtful fuel for progress in your organisation.

Financial Reporting and BPC Workshops. Back by popular demand!Back by popular demand, Janet Salmon and Eric Smit will be facilitating their SAP Financial Reporting and SAP BPC workshops on the third day of the conference.

Janet’s workshop which has been sold out for the past three years is as jam-packed, practical and in-depth day that will expose and unpack how the world of reporting is changing. Find out how you can deliver real-time reports on desktop and mobile devices that can be acted on by executives straight away.

Eric’s workshop was launched last year with incredible success. Using hands-on exercises on your own laptop, you will find out how to deploy and get the most value out of SAP’s widely used SAP Budgeting Planning and Consolidation (BPC) tool.

Be more than informed… be transformed!We all know that technology is just one ingredient in high performing organisations. Each year, the ‘softer’ side of what we do has become more and more vital to this community. For 2015, the event is tackling this issue head-on with a track dedicated to leadership and personal development. Covering everything from persuasive communication to corporate culture, this track is jam-packed with content from thought leaders around the globe. Leave the event this year with plenty of ideas and practical tools to lead and thrive in your business.

Jumpstart: Shhh… it’s a secret! 6.30pm Sunday 24 MayWe can’t let the cat out of the bag just yet, but rest assured this is the perfect way to kick-start your conference experience on Sunday evening. This hour will be loud, energising, fun and will ease you perfectly into the next two days. Whether you’re new to the event this year or a returning friend - we promise this is something not to be missed. And remember, don’t be late!


HOT TOPICS FINANCIAL REPORTING & ANALYSIS FOR DECISION SUPPORT

• Deliver online, real-time dashboards with drill down analysis

• Increase transparency and manager accountability

• Proven methods of requirements gathering

• Understanding exactly what users want/need and moving the ownership to the business

• Migrating from Excel to SAP BusinessObjects

• Opportunities and implications of HANA for financial reporting

• Enhancing the quality of financial analysis

• Change an inadequate analytics landscape into an outstanding, real-time decision support platform

• Selecting, harmonising and displaying performance metrics in real-time

• Understanding the finance data and business processes that can benefit most from modern analytics

• Active and continuous monitoring to enable ongoing prevention and monitoring of exceptions

• How modern analytics techniques outperform traditional SAP and DB reports

• Improve the quality and completeness of reconciliations

• Query real-time dashboards and reports to gain insight into specific reconciliations

• Understanding of the reports that are available in the system

• Knowing the source of your data - having a single source of the truth

• Tool selection - report painter, report writer, BPC, Lumira - know which is the best for your environment

• Getting real-time dashboards on mobile devices

• Financial reporting roadmap from SAP

• What’s available if you don’t have HANA

INTEGRATION

• Integrating new tools with existing SAP environments

• Handling integration issues across modules - FI or non FI

• Alignment of FICO - COPA - BW

• Integration challenges with heavy customisation

• Making sure business rules across interfaces are replicated

• Integration of cloud and on-premise

• Bringing the technical support resources along on the journey

• The hidden costs in dealing with legacy decisions

BUDGETING, PLANNING & FORECASTING

• Define the critical steps within the predict, plan and execute processes

• Methods for evaluating real-time performance using SAP analytics solutions (SAP Business Intelligence and SAP Fiori)

• Bridge the gap between function and technology to grow revenues, improve margins and optimise operational efficiency

• Assumptions and measures to validate forecast numbers - what you should look for

• Scenario planning to add real value to the forecasting process

• Aligned and synchronised planning and execution from top to bottom across short, medium and strategic horizons

• How to avoid multiple versions of truth by having a unified solution that seamlessly integrates to legacy systems

• Reducing dependency on IT development

• Clear integration between budgeting and forecasting - plan vs. budget vs. actual vs. forecast

• What is the business case for products like BPC? ERP planning vs. BPC modelling

• SAP roadmap - where are the products going?

• What are the best ways to input and export data?

• How to define what your requirements are

• Shifting from time to prepare to time to analyse

• Understanding and meeting management expectations

• Empowering and engaging your users

MASTER DATA

• Ensuring data integrity - building automated processes to identify data issues

• Fully understanding the cost of errors and maintenance

• Getting users involved - building self-service and encouraging ownership

• Helping users to understand the process and use of data in the process, understanding business rules

• What tools are available for master data management?

• Best practice - how does SAP do it?

• Master data governance - consistency and workflow

• GRC to access the data - who has access to what data

• Single source of entry that integrates across your whole financial system framework

Through a unique process known as the Circle of Customer Engagement, 70 people from 50 companies across Australia engaged in a series of round table discussions. This sharing of challenges and pain points brought to light the most important issues facing the SAP Financials community right now.

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IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE

• Creating a strategy for user experience enhancement

• Understanding what UI technologies are available with your current environment

• Building a business case to implement UI enhancements

• Defining business processes and how to achieve fulfilment

• Understanding the bigger picture of the system

• Data dependencies and complexities

• The direction of SAP and where they are heading - GUI, NWBC, Fiori

• Overall practicality and efficient ways to leverage the benefits of the interface

• Special consideration for mobile interfaces

GRC - GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE

• Process accountability - need business process owners

• Interrelationship between process and people

• Understanding roles - segregation of duties - especially in small teams

• Diversity of systems - hard to manage different systems in different ways

• Business process mapping to understand business rules and/or processes

• Identify conflict by overlaying with the org structure

• Scalable solution available other than spreadsheets

• Maintenance, review and sharing of role changes

• Education about SAP GRC, what it is and how do you get the most out of it?

BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN

• Creating a standardised and common methodology

• Being clear about ownership and best practice

• Identifying critical processes vs. flexible processes

• Possibility of using an outsourced provider to help improve processes

• Best practice is process first over tool

• Stakeholder engagement and change management - finding a best practice process design and including the right people who understand the processes

• Visibility, availability and understanding of the process

CHANGE MANAGEMENT & COMMUNICATION

• Get real commitment from the right people

• Incorporate user experience into your design strategy

• Make use of social tools to enhance your support model

• Communication and marketing needs to be two-way and collaborative

• Gaining business buy-in at the beginning of the process - ensuring clarity and scope

• Sponsorship and leadership to bring people through the change process

• Effective methods of communication

• Engaging the right stakeholders

• Providing solutions that the business can understand

• Ensuring communications before, during and after

• Business benefits realisation

• Identifying blockages in a process

• Understanding impact and advantages for the wider organisation

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• Encouraging top down initiatives and implementing a hierarchical support approach

• Often a lack of definition - clear ownership is needed

• Ensuring your documentation is up to date

• Empowering and training super users

• How to manage information and knowledge when your partners leave

• Ageing experts and mobile workforce - how to extract and manage the knowledge

HANA

• Building and communicating the business case

• What is the SAP roadmap for HANA?

• Practical examples of big data, mobility and cloud applied to finance to deliver business benefit

• Understand what your needs are and if HANA is the answer

• Conducting a cost benefit analysis

• Streamline consolidation and management reporting using SAP BPC on HANA

• Understanding how BW and HANA work

PRODUCT COSTING

• Integration and interfaces of CO-PC with other modules

• How to use product cost planning

• How to apply your own business process to the cost object controlling scenarios

• What is the material ledger and how can you use it to improve your reporting?

• What reports are available in CO-PC


SPEAKERSA diverse mix of SAP finance practitioners, thought leaders and experts - carefully chosen by the Mastering SAP Financials Advisory Team. Empowering and arming you to fully realise the benefits of SAP for financial reporting, budgeting, planning, consolidation, accounting and GRC in your business.

SAP’s Innovations - Is There Something You’ve Been Missing? Did you know that some of the current UI innovations pre-date SAP Fiori and are available in any system currently using EhP 6 or later? Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can actually be used on any ERP system. Janet will open your mind to activating the business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages.

New Ways of Thinking for Success in the Digital EconomyThe current tech trend is the ‘Internet of Things’ - networks of smart, connected products. Queensland Motorways has made great inroads into the digital economy, but it has been no easy ride. Join Steve as he outlines what it has taken to turn the IT organisation into a revenue-building hub of innovation (and improving employee engagement along the way).

Build a Culture of Accountability: The Key to Organisational Success, Empowered People and High PerformanceIf you ask any senior executive what they believe is a key factor to driving a culture of success, it will be accountability. In this session we will explore the role of people, processes and systems in building a culture of accountability. You’ll leave with Gregory’s top three strategies to put into place straight away.

STEVE MITCHELL

General Manager Technology - Queensland, Queensland Motorways

GREGORY BAYNE

Director/Leadership Capability Consultant, Total Leader and Coach Solutions

Building Relationships That Enable Success - Bridging the Finance/IT Divide If a restructure or acquisition was forced on your team tomorrow, would your team have the skills and resources needed to lead the project and make it a success? This session will outline the key steps that enabled the on time and on budget delivery of a complex, multifaceted Finance/IT project. Get an insight into what skills sets and personalities are required for a high performing finance systems function.

SAP With Best of Breed Solutions - Working Together to Successfully Integrate Multiple Finance Systems Monash University made a conscious decision to shift from developing in-house SAP solutions to sourcing best practice software-as-a-service solutions and integrating with SAP. Find out how they managed to avoid the time and money associated with customisations.

ADAM BEE

Financial Systems Analyst, Marks and Spencer (UK)

JOHN YOUNG

Portfolio Manager - Workforce & Finance, eSolutions, Monash University

JANET SALMON

Chief Product Owner Management Accounting, SAP (Germany)

Simpler, Faster, Stronger: Building a Blueprint for Integrated Planning Globalisation, diversification and “abbreviation” (shorter attention spans for consumers) has led to an increasingly complex environment for businesses and public organisations. In this session, you will hear how Under Armour successfully bridged the gap between function and technology to grow revenues, improve margins and optimise operational efficiency.

DAVID ROBERTS

VP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)


What the Experts Are Saying About Product Costing Understand what prerequisites you need to get product costing up and running. Explore the difference between product cost planning, cost object controlling and material ledger, and for what purpose these sub-modules are designed. Find out in what different scenarios cost object controlling can be used and how to effectively manage your month-end closing process.

MARTIN MUNZEL

Managing Director, Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

Empowering Managers With Self-Service Real-Time Financial Reports: The Story of the Great and the UnexpectedAre your managers receiving pointless, static and retrospective financial reports on a monthly basis? Seeing an opportunity for increased transparency and manager accountability, Auckland Council decided to roll out SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tool to deliver online, real-time dashboards with drill down analysis.

Improving Financial Data Integrity and Moving Users Away from Excel Break a cycle of inconsistent reporting and widespread mistrust of your data. Join Awni as he shares with you how the Department of Immigration and Border Protection built a solution within standard SAP to automate the MDM process. Post-implementation, the solution has decreased the number of staff managing data by two-thirds and improved user satisfaction considerably.

DAN AUBER

Manager, Projects and Innovation, Auckland Council (NZ)

AWNI KALHA

Manager - SAP System Change Gateway, Department of Immigration and Border Protection

STUART HARMAN

Partner, Oliver Wight Asia Pacific

Successfully Transforming the Finance Function: Developing and Delivering on a VisionIn this session Nicole shares how Monash successfully transformed their finance function through better practice technology, process solutions and enhancements to the budgeting methodology. Their change management approach for this enormous program demonstrated how change can be a catalyst for complete transformation.

NICOLE TOURNIER

Director, Finance Strategy, Monash University

Forecasting and Budgeting - Using a Proven Approach to Get a Process That You Trust (and Like!)In many organisations, despite the increasing take up of ever more sophisticated tools, both forecasting and budgeting can take up a significant amount of time and resource. This deep dive session explores some of the elements of successful Integrated Business Planning, the Finance team’s role in the process and how IBP leads to more robust plans, produced with less effort.

Building the Technical Team of Tomorrow, Today Technical skills and needs change at such fast rate, how can IT organisations expect to keep up? The problem isn’t technology, but team. Many organisations today struggle with how to recruit, train, and retain top IT talent. Join Ben as he discusses this persistent issue and strategies to overcome it.

BENJAMIN ROBBINS

Co-Founder, Palador (USA)

Be Successful With Your Technology - Become an Elephant WhispererOK - let’s talk about the elephant in the room. If your users don’t adopt your systems effectively, then you can’t really claim success. Good user adoption doesn’t happen by accident, but by incorporating some simple strategies you can be well on your way to taming the beast. This presentation will explore practical examples, showing you how to achieve this.

GREG TAYLOR

Independent Change Management Evangelist

How NOL Streamlined Consolidation and Management Reporting Using SAP BPC on HANA Avoid multiple versions of the truth by having a unified reporting solution that seamlessly integrates to your legacy systems. Colin will show you how NOL supports detailed analysis by processing and reporting on huge volumes of data and reduces dependency on IT development by deploying a user centric and dynamic solution.

COLIN TEO

VP Group Management Reporting and ELP Office, Neptune Orient Lines (Singapore)

Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs at Monash Using Data AnalyticsLearn how the latest approaches to detecting quality and process exceptions allow CFOs to have complete confidence in the quality and compliance of their financial data at all times. Monash University performed an analysis of their historical data and implemented active continuous monitoring to enable ongoing prevention and monitoring of exceptions - saving the organisation vast amounts of effort and cost.

JUSTINE WADDICK

Executive Director, Procure to Payment Services, Monash University

A Four-Phase Approach of Transforming Culture at the ATOIn response to a rapidly changing environment, the ATO has seen the need for organisational reinvention. Key to this is a cultural change strategy - no easy task in an organisation with such a strong current culture. Join Julie as she shares the ATO’s experiences and outlines their four-phase approach that you can take back and apply to your own organisation.

JULIE PRATER

Senior Director - Corporate Services, Systems Support, Australian Taxation Office


SAP With Best of Breed Solutions - Working Together To Successfully Integrate Multiple Finance Systems Monash University made a conscious decision to shift from developing in-house SAP solutions to sourcing best practice software-as-a-service solutions and integrating with SAP. Find out how they managed to avoid the time and money associated with customisations.

NICOLE TOURNIER

Director, Finance Strategy, Monash University

Pros and Cons of the Planning Tools in SAP ERP, BW, BPC and HANA - Which One is Right for Your Organisation?There is an abundant supply of planning tools available in SAP - from classical planning in ERP, BW IP, BPC, renovated panning in ERP, Express Planning, through to HANA Planning Application Kit and Smart Financials. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the individual tools, and how do you know which tool is the right one for your organisation?

MARTIN MUNZEL

Managing Director, Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

Building a Great Team: The Foundation for a Winning CultureThis is the story and real-life example of the Under Armour cultural phenomenon. Under Armour uses The Four Pillars of Greatness to drive success in every aspect of the business. See how the individuality of teammates is used to create depth and how transparency and accountability are the bedrock for developing a family culture.

DAVID ROBERTS


SAP Treasury Implemented in 12 Weeks… The RDS WayWith an existing SaaS Treasury Management System (TMS) being decommissioned in three months Zespri needed another solution to manage their portfolio of money market deposits, FX forwards, swaps and NDFs as well as commodities. This session will go through why Zespri chose the SAP Rapid Deployment Solution, some of the features of the RDS, some things to watch out for and where to next for Zespri.

CRAIG STREET

Group Treasurer, Zespri International (NZ)

JANET SALMON

Chief Product Owner Management Accounting, SAP (Germany)

Drive Your Finance Transformation With SAP Simple FinanceBased on SAP HANA, SAP Simple Finance is a new offering consisting of a set of end-to-end finance solutions. In this session Janet will explore the impact of SAP Simple Finance to your business. She will discuss with you how accounts and cost elements will merge, what you can expect to see in reporting and planning and how account-based CO-PA has been enhanced.

Resilience and Composure - How to Maintain Performance Under PressureSAP projects are often high demand and high pressure with looming deadlines and competing priorities. What skills do you need to succeed personally and ensure the business goals are met in these types of environments? In this session you learn the cost of cognitive overload and key skills for building resilience to large workloads and pressure.

GREG LAYTON

Director, NeuroSport


Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs at Monash Using Data AnalyticsLearn how the latest approaches to detecting quality and process exceptions allow CFOs to have complete confidence in the quality and compliance of their financial data at all times. Monash University performed an analysis of their historical data, and implemented active continuous monitoring to enable ongoing prevention and monitoring of exceptions - saving the organisation vast amounts of effort and cost.

MICHAEL LAWLER

CEO, Selera Labs

Leveraging Rule Based Financial and HR Planning - The New Flexible Way of PlanningWith changing policies and guidelines globally, organisations are continuously facing the pressures of timely budget completion and accurate decision-making. Using rule based planning these challenges can be overcome leveraging a flexible and scalable business user centric platform eliminating need for further customisations.

PUNEET GUPTA

Managing Partner, BackOffice | CPM Consulting

Delivering Delight to MMG’s Managers With Multi-System Mobile ApprovalsFollow MMG’s ambitious strategy to aggregate workflows from ~10 different inboxes spanning both SAP and non-SAP systems, into a unified inbox tailored for mobiles, tablets and desktops. All this delivered to 500 managers processing several thousand approvals per month. Learn how MMG simplified visibility of workflows into a single badge number and significantly improved approval times.

JOHN MOY

SAP UI, Mobility and Development Architect, MMG

Getting Started in Mobile Today! Many organisations know that there is an opportunity in mobility, the trick is figuring out which opportunities are right for your business. From creating a strategy for mobile to security, to device ownership, to what apps to build, to extensible back end services, there are many angles to consider. Come learn how to transform your business into a mobile enhanced business step by step.

BENJAMIN ROBBINS

Co-Founder, Palador (USA)

Change leadership - What it Looks Like and How to Get the Results You Really Need Everyone on a project has a responsibility for leading change, not just the sponsor. Through a range of practical examples, you’ll explore what change leadership looks like at different levels and how can you get your stakeholders driving the bus, not just being a passenger.

GREG TAYLOR

Independent Change Management Evangelist

Sweet on HANA - What We Love About SAP Finance on HANAIn this session we will share what we love about the new finance solution on HANA, our favourite improvements for quick win benefits and our vision for finance organisations to unlock new value from the ERP. See practical examples of big data, mobility and cloud applied to finance to deliver business benefit.

LEITH WARD

SAP Finance Capability Lead, Accenture

Supercharge Your Analysis - Migrating from Excel to SAP BusinessObjectsEver feel like you’re drowning in spread sheets, waiting forever for links to update, always checking if ranges are up to date? Learn how a team within Marks and Spencer is spearheading the use of SAP BusinessObjects to enhance the quality of its financial analysis whilst reducing their dependency on Excel. See how you can convert your business improvement ideas into winning IT change proposals.

ADAM BEE

Financial Systems Analyst, Marks and Spencer (UK)

Outpacing the Competition: How Under Armour Leverages “In-Time” Analytics to Win the RaceInaccuracies, inconsistencies and inconclusive data are the typical symptoms faced by today’s executive. Complexity of data models and reporting tools have forced analysts into the ubiquitous data dump to MS Excel - filled with errors. In our session, you will hear how Under Armour changed the inadequate analytics landscape into an outstanding, real-time decision support platform.

DAVID ROBERTS



One Tool for Budgeting, Planning, BI Reporting, Dashboards and Predictive AnalyticsFrustrated with long development timeframes, having to use multiple tools or resorting to Excel when working with your SAP data? Learn how United Energy and Multinet Gas used BOARD to make sense of their SAP data, resulting in considerable improvements in the speed and flexibility of their financial reporting.

STEVEN KELLAR

Managing Director, BOARD

Building an External Knowledge Sharing Community for Collective Resolutions to Common ChallengesThis presentation is about Incitec Pivot’s journey to build an international online community of users to more effectively manage their integrated systems. Learn how extending knowledge management beyond the organisation is valuable for users and vendors.

CHERYL CALVERT

IT Application Analyst, Incitec Pivot

The Key Ingredients for Sustainable ChangeThe introduction of new processes or tools is a constant for most organisations in the 21st century but in too many instances this change does not go as well as planned. In this session Stuart will talk about the key ingredients for sustainable change and need for ownership.STUART HARMAN

Partner, Oliver Wight Asia Pacific

Account Reconciliation Best Practices to Ensure Accuracy in the NumbersWeaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process can lead to mistakes on the balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close - which may be putting your company at risk. Learn how to remove reliance on manual spreadsheets and leverage technology to improve the quality and completeness of your reconciliations.

ANN FURLONG

SAP FCCA Director of Operations, APAC, Blackline

Getting What You Want Every Time: Key Principles and Tools for High Powered Communication and InfluenceAre you as influential and inspiring as you would like to be? Do you get what you want every time? If not, then this is the session for you. Gregory will offer practical strategies and tools for high powered communication that you can use as soon as you get back to your workplace.

GREGORY BAYNE

Director/Leadership Capability Consultant, Total Leader and Coach Solutions

Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: If Only We All Knew What We All Know

DOMINIC THURBON

Chief Creative Officer, ChangeLabs

Entrepreneurship and Social Business, Leadership and Innovation

DANIEL FLYNN

Founder, Thankyou Water

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

SAP Treasury Implemented in 12 Weeks… The RDS WayWith an existing SaaS Treasury Management System (TMS) being decommissioned in three months Zespri needed another solution to manage their portfolio of money market deposits, FX forwards, swaps and NDFs as well as commodities. This session will go through why Zespri chose the SAP Rapid Deployment Solution, some of the features of the RDS, some things to watch out for and where to next for Zespri.

JITU PATEL

Systems Analyst - Global Finance, Zespri International (NZ)


The Secret Ingredient to Mastering SAP? Following an incredible response to holding Mastering SAP Financials alongside Mastering HR & Payroll last year, the 2015 event is set to be bigger than ever with the co-location of these two events plus Mastering SAP Technologies.

With the three communities converging in Melbourne it means networking and collaboration opportunities like never before. As for the secret ingredient - simply register for just one event and obtain access to the powerful content of all three agendas.

The community for organisations who care about business performance, people and cultureThe hot topics to be explored in the 2015 program include reporting, payroll processing, SuccessFactors integration, upgrades, mobility and paperless transactions. With so much content in the HR program having financial relevance, last year many delegates attending Mastering Financials took part in one or more HR sessions. To find out why, and to see the speakers and content for yourself visit www.masteringsap.com/hrau

The community for organisations who are passionate about technology and peopleDo you care about improving the user experience of SAP? Or want to know how you can get access to SAP on your mobile? Mastering SAP Technologies explores the technologies and processes required to enable this, as well as covering issues such as cloud, HANA, upgrades, technology strategy and system security. The event is designed for IT strategists, developers and technical professionals, but many of the issues discussed will be relevant to the functional audience. To find out more about the speakers and content, visit www.masteringsap.com/techau

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Monday 25 May 2015

Sunday 24 May 2015

OVERVIEW

PEOPLE & CULTURE FIN 1 FIN 2

8.00 Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing

8.30 Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

9.00 - 10.00GUEST KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: If Only We All Knew What We All Knew Dominic Thurbon, Chief Creative Officer, ChangeLabs

10.40 - 11.30FINANCIALS KEYNOTE:

Drive Your Finance Transformation With SAP Simple FinanceJanet Salmon - Chief Product Owner Management Accounting, SAP (Germany)

11.40 - 12.30 Change Leadership - What it Looks Like and How to Get the Results You Really NeedGreg Taylor - Independent Change Management Evangelist

Sweet on HANA - What We Love About SAP Finance on HANALeith Ward - SAP Finance Capability Lead, Accenture

Outpacing the Competition: How Under Armour Leverages “In-Time” Analytics to Win the RaceDavid Roberts - VP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)

1.30 - 2.20 Building the Technical Team of Tomorrow, Today Benjamin Robbins - Co-Founder, Palador (USA)

Deep Dive: SAP’s Innovations - Is There Something You’ve Been Missing? Janet Salmon - Chief Product Owner Management Accounting, SAP (Germany)

Deep Dive: Forecasting and Budgeting - Using a Proven Approach to Get a Process That You Trust (and Like!)Stuart Harman - Partner, Oliver Wight Asia Pacific

2.30 - 3.20 Building a Great Team: The Foundation for a Winning CultureDavid Roberts - VP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA)

3.50 - 4.30 Build a Culture of Accountability: The Key to Organisational Success, Empowered People and High PerformanceGregory Bayne - Director/Leadership Capability Consultant, Total Leader and Coach Solutions

Building Relationships That Enable Success - Bridging the Finance/IT DivideAdam Bee - Financial Systems Analyst, Marks and Spencer (UK)

What the Experts Are Saying About Product Costing Martin Munzel - Managing Director, Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

4.50 - 5.50SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:

Entrepreneurship and Social Business, Leadership and InnovationDaniel Flynn - Founder, Thankyou Water

6.00 To wrap up day one, please join us at the UXC Oxygen Mastering SAP Networking Drinks

6.00pm Pre-conference registration

6.30pm Mastering SAP Financials Jumpstart

7.30pm Networking Welcome Drinks


Tuesday 26 May 2015

Wednesday 27 May 2015

PEOPLE & CULTURE FIN 1 FIN 2

8.00-8.45Breakfast Session: Treasury Implemented in 12 Weeks…The RDS Way

Jitu Patel - Systems Analyst - Global Finance & Craig Street - Group Treasurer, Zespri International (NZ)

9.00 - 9.50 A Four-Phase Approach to Transform Culture at the ATO Julie Prater - Senior Director - Corporate Services, Systems Support, Australian Taxation Office

Successfully Transforming the Finance Function: Developing and Delivering on a VisionNicole Tournier - Director, Finance Strategy, Monash University

Empowering Managers With Self-Service Real-Time Financial Reports: The Story of the Great and the UnexpectedDan Auber - Manager, Projects and Innovation, Auckland Council (NZ)

10.00 - 10.50 Resilience and Composure - How to Maintain Performance Under Pressure Greg Layton - Director, NeuroSport

Supercharge Your Analysis - Migrating from Excel to SAP BusinessObjectsAdam Bee - Financial Systems Analyst, Marks and Spencer (UK)

Improving Financial Data Integrity and Moving Users Away From Excel Awni Kalha - Manager - SAP System Change Gateway, Department of Immigration and Border Protection

11.30 - 1.10 Deep Dive: Getting What You Want Every Time: Key Principles and Tools for High Powered Communication and InfluenceGregory Bayne - Director / Leadership Capability Consultant, Total Leader and Coach Consultants Australia

Deep Dive: Getting Started in Mobile Today! Benjamin Robbins - Co-Founder, Palador (USA)

Deep Dive: Pros and Cons of the Planning Tools in SAP ERP, BW, BPC and HANA - Which One is Right for Your Organisation?Martin Munzel - Managing Director, Espresso Tutorials (Germany)

2.10 - 3.00 The Key Ingredients for Sustainable ChangeStuart Harman - Partner, Oliver Wight Asia Pacific

BPC Fishbowl:David Roberts VP, Platform Solutions, SAP & Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, Under Armour (USA) & Colin Teo - VP Group Management Reporting and ELP, Office Neptune Orient Lines (Singapore)

SAP With Best Breed Solutions - Working Together to Successfully Integrate Multiple Financial SystemsJohn Young - Portfolio Manger - Workforce & Finance eSolutions & Nicole Tournier - Director, Finance Stategy, Monash University

3.30 - 4.30

CLOSING KEYNOTE:Be Successful With Your Technology - Become an

Elephant Whisperer Greg Taylor - Independent Change Management Evangelist

CLOSING KEYNOTE:New Ways of Thinking for Success in the Digital Economy

Steve Mitchell - General Manager Technology, Queensland, Queensland Motorways

8.30 Workshop Registration

9.00 Workshop 1: Financial Reporting With SAPLed by Jane Salmon - Chief Product Owner Management Accounting, SAP (Germany)

Workshop 2: Gain Agility and Control: HandsOn SAP BPC WorkshopLed by Eric Smit- Global Senior Director, Center of Excellence Finance, SAP (Germany)

4.00 Workshops Close


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Day 1

10.40 - 11.30Ed Davis - Turnkey ConsultingIs Your SAP System Vulnerable to Cyber Security Threats?

Nicole Morton - PlautManaging Contingent Labour - What Does This Really Mean?

11.40 - 12.30Cheryl Calvert - Incitec Pivot Building an External Knowledge Sharing Community for Collective Resolutions to Common Challenges

Heidi Fischer - IQX From Forms to Responsive Web Apps and Process Automation

1.30 - 2.20

Michael Lawler - Selera & Justine Waddick - Monash UniversityImproving Efficiency and Reducing Costs at Monash University Using Data Analytics

David Irvine - TIK All Companies Need to Report - Make Your Reports Spectacular

2.30 - 3.20Ann Furlong - BlacklineAccount Reconciliation Best Practices to Ensure Accuracy in the Numbers

Calvin Kally - KALTechWe’re learning ALL the time - Evaluating and Selecting the Right LMS for You

Day 2

9.00 - 9.50John Moy - MMGDelivering Delight to MMG’s Managers with Multi-system Mobile Approvals

10.30 - 11.20

Puneet Gupta - BackOffice | CPM ConsultingLeveraging Rule Based Financial and HR Planning - The New Flexible Way of Planning

Ian Kiddell - Monash UniversityHow Monash University Transformed and Automated Its HCM and Payroll Data Quality Reporting

11.30 - 12.20Steven Kellar - BOARDOne Tool for Budgeting, Planning, BI Reporting, Dashboards and Predictive Analytics

Peter Forbes - HROnboardHROnboard - Onboarding and Offboarding Made Easy

12.30 - 1.20Dudley Cartwright - SoterionManage Your SAP Access Risk Using Software as a Service (SaaS)

Marjukka Maki-Hokkonen - NGA Human Resources Payroll and HR Complexity in a Local and Global Environment

selera LABSBetter decisions. Better business.


PACKAGES & PRICESINCLUDES entry into all three conferences and exhibitions, lunches, refreshments and networking drinks, presentations and the participant contact list. Team bookings are encouraged to accelerate the spread of knowledge across your organisation.

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Cancellations must be advised in writing at least 21 days prior to the event. Where an alternative delegate is not possible, an administration fee of $550 (+ GST) per delegate will be incurred for cancellations. A refund will not be given if a delegate fails to attend or cancels within 21 days of the event. Please note that transaction and credit card charges may apply. Please refer to the website for the most up-to-date agenda as some speakers or sessions may be adjusted or changed.

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