Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
8:00 am - 8:45 am
EST
Building a Successful Upskilling Program: Onboarding, Continuous Learning & Skills Matrix
Ranjit Peter -
Global Capability Leader,
NIQ
In SSON Research & Analytics’ 2025 State of the Industry Survey, 49% of respondents listed upskilling employees as their number one objective in 2025, far above business partnering (35%) and leveraging automation solutions (35%). This is particularly important in finance as digitalization and organizational transformation, means that far from just dealing in numbers, finance leaders are expected to be strategic, analytical and client facing. In this session we invited NIQ Capabilities Leader, Ranjit Peter to share their fantastic upskilling program.
- Aligning skills development with organizational goals
- Onboarding: How the right start equals the right skills
- To mandate or not? How do we ensure employees are utilizing training resources?
- Ongoing assessment, feedback, and leadership support
- Measuring the effectiveness of your upskilling initiatives in finance
9:00 am - 9:45 am
EST
Panel Discussion: Revolutionising Global Payments: AI, Visibility & Real-Time Action
Arpitha Shetty -
General Manager, Global Service Delivery Lead, R2R,
Global Shared Services Kohler Co
Achille Pagliaro - Senior Director of Payments Success, Papaya Global
- The role of AI in transforming payments: How it’s reducing fraud and improving efficiency and security.
- Enhancing payment visibility to improve the P2P process and enable organizations to take action in real-time.
- Digitizing payment data to provide analytics and decision support.
- Current challenges around cross-border payments and how to solve them.
- The Future of Payments: What’s Next!
Arpitha Shetty
General Manager, Global Service Delivery Lead, R2RGlobal Shared Services Kohler Co
10:00 am - 10:30 am
EST
From Siloes to Strategy: Unleashing the True Value of Your Master Data
Antonia Estrella Imbernon -
Global Enterprise Data Management Head, GBS,
British American Tobacco
The quality of your master data affects everything you do, from the speed of your finance transformations to the effectiveness of automation and even the ability to deliver good customer experience. However, getting MDM right isn’t easy and can often be a long and painful process. In this session, Global MDM Lead, Antonia Imbernon, gives her perspective on how to get it right.
· The challenges of master-data in GBS
· Keeping MDM cost-effective
· Demonstrating the true value of master-data to secure buy-in
· Best practice for data controls and governance
Antonia Estrella Imbernon
Global Enterprise Data Management Head, GBSBritish American Tobacco
10:45 am - 11:15 am
EST
Boosting Resilience By Strengthening Working Capital & Digitalisation
Finance departments must be prepared for a realm of disruptions, whether that’s political, economic, or social. With interest rates and inflation on the rise, strengthening working capital is crucial as well as automating tasks where possible. This session discusses the best ways to create a resilient finance department:
· Examining ways to free up cash and boost working capital
· Identifying new revenue streams to mitigate risk
· Applying automation to ensure your finance processes are agile
· Reviewing customer and supplier payment systems for vulnerabilities
