Agenda Day 1. Tuesday 12th October 2021 - Time Zone CET

12:00 pm - 12:40 pm Keynote Panel: Finance Leaders as the Strategic Advisors to the Business – Reaching Potential to create world-class finance operations with end-to-end finance transformation

Lars Hölzer - Head of Business Services & Digital, Fresenius Kabi
Dr. Sanat Jeetun - Director Finance, CSL Behring Germany
  • The changing crucial role and position of the CFO during the pandemic – Are finance leaders ready for the future?
  • Planning to address market volatility and establishing long-term financial resilience across the business
  • Creating finance excellence through GPO leadership, digitization and automation
  • Leading the move towards data analytics and how to finally bridge the data readiness gap by digitizing data.
  • The new SAP HANA world - lessons learned: getting down to what your finance process really needs
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Lars Hölzer

Head of Business Services & Digital
Fresenius Kabi

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Dr. Sanat Jeetun

Director Finance
CSL Behring Germany

12:40 pm - 1:10 pm CASE STUDY SESSION: Fast Track your Digital Transformation with a Process Centre of Excellence (CoE)

Kieran Coughlan - Senior Solutions Engineer, Nintex

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Kieran Coughlan

Senior Solutions Engineer
Nintex

1:10 pm - 1:40 pm Create World-Class Transformation at Scale - Maersk Case Study

Saurabh Arora - Global O2C Head, A.P. Moller Maersk
  • Striving for excellence: What worked and what hasn´t?
  • Driving “multiples” and Scaling from one region across the world
  • Delivering value to the business
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Saurabh Arora

Global O2C Head
A.P. Moller Maersk

·        Reaching customer demand to drive a competitive advantage for your business.

·        Implementing a customer centric approach to drive continuous improvement

·        How to measure CX in a B2B context? How to collect and act on Customer Feedback?

·        Collaboration and process challenges faced by the Global Process Owner to drive a successful customer experience

·        GPO Evolution: From Global Process Owner to Global Service Owner 

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Anna Nowak

GBS Director, Order-to-Cash Process Excellence
Adidas

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Lars Hölzer

Head of Business Services & Digital
Fresenius Kabi

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Paula Wolff

Global Customer Experience Strategy Manager - Order-to-Cash
Bayer AG

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Wojciech Tatys

Global Business Excellence & Transformation Lead
Discovery Inc

2:20 pm - 3:00 pm Content Break

Take advantage and connect with other attendees virtually. Compare challenges, ideas and plans with your peers and build your 02C community connections. 

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Rina Pattani

Account Director EMEA
Highradius

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Olga Szlachta

Global Finance Process Owner Order to Cash
Electrolux

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm O2C Panel Discussion: E2E O2C Process Excellence - How to build a World Class global Cash Collection Operation

Saurabh Arora - Global O2C Head, A.P. Moller Maersk
Zahre Cinibulak , - O2C GPO for Credit, Collection and Dispute Management, Bayer AG

·        What changed since the beginning of the pandemic: What did we learn? Are we ready for an unexpected global crash in future?

·        How to rapidly install new habits and promote collaboration between teams

·        Cash is king: The Importance of creating a cash culture throughout the organization

·        Next level O2C Process Excellence

·        Dealing with Customer Complaints and Disputes: How to optimize financial disputes?

·        How do digitization and automation technologies like RPA and AI contribute to delivering a world-class order-to-cash

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Saurabh Arora

Global O2C Head
A.P. Moller Maersk

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Zahre Cinibulak ,

O2C GPO for Credit, Collection and Dispute Management
Bayer AG

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Plan to Execute Panel Discussion: Drive real Added Value to your Business through Performance Management Reporting

Jürgen Wittland - Senior Vice Record-to-Report, Deutsche Telekom Services Europe SE
Andreas Tagkalakis - Advisor - Digital Finance Transformation, OMV
  • Striving for excellence – driving more value, more insight and more information for your operative business 
  • Managing challenges in the dynamic environment
  • Data to Insights - Effective data set up and fast access
  • Achieve the best data quality trough optimize end-to-end plan to execute
  • Data Analytics: How to leverage the analytics and where are the benefits of using AI/ML tools?
  • Implementing a sustainable Master Data Management framework and how to differentiate between Data Management & Data Governance
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Jürgen Wittland

Senior Vice Record-to-Report
Deutsche Telekom Services Europe SE

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Andreas Tagkalakis

Advisor - Digital Finance Transformation
OMV

4:30 pm - 5:10 pm RTR Panel Discussion: Designing future of R2R - Key Steps to R2R best practice

Stefan Markov - Delivery Lead at, Cargotec
Dennis Mallon - Head of Record to Report (R2R)/ / Finance Operations, Zalando SE
  • Reduce process inefficiencies and implement intelligent E2E automation of R2R
  • Getting the team right – developing and promoting the champions to reinforce processes and best practice
  • Customer centric process: Delivering value to the end users and customers
  • Benefits of centralised audit and standardisation of audit process - Transformation from traditional month-end close to continuous accounting
  • Designing fast closeouts: How to overcome challenges in closing calendar?
  • Increased data quality and reduction of errors and redundancies
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Stefan Markov

Delivery Lead at
Cargotec

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Dennis Mallon

Head of Record to Report (R2R)/ / Finance Operations
Zalando SE

5:25 pm - 5:30 pm Day 1 Conference Chairperson Closing Remarks