Agenda

Join Workday's Esther Monks and Jo-Anne Ruhl as they kick off our Intelligent Finance event with a captivating welcome address exploring the realm of intelligent finance. Gain insights into how CFOs and senior finance leaders can harness emerging technologies, data-driven strategies, and innovative approaches to elevate their finance functions. Discover how to empower your teams, drive strategic decision-making, and position your organisation for continued success in an increasingly complex and dynamic business landscape.

This executive panel discussion gathers visionary CFOs and senior finance leaders to explore the transformative forces shaping the future of finance. Gain insights into emerging technologies, evolving roles, and strategies for driving success in an increasingly complex and data-driven world. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on navigating change, fostering innovation, and ensuring finance remains a strategic partner in driving organisational growth.

Take a refreshing break and recharge your energy during this designated coffee break session. Connect with fellow CFOs and senior finance leaders in a casual setting, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships. Enjoy a selection of coffee, tea, and light refreshments while fostering meaningful conversations and expanding your professional network.

Modern finance transformation brings a strong appetite to adopt rather than adapt and use out of the box solutions to shape best practice. Workday has pioneered this philosophy with configurable solutions out of the box but also provides a wide variety of extensibility options when out of the box won’t do.

In this session, we will discuss how customer value comes from successfully leveraging the non-core Workday solutions and share some of the most interesting and innovative examples from Accenture clients.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations must remain agile and responsive to changing market conditions. In an era, of uncertain change across world economies and technology, traditional financial planning methods often fall short.

Our panel discussion will delve into the transformative capabilities of Workday Adaptive Financial Planning, exploring how this innovative solution empowers FP&A teams to enhance collaboration, streamline processes, and improve decision-making. We will also hear about success stories from organizations that have transformed their financial planning processes by overcoming common obstacles, aligning finance with business goals, and driving informed decision-making in a dynamic environment.

Join us to discover how to harness the power of data-driven financial planning to drive organizational growth and resilience in an ever-evolving landscape.

Take a refreshing morning tea break and recharge your energy during this designated coffee break session. Connect with fellow CFOs and senior finance leaders in a casual setting, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships. Enjoy a selection of coffee, tea, and light refreshments while fostering meaningful conversations and expanding your professional network.

As organizations navigate continuous change and consolidation – whether through mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring - financial teams encounter increasing pressure to implement financial strategies and to maintain stability, to ensure accurate reporting. This panel discussion will bring together financial leaders to explore the complexities of managing finance during periods of significant organizational transformation. Our panelist will share their experience in navigating financial integration, streamlining systems, and mitigating risk while ensuring business continuity.

Join us to gain insights into the best practices for managing finance through consolidation and continuous change and learn how to turn these challenges into opportunities for greater financial agility and resilience.

Planning has evolved from budgets, forecasts, and headcount plans to a multi-discipline activity with specialised use cases. Workday is a leader in providing out of the box solutions to help clients with their Finance and Workforce Planning needs, but Workday Planning provides a toolkit that can do so much more. In this session, we will discuss how customer value comes from embracing the flexibility and power of Workday Planning and share some of the most interesting and innovative examples from Accenture clients.

Grab a coffee and join us in our keynote room for the closing keynote.

In an era of rapid technological advancement and global economic shifts, navigating exponential change has become paramount for finance leaders. Join us for our closing keynote, as Nicki skillfully unpacks the intricacies of both the immediate and medium-term economic landscape in Australia. She'll delve into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, offering valuable insights into the pivotal role of innovation in fostering sustainable growth. Gain a deeper understanding of how to harness innovation to not just survive, but thrive, in this dynamic environment.

Enjoy a relaxed and engaging networking lunch designed to foster connections and facilitate knowledge-sharing among CFOs and senior finance leaders. This informal setting provides an ideal opportunity to expand your professional network, exchange ideas on industry trends and best practices, and forge valuable relationships with peers who share your passion for driving financial excellence.

Join Workday's Esther Monks and Jo-Anne Ruhl as they kick off our Intelligent Finance event with a captivating welcome address exploring the realm of intelligent finance. Gain insights into how CFOs and senior finance leaders can harness emerging technologies, data-driven strategies, and innovative approaches to elevate their finance functions. Discover how to empower your teams, drive strategic decision-making, and position your organisation for continued success in an increasingly complex and dynamic business landscape.

This executive panel discussion gathers visionary CFOs and senior finance leaders to explore the transformative forces shaping the future of finance. Gain insights into emerging technologies, evolving roles, and strategies for driving success in an increasingly complex and data-driven world. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on navigating change, fostering innovation, and ensuring finance remains a strategic partner in driving organisational growth.

Take a refreshing break and recharge your energy during this designated coffee break session. Connect with fellow CFOs and senior finance leaders in a casual setting, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships. Enjoy a selection of coffee, tea, and light refreshments while fostering meaningful conversations and expanding your professional network.

In the past six months alone Australia has witnessed the mandating of significant new compliance and reporting obligations with the introduction of the OECD's Pillar Two for enhanced tax transparency and mandatory sustainability and climate reporting.

What does this mean for you? New and different data collection, increased reporting requirements and more time from your team to remain compliant.

Join us for a discussion on these regulatory requirements, learn which organisations will be impacted, and how platforms like Workday can streamline your compliance and reporting processes.

As macro market forces shape the shifts in how businesses operate and create value, what is needed and expected of the CFO and the finance team is likely to not only evolve but expand. To answer this call, we are likely to see an exponential CFO take center stage—an executive who can lead the organisation through unprecedented changes both in scale and speed by accelerating value creation across the organisation, driving enterprise-wide operational excellence, and shaping talent experience and culture. In this session, Justine will take us through the six powerful forces that are shaping the exponential CFO role.  

Take a refreshing morning tea break and recharge your energy during this designated coffee break session. Connect with fellow CFOs and senior finance leaders in a casual setting, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships. Enjoy a selection of coffee, tea, and light refreshments while fostering meaningful conversations and expanding your professional network.

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into a successful client implementation and use of Workday Planning.

Discover how our client has harnessed the power of this robust solution to streamline their core financial planning and operational forecasting models. Learn about the seamless integration with Workday HCM, Financials, and other third-party systems that has driven efficiency and innovation.

This session will provide valuable takeaways on best practices and practical applications for leveraging Workday Planning in complex organisational environments.

Learn more about U.S. Bank’s transformation enabled by Workday Finance, merging two independent finance systems and replacing multiple outdated General Ledger systems. Join us to gain insights into simplifying and unifying operations, developing a multi-year roadmap, and driving better decision-making through enhanced financial data and reporting.

Grab a coffee and join us in our keynote room for the closing keynote.

In an era of rapid technological advancement and global economic shifts, navigating exponential change has become paramount for finance leaders. Join us for our closing keynote, as Nicki skillfully unpacks the intricacies of both the immediate and medium-term economic landscape in Australia. She'll delve into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, offering valuable insights into the pivotal role of innovation in fostering sustainable growth. Gain a deeper understanding of how to harness innovation to not just survive, but thrive, in this dynamic environment.

Enjoy a relaxed and engaging networking lunch designed to foster connections and facilitate knowledge-sharing among CFOs and senior finance leaders. This informal setting provides an ideal opportunity to expand your professional network, exchange ideas on industry trends and best practices, and forge valuable relationships with peers who share your passion for driving financial excellence.