SBN Finance Function Day @Accenture

08:30-09:00

Networking

09:00-09:10

Welcome
Introducing the Finance Function Day

09:10-09:50

Financial Closing Orchestration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) (Presentation in English) [slides]
Everyone wants a faster financial close. Save time and effort and gain greater efficiencies, accuracy, and speed by integrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing into your business processes.

• Cloud deployment
• Faster time to value with best-practice closing templates
• Powerful cross-system closing execution
• Real-time monitoring across systems

09:50-10:30

SAP Intelligent Technologies for Finance (Presentation in English) [slides]
An intelligent, sustainable enterprise is one that consistently applies advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes. Intelligent Technologies are an integral part of SAP S/4HANA and Finance processes. This session presents how to combine Intelligence Technologies for End-to-End Automation in the Finance domain.

• Robotic Process Automation, combining bots and workflow
• Situation Handling templates for event-based alerts
• Machine Learning and AI use cases in Finance

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:25

The R2R Process and SAP S/4HANA - some low -hanging fruits (Presentation in Norwegian) [slides]
Some thoughts on:

• Full and detaileed Procit Center Reporting via Document Split
• Intercompany
• Purchasing Process with correct workflow
• Segmentreporting

11:25-12:05

Improving Finance processes with SAP Signavio [slides]
End-to-end process management is essential for the performance of an organization. Measuring Finance KPI’s like DSO and DPO and understanding how processes influence these KPI’s and the cash flow is the basis for improvements. With SAP Signavio we drive operational excellence by understanding process performance, identifying improvements and providing the recommendations on how to improve. (Remote)

12:05-12:45

Lunch and networking

12:45-13:25

Sustainability Holistic Steering and Reporting (Presentation in English) [slides]
The world of ESG steering and reporting today is reactive, with limited data coverage and insufficient granularity, highly manual and with spreadsheet-based processes.  With the upcoming regulations, companies will have to move up the maturity curve quickly to build more confidence in their data and be able to comply, to fulfil external expectations and to support better decision-making as a competitive advantage. This presentation will cover how to leverage SAP technology for Holistic Steering and Reporting.

13:25-14:05

Pre-delivered business content or custom developed planning model? (Presentation in English) [slides]
SAP Analytics Cloud has now been on the market for several years and is today a fully mature planning solution. SAP delivers a lot of pre-defined business content to accelerate an implementation. Is this the best way forward for companies adopting SAP Analytics Cloud as their preferred planning tool or is it more relevant to build a custom developed planning model? Based on several years of experience with implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning, NTT DATA Business Solutions will come with their view on business content vs custom build planning models. In the session, experiences from several implementations, where business content has been used, will be introduced and reflection will be based on own experiences and feedback from clients.

14:05-14:20

Break

14:20-14:45

Group Reporting overview, roadmap and implementation experience at multi-national Telco company (Presentation in English) [slides]
EDuring this session, we will provide an outlook on SAP Group Reporting benefits, state of maturity and roadmap based on the implementation experience from 20+ customers. During the session, we will also cover the case study of a multinational Telecommunications company, based in the Nordics, who is currently implementing Group Reporting along with SAP Analytics Cloud & other technologies, to streamline their group closing, planning and financial management reporting.

14:45-15:25

Consolidation in SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting on top of S/4HANA Central Finance (Presentation in English) [slides]
Client case on a successful finance transformation program covering the design and implementation of S/4HANA Central Finance to harmonize the organizations core financial data and running a fully integrated and IFRS compliant consolidation on top of it in S/4HANA Group Reporting.

15:25-15:55

Make your journey forward become your new standard – Forward to Standard (Presentation in English) [slides]
SAP is in some way imposing the "Clean Core" concept on SAP customers, prompted by the migration to S/4HANA. In reality, SAP is introducing a standard for all customers - a total ‘clean up’ that will make future upgrades, migrations, and releases much easier.

We all know the feeling of a freshly tidied apartment with everything in place. It's the same with your business processes. A total check-up that locates and removes obsolete processes has the great advantage that updates, which were previously a multi-day effort, can now be carried out within a few hours.

The journey to new standards is different from one organization to another. Let yourself be inspired by a selection of our customer companies  – that in different ways have started their clean core path in transforming critical financial processes. We will share with you how they have gone from process confusion - to process resolution.

15:55-16:00

Wrap up