SBN Finance Function Day

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SBN Finance Function Day

May 24th, 08:30-15:30

This is the day and venue for all finance people working in the finance organization, in the global business services or for those, who just have something to do with finance in your own organization, who would and could benefit from learning more about SAP ERP, SAP S/4Hana Finance and Analytics.
 
We are covering the comprehensive portfolio of the CFO like Financial Planning and Analysis, Accoutning and Financial Close including statutory reporting and Business-2-Government reporting, Financial Operations, Treasury Management, Risk and Compliance.
 
We know that accounting is more or less at the heart of everything and finance operations or processes include I2P (invoice-2-pay), I2C (invoice-2-cash), FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis), R2R (Record-2-Report), TRM (Manage Treasury).
 
We are directing more and more of our focus on SAP S/4Hana and all the new functionality, which paves the way to the intelligent enterprise and more automated business processes and also opens up the system through more intelligent and user-friendly user interfaces to all the people with a role in the finance processes. 
 
We are on a roller coaster of change and to keep up with the pace of change and adapt quickly to changes in technology and the business environment, we recommend you to join in and listen to experience from other companies also using the SAP solutions. 
Register now!
 

Accenture

 

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Location: Accenture, Rolfsbuktveien 2, 1326 Fornebu

Vi møtes i resepsjonen til Accenture på denne adressen. Selve konferansen finner sted i tilstøtende lokaler. Kommer du etter at programmet har startet, henvend deg i resepsjonen og vi vil hente deg.
Parkering: https://onepark.no/parkering/viken/parkering-technopolis-it-fornebu/

Contact Didrik if you have suggestions for the agenda, questions or comments.

Didrik ArstadDidrik Arstad
Head of Innovation Team Finance
SBN - SAP Brukerforening i Norge
+47 90562921
da@adfahrer.com
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Agenda

08:15-08:30

Networking

Coffee and networking

Host:    Accenture
08:30-08:40

Speakers
Didrik Arstad
Erik Sandsbraaten

Welcome

Introducing the Finance Function Day

Speakers

Didrik Arstad

Didrik Arstad

Head of Finance, Analytics and Head of HR, SBN-Adfahrer

Erik Sandsbraaten

Erik Sandsbraaten

Managing Director - Strategy & Consulting, CFO & Enterprise Value Lead Norway, Accenture

08:40-09:20

Speakers
Kristianne Perry

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

S/4HANA Finance – The New Frontier
(Presentation in English)

In this session we will be talking about SAP S/4HANA Finance.

To really reap the benefits of SAP S/4HANA, with it’s new approach and functionality, you need to get involved now. Otherwise, you may risk ending up with a technical upgrade only and miss out on the opportunity for real transformation that everyone wants.

Join us to discover;

  1. A new way of working  => With Fiori – which enables a completely different user experience for Finance
  2. Accessible information => With the Universal Journal – providing a 360° view of your finance
  3. New possibilities => Local and group accounting together – for continuous accounting

Speakers

Kristianne Perry

Kristianne Perry

Customer Solution Director, Finance and Risk Centre of Excellence, EMEA North at SAP, SAP SE

09:20-10:00

Speakers
Anubhav Garg

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

7 ways how S/4HANA Finance improve process efficiency and enable effective decisions
(Presentation in English)

In this session we will share lessons learned from recent implementations with use cases from Finance and embedded analytics.

Speakers

Anubhav Garg

Anubhav Garg

Senior Manager, Deloitte

10:00-10:15

Break
10:15-10:55

Speakers
Peter Engel

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

SAP Process Automation in Finance
(Presentation in English)

This session will explain how SAP Process Automation can help to automate processes in Finance in the context of S/4HANA.

Agenda:

  1. Why Process Automation? - Become an intelligent, sustainable organization
  2. Use Cases - Get inspired, pick yours and start today
  3. Low-code/No-code Process Automation with SAP - Automate simpler, faster and confidently
  4. Demo
  5. Customer examples

Speakers

Peter Engel

Peter Engel

Chief Product Manager – SAP Process Automation, SAP SE

10:55-11:35

Speakers
Andreas Kerger

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

BTP and S/4HANA - AI services in Finance
(Presentation in English)

Deep Dive into concrete solutions in Business Technology Platform for Finance based on ML and AI - AI Services for Finance:

  1. SAP BTP
  2. SAP Business Services
  3. S/4 AI Scenarios (CashApp , Document Informaton Extraction)
  4. Sample Use cases, Automation, Account Recommender (DAR)

Speakers

Andreas Kerger

Andreas Kerger

Global Head of Machine Learning Practice, SAP SE

11:35-12:15

Lunch and networking
12:15-12:55

Speakers
Selena Kelly
Nijat Wendisch

Recording:

[Selena Kelly's PDF slides are found on this link if available]

[Nijat Wendisch's PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

Contineoues Accounting - what it means for SAP and what it may mean for you
(Presentation in English)

This session will show you how SAP is working internally to transforming Record-to-Report to low/no touch process leveraging latest S/4HANA products, Robotics, ML and AI services to achieve continuous accounting and faster close.

Agenda is as follows:

  1. Overview of Record to Report Roadmap to achieve continuous accounting and faster close (Selena Kelly, Head of R2R Process Management)
  2. Deep Dive into Shared Services Framework (Nijat Wendisch, Product Owner R2R Automation Swarm)
    1. R2R Structure
    2. What is SSF?
    3. How will SSF transform Global Shared Services?
  3. Advanced Financial Closing and its impact on closing procedures at SAP (Nijat Wendisch, Product Owner R2R Automation Swarm)
    1. If time permits a live demo of AFC

Speakers

Selena Kelly

Selena Kelly

Head of R2R Process Management, SAP GBSS, SAP SE

Nijat Wendisch

Nijat Wendisch

Product Owner R2R Automation Swarm, SAP SE, SAP SE

12:55-13:35

Speakers
Moritz Back

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

SAP Integrated Financial Planning - Overview & Live Demo
(Presentation in English)

Integrated Financial Planning is running on SAP Analytics Cloud which is the strategic planning product of SAP. It offers rich planning, simulation & predictive capabilities as well as best-practice content that can be leveraged to quickly start with Integrated Financial Planning. This session will give you a good overview of what SAP has to offer in this area including a live demo of the product.

Speakers

Moritz Back

Moritz Back

Solution Advisor for Sustainability, Finance, Analytics, SAP

13:35-13:50

Break
13:50-14:30

Speakers
Sergio Filipe Loureiro
Robert Fraser

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

SAP SAC Planning at Utilities industry
(Presentation in English)

This session will be focused on SAP Analytics Cloud Planning and Reporting capabilities. We will explore a real implementation scenario on a company operating in the United Kingdom Utilities sector, having had a goal of rationalizing their corporate tools and replacement of legacy planning solution. The presentation will cover Cost, Price and Finance planning processes and compare the architectural decisions that supported these areas. Furthermore, we will showcase a live reporting module, Procurement, using BW/4HANA data as a source.

Speakers

Sergio Filipe Loureiro

Sergio Filipe Loureiro

Senior Associate for SAP Analytics at Cognizant, Independent

Robert Fraser

Robert Fraser

Senior Project Manager i Thames Water., Independent

14:30-15:10

Speakers
Giammarco Ariozzi

Recording:

[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]

 

A case for change toward Enterprise Planning at a leading consumer goods company leveraging SAC, S4 and SAP IBP

Moving from local and non-integrated processes to integrated Enterprise Planning across the organization connecting volumes and values and provide full financial insights, forecasts and planning capabilities. Enterprise Planning is a critical process to build a single version of the truth and converge to “one number”. Aims to produce aligned scenario-based plan which optimizes business and financial performance. It requires strong alignment across involved functions (Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance), to overcome  predominance of their own goals.

Speakers

Giammarco Ariozzi

Giammarco Ariozzi

Senior Manager, CFO & EV Milan, Italy, Accenture

15:10-15:15

Speakers
Didrik Arstad

Wrap up + Survey 

Speakers

Didrik Arstad

Didrik Arstad

Head of Finance, Analytics and Head of HR, SBN-Adfahrer

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