CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

P&G had hundreds of disparate setups that we had to bring into one system globally,” explains Coulter, recalling the effort behind the information systems upgrade with SAP software that many at the time (the year 2000) deemed to be a historic milestone not only for the packaged goods company but also for industry at large.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

This year’s awards feature nearly 40 shortlisted nominations in 18 awards categories that recognise Leadership Practice, Business Leadership, Operational Excellence or Technology Innovation. CFO of the Year. The winners will be revealed on 24 February 2022 during a gala dinner at the Conrad Centennial Singapore. Leopoldo S.

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Bramasol

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Driven by sweeping changes such as digital transformation, globalization of markets, the subscription-based Digital Solutions Economy™ (DSE), carbon-accounting mandates, a rising emphasis on artificial intelligence, and other disruptive trends, the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is undergoing radical transformation too.

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Bramasol

JUNE 25, 2024

The role of enterprise level CFOs has changed radically over the past decade with both a widening scope of influence and greater responsibilities for helping guide corporate transformation programs and technology choices. Sweeping changes in the enterprise technology landscape have also been a key driver in expanding the role of CFOs.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Editor’s Note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series , FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Gina McNamara (pictured), Chief Financial Officer, SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Gina McNamara, Chief Financial Officer, SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). That was how I came into SAP.

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Bramasol

APRIL 11, 2022

Some other sources that underscore the importance of supply chain challenges include: Supply chains top CFO business risk concerns - CFO Dive. Supply chain transformation was previously identified as one of the Five Key Trends to Watch in 2022 and, if anything, it has become even more crucial in the first few months of the new year.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Editor’s note: Eileen Chua (pictured), Managing Director, SAP Singapore shared with FutureCFO in a recent interview why psychological safety and kindness matter in today’s workplace and how collaboration can help address challenges facing female finance executives. The interview is part of FutureCFO's Female Leadership in Finance Series.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

After having spent 40 minutes in trying to identify just what it is that sets Nussey apart from his CFO peers, we had found his composure a trait to flag, even if he hadn’t ended up doing so himself. Read More In the case of serial CFO Nussey, the attribute perhaps first became evident during the earliest days of his career.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this post, we shift gears to provide insights into the Professional Services arena, where Bramasol not only serves clients but we also participate as a leading services provider for SAP solutions. This requires building a team of senior consultants with years of hands-on experience in front-line conceptualization-to-implementation.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 15, 2024

CFO Michael Perica’s career journey began with an opportunity to work as a junior analyst for a national capital markets firm, where he would find a billionaire mentor. When I first received a call for Rimini Street, I was running an SAP system. At Alpha Technologies, we were a large ECC-6 system.

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CFO SAP Leadership Finance 52

Future CFO

MAY 12, 2024

The interview is part of FutureCFO’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. The new businesses augment Fujitsu’s leadership and strengths in digital experience and sustainability experience transformation. The post Female leadership Q&A: Two sports that are similar to M&A appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Leadership SAP Securities 52

Future CFO

JULY 26, 2021

Fabian Padilla Crisol of SAP Hong Kong. For Fabian Padilla Crisol , managing director, SAP Hong Kong & Macau the pandemic has highlighted the critical role that CFOs have in supporting their companies to navigate current business challenges. SAP’s BTaaS strategy. Digital vs business transformation.

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SAP CFO Planning Compliance 52

Future CFO

APRIL 7, 2022

Mark Wilfred , head of solutions consulting, Southeast Asia at SAP Concur , says the raison d'être for the stickiness of spreadsheets is familiarity. How should the leadership approach change this culture/mindset around cash and this dependence on spreadsheets? Jenji’s core business is to ease expense reporting. Mark Wilfred.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The FutureCFO Excellence Awards 2023 received nominations from across the region for categories in Leadership Practice, Business Leadership, Operational Excellence, and Technology Innovation.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Leadership SAP 52

CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 23, 2023

As the number of acquisition candidates grew, Quinn was tasked with taking a deeper dive into a target company’s operations, so he would often spend a number of days with company’s leadership team in order to better assess whether there could be a cultural fit. “’Can Can this be one plus one equals three?’

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CFO B2C Leadership SAP 52

Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

With the CFO being one of the key architects of an organisation’s digital transformation, Gartner says the CFO needs a finance function that drives the strategic ambitions of the enterprise. “To Gartner Gartner research finds that 85% of finance teams today are in the middle of a finance transformation initiative.

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Finance Benchmarking Compliance SAP 91

Future CFO

JANUARY 18, 2023

Among participants in the 2022 SAP Concur Global business Travel Manager Report , 49% noted increasing pressure from senior leadership to demonstrate ROI will make their job more challenging in the next 12 months, compared to the previous year.

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SAP Leadership Budgeting Accounting 52

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Financial Planning and Analysis ( FP&A ) team performs budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions of the CFO, the CEO, and the Board of Directors. The job of managing a corporation’s cash flow typically falls to its FP&A team and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Please elaborate.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) SAP CFO Leadership 52

CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2022

Resiliency is the foundation for all business models, says Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, in an article published by The World Economic Forum. Good sustainability credentials correlated with quality, effective leadership, and market resilience. Chris Strauss implemented zero-based budgeting when he was first appointed as CFO of BJK.

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Budgeting Profit and Loss Manufacturing SAP 52

Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

For today’s International Women’s Day special feature, FutureCFO invited several female CFOs and a senior exec from a finance professional society to share what they believe are practical ways to empower women and how female leaders can contribute to the finance profession in the new normal brought by the pandemic.

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Future CFO

JULY 14, 2024

Danny Ho For Danny Ho , executive director & CFO at cosmetics retailer Sa Sa International Holdings Limited , says: “Generally speaking, it is more about how we put together processes to prevent these things from happening. For the CFO, identity security can ensure the proper segregation of duties to prevent fraud.

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Future CFO

MARCH 13, 2023

Assaouloff noted that any transformation starts first with people and aligning a common and shared purpose with the same language and strong leadership. Asked to name one technology he felt most supportive of the organisation's transformation effort, Assaouloff named SAP Cloud Analytics. HELP University won the same award.

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Finance Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Leadership Pharmaceutical 98

Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

What makes for a sought-after chief finance professional (CFO)? According to Payscale.com , skills such as leadership, and financial reporting and strategic planning, won’t elevate your take-home pay much. CFO: The role of CFO is very senior; hence a high level of experience is expected for anyone applying for this role.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to Susanna Hasenoehrl , head of sustainability for Asia Pacific & Japan at enterprise application software company SAP , sustainability can no longer be considered separately to the finance function because it is increasingly clear that sustainability performance is fundamentally linked to business performance.

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Future CFO

MARCH 29, 2021

This often comes from a lack of proper communication of why leadership want to introduce automation in the first place. The AP function in a multi-million dollar SAP solution is still a very manual process. Even the 2020 version of SAP still has some missing functionalities. xSuite’s value proposition.

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Accounts Payable Accounting SAP Invoicing 52

Future CFO

MAY 22, 2022

FutureCFO spoke to Achim Wenning , a partner at consultancy Horváth & Partners , to get his perspective on sustainability practices important to the CFO and the C-suite. For example, without special customising and manual adjustments, there is no information on a company's current emissions in its ERP system such as SAP S/4 HANA.

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CFO SAP Finance Economics 52

Future CFO

AUGUST 18, 2023

The company’s finance teams also wanted to upskill themselves with deep working knowledge in various tools such as BlackLine, Concur, Coupa, Blue Prism (Robotic Process Automation Tool) as well as SAP ECC and EDI. But building a shared services function requires careful consideration from the CFO and finance team leaders.

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VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Is the business so far behind the times that production or service inefficiencies are creeping in and sapping margins and capabilities? That may be okay in some instances, but it may also but a deterrent of value.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ravishankar Ambalaparambil – Hindustan Unilever Limited Wong Kim Lan – Help University Sdn Bhd Andriano Hosny Panangian – PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk Lim Boon Boon – QBE Asia Tay Siang Leng – QBE Asia Nobuaki Hojo – SAP Australia Pty Ltd. Team finalists airasia Super App Beyond Medical Group CCH Management Services Pte.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants. CIARAN RYAN: It’s my great pleasure today to welcome Johannes Seefried, who is CFO at Hilti South Africa, where his job includes setting the strategic direction for the Southern African region for Hilti.

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CFO Construction Education Finance 68

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

SAP) into the SWIFT payment platform so that input errors can be eliminated. With the implementation of SWIFTNet, RGE was able to reduce/eliminate the following risks: Forgery risk on payment authorization Non-execution of payment risk due to failure/delay of paper delivery Human error risk.

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Cash Management Treasury SAP Communication 52

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As with any business transformation pursuit, there are hurdles to clear. In Southeast Asia, finance leaders can expect talent shortages, poor quality or nonavailability of data, and resistance to change. But these challenges are not insurmountable.

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Finance SAP Leadership 92

Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This can be seen clearly in the increased adoption of SAP Cloud-based S/4HANA over recent years. As of the third quarter of 2023, SAP SE reported cloud revenue was up by 23% at constant currencies, driven mainly by the growth of SAP's combined SaaS and PaaS portfolio. SAP operates 57 data centers at 32 locations in 15 countries.

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Technology SAP IFRS Compliance 83

Bramasol

JANUARY 15, 2025

SAP Joule is a prime example of leveraging embedded agentic AI as a seamless part of the overall business software landscape. Key points about SAP Joule as an agentic AI Include: Interactive capabilities: Joule can respond to natural language queries and provide relevant information or take actions.

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