Friday, 29 September 2023
12 pm BST

The Finance Workforce of the Future

What Are the Digital Skills Needed for a Successful Transformation of the Function?

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Why attend

In a time where 'The Great Resignation' shows no sign of abating, we will discuss the digital skills needed for the future and the culture and values that an organisation needs to embed, to attract, retain and get the best out of their Finance talent. In light of significant advances in technology and automation, how are senior Finance & HR leaders creating a culture to enable their teams to move away from manual tasks and analysis and pivot to strategic business partnering, providing deep predictive insights and recommendations?

The key take-aways

The digital skills urgently needed for the future of Finance

The culture and values that senior Finance leaders need to embed to build a motivated workforce and appeal to the younger generation

How the Finance function is evolving to be predictive and proactive to manage risks

And many more

The webinar panel

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Harsh Amarasuriya, Global Head of FP&A | CLYDE & CO

Mr Amarasuriya has developed extensive experience being a key strategic financial business partner to senior management at multiple Multinational organizations. He has also been a pivotal contributor to system improvements and process redesign and has originated, developed and implemented complete financial reporting solutions for Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Technical and other business functions.

His goal is to continue to drive 'Value Creation' and material 'Bottom Line' impact' through continued process improvement, highlighting business Gaps and participating in solution creation and implementation.

Ankur Agrawal, Director Performance Management | AXA

Senior executive and leader with proven track record in growing revenue, profitability, transforming and innovating businesses across global, highly regulated markets.

Successfully built businesses/ teams of actuaries, data scientists, project managers, engineers across consulting, insurance KPO, direct insurance company and innovation lab – delivering significant impact to the business.

Tech evangelist, keynote speaker in conferences on AI/ ML across the Asian Region. Contributed to the blockchain strategy of AXA Group and also led successful collaboration with academics/start-ups/ accelerators on new technology.

Key achievements include:
Leading AXA UK IFRS17 program, delivered Board and management training, prepared transition plan, tools and processes

Established performance management - established feedback loop and reporting along with planning, underwriting, pricing and claims

Successfully initiated and led data transformation program in the Asian region. Supported Asian management in hiring of Chief Data Officer (CDO) and data teams, securing budgets for data transformation and delivered first set of use cases measuring an annual impact of over $100m+ topline. Member of the Asian Data Board.

Successfully built actuarial, data science and BI capabilities at AXA Business Services (in India). Team had grown to 210+ members supporting twenty AXA entities across North America, Europe and Asia across variety of topics - pricing transformation, reserving, maturity assessment, credit enrichment, telematics product launch. Member of key steering committees of AXA Group – telematics steering co, P&C steering co, and Retail Board.

Set up pricing, actuarial and reinsurance function at Max Bupa (then startup health insurance company in India). Developed high sum insured product, with no entry age restriction and with zonal pricing (first of its kind in India).

Angus Gray, Strategic Workforce Planning Partner | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP

Currently working with leaders to help improve our understanding of our current workforce and skills, as well as looking at the future to see where we want to be in 3 to 5 years then working to identify the people interventions that will help us to move from where we are now to where we want to be.

Before this I led a fantastic team providing training, advice and guidance to over 600 colleagues in our AML space. I enjoyed building out the training team; joining in March 2020 gave me the opportunity to help the team move to a 100% virtual approach for all of our training and development. Seeing the team grow through many challenges was so rewarding.

Yugnesh Patel, Finance Systems Lead (Finance Transformation) | ROYAL LONDON ASSET MANAGEMENT

Yugnesh is a commercially focused Finance Change professional with broad experience across the Investment Management, Insurance, Banking and FinTech sectors. Through this he has developed a varied skillset within business partnering, planning and forecasting, analytics & modelling, financial systems, project management and business analysis.

This experience, combined with strong interpersonal skills has enabled him to effectively lead teams, influence senior stakeholders, drive the finance transformation agenda and business performance. Yugnesh is also actively involved in a number of professional finance groups including the FP&A Board, Gen CFO and London Change Forums

Sathya Nathan, Strategy Director for Finance Digital Transformation | ORACLE

Sathya is Strategy Director for Finance Digital Transformation at Oracle, focussing on deploying Cloud Solutions to drive innovation within finance operations, strategy and performance management, with a specialisation in the Financial Services industry. Prior to joining Oracle, Sathya held senior finance and technology roles with GE Capital and Aviva and as a management consultant with KPMG, helped large organisations with their finance operation strategy, ERP deployment and business process improvements in a shared service environment. He is a huge advocate of Finance change and transformation and has delivered several substantial transformation programmes. Sathya is also a member of ICAEW and active in matters of the Institute.

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