Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
3 pm BST | 10 am EDT

The Hidden Cost of Third-Party Chaos

How Mid-Market Companies Lose 6-Figures to Vendor Negligence

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Why attend

For mid-market companies, third-party vendors are both a lifeline and a liability. As organizations grow, so does vendor sprawl, multiple point solutions, overlapping suppliers, and contracts buried across departments. This fragmented landscape often results in duplicate payments, missed contract milestones, surprise auto-renewals, and hidden compliance risks. The result? Hundreds of thousands in unbudgeted costs that silently erode EBITDA and disrupt strategic planning.

While ERP systems provide a clear picture of what has been spent, they rarely answer the more critical questions: Should we have spent it? Was the spend aligned with performance and risk objectives? Are we unknowingly funding inefficiencies or regulatory exposure? Without these insights, finance leaders are forced to manage vendors reactively, often relying on manual spreadsheets and overstretched teams, leaving significant financial and reputational risks unchecked.

In this session, CFOs and finance leaders will explore proven strategies to bring order to vendor management chaos. Through real-world examples and actionable best practices, attendees will learn how to close visibility gaps, implement lean governance, and use data-driven decision-making to reduce leakage, mitigate third-party risk, and create a sustainable framework that aligns spend control with business agility and growth.

The key take-aways

Identify and prevent the top causes of hidden vendor costs.

Bridge the gap between spend visibility and vendor performance insights.

Build lean processes to control spend without adding complexity.

Establish governance to protect margins and reduce risk.

The webinar panel

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Anton Globus, Group Director: Finance and Innovation | PAYSEND

Highly analytical and incisive senior executive with over 20 years of progressive leadership experience directing substantial growth and scale, transformation initiatives, leading market expansions, corporate finance and advising within the Industrials, Telecom, Banking and Fintech industry sectors.

Strategic and resourceful problem solver with generalist expertise including dynamic commercial operations, change management and transformation, process re-engineering, strong IT background, business development, and client relationship management driving revenue growth, profitability, and productivity. Articulate communicator that thrives on challenges and situations perceived impossible.

Strong flair for entrepreneurship and commercialisation with high degree of thought leadership and accountability.

Engaged and caring leader with emphasis on coaching and sharing of knowledge and competencies.

Areas of expertise:
- strategic planning and FP&A
- business transformation and change management
- IFRS and GAAP reporting
- treasury and cash flow management
- banking relationships and credit finance
- M&A and financial modelling
- investor relations
- international contracts and negotiations
- data analysis and business intelligence
- system implementations
- working across geographies and cultures

Marta Obrador, Senior Director of Business Transformation | PLEO

Marta joined Pleo as Senior Director, where she leads Pleo's comprehensive Business Transformation team. With a rich career spanning roles at Apple, Salesforce, and Nexthink, Marta brings a wealth of expertise in technology integration and her portfolio includes leading multiple high-impact projects, including two major NetSuite implementations.

Chantelle Hitchcock, Financial Control Consultant | GATEKEEPER

I am a qualified Chartered Accountant with a dynamic career spanning auditing, financial control, and finance operations. I began my journey in auditing, honing my analytical skills before transitioning to Financial Control at Barclays, where I spent six years strengthening my expertise in financial oversight and compliance. I later joined Ocorian, continuing in financial control before moving into finance operations. In this role, I focused on standardizing and optimizing processes, particularly in billing and collections, and led the integration of diverse financial accounting and billing systems into a unified technology platform. My work included process mapping, training teams on new systems, and providing post-implementation support. I thrive on collaborating with cross-jurisdictional and cross-functional teams, simplifying complex processes, and driving efficiency. Passionate about problem-solving, I am dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that enhance operational performance and foster seamless teamwork.

Murali Satagopan, Head of Partner Marketing | PLEO

Murali is a veteran marketer with over 15 years in marketing across technology and SaaS with a specialisation in partnerships and APIs. He has the experience of building Partnerships engines ground up, at large companies like Freshworks and PandaDoc, and now heads Partner Marketing at Pleo, driving non-linear growth via partners at Pleo across Channel, Technology and Consulting partners.

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This webinar is in partnership with

PLEO

Pleo is Europe's leading business spend solution with smart cards and automated financial analysis and reporting. Integrating with HR tools, Pleo helps 40,000+ businesses remove hidden costs, ease employee financial burden so HR managers can focus on retention, culture and organisational transformation.

GATEKEEPER

Gatekeeper is the only unified platform for managing contracting, third‑party compliance, and spend.

We screen every partner upfront, accelerating time‑to‑agreement, and continuously monitoring for risk and savings, so companies stay protected and compliant, reduce costs and move fast. Vendor screening, contract review and continuous risk monitoring combine to protect organizations from compliance failures, hidden costs and operational risks.