After the Project Team have Left
Casandra Daubney, Financial Operations Specialist
9th November - 1pm - 1.45pm, Forest 1
Successfully implemented a new AP workflow system? Think you have finished? The reality is it’s just the start. Casandra Daubney will talk you through why system implementations don’t always result in the business case benefits being realised. So, how do you ensure that they do? Looking at effective KPI’s, people, behaviour and process flow
Road to E-invoicing - the view from the trenches
Sandra Davis, AP Manager , Virgin Atlantic Airways
9th November - 2pm - 2.45pm, Forest 1
A personal account of how we went from the idea to the first einvoice at Virgin Atlantic Airways. What we have done right and what we done wrong. Managing the change, keeping staff on-board and making sure the payments get there on time.
Saying Yes to Innovation and Automation, and no to Bad Practices
Caroline Adams, Finance Manager, Debenhams
10th November - 10.45am - 11.30am, Forest 1
Faced with a rapidly challenging retail sector, our constant challenge is to support:
· Profit generating ideas
· Evolving complex Supply Chain initiatives
· The move into Foreign Markets
· Acquisitions
· Evolving Technologies
This means constant revaluation of business processes, controls, and new projects. This is our journey so far.
Driving AP Control & Efficiencies
Bally Jennings, AP Manager & Consultant, Flint
10th November - 11.35am - 12.15am, Forest 1
· Do you know what is happening in your department?
· Do you know what your team does from one day to the next?
· Do you use more than statistics and metrics as your eyes and ears?
Ways and techniques of knowing and understanding what controls are required whilst making those all-important efficiencies we are under pressure to implement. Whilst making efficiencies it is easy to lose sight of policies and procedures we should be policing. We are not here to just process company spend but to protect the business from fraud be it intentional or not, ignorance is not acceptable!
Falling For Accounts Payable - the Journey of an AP Manager
Sam Ryan, AP Manager Jet2.com
10th November - 1.45pm - 2.30pm, Forest 1
Beginning with the monotony of matching paper invoices, POs and PODs, detouring through credit control and following a pathe to AP Manager, I will share with you the ups and downs of my journey in AP to date. Sharing the management tools I have learnt as well as introducing you to Fantasticat. I would like to take you for a wlak down my memory lane and will share with you the passion I have for AP.
