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24 – 27 May 2015
Crown Promenade, Melbourne
Sunday 24 May 2015
SESSION
6.00 PM Pre-Conference registration
6.30 PM Jumpstart
7.30 PM Networking Welcome Drinks
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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Monday 25 May 2015
SESSION
SPEAKER
SESSION CONTENT
8.00 AM: Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee/Exhibition Viewing
8.30 AM: Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome
KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION
9.00 AM – 10.00 AM
Unleashing the Power of Collaboration:
If Only We All Knew What We All Knew
Dominic Thurbon
Chief Creative Officer,
ChangeLabs
To get ahead in the knowledge economy, companies must capture the expertise already floating around
inside their four walls. Using everything from better technology to better meeting discipline, unleashing
collaboration is a sure-fire way to drive innovation, productivity and engagement. In a competitive
market, we cannot afford to let collaboration be a buzzword – we need to implement real strategies for
making it happen.
In this insightful and empowering presentation, Dominic will:
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Give you the 5 behaviours to unleash collaboration, both personally and organisationally
Identify the common barriers to making it happen and show how they can be overcome
Demonstrate the link between collaboration and innovation, productivity and engagement
10.00 AM – 10.40 AM: Morning Tea
10.40 AM – 11.30 AM
FINANCIALS
KEYNOTE
Drive Your Finance Transformation
With SAP Simple Finance
Janet Salmon
Chief Product Owner Management
Accounting,
SAP (GER)
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
SAP is in the process of reinventing SAP Financials using SAP HANA to enable new programming
paradigms and SAP Fiori to provide a new user interface. One of the most fundamental changes is the
decision to bring all the transactional data into a single table that covers Financial Accounting,
Management Accounting, Asset Accounting and the Material Ledger. In this session we’ll look at the
impact of these changes, discussing how accounts and cost elements will merge, what you can expect to
see in Reporting and Planning, and how account-based CO-PA has been enhanced to provide better
Profitability Reporting.
We’ll also look at the various deployment options including migrating your existing system and
implementing a central journal that provides a basis for consistent group reporting and compare these
with the side car model that many companies are already using.
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PEOPLE & CULTURE
11.40 AM – 12.30 PM
Change Leadership – What it Looks Like
and How to Get the Results You Really
Need
Greg Taylor
Independent Change Management
Evangelist
Most models for change will tell you that some sort of “leadership buy-in” is a critical success factor for
any initiative. But everyone on a project has a responsibility for leading change, not just the sponsor.
Through a range of practical examples, you’ll explore what change leadership look like at different levels
and how can you get your stakeholders driving the bus, not just being a passenger.
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Sweet on HANA – What We Love
About SAP Finance on HANA
Leith Ward
SAP Finance Capability Lead,
Accenture
What’s the one focus area that underpins change leadership at any level?
What does change leadership looks like for the project or change manager?
What is really needed from a project sponsor, and how do you influence a “difficult” sponsor
to give the right level of commitment?
What does change leadership mean for the business representative working with the project
and what strategies are useful to engage these people?
How you can tap into change leadership that will emerge amongst the people impacted by
change?
Big changes are happening in SAP Finance with the introduction of Business Suite on HANA. The
benefits of the digital age are within reach and will soon be the norm for finance departments.
FIN 1
In this session we will share what we love about the new Finance solution on HANA, our favourite
improvements for quick win benefits and our vision for Finance organisations to unlock new value from
the ERP.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
See practical examples of big data, mobility and cloud applied to Finance to deliver business
benefit
Understand the hype of Finance on HANA
What’s new and what’s changed?
Understand upgrade pathways
Explore real applications for big finance data
Discuss business case development
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Outpacing the Competition: How
Under Armour Leverages “In-Time”
Analytics to Win the Race
David Roberts
VP, Platform Solutions, SAP
& Director Corporate Financial Planning &
Analysis,
Under Armour (USA)
Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and inconclusive data are the typical symptoms faced by today’s executive.
Complexity of data models and reporting tools have forced analyst into the ubiquitous data dump to MS
Excel – filled with errors. Growth, organically and through acquisition, has led to farms of disparate
systems and data models – causing discrepancies between details and data meanings. Combinations of
the two leave leaders without sufficient information to drive decisions.
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In our session, you will hear how Under Armour changed the inadequate analytics landscape into an
outstanding, real-time decision support platform.
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Cheryl Calvert
IT Application Analyst,
Incitec Pivot
PARTNER THEATRE
Building an External Knowledge
Sharing Community for Collective
Resolutions to Common Challenges
Provide historical background for understanding the challenges in financial reporting and
analytics
Describe the strategy for overcoming the analytics quandary
Introduce the Under Armour financial reporting and analytics case study
Show examples of the analytics solutions deployed at Under Armour
Draw the blueprint for selecting, harmonising and displaying performance metrics in real-time
In some organisations, training and knowledge management is SAP centric, with little attention focused
on integrated systems such as AP-automation, travel management, consolidation, etc. Further, there is
often scant 'Google' support and opportunities for networking and sharing knowledge with other similar
users. This presentation is about our journey to build an international online community of Readsoft
users where we can Google system problems and share resolutions.
The presentation will be useful for anyone with an interest in facilitating or participating in an online
user-group – to more effectively manage their integrated systems.
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Why extending knowledge management beyond the organisation is valuable for users and
vendors
Involving the vendor in knowledge sharing
Live demonstration of user forum
Tips for starting a user community and lessons learned
Striking a balance between commercial confidentiality and actively promoting and supporting
a community
12.30 PM – 1.30 PM: LUNCH & EXHIBITION VIEWING
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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1.30 PM – 3.20 PM
1.30 PM – 2.20 PM
PEOPLE & CULTURE
Building the Technical Team of
Tomorrow, Today
Benjamin Robbins
Co-Founder,
Palador (USA)
Many organisations today struggle with how to recruit, train, and retain top IT talent. Technical skills
and needs change at such fast rate that it seems that as soon as you’ve identified a technical need, the
need changes. How can IT organisations expect to keep up? The problem isn’t technology, but team.
Organisations should gear hiring practices towards certain individual’s traits, not for which technologies
are on their CV. Organisations should also know how and when to go outside the organisation for
expertise.
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Talent not tools matter for tomorrow
How to identify the right talent and where to find them
What is the must-have core team?
Will training solve your tech gap shortage?
When and how to effectively to leverage vendors and outsourced talent
How to dodge silver bullet thinking
2.30 PM – 3.20 PM
Building a Great Team: The Foundation
for a Winning Culture
David Roberts
VP, Platform Solutions, SAP &
Manager Corporate Financial Planning &
Analysis,
Under Armour (USA)
Under Armour uses The Four Pillars of Greatness drive success in every aspect of the business – build a
great product, build a great team, provide great service and tell a great story. All of these components
are embedded into the fabric and culture that is Under Armour.
Understanding of The Four Pillars is taught within the first week with the team (class UA101) and
reinforced through corporate and personal goals in the talent management solution. Come hear the
stories and see the real-life example of the Under Armour cultural phenomenon.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Share the story of Under Armour and the company’s rich history
Show how the “people agenda” is developed and managed through SAP SuccessFactors
Provide examples of how individuality of teammates is used to create depth in our culture
Explain how transparency and accountability are the bedrock for developing a family culture
Give examples of public successes born from the Under Armour culture
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FIN 1
DEEP DIVE
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SAP’s Innovations – Is There Something
You’ve Been Missing?
Janet Salmon
Chief Product Owner Management
Accounting,
SAP (Germany)
While it’s hard to miss the marketing information about SAP Fiori and SAP HANA there are actually
plenty of other innovations in Financials that you could easily miss. Many of the innovations that went
under the SAP HANA umbrella can actually be used on any ERP system, so consider activating virtual
info providers to modernise your CO-PA and material ledger reporting. Consider activating some of the
business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing,
parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more. Don’t
forget that some of the UI innovations pre-date SAP Fiori and are available in any system currently using
EhP 6 or later. Take away information about how to keep up-to-date on the changes being delivered.
Forecasting and Budgeting – Using a
Proven Approach to Get a Process That
You Trust (and Like!)
Stuart Harman
Partner,
Oliver Wight - Asia Pacific
Forecasting and budgeting make up a significant element of the work in any finance team. In many
companies, despite the increasing take up of ever more sophisticated tools, both forecasting and
budgeting take up a substantial amount of time and resource.
FIN 2
DEEP DIVE
The financial forecasting and budgeting processes typically involve the finance team collating and
making sense of a number of disparate inputs, often with little commentary provided from the rest of
the organisation. This can lead to trust issues around the numbers submitted and often it is left to
finance to make a call on the anticipated outcomes and use that as a forecast to guide key stakeholders
expectations.
The annual plan or budget, often outdated as it is finally approved, usually lacks sufficient information
to operate the business and can establish a framework that leads to disconnected functional plans.
Since the primary emphasis of the traditional annual planning and budgeting process is on the
anticipated financial results for the next fiscal year, it often creates disconnects with previously agreedupon actions in support of strategy. It also creates competition for budget allocations.
Using an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process many organisations have now adopted a rolling replanning approach that reduces the time spent collating forecast updates and budgets and clearly links
the planned activities in each function to the company wide plans and projected outcomes.
This deep dive presentation explores some of the elements of successful Integrated Business Planning,
the finance team’s role in this process and how IBP leads to more robust plans, produced with less
effort.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Trusting the forecast
The importance of assumptions and measures to validate forecast numbers – what you
should look for
How finance can add real value to the forecasting process through scenario planning
Improving the annual planning process
A more credible and efficient annual planning process
Regular and routine monthly updates to plans, minimising or eliminating financial surprises
More aligned and synchronised planning and execution from top to bottom across short,
medium and strategic horizons
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1.30 PM – 2.20 PM
PARTNER THEATRE
Improving Efficiency and Reducing
Costs at Monash Using Data Analytics
Justine Waddick
Executive Director, Procure to Payment
Services
Monash University
&
Michael Lawler
CEO
Selera Labs
In this session Michael and Justine will discuss how using modern data analytics has allowed Monash to
reduce costs, reduce the effort associated with business exceptions, and boost financial performance,
while significantly improving their governance, risk, and compliance position. Monash performed an
analysis of their historical data, and implemented active continuous monitoring to enable ongoing
prevention and monitoring of exceptions such as duplicate vendor payments. Learn how the latest
approaches to detecting quality and process exceptions allow CFOs to have complete confidence in the
quality and compliance of their financial data at all times.
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How modern analytics techniques outperform traditional SAP and DB Reports
Which finance data and business processes can benefit most from modern analytics
Outcomes achieved by analytics-based solutions at Monash
Live demo of tool used at Monash
Business-level overview of integrations and service models
Keys to simple, quick, non-invasive rollouts
2.30 PM – 3.20 PM
Ann Furlong
FCCA
Director of Operations - APAC,
Blackline
PARTNER THEATRE
Account Reconciliation Best Practices
to Ensure Accuracy in the Numbers
Account reconciliation is a critical control to help ensure an organisation's financial
integrity. Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process can lead to mistakes on the
balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close which may be putting your company
at risk.
In this session we’ll go back to the basics, beginning with what it means to ‘do an account reconciliation’
and why it is important to do them correctly and in a timely fashion. Attendees will learn how to
remove reliance on manual spreadsheets, leverage technology to improve the quality and
completeness of their reconciliations, and automate processes in order to better ensure the accuracy of
the company’s financial statements.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Formalise company-wide policies and automate procedures surrounding the financial close
process.
Gain visibility and control over the status, progress, exceptions and risk points around the
financial close
Create automated workflow to ensure tasks are assigned, prepared and reviewed by the right
people at the right time
Import data directly from SAP with a customised connector and use standardised templates
to improve the quality and consistency of reconciliations
Query real-time dashboards and reports to gain insight into specific reconciliations
Use an online document repository for easy access to all supporting documents associated
with reconciliations
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PEOPLE & CULTURE
3.20 – 3.50: Afternoon tea
3.50 PM – 4.30 PM
Build A Culture of Accountability: The
Key to Organisational Success,
Empowered People and High
Performance
Gregory Bayne
Director / Leadership Capability Consultant,
Total Leader and Coach Solutions
If you ask any senior executive what they believe is a key factor to driving a culture of success, it will be
accountability. Yet very few organisations successfully implement a culture of accountability. We will
explore the role of people, processes and systems in building a culture of accountability, and most
importantly generating the experience of ‘feeling accountable’ across an organisation. If you wish to
know more about how you in your role can help build a culture of accountability, then this talk is for
you.
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Adam Bee
Financial Systems Analyst,
Marks and Spencer (UK)
FIN 1
Building Relationships That Enable
Success - Bridging the Finance/IT
Divide
If a restructure or acquisition was forced on your team tomorrow, would your team have the skills and
resources needed to lead the project and make it a success? The Australian Agency for International
Development (AusAID) was absorbed into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in
November 2013. Within 6 months, a major finance data migration and application redevelopment
project was successfully completed. This session will outline the key steps that enabled the on time and
on budget delivery of a complex, multifaceted finance/IT project.
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Martin Munzel
Managing Director,
Espresso Tutorials (Germany)
FIN 2
What the Experts Are Saying About
Product Costing
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
The key principles underpinning a culture of accountability
The role of people, processes and systems in generating accountability
Top three strategies to put into place
Case studies and examples of organisations getting it right
Key actions moving forward
What skills sets and personalities are required in a high performing finance systems function?
Bringing down the barriers between finance and IT
Habits of successful project teams in face paced, agile environments
Lessons learnt from the DFAT/AusAID SAP migration
Product costing is highly integrated with the SAP modules FI, MM and PP. In this presentation, Martin
will explain what prerequisites you need to get product costing up and running, and what the interfaces
to the other modules are. Understand the difference between product cost planning, cost object
controlling and material ledger, and for what purpose these sub-modules are designed. Find out in what
different scenarios cost object controlling can be used and how to effectively manage your month-end
closing process.
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Integration and interfaces of CO-PC with other modules
How to use product cost planning
How to apply your own business process to the cost object controlling scenarios
What is material ledger and how can you use it to improve your reporting
What reports are available in CO-PC
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4.50 PM – 5.50 PM
Daniel Flynn
Co-Founder,
Thankyou Group
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Entrepreneurship and Social Business,
Leadership and Innovation
At the age of 19, Daniel was deeply affected by hearing about children in Africa who would spend hours
each day collecting water for their family – water that wasn’t even safe to drink. After researching the
World Water Crisis, Daniel discovered that Australians spend $600 million on bottled water each year,
while in developing nations over 900 million people didn’t have access to safe water.
The injustice of these two facts inspired Daniel to do something. He came up with the idea to marry
these two extremes together in the form of a bottled water company that would exist for the sole
purpose of funding safe water projects. Thankyou Water was born in August 2008.
To date, Thankyou has helped over 78,000 people with safe water access, nearly 68,000 people with
health and hygiene training and almost 7000 people with short-term food aid and long-term food
security in nations like Cambodia, Kenya, India, Timor Leste and Haiti.
Daniel is passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership and inspiring others to achieve their dreams
and do what others might say is impossible. During this presentation he will talk about:
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Taking an idea and making it a reality
Making the impossible possible
Digital/social media marketing
Entrepreneurship and social business
Leadership and innovation
Philanthropy
6.00 PM: UXC Oxygen Mastering SAP Networking Drinks
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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Tuesday 26 May 2015
SESSION
SPEAKER
SESSION CONTENT
Jitu Patel
Systems Analyst - Global Finance,
Zespri International (NZ)
&
Craig Street
Group Treasurer
Zespri International (NZ)
With the existing SaaS Treasury Management System (TMS) being decommissioned in three months
Zespri needed another TMS solution to manage their portfolio of money market deposits, FX forwards,
swaps and NDFs as well as commodity. SAP solutions are always thought of as having long
implementation times and being too complex. The only logical choice is another specialist SaaS TMS
package, or was it? This session will go through why Zespri chose the SAP RDS solution, some of the
features of the RDS, what to watch out for and where we can go from here.
Julie Prater
Senior Director - Corporate Services, Systems
Support,
Australian Taxation Office
The ATO has a strong history of administering Australia’s tax and superannuation systems. Core to this
success has been the strong culture which has shaped the way the organisation operates. However, the
environment within which the ATO moves is rapidly changing. In response to this, technology
innovation, customer centricity, efficiency and productivity have been put in the spotlight. The
Commissioner has called for organisational reinvention, with culture change a key strategy in
embodying the organisation’s values and transforming the client experience. The one drawback of
having a strong culture is that it is notoriously difficult to change!
BREAKFAST SESSION
8.00 AM – 8.45 AM
SAP Treasury Implemented in 12
Weeks… The RDS Way
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What is an RDS?
Scoping, scoping and more scoping
The software selection process
Lessons learned and hints from the Zespri RDS experience
Where to from here?
9.00 AM – 9.50 AM
PEOPLE & CULTURE
A Four-Phase Approach to Transform
Culture at the ATO
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Join Julie as she shares the ATO’s experiences and outlines their four-phase approach that you can take
back and apply to your own organisation.
Background - why was change inevitable at the ATO?
Phase 1 - diagnosing the issue and ascertaining the current state
Phase 2 - determining the desired culture
Phase 3 - identifying the change levers that will deliver the new culture
Phase 4 - embedding the new culture
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Successfully Transforming the Finance
Function: Developing and Delivering on
a Vision
Nicole Tournier
Director - Finance Strategy,
Monash University
Over the last four years; Monash University has successfully transformed its finance function, through
the introduction of more than 200 better practice technology and process solutions and comprehensive
enhancements to their budget methodology. Along with significant organisational change that impacted
more than 900 individuals creating a shared service operation, centres of excellence and business
partner functions.
FIN 1
In this session we share our comprehensive change management approach for this enormous change
program, highlight our learnings and also demonstrate how; when successfully managed, change can be
a catalyst for complete transformation.
Dan Auber
Manager, Projects and Innovation,
Auckland Council (NZ)
FIN 2
Empowering Managers With SelfService Real-Time Financial Reports:
The Story of the Great and the
Unexpected
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Developing and delivering on a vision
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Stakeholder engagement, how much is too much?
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Easy: Defining a new process, Hard: getting people to follow it
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The small stuff that will trip you up
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Energy and resilience for the long haul
When the Auckland ‘super-council’ was first amalgamated in 2009, 1000 managers across the enterprise
were receiving static retrospective financial reports on a monthly basis. Seeing an opportunity for
increased transparency and manager accountability, Auckland Council decided to roll out SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tool to deliver online, real-time dashboards with drill down analysis.
This project turned into much more than the implementation of a new technology: It was a whole new
operating model! Could such a diverse group of managers – from Park Rangers to IT Project Managers,
Stormwater Engineers to Building Inspectors – be expected to manage and interpret financial data? The
answer is yes… with a little bit of support and training!
Join Dan as he discusses both the technology and the human side of this incredibly successful project.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
An introduction: The previous state and aims of the project
Preparing for change: Requirements gathering, creating a common language, governance and
data security issues
Report development and testing
Training and communication aspects (some unexpected!)
What the solution looks like now and what it has achieved so far
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PARTNER THEATRE
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It’s Budget Time - Get Your CAPEX
Initiatives Approved!
Heidi Fischer
Chief Relationship Officer,
IQX Business Solutions
You’ve got great ideas to improve business operations by increasing capacity or replacing current assets.
The capital budget is under pressure, so how do you ensure that executive decision makers are able to
effectively prioritise and select those initiatives that are of greatest value to the organisation?
Join us in exploring the power of user-friendly and intuitive CAPEX apps. We will show you an easy and
clear CAPEX process results directly in the right projects being approved. Quickly and on time.
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Start with user experience - responsive, intuitive web applications
Seamless, user-centric processes, not transactions
Capital budgets, programs and projects in context
Include everybody with forms, workflow and collaboration
Store and access supporting documentation
Eliminate bottlenecks with mobile reviews and approvals
10.00 AM – 10.50 AM
Greg Layton
Director,
NeuroSport
PEOPLE & CULTURE
Resilience and Composure - How to
Maintain Performance Under Pressure
SAP projects are often high demand and high pressure with looming deadlines and competing priorities.
What skills you need to succeed personally and ensure the business goals are met in these types of
environments? How can you maintain focus under immense pressure?
Performance in clutch moments is often the only thing that separates first from second place. In this
session, Greg will share with you the secrets used by the greatest coaches and athletes to maintain
composure under pressure. And most importantly, how this translates to the business world where
there are no lights and cameras.
You will learn the cost of cognitive overload and key skills for building resilience to large workloads and
pressure.
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Adam Bee
Financial Systems Analyst,
Marks and Spencer (UK)
FIN 1
Supercharge Your Analysis – Migrating
from Excel to SAP BusinessObjects
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
The cost of cognitive overload
Mindmapping
Changing your state
The formula for resilience
Ever feel like you’re drowning in spreadsheets, waiting forever for links to update, always checking if
ranges are up to date? If any of this is true, then it’s likely that your team has outgrown its current
solution. If your team is a smaller part of a larger organisation, how do you push your agenda to the
forefront? We’ll discuss how a team within Marks and Spencer is spearheading the use of SAP
BusinessObjects to enhance the quality of its financial analysis whilst reducing their dependency on
Excel.
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Assessing the situation, does your team over rely on spreadsheets?
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Generating the case for change
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Pushing your agenda in an IT change management environment
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Lessons learnt at Marks and Spencer
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John Moy
SAP UI, Mobility and Development Architect,
MMG
FIN 2
Delivering Delight to MMG’s Managers
With Multi-System Mobile Approvals
In 2014 MMG Ltd embarked on an ambitious strategy to aggregate workflows from 10 different inboxes
spanning both SAP and non-SAP systems, into a unified inbox tailored for both mobiles, tablets and
desktops - and to deliver this to 500 managers processing several thousand approvals per month. With
user experience a key concern, the MMG team implemented a solution that included a native mobile
application with offline capability, as well as a web application for the desktop.
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Learn why MMG selected this solution over alternatives such as SAP Fiori Approvals
Learn how MMG simplified visibility of workflows into a single badge number
Find out how the solution significantly improved approval times
Understand key learnings and challenges in delivering a successful rollout
See a demonstration of the solution
10.30 AM – 11.20 AM
Puneet Gupta
Managing Partner,
BackOffice | CPM Consulting
PARTNER THEATRE
Leveraging Rule Based
Financial and HR Planning – The New
Flexible Way of Planning
With changing policies and guidelines globally, organisations are continuously facing pressures of timely
budget completion and accurate decision-making. Typically such changes can include operational
changes in rules and policies and disparate rules across geographies and changes due to M&A activities.
The key challenge is how quickly and easily it is to adapt to these changes with minimal impact on the
timelines. Using rule based planning these challenges can be overcome leveraging a flexible and
scalable business user centric platform eliminating need for further customisations.
This interactive session will outline the rule based planning concepts including HR planning scenarios
along with an opening dialogue around typical issues with their remediation.
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Typical challenges and possible remediation taking HR Planning scenario as an example
Rule based planning concepts
Sample business case taking a typical HR planning scenario
Overview of the rules and rules type for the sample business case
Live demonstrations of the rule based planning concept
Key advantages and benefits from the HR rule based planning concept
10.50 AM – 11.30 AM: Morning Tea
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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PEOPLE & CULTURE
DEEP DIVE
11.30 – 1.10 PM
Getting What You Want Every Time:
Key Principles and Tools for High
Powered Communication and
Influence
Gregory Bayne
Director / Leadership Capability Consultant,
Total Leader and Coach Solutions
The requirement of the skill of influence is becoming increasingly more and more important and in fact
is now almost an essential success factor. If you do not have the art of high powered communication
you will not get what you want each time, meaning you will ultimately not achieve what you wish to
achieve. Are you as influential and inspiring as you would like to be? Do you get what you want every
time? If not, then this is the session for you.
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Benjamin Robbins
Co-Founder,
Palador (USA)
FIN 1
DEEP DIVE
Getting Started in Mobile Today!
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
The most important two concepts you need to understand about high powered
communication and influence
Gain awareness of how your brain is wired and how this impacts on your level of
communication
Strategies and tools for shifting the power of your communication
Identify three key actions to put into practice straight away back in the work place
Many organisations know that there is opportunity in mobility, the trick is figuring out which
opportunities are right for your business. From creating a strategy for mobile to security, to device
ownership, to what apps to build, to extensible back end services, there are many angles to consider.
Come learn how to step by step transform your business into a mobile enabled business.
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What is an effective mobile strategy?
What are the gotchas with mobile enabling existing business processes?
How to avoid data privacy and authentication land mines
What is the difference between good mobile UI/UX and bad?
How to correctly create back end services
Should you build a native, hybrid, or HTML5 app?
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Pros and Cons of the Planning Tools in
SAP ERP, BW, BPC and HANA - Which
One is Right for Your Organisation?
Martin Munzel
Managing Director,
Espresso Tutorials (Germany)
In this session, Martin will explain a methodological approach to assess the tools available, and give an
overview of the functionality of each tool. He will also shed some light into SAP’s release strategy for
the future.
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DEEP DIVE
PARTNER THEATRE
Classical planning in ERP, BW IP, BPC, Renovated Panning in ERP, Express Planning, HANA Planning
Application Kit, Smart Financials - there is an abundant supply of planning tools available in SAP. What
are the advantages and disadvantages of the individual tools, and how do you know which tool is the
right one for your organisation?
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One Tool for Budgeting, Planning, BI
Reporting, Dashboards and Predictive
Analytics
Steven Kellar
Managing Director,
BOARD
An overview of the planning tools available in SAP ERP
A comparison of the ERP planning tools with BW-IP and BPC
Planning functionality with HANA
The pros and cons of each tool
A matrix of the planning tools to support you in deciding which one to use
Tips for your planning strategy
Frustrated with long development timeframes, having to use multiple tools or resorting to Excel when
working with your SAP data?
With one product, BOARD can deliver your reporting, dashboards, budgeting, planning, mobile
applications, advanced data calculations, and predictive analytics throughout your organisation. Learn
how United Energy and Multinet Gas used BOARD to make sense of their SAP data, resulting in
considerable improvements in the speed & flexibility of their Financial reporting.
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Seamless integration between SAP and BOARD
Budgeting, planning and forecast models
BI reporting and dashboards
Mobile deployment of applications
Advanced financial modelling, statistical functions, clustering and predictive analytics
United Energy and Multinet Gas case study: benefits and challenges of the project
1.10 PM – 2.10 PM: LUNCH & EXHIBITION VIEWING
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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2.10 PM – 3.00 PM
Stuart Harman
Partner,
Oliver Wight Asia Pacific
PEOPLE &
CULTURE
The Key Ingredients for Sustainable
Change
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BPC Customer Fishbowl
Simpler, Faster, Stronger: Building A
Blueprint for Integrated Planning
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BPC FISHBOWL (i)
The introduction of new processes or tools is a constant for most organisations in the 21st century but in
too many instances this change does not go as well as planned. In this presentation Stuart Harman,
from Business Improvement Specialists, Oliver Wight, will talk about the key ingredients for sustainable
change based on his experience applying Oliver Wight’s Proven Path methodology which has enabled
success for more than 1000 clients around the world over the last 40 years.
The key stages of a change project
The importance of excitement
The need for ownership and how to ensure it
Measures of success
Join two experienced SAP customers as they share their journey with SAP BPC on HANA in their
organisations. This a chance to hear different perspectives on the tool in distinct environments and
have an interactive discussion with the speakers after their presentations
David Roberts
VP, Platform Solutions, SAP
&
Director Corporate Financial Planning &
Analysis,
Under Armour (USA)
Globalisation, diversification and “abbreviation” (shorter attention spans for consumers) has led to an
increasingly complex environment for businesses and public organisations. The greatest challenges are
(1) predicting business outcomes, (2) planning investments and operations based on predictions and (3)
executing with precision to preserve the organisation’s precious resources. In this session, you will hear
how Under Armour successfully bridged the gap between function and technology to grow revenues,
improve margins and optimise operational efficiency.
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For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
The need for organisational culture shift from planning (reactive) to predicting (proactive)
business outcomes
Define the critical steps within the predict, plan and execute processes
Share details of Under Armour’s journey to successful integrated business planning
Describe how Under Armour uses SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) on HANA for
financial and operational planning
Demonstrate methods for evaluating real-time performance using SAP analytics solutions
(SAP Business Intelligence and SAP Fiori)
Provide other SAP customer use cases of financial planning excellence
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Colin Teo
VP Group Management Reporting and ELP
Office,
Neptune Orient Lines (Singapore)
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BPC FISHBOWL (i)
How NOL Streamlined Consolidation &
Management Reporting using SAP BPC
on HANA
As the global markets are still recovering, it was never more important for management to have the
right information at right time to enable decision mapping. With this as a key requirement, NOL has
embarked on an initiative to streamline consolidation and management reporting using SAP BPC on
HANA.
Below are the key objectives we focused on during Phase 1 of the project.
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SAP With Best of Breed Solutions Working Together To Successfully
Integrate Multiple Finance Systems
John Young
Portfolio Manager - Workforce & Finance,
eSolutions,
&
Nicole Tournier
Director – Finance Strategy,
Monash University
Avoid multiple versions of truth by having unified solution that seamlessly integrates to legacy
systems (SAP and non-SAP)
Support detailed analysis by processing and reporting on huge volume of data
Reduce dependency on IT development by deploying user centric and dynamic solution
Reduce manual processes by automating most of the processes by reducing the reporting
cycle What were the key management reporting challenges faced by NOL?
How did NOL overcome the challenges by using SAP BPC on HANA as unified solution?
Key considerations that contributed to project success
How can you plan for your SAP BPC projects based on NOL’s experience?
Five years ago Monash University made a conscious decision to shift from developing in-house SAP
solutions to sourcing best practice software-as-a-service solutions and integrating with SAP. Thereby
avoiding the costly overheads associated with customisation and rapidly decreasing the time taken
implement.
This has not been an easy strategy to implement and many challenges have been faced, but by working
together Finance and IT have been able to successfully deliver integration across multiple Finance
systems and other areas of the University are now using a similar approach.
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Bringing the technical support resources along on the journey
Addressing a culture of providing a solution that panders to everyone’s needs
The hidden costs in dealing with legacy decisions
Can you actually roll back customised functionality?
3.00 PM – 3.30 PM: Afternoon tea
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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CLOSING KEYNOTE
3.30 PM – 4.30 PM
Be Successful With Your Technology Become an Elephant Whisperer
Greg Taylor
Independent Change Management
Evangelist
OK – let’s talk about the elephant in the room. If your users don’t adopt your systems effectively, then
you can’t really claim success. Good user adoption doesn’t happen by accident, but by incorporating
some simple strategies you can be well on your way to taming the beast.
This presentation will explore practical examples, showing you how to:
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Get real commitment from the right people
Incorporate user experience into your design strategy
Persuade even the toughest resistors to change
Make use of social tools to enhance your support model
Leverage business processes to demonstrate adoption and ROI
3.30 PM – 4.30 PM
Steve Mitchell
General Manager Technology – Queensland,
Queensland Motorways
CLOSING KEYNOTE
New Ways of Thinking for Success in
the Digital Economy
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Today, we do almost everything online, from banking and buying to chatting and dating. Now the focus
is on the ‘Internet of Things’ - networks of smart, connected products that are already making big bucks
for companies through product differentiation and providing vast customer data. This new way of doing
business provides incredible opportunities for companies, but it also requires a whole new mindset and
approach to IT.
Queensland Motorways has made great inroads into the digital economy, but it has been no easy ride.
Join Steve as he outlines what it has taken to turn the IT organisation into a revenue-building hub of
innovation (and improving employee engagement along the way).
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Finding your differentiating factor in the digital economy
Identifying traditional business processes that are holding you back and stamping them out
Building strategic partnerships - a hybrid approach
Planning to fail - a new approach to risk
Building a culture of innovation in your IT team and beyond
What’s next for Queensland Motorways?
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WORKSHOPS
Wednesday 27 May 2015
8.30 AM: Workshop Registration
WORKSHOP
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9.00 AM – 4.00 PM
Financial Reporting With SAP
Janet Salmon
Chief Product Owner Management
Accounting
SAP (Germany)
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
Janet’s workshop which has been sold out for the past three years is as jam-packed, practical and indepth day that will expose and unpack how the world of reporting is changing. Find out how you can
deliver real-time reports on desktop and mobile devices that can be acted on by executives straight
away.
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Eric Smit
Global Senior Director – Center of
Excellence,
SAP (Germany)
WORKSHOP 2
Gain Agility and Control: HandsOn
SAP BPC Workshop
Discover how you can deploy and get the most value out of this widely adopted application from SAP’s
Enterprise Performance Management solution suite.
Attend this SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Hands-On Training Workshop and learn how to:
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Generate both web and excel reports
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Import source data from Non SAP and SAP sources and drill back to your source
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Setup business process flow for the planning process
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Extend reports with functionality like dynamic formatting, sorting, filtering and ranking
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Text comments management
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Publish book of reports
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Administrator functions: adding accounts and create formulas to calculate
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Setup security including users, data and task profiles
Consolidation topic:
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Basics of the consolidation model
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Ownership Management
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Setup, run and monitor controls
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Setup, run and monitor business rules for translation, intercompany and consolidation
This workshop is intended for organisations evaluating SAP’s BPC tool and / or looking to improve their
budgeting, planning and consolidation processes.
Please note: You will be required to bring your own laptop to this workshop
For more information visit www.masteringsap.com/financialsau or Phone: + 61 2 9955 7400
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