Welcome

The finance function’s dilemma: how to overcome growing pains
and build a business for scale

Sponsored by Sage
Wednesday 27 September 2023
Searcys at The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London, EC3A 8EP

As a business embarks on its journey from start-up to scale-up and beyond, growth inevitably gives rise to a set of challenges. These include the emergence of business silos and the inefficiencies associated with manual, laborious processes. Additionally, a common obstacle is the lack of trust in, or difficulty accessing, accurate and relevant data, which can jeopardise proper and accurate reporting.

It is these challenges – and how businesses like yours overcome them – that will form the heart of this NTN roundtable.

For those in the finance function, successfully countering growing pains is likely to come down to a combination of people, processes, and technology. For people, read identifying and hiring the right people with the right talent. For process, it means doing more with less, including maximising your existing tech stack. And for technology, it’s about leveraging new tools and services, including those that deploy artificial intelligence, to bring greater efficiency, automation, and trust to your operations.

This event is designed for senior finance leaders and executives working in digital-first organisations who are planning transformational change and anticipate outgrowing their current finance platform. If you fit the bill, this promises to be an evening of ideas and insights – a chance to hear from subject matter experts and compare notes with your peers.


Topics for discussion:

• What is your single biggest barrier to growth?

• How confident are you in your reporting metrics? Is there a single version of the truth?

• For those encountering a duplication of effort and a dependency on manual processes, what are you doing to overcome the problem?

• How would you characterise the current environment when it comes to sourcing, hiring, and retaining talent?

• What is your chosen approach to new funding: debt or equity?

• What is your approach to building a finance technology stack: best-in-class or a single suite?

• How are using AI in its many forms, from AI/ML to generative platforms such as ChatGTP?


Timings for the evening:

18:00 – 18:30        Welcome and refreshments
18:30 – 20:00        Introduction to fellow guests and roundtable discussion
20:00 – onwards   Complimentary three-course dinner

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