finance transformation

In this episode, Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Intentional Futures, Jessica Groopman discusses how finance transformation is a cultural shift in the business, including a greater investment not just in technology, but in people, process and data. Leaders approach finance transformation in a fundamentally different way: they start by unlocking the value of finance, empowering their teams with data-driven insights and transforming an organization into a forward-looking, strategic and dynamic player that leverages Order-to-Cash as a competitive advantage.

In this episode, Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant and credit risk management expert, Don Mills discusses how understanding risk early in the customer’s lifecycle can drive actionable insights downstream. Businesses that think about an integrated credit risk management and collections strategy and share interconnected data are having a significant impact on DSO and the customer experience. 

In this episode, Sidetrade’s UI/UX Researcher, Dr. Wolé Adaramoye discusses the concept of functional fixedness, inherent biases and how leaders can break away from the status quo to think differently, drive innovative thinking and problem solve with alternative approaches.

In this episode, the Head of Global Presales at Kyriba, Tom Gavaghan discusses the CFO’s focus in the New Year on operational continuity, being more prescriptive, the convergence of finance and IT and how to leverage AI in working capital management. 

In this final episode of 2022, Sidetrade’s AVP of Product Management for e-Invoicing, Bryan Pederson discusses how to prepare for global e-Invoicing mandates, if continuous transaction controls will come to North America, 2023 automation, technology and data trends, and how to avoid AP portal headaches in the New Year.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Director of Customer Success, Andrea Baker discusses the five finance transformation pitfalls that teams need to avoid in 2023 – from investments in RPA only to relying on historical data and associating technology with headcount reduction.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Order-to-Cash Specialist, Darrin Brown discusses the top predictions in the order-to-cash space for 2023, where CFOs are placing bets on spend, and how inflation and the current market climate will affect next year’s finance transformation projects.

In this episode, Founder of Metafi, data scientist, cryptocurrency and tech investor and entrepreneur and published author, Peter Saddington discusses cryptocurrencies, blockchain and how enterprise CFOs and finance teams can begin thinking about these disruptive technologies to complement current financial networks and business models. 

In this episode, Managing Director, Finance and Business Services Transformation at KPMG, Kim Huddle discusses the emergence of finance transformation to make changes and investments across people, process, technology and data to transform and evolve the finance department. Leading finance transformation organizations have a lower cost of doing business and a significant competitive advantage in the current market climate when they ramp up transformation and invest in advanced data, AI and innovation projects.

In this episode, VP of Finance in SaaS, Carrie Gurowitz discusses the strategic advisory role of finance, how to scale a global organization, the implications of multiple entities from an M&A integration, the financial metrics to watch, and what to think about when you’re implementing systems and automation into your finance strategy.

In this special Finance to Futurist FinTech Spotlight episode, Founder & CEO of QV Systems, Daniel Layne discusses his FinTech origin story from innovating as a SaaS company to focusing on the B2B customer experience, building the network effect and leveraging prescriptive analytics to create a future-ready financing platform.

In this episode, Director, Customer Success at Sidetrade Andrea Baker discusses best practices for finance teams to free up cash and fight inflation. Protecting and accelerating cash flow has never been so critical as bad debt risk and inflation are dramatically increasing everywhere. In today’s market climate, the cost of doing business is increasing more than 2% every 90 days. Delays in accounts receivable can lead to less working capital and less liquidity, making receivables the secret weapon during times of inflation.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Chief Product Officer Rob Harvey discusses why it’s more important than ever that CFOs collaborate with CIOs, how finance departments are going beyond a cash culture to create a culture hack, and why more organizations are establishing a finance transformation role.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Solutions Consultant Matt Hill discusses the next generation CFO and how to enable finance teams for the future to be equipped with technology for finance transformation and processes for change management.