Financial Performance Management & Analytics: Building an Insight-Driven Finance Function
Despite advances in technology, collecting, manipulating, and analysing data remains a significant challenge for the majority of finance organisations. Reporting processes are often slow, opaque, and error prone, and make little use of visualisation. Katie Burns, Orla Dunbar, and Kevin Scahill from Deloitte will explain how you can transform your reporting and analysis processes to deliver deeper insights and make faster, better business decisions.
The discussion will focus on the following key areas:
- What is an insight-driven finance function and what are the benefits?
- What are the steps required to move beyond static reports and spreadsheets?
- What are the typical challenges?
- Lessons learned from previous client engagements
- Leading practice data visualisation techniques geared towards senior finance executives
- Seeing is believing – Demonstration using a number of visualisation tools
with speakers
Katie Burns (ACMA) is a Director in Deloitte’s Finance Transformation practice. Katie specialises in large scale finance function transformation projects and leads the Financial Performance Management & Analytics practice in Ireland. Katie has over 14 years’ experience across the energy, life science, FMCG and public sectors.
Orla Dunbar (ACMA) is a Manager in Deloitte’s Finance Transformation practice who specialises in Financial Performance Management & Analytics. Orla has led the design, development, and implementation of finance dashboards for a range of FMCG, financial services, life sciences, construction and professional services clients. Orla is a data visualisation enthusiast and has experience across a range of best in class reporting tools.
Kevin Schill (ACA) is a Manager in Deloitte’s Finance Transformation practice who specialises in Financial Performance Management & Analytics. Kevin has experience in financial performance management and business intelligence report design & development across a range of FMCG, life sciences and healthcare clients. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kevin worked as a management accountant with ESB for 4 years and in IT for 5 years as a software engineer.