Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference 2019 June 10 - 11 / Washington, D.C.

Learn practical approaches to improving your leadership of your finance function and your company, based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of over 100 CFOs. We'll teach you what relationships exceptional CFOs cultivate, what roles they play, and how they spend their time. We'll pair these findings with best practices for upgrading your leadership style.

For most finance functions, RPA is a cost-effective way of improving reporting accuracy and increasing overall departmental productivity. In spite of this, only 19% of controllers and 17% of heads of tax report that they currently use RPA in their day-to-day operations. This adoption rate is set to rise quickly. By 2020, 73% of controllers and 76% of heads of tax expect to fully adopt RPA within their sub-functions. As they prepare to implement and expand the use of RPA in finance, finance leaders will need to identify and prioritize where to deploy robots, how to capture the benefits of the RPA investment, which new skills and competencies to develop within their teams, and understand the main organizational implications of robots and humans working side by side in finance.

Organizations are quickly ramping up investments in technologies that provide real-time access to data for decision-makers and enable easy manipulation of that data. As these investments start to come online, finance teams are encountering a host of unexpected questions: How do we get business manager buy-in on financial data that may not align to the real-time operating data that they access on a regular basis? How do we run operating reviews and other business-facing activities without a single version of the truth to organize around? What strategies can we use to create data-driven consensus, when the underlying data is always in flux? Join this peer discussion to share insights and learn how other organizations are approaching the topic of business decision support in a world of always-on information.

Learn practical approaches to improving your leadership of your finance function and your company, based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of over 100 CFOs. We'll teach you what relationships exceptional CFOs cultivate, what roles they play, and how they spend their time. We'll pair these findings with best practices for upgrading your leadership style.

At the typical company growth investments are twice as likely to miss their initial business case expectations as they are to exceed them. To address this， most Finance teams focus on practices aimed at reducing the likelihood of an investment missing its expectations. However， companies with the best growth investment returns don’t have a materially lower percent of investments that fail in this way. Instead， Finance teams at these companies focus on getting a larger percentage of their investments to exceed rather than just meet their initial expectations. Join this session to learn the key strategies the best Finance teams use cultivate growth investment over-performance.

For most finance functions, RPA is a cost-effective way of improving reporting accuracy and increasing overall departmental productivity. In spite of this, only 19% of controllers and 17% of heads of tax report that they currently use RPA in their day-to-day operations. This adoption rate is set to rise quickly. By 2020, 73% of controllers and 76% of heads of tax expect to fully adopt RPA within their sub-functions. As they prepare to implement and expand the use of RPA in finance, finance leade rs will need to identify and prioritize where to deploy robots, how to capture the benefits of the RPA investment, which new skills and competencies to develop within their teams, and understand the main organizational implications of robots and humans working side by side in finance.