9th August 2019 - The Westin Mumbai Garden City

Keeping pace with Finance Technology Revolution

of the industry

Abhishek Arun Anand Bhadkamkar Arihant Jain Manas Datta Prasanna Lohar Kannan R K. R. C. Murty
SVP CFO & COO - Sr. Data Scientist | CFO Head Innovation Head Corporate Head - RTB Function
Paytm South Asia General Manager Wockhardt & Architecture Performance (Information
Dentsu Aegis Vodafone Idea Limited DCB Bank Ltd. Monitoring Technology)
Network Hinduja Group Kotak Mahindra
Bank

Satish Kottakota Raghava Rao Saurabh Gugnani Sambasivan G Sheoji Ram Meena Thomas George Vinod Kumar
CFO VP Finance & Director IT Operations CFO GM IT Director Chief Financial
CallHealth Services India CFO PayU Tata Sky Ltd. Bank of India Tata Communications Officer & CHRO
Pvt. Ltd. Amazon India Kirloskar Oil
Engines Ltd.

Gold Partners
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 9th August 2019 - The Westin Mumbai Garden City
Keeping pace with Finance Technology Revolution of the industry

The job role of CFO's has been evolving drastically from past few decades.
The evolution of Technology, Data and Analytics is bringing huge Revolution
within the finance team and how they operate. Considering the importance
of the finance function in any organization, it hugely impacts on how the
organization is really performing. Be it the impact of CFO's in Customer
Satisfaction ultimately resulting in better business or taking decisions based
on the data available, it is all about the Finance function and its huge impact
in the organization growth.

Over the years, Finance leaders have been evolving from being just an
accountant who manages the money and now leading in the role of analytics,
data management, decision-making strategies and becoming the strategic
business partner. From number crunching to becoming an analytic leader,
managing the cash flow, manage the team. It is an overflowing plate.

It has been a great change for good and is heading towards a gigantic
success. With this conference on The Finance Technology and its importance,
we will try to simplify processes and the job role of a CFO. The conference
will play a mojor role in communicating how the industry is seeing
technology for finance department and how this will positively ease the work
customizing for your business be it of any business model.

Who should not miss this conference?

• CFO's
• Director Finance
• VP Finance
• Head Finance, Accounts and Investments

Why should you not miss this conference?

1.Learn how to Manage the expectations from a CFO from an overflowing

plate of things to do
2.Zooming In the Finance Technology Ecosystem
3.Learn what are the cost effective, easy Finance Technology solutions
available for your business
4.Learn how to tackle the Challenges you are facing with digital
transformation
5.Eagles view on Changing job role of Finance Leaders from Accountants to
Data Management and Analytics Leaders
6. Role of Finance Leaders in Customer Satisfaction and delight shooting up
your business

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 Program Schedule

08.30 Registration and Morning Refreshments 11.30 Role of Finance Leaders in Customer Satisfaction and
delight
09.00 Icebreakers Session
For the customer experience to take hold in an organization,
09.15 Opening Keynote by Conference Chair companies must correlate financial performance to their customer
Managing the expectations - An overflowing plate of experience success
things to do • How does a CFO Impact the Customer and the Employee
Experience?
CFO manage the money, analytics, data, decision-making
• Linking customer experience with financial performance
strategies and now to become the strategic business partner. From • The Role of Finance Leaders in ensuring Internal and External
number crunching to becoming an analytic leader, managing the Customer Satisfaction and delight
cash flow, manage the team. It is an overflowing plate. Roadmap to Customer Experience Journey and filling the loop
•
1. How to handle and manage this expectation? holes
2. How Finance technology will be your guiding angel? • Hiring the right people with the right skill sets and mentality to
shift to the future of work and style of working
09.30 Business Finance: Transformation from Analogue to
Digital - Zooming In the Finance Technology Ecosystem Mastering the digital advantage in transforming customer
Now and the Year After experience
Kannan R, Head Corporate Performance Monitoring,
• What are types of Finance technologies available and for what
Hinduja Group
process? What should catch your eye?
• What are the needs, areas and scope of improvements? 11.50 The Changing job role of Finance Leaders from
• How to move to the next level? Accountants to Data Management and Analytics
• What does technology simplify for us and what are remaining Leaders
gaps?
• Why should CFO change comfort factor and migrate to a new Finance Data and Analytics is the future of the job role. Finance
technology - eliminating the pain points leaders are moving from being an accountant to handling Analytics
• Getting technology, which is affordable. And has the tenacity to and Data. The journey is exiting and full of learning new things.
meet customized business needs where stakes are high 1. Data analytics – the trend in growing organization
Technology which 2. Achieving the goal of improvising systems
• Will make processes easier, avoid manual job and reduce paper 3. Clearing the available data and gathering right set of information
Raghava Rao, Vice President Finance & India CFO, form the market
Amazon India 4. Relevance of the data
5. Implementing data analytics in organization as a system core
10.00 Partnering with FinTech Companies system
6. Decision Making and Business Strategy insights with Data
One of the major concerns of decision making for a CFO is to
outsource the Tech solutions. Understanding what exactly they Manas Datta, CFO,
need and how much value it will bring back to the system is critical Wockhardt
Discuss on 12.20 Tackling the Challenges with digital transformation of
the finance function
1. The Time, money and efforts to migrate to technology from
manual processes. Digital Transformation within the finance domain has both its
2. Is it really worth the time and money with equal or more return positives and negatives. CFO’s are often found struggling with
on investments? some of the major challenges and Delegation of Authority
3. Finance Technology Customization with business needs
1. Mindset of employees or team who resist to adopt the change in
Simplifying Complex Business Models the process which needs time and effort
Satish Kottakota, CFO, 2. The risk from Cyber security and data privacy breach
CallHealth Services Pvt Ltd. 3. Lack of expertise and digitalization strategy in place
4. The continuous increase of data with technological
10.20 Finance Technology Showcase Session
improvements and the upcoming need for CFO’s to become
4 Solution Provider to display their Products 10 minutes Tech Savvy and acting like a strategic business partner to the
CEO
each.
5. Finding relevant data at the right time and using it for the right
1. Payroll Management and Salary Management
purpose
2. Business Intelligence
6. Prioritization of digitalization functions and processes and
3. Data Management
initiating new system adaptation within the organization
4. Expense Management
5. Sales Tracking Panel Members:
6. Incentive Management Satish Kottakota, CFO,
7. AI and Robotics for Finance CallHealth Services Pvt Ltd.
8. Fraud Prevention and Governance Risk Compliance Solutions
13.00 Lunch Break
11.00 Networking and Refreshment Break
14.00 Redesigning Finance Structure and Roles to Support
Growth
1. Achieving finance excellence
2. Employee awareness and training programs to ring the
importance of digitalization
3. Identifying what Finance Function across the globe are looking
up to for adding value to the organization
4. Finding balance between high cost and high risk
Anand Bhadkamkar, CFO & COO - South Asia
Dentsu Aegis Network
14.20 Finance Technology and Cyber security
Discussing the trends and implications in financial services as the
fast growing finance sector, unlimited data and technology
threaten with cyber-attacks and financial crimes. The close link of
fraud with cybercrime and there synergies in how financial
institutions fight the cybercrime is an interesting part to learn
about.
1. Importance of having systems in place
2. Risk assessments
3. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and Big
data deploying the detection of suspicious transactions
Abhishek Arun, Senior Vice President,
Paytm
14.40 Finance Technology Governance, Regulation and
Compliance Framework
One of the major challenges of Finance leaders are from
Governance and Compliance framework. Digitalization is
necessary for all the organizations today but what are the ideal
steps to achieve success?
1. Promoting strong governance and financial control framework
2. Focusing on continuous improvements
3. Having Risk management back up plans and processed in place
4. Aligning workforce and systems
5. Importance of Automation and innovation for your Finance
team
6. Reviewing your digital investments and plans
Vinod Kumar, Chief Financial Officer & CHRO,
Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd.
15.00 Big Data Analytics in Fintech - How machine learning &
AI is shaping the Fintech industry and Critically
Reviewing Your Digital and Technology Investment
1. Standardization of complex business processes interrelated with
technology implementation
2. Dealing with the initial low or negative return from technology
investments
3. Reducing usage of paper, ease of work and process, simplifying
the job for the team with technology
Planning for Next Gen Finance Automation and Innovation
Arihant Jain, Senior Data Scientist | General Manager,
Vodafone Idea Limited
15.30 Networking and Refreshment Break
16.00 Group Activity: Preparing for a Technology centric
Future
Framing Action Points and Strategies for an ideal Future CFO and
the job role
Finance Leaders must act as an innovation catalyst
In this session we have the audience divided into 4 groups as
teams. Each team will interact and engage into a discussion with
focus points in 4 different topics. The importance of acting like an
innovation catalysts and adapt the change flowing in the industry
with the technology wave.
Team A (CFO Centric)
What CFO’s are currently doing and what are the process being
followed in the organizations in India and what they should be
doing to achieve success
Team B (Team Centric)
What are the Best Practices to move into technology and Digital
Transformational Processes?
1. Implementation of technology
2. Costing
3. Up grading and Up skilling of the team
Team C (CFO Centric)
Dealing with Challenges CFO and Finance team face while
implementing the technology systems in place
Team D (Team Centric)
How to make yourself and your team more agile to move to the
Future
The 4 groups will discuss on the given subject with help of a group
leader. They will play the role of a CFO and the team members to
brainstorm what they should be doing, what they are doing
currently and what is the success criteria.
Ones the success criteria is defined, the team will come up with
suggestions and advice for an ideal Finance team and scope of
becoming a totally Tech supported and implemented team and
ultimately, as an organization.
Session Leader:
Sambasivan G, CFO,
Tata Sky Ltd
17.00 Close of the Conference