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The Second Digital Pan-Australian FP&A Board: Building Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal"
The Second Digital Pan-Australian FP&A Board is proudly sponsored by:
The SecondPan-Australian FP&A Board will be held online on December 8 from5:00 PM to 6:30 PM AEDT.
Join our experienced and international panel of experts to learn how to Build Winning FP&A Teams for the "New Normal".
The current business and economic environment are fundamentally different from before. As organizations continue to adapt to the world of "Unknown Unknowns", the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) role has become increasingly more important with FP&A teams adapting quickly and developing their new "playbooks" to prepare for the future.
At this meeting, we will review the latest FP&A team roles that are not typical for traditional management accounting. Our experienced panel of experts will also share their practical knowledge on
how to build FP&A Teams from scratch,
how modern technology can enhance team collaboration,
what are the latest trends and developments in FP&A employment.
With the help of modern technology, we will try to make this digital meeting as interactive as possible by incorporating polling questions, Q&A sessions, and a survey.
What is International FP&A Board?
The International FP&A Boardwas created in London (UK) in 2013 to guide the development and promotion of the best practices in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). Since then, the Board chapters have been successfully established in 27 cities and 16 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and North America. They aim to identify and support new global trends, valued skill sets and leadership practices in modern corporate Financial Planning & Analysis.
Digital Pan-Australian FP&A Board will unite our Australian FP&A Board chaptersfrom Sydney, Melbourne, Perthand Brisbane. We also would be happy to invite some guests from Australia and New Zealand where FP&A board is not geographically established yet.
Participation Information
The FP&A Board is exclusive to finance practitioners only.
The meeting is complimentary and vendor-agnostic.
All participants should registeronline to secure their place. The meeting recording and the presentation will be available for the registered participants only. If you are not able to join the live meeting, you can review the recording later.
Hans Gobin, Experienced FP&A Leader and International FP&A Board Ambassador
Participation in the Digital FP&A Board events is complimentary and by invitation only.
The forum is vendor-agnostic and exclusive to finance practitioners only.
We will not be able to confirm places for vendors, salespeople, and consultants.
Hans Gobin, FCCA, MBA
Finance Director with over 20 years of experience in Financial reporting (Internal, External, PLC, Board), FP&A, Performance Management, Systems Implementation, Multinational Project managements, Transformation & Change Management, M&A, BPO & SSC.
Experience working in different company sizes ranging from Start-ups to large PLC and PE backed and experience working in various different sectors including manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, FMCG & Practice.
Founder member of the London International FP&A board regularly delivering talks on FP&A related subject matters.
Himashi Soriano is Managing Director, APAC, for the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) based outside of Washington, D.C. in the United States. Soriano leads AFP's Asia division, building customer relationships and developing partnerships within the Asia-Pacific region. Soriano has been an integral part of helping treasury and finance practitioners achieve their career goals through its training and Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Certified Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Professional programs for over 15 years at AFP. Soriano holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and previously served as Director of Business Development and Director of Sales, Strategy and Operations.
Marc Southey
Marc Southey is a director for Qubix APAC region. Marc has built a career on helping customers to digitally transform their finance operations, leveraging best-practices and the latest technologies & strong change management techniques.
Marc holds an MBA degree from Kingston University in the U.K and a BComm Degree from the University of South Africa. He has a wealth of experience working with the largest technology consulting companies and has led the delivery of some of the largest finance transformation projects in the region.
Qubix is a global professional services company providing consulting and technical services to a wide range of customers and industries. Qubix has specialized in FP&A for over 33 years and has helped some of the largest and most complex companies improve how they budget, plan and forecast.
Amarnath Kamath is Head of Finance having over 20 years of experience in finance and currently working out of KL.
He has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region in different roles in the finance domain. He is a qualified CIMA (UK) and a qualified Cost Accountant from India besides holding an MBA degree with a specialization in Finance.
His current interests are in continuously transforming the finance function to be more agile and relevant in the current age of frequent business disruptions and uncertainty.
Abby is an ACCA fellow with over 15 years’ experience, and currently Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at Hitachi with the responsibility for organizational-wide performance management (including budgets, short and midterm plans, business planning) and enhancing its digital finance systems & strategy.
Abby has worked in various FP&A roles across several continents, in different regions and in a number of different industries ranging from banking, academia, housing, consumer products, FCMG, pharmaceuticals and clinical research.
She is a Certified DAMIC & Project manager with hands-on experience in delivering and managing finance related transformational projects including process and change management.
She is passionate in these 3 key areas: 1) Talent development 2) Finance Automation 3) Business Partnering. Acting as a role model to BAME withing the FP&A talents.
Ross is a specialist senior finance recruiter with over 9 years local experience hiring within the public, private and NFP sectors across Sydney. As Associate Director for Finance NSW he leads several teams of specialist recruiters hiring across Accounting & Finance, Commercial and Financial Services positions.
Ross has an extensive network of CFO, Finance Director and FP&A / Commercial Director contacts across Sydney and recruits regularly in this space.
After completing studies at two Top 5 Business Schools in the UK and France, Ross’ first taste of recruitment was with Michael Page Glasgow in 2008. After migrating to Australia in 2011 he joined the NSW business where he progressed from Consultant through to Associate Director in 2017. Since early 2019 Ross has lead the combined Sydney City, South and North-Shore based finance recruitment teams. Previous to joining Michael Page in Australia Ross has also worked with Roll-Royce Aerospace in the UK and The Franco-British Chamber of Commerce in Paris.
Christopher Mansfield
Christopher Mansfield is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of professional and commercial experience gained across the media, telecommunications, financial services and advertising industries in both the UK and Australia.
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