The FP&A Trends Webinar: The Path to Agile FP&A: Applied Materials Case Study

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In an ever-changing environment, dynamic and data-driven scenario planning is of critical importance. That means moving from traditional methods to an agile FP&A process.

How do we make that move?

Join our webinar on 6 October to find out. We will be hearing about a leading case study of Applied Materials, as Corporate Vice President Junaid Ahmed shares the key steps his company undertook to succeed in agile planning. 

A recording of the event will be shared afterwards with everyone who registers.

The Panel:

Junaid Ahmed

Junaid serves as Corporate Vice President, Finance at Applied Materials. In this role he has executive finance responsibility for the IPC business segment, Treasury function, and the Finance Systems and Integration team.  In addition, Junaid also has responsibility for Finance Transformation, Strategy, and Communications. He established and leads the Agile Finance initiative covering end to end transformation of the Finance organization. Agile Finance is a corporate strategic program at the company.

Junaid has more than 25+ years of global semiconductor industry experience, most recently at NXP Semiconductors, where he was Senior Vice President for Finance and Corporate Pricing. Prior to NXP, Junaid held senior finance roles at Freescale Semiconductor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and various operating roles at Lam Research. He also has experience in investment management/research from his time at Mubadala Technology (Sovereign Private Equity Fund) and Citi Equity Research.

Junaid holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, as well as B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.A. Economics degrees from the University of Rochester, NY.

Philip Galvan

Philip is an experienced Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s business and performance management group. As a member of this group, Philip focuses on FP&A related initiatives including planning, budgeting, and management reporting and analytics.

15+ years of experience has been in multiple industries (consumer products, mobility, life sciences, diversified industrial products, media & entertainment) both for public and privately held companies. Prior to EY he held additional consulting and industry FP&A roles leading global transformation projects that delivered full performance management solutions including data integration and master data governance.

Philip holds an B.S. Finance degree from California Lutheran University.

Subject:

The Path to Agile FP&A: Applied Materials Case Study

Date:
Time:

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT 
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM BST

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Agenda:
  • FP&A Transformation journey: key steps and latest trends
  • Applied Materials case study: 
     o What did it involve?
     o Transformational steps
     o Achievements and barriers
     o Looking to the future
  • Lessons learned from the agile finance initiative
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Q&A Session
Meeting Venue:

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Larysa Melnychuk

Larysa Melnychuk is a passionate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) professional and influencer who has held senior FP&A roles at leading organisations before setting up the International FP&A Board in 2013. The Board is a global and well-recognised professional think-tank that aims to bring together the knowledge and experience of senior FP&A professionals and aid the development of best practice in the profession.

In the last three years, she successfully expanded the Board into 27 chapters in 16 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and North America.

Larysa is also the founder and CEO at the FP&A Trends Group (fpa-trends.com), the leading online resource for FP&A professionals. She chairs the Global AI FP&A Committee and runs a number of high-profile initiatives in the area of modern financial analytics.

Larysa holds a Master of Science degree in physics of materials and is a qualified chartered management accountant (CIMA), chartered global management accountant (CGMA) and is a holder of an FP&A certification. She is also a member of the exam content writing team for the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) FP&A certification.

Larysa is also a passionate conference speaker and writes articles on various FP&A-related subjects.

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