Key takeaways
Host: Mike Danitz, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenters: Kirti Parakh, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
David Pierce, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Putri Sukardi, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Finance
While data is often on the CFO agenda, it can very commonly be overshadowed by competing priorities. Learn how to “get serious about data” as data availability, quality, and accuracy are foundational to unlocking information and insights to help address the internal and external pressures facing finance today. We’ll discuss:
- Pace of business change and the need to support effective, agile decision-making
- Shortening of business cycles and ability to react to the market, inform stakeholders, etc.
- Opportunities to shift perspectives around data priorities and the role of finance
Meet the speakers
Mike Danitz
Mike Danitz is a Principal in the Finance and Enterprise Performance practice within Deloitte Consulting LLP. He is a leader in helping CFOs and their teams navigate and implement digital solutions across the finance function. His experience within the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors includes identifying, designing, and executing finance transformation programs that deliver next generation capabilities to Finance.
Kirti Parakh
Kirti is a managing director with more than 15 years of public accounting and finance transformation experience. She is the National leader in Deloitte’s Controllership Transformation practice helping clients drive value through building transformation strategy, redesigning processes, optimizing the close and transactional processes, and through strategic deployment of digital transformation solutions, including robotics and intelligent automation, Blackline, Workiva, and data analytics. Kirti also leads data transformation and analytics projects including data governance (policies, procedures, roles, responsibilities, change management), data quality, data management, and leveraging the data to obtain relevant business insights. She works closely with audit committees, CFOs, controllers, internal audit, and other client organization functions. Kirti loves traveling, is a ‘foodie’, and spends most of her free time with her husband, Sandeep, and their two children, Arya and Arin.
David Pierce
David is a managing director in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Analytics + Information Management practice with almost 20 years of experience implementing solutions to help improve marketing and finance performance through better access to information. David advises clients on ways to realize value from information management by utilizing new technologies and more effectively coordinating enterprise activity. He has worked on all elements of analytic programs from strategy to design, implementation, and sustainment.
Putri Sukardi
Putri Sukardi is a leader in the Accounting & Reporting transformation space focusing on integration between people, process, and technology. She specializes in Finance and Accounting Transformation enabled by technology solutions, specifically in the Consumer Products industry. She has over 15 years of experience specializing in cost & profitability management, finance and accounting transformation, and risk and internal controls. Putri has led, managed and executed multiple complex projects involving finance and accounting process optimizations, finance system implementations and enhancements, and inventory and cost modelling. Putri also has extensive experiences with SAP (S/4HANA), Oracle and JD Edwards ERP systems.
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