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Host: Katie Glynn, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Presenters: Cameron Andriola, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Jonathan Haynes, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Eric Merrill, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Court Watson, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology
As organizations adapt to rapid technological advancements, the controllership function is well positioned to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies to enhance finance and accounting operations. How will these technologies have an impact on finance transformation? We’ll discuss:
- The current state and potential future of AI in finance and accounting
- Key technologies such as process automation, data analytics, and data location management, and their convergence with AI
- How technology is evolving the role of the controller and critical skills needed for future controllership professionals
Meet the speakers
Katie Glynn
Katie is partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP. She specializes in helping clients address complex record to report challenges to reduce risk and enhance management oversight through business process re-design, enabling technologies, and finance master data governance. A primary focus of Katie’s is assisting organizations to transform the end-to-end intercompany process by designing and implementing solutions that meet the specific needs of her client constituents across Finance, Treasury and Tax. She holds various leadership roles to driving leading practices and the enhancing the Deloitte brand including the leader of the Deloitte Intercompany Center of Excellence and the Eminence Lead for the Deloitte Center for ControllershipTM.
Eric Merrill
Eric is a managing director within Deloitte Consulting’s Finance and Enterprise Performance market offering. He advises executives in consumer-facing industries on how to apply strategy and analytics to enable better business decision making company-wide. His expertise is focused around meeting the needs of the chief financial officer. Recently, Eric has completed work at multiple consumer companies in forecasting, predictive analytics, and visualization, as well as enabling next-generation operating models and integrated business planning. His focus has been on innovation across predictive analytics, integrated performance management (planning, budgeting, and forecasting), and process, operating model, and systems improvement initiatives.
Court Watson
Court is a partner in Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory’s Digital Controllership practice, with more than 14 years of public accounting experience and 18 years of experience working with the CFOs, CAOs, and Controllers to identify, mitigate, and solve problems related to controllership operations and risk management. He currently helps companies strategically think through business processes and leverage technology to better manage growth and change. Court also helps companies work through the adoption of the new revenue recognition and lease accounting standards, helping them understand and apply technical accounting and forecast and model financial impacts, and design and implement future state solutions. With Court's technical accounting expertise and experience working with finance data models and purpose-built technologies, he assists clients in forecasting impacts from regulatory changes and new business models.
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