Organisations are recognising in particular the value of data as a critical business asset to identify trends, patterns and preferences to drive improved customer experiences and competitive advantage. The problem is, users too often can’t find the data they need to perform desired analytics. Data tends to be buried in different systems or siloed in departments and often is unstructured. As the quantity of data increases exponentially, navigating through these data lakes can become too expensive, time consuming and subject to error.
For a self-service analytics tool to do its job, companies need to ensure that the people using the tool can easily access the data they need across the organization – including siloed data living in various systems – and have full confidence in this data to apply it for greater business insight and results. Effectively integrating disparate data from different systems and devices requires a complete understanding of the organization’s “data map” which is best achieved through data governance. This will be increasing important as the issues of where data is held will become an increasing focus for regulators in response to geopolitical events such as trade wars and Brexit.
Speakers:
Fraser has over 20 years experience in corporate treasury spanning the technology and property industries. He has wealth of experience gained at large multinational corporates as well as private companies and has undertaken a range of treasury activities from cash management and dealing to responsibility for treasury reporting, systems and projects. Fraser is a member of the association of Corporate Treasurers (UK).
Andrea Pohl is a Director and a core member of German based and cross-border operating Ernst & Young treasury practice. Andrea brings 15+ years of pan-European experience, in Big4 consultancy and treasury technology business, having led a significant number of successful projects within the Corporate Treasury sector: supporting M&A transactions, building and implementing strategies, improving efficiency utilizing treasury IT, enhancing decision making and driving business performance across large organizations. Andrea is working closely with adjacent EY service lines incl. transaction services to create progressive treasury propositions for the M&A sector with a direct impact on financial performance. Andrea holds a MSc. degree in Financial and Industrial Management and is an associate member of ACT (UK) (AMCT).
Sarah has 12 years’ experience in the treasury industry beginning his career serving European treasury centre for a multi-national corporate. Her career spans corporate treasury through treasury analyst, treasury advisor for a big 4 company and presales for FIS. Sarah has worked for FIS for the past 6 years.
Facilitator:
Naresh has spent 30 years in a variety of treasury roles spanning industry and advisory firms. At PwC he was the UK Lead for Cash Management and Payments where he helped lead the firm’s work on payments, Brexit, treasury controls, Blockchain, operational resilience and target operating model design and implementation. He won an Innovation award for his proposition around mobile payments.
Prior to PwC, Naresh spent almost 20 years in industry across a range of organisations including BP, Heron Property, Cable and Wireless and Fujitsu taking on roles such as analyst, dealer and treasurer.
This webinar, in association with FiS, took place on Thursday 3 December at 12:30 GMT.
