Driving high performance in your Finance team
Anthony Kwan, GBS Finance Director Asia Pacific, Beam Suntory
Nitesh Gupta, Vice President Finance Asia Pacific, Ecolab
Michael Wilson, Executive Chef, POLLEN
The term ‘high performance’ is often used in business as a catch-all phrase relating to improvement and growth. In sport and the arts, high performance is about excellence, and a desire to win. Taking boht a Finance and a non-Finance perspective, we’ll looking at dirving performance, and we’ll also discuss the challenges of building cohesive teams in a dynamic, fast-changing world. Just as Finance teams must strive for excellence. top chefs are feted for their individual abilities, but must put together the very best teams in their kitchens and at front-of-house to meet the demands of their restaurants. Join our panel of high-performance leaders for an insightful discussion on what it takes to be successful.

What does digital transformation really look like?
Keyur Shah, Senior Finance Director, Business Support COE Asia Pacific, Johnson & Johnson
Digital transformation is a commonly-used term, but few Finance teams are actually best practice in using digital technologies to drive their understanding of the business and the levers they can pull to influence performance. Johnson & Johnson is an exception: as an early-adopter of artificial intelligence in Finance, the company has consistently set the standard for insight-driven Finance business partnering. Keyur Shah leads one of Johnson & Johnson’s three global FP&A Centres of Excellence, and has played a key role in operationalising data science to drive performance. Keyur will discuss some of the key investments the business has made, and the impact these have had on the delivery of Finance insights.

Followed by light refreshments.