The CFO Agenda

Ever since our founding in 2003, our mission has remained constant: to provide powerful, intuitive solutions that empower both finance and the business to lead with insights. With Adaptive Insights, companies of all sizes and industries can plan smarter, report faster, and analyze better—transforming business performance in ways never before imagined.

As a pioneer in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), Adaptive Insights has grown rapidly, with a singular focus on customer success. Today we offer the only fully integrated cloud CPM and business intelligence (BI) platform in the industry that delivers an award-winning user experience, unparalleled service, and leading expertise. We are honored that our intuitive solutions are powering the fastest growing and biggest brands in the world.

Establishing a commitment to customer success early on required setting an equally high bar for ourselves—one that we continue to reach for each and every day. The result of this is a trajectory of success that includes strong financials, the best partners, the most customers, best user experience, and highest customer satisfaction in the industry.

Adra is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for financial control and automation, with over 26 years’ experience, our mission is to take the stress out of your month-end close.

Our suite of tools enable finance and accounting teams to work more efficiently with more precision whilst reducing risk and increasing control. Designed to integrate seamlessly with ERP systems, our integration process enables you to be up and running in a matter of days.

Today, over 3.000 organisations, ranging from large multinationals and SMEs, trust Adra’s products to streamline and standardise their accounts departments.

Waving good-bye to spreadsheets has never been easier.

Through our enterprise and market focused solutions we positively impact millions of people’s lives through continually investing in our people, partnerships and own technologies to stay focused on our markets’, customers’ and their stakeholders’ needs.

We enable our customers to drive efficiencies, savings and growth opportunities through focused, right-first-time software solutions that evolve with the changing needs of their business and the markets they operate in. True partnership is the defining thing that makes us different from the competition.

We pride ourselves on delivering focused software solutions for public sector, enterprise commercial and health & care organisations that simplify complex business challenges and deliver immediate value.

Advanced is a Sunday Times Top Track 250 Company 2016 and was ranked in the Deloitte UK Fast 50 which recognises the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK and a winner of the Tech Company of the Year in PwC’s UK Tech Awards in 2014.

Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global provider of risk management, insurance brokerage and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services. Through its more than 72,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon unites to empower results for clients in over 120 countries via innovative risk and people solutions. For further information on our capabilities and to learn how we empower results for clients, please visit: www.aon.co.uk

APMG International is an Accreditation and Certification body boasting a wide portfolio of Cyber Security solutions, including the Cyber Defence Capability Assessment Tool (CDCAT®) based on MoD research.

Directors face difficult decisions, often without expert knowledge and guidance.  Cyber security is so diverse that making fully informed choices in prioritising spend is almost impossible.

In 2010, the Ministry of Defence developed a scientific approach to identifying cyber risk from the threat of inadequate defences – harnessing all the intelligence and experience available to them.  They created a tool that is regularly updated with threat mitigation and unique to best practice Information Security. CDCAT® was developed for rapid assessments in any organisation, regardless of system size, in order to establish the scale of the problem and priorities.

Our assessment provides independent, expert assurance that every pound spent is maximised, ensuring the securest possible future for your organisation – aligned to the budget available.

To find out more, contact CDCAT@apmginternational.com or telephone 01494 452 450

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BlackLine is a provider of cloud-based solutions for Finance & Accounting (F&A) that centralise and streamline financial close operations and other key F&A processes for midsize and large organizations.   Designed to complement ERP and other financial systems, the BlackLine Finance Controls & Automation Platform increases operational efficiency, real-time visibility, control and compliance to ensure end-to-end financial close management, fuelling confidence throughout the entire accounting cycle.

BlackLine’s mission is to continuously improve the quality, accuracy and efficiency of Finance & Accounting by centralizing key functions within a single, unified cloud platform.  Enabling customers to move beyond outdated processes and point solutions to a Continuous Accounting model, in which real-time automation, controls and period-end tasks are embedded within day-to-day activities, BlackLine helps companies achieve Modern Finance status, ensuring more accurate and insightful financial statements and a more efficient financial close.

More than 1,700 companies with users in approximately 130 countries around the world trust BlackLine to ensure balance sheet integrity and confidence in their financial statements. For more information please visit www.blackline.com

Cedar is a recruitment consultancy specialising in finance and procurement. We are focused on sourcing financial and procurement talent across commercial organisations managing an extensive range of permanent and interim/contract opportunities from recently qualified through to senior executive levels. We promote a culture based around the concept of ‘Listen, Advise, Deliver’ – we listen to our clients and candidates, understand their key drivers and then advise them as to the best approach to ensure effective delivery.

Our diverse client base ranges from FTSE 100 companies, through to private-equity backed business and privately owned SMEs. Our expertise include recruiting CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, Financial Planning & Analysis positions, Group Accountants, Finance Managers and Internal Auditors. We also deal with specialist roles in Corporate Finance, Strategy, Tax and Treasury.

HAYNE Solutions is a leading UK Financial Performance Management consultancy with over 50 years’ experience of delivering financial consolidation and reporting solutions.

As a unique hybrid of qualified accountants with systems expertise, we understand that informed people and sound processes are paramount to deliver an effective Financial Performance Management solution.

OneStream Software has developed a complete and unified Corporate Performance Management platform. Founder Bob Powers was a key developer on Hyperion Enterprise® and the inventor of Oracle® Hyperion Financial Management. Tom Shea was the founder of UpStream Software and inventor of UpStream TB and UpStream Weblink, now known as Oracle® Hyperion FDM. Together they have developed the XF Smart Corporate Performance Management Platform which unifies core financial consolidation, planning, data quality, financial reporting and analytics capabilities in a single platform. OneStream can be deployed in the Cloud or on-premise.

We founded Redwood Software with a single minded mission – to help organizations achieve ‘The Robotic Enterprise™’ by eliminating the costs, risks and wasted time associated with manual tasks in the back office. We robotize all processes within R2R, O2C, P2P and those within the supply chain and HR, robotizing up to 100% of manual tasks. Today, more than 3,000 customers worldwide use Redwood solutions to automate their business processes.

SA is a market leading Finance Change project solutions company. Operating Globally at the confluence of CIO and CFO Agenda’s we specialise exclusively in delivering resourcing solutions across Finance, Finance Systems, ERP, EPM, Business Intelligence and Data Management from our offices in the UK, Netherlands and North America

SA offer a compelling alternative to SI, Vendor & Consultancy engagements, enabling clients to minimise costs & better control their programme via a proven model for mobilising freelance delivery experts to independently QA and validate programme scope, terms of reference & deliverables while supplementing business teams to successfully deliver and realise the benefits of Finance Transformation.

TPT Retirement Solutions is an award-winning specialist provider of defined benefit pensions with 70 years’ experience. As a not-for-profit organisation with c.£9 billion assets, TPT is run for the benefit of more than 2,400 employers.

Running defined benefit pension schemes can be costly and time consuming. With the burden of ever changing legislation, administration hassles and the other pitfalls of managing your own pension scheme. TPT’s DB Complete product saves time, money and gives peace of mind, by combining expert support and scheme services in one solution.

Unit4 is a leading provider of enterprise applications empowering people in service organisations. With annual revenue north of 500M Euro and more than 4200 employees world-wide, Unit4 delivers ERP, industry-focused and best-in-class applications. Thousands of organisations from sectors including professional services, education, public services, not-for-profit, real estate and financial services benefit from Unit4 solutions. Unit4 is in business for people.

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. More than 1,000 organisations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Workday.

Finance Monthly is a global publication delivering news, comment and analysis to those at the centre of the corporate sector. Finance Monthly  prides  itself  on  going  beyond  the  headlines,  focusing  on  key  issues  and  topics  that  matter  to  its readership, which consists of C-Level executives, business owners, partners, investment officers, HNWI, etc. With a well-balanced mix of editorial comment and Q&A style interviews with industry insiders, Finance Monthly is at the heart of all things relating to the finance sector.