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09:00 to 10:00
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Registration and visit Exhibitor’s stands
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10:00 to 11:00
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Institutes’ Updates
ACCA – Andrew Leck (Head of ACCA UK)
ICAEW – Jane Broadfoot (Head of Regional Development) and Sumita Shah (Manager, Practice Risk and Public Sector)
CIMA – Peter Simons
CIPFA – Paul Mason (Assistant Director, Professional Standards and Central Government) and Manj Kalar (technical manager for Central Government)
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11:10 to 12:40
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WORKSHOPS 1 and 2 (Two rotations 35mins each and time to move rooms)
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Leadership of change whilst reducing costs – James Close (Partner Government Services, E&Y), John Marsh (Director, E&Y) and Peter Kane Director of Finance and Performance, Home Office)
The Leadership Challenge’ – financial professionals are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less. How well placed are you to step up to the challenge? Are you clear about the Future vision for your team? Are you Engaging your team and other key stakeholders in your improvement plans? And can you get the right level of performance from your team to Deliver better results? Peter Kane, Home Office Director of Finance and Performance, together with James Close and John Marsh from Ernst & Young will share with you some tips from their experience of leading successful finance change to deliver better results.
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2. Managing Your Career in Turbulent Times – Ciaran Wrynn, Head of Design and Delivery, England and Wales, Hays) and Alison Lally (Head of Professional Capability, DWP)
The current economic environment and major public sector funding cuts are challenging the traditional ways that we manage our career.
In this workshop, we will explore the concepts of career in the 21st century and discuss practical ways of how individuals can manage their career pro-actively. We will also examine the mechanisms that organisations provide for career management and finish the session with an audit to review your career management orientation across these two areas. Our aim is to help you enhance your own career management strategies.
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Bringing insight not just reporting the numbers – Philippa Headley (Principal Senior Consultant, Oracle) and James Partington (DfE)
In this workshop we will look at some examples from the Department for Education to consider how we can bring our data to life. With Oracle experts we will reflect on the opportunities that systems can bring - as well as recognising some of the limitations. We will share our ambitions for our Insight function within DfE. Adding in your own experiences, we will discuss what it means to move the reporting role up the value chain, supporting better decision making through information, insight and intelligence
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4. Shaping the future of Finance in government – Stephen Warburton (PwC), Roger Tomlinson (Finance Director Business Partnering at Rolls Royce) and Simon Parkes (Director of Finance and Commercial, DfE)
This workshop provides the opportunity for you to consider with your peers how you want to shape finance in government. Drawing on the learning and best practice from central government, as well as insights from Roger Tomlinson, Finance Director Business Partnering at Rolls Royce, we will seek to prioritise some practical actions that you and your teams can do in the short to medium term to support you in achieving your goals for the future of finance in government.
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5. Being an effective business Partner – Carolyn Mackey (Deloitte) and Valerie Vaughan-Dick (Group- Finance and Estates Director, DfT)
Public services are in a period of fundamental change as the Government seeks to make £81 billion – worth of savings. Organisations must rethink their service delivery models and the public sector finances that underpin them. This session will discuss how finance through operating as a business partner can drive decision making and shape strategy rather than continue to be perceived as the traditional record keepers.
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Making intelligent use of banking services – Brendan Peilow (Head of Government Banking, HMRC)
The world of domestic and international payments is changing fast and government needs to embrace new channels. Proper engagement with banking partners will help deliver this change within which we need to be aware of the risk of creating a variety of different approaches in government departments which will make these products slower and more expensive to deliver.
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7. Understanding costs and cost drivers to improve performance Air Cdre Sean Reynolds (Head of Strategy Management, MOD) and Ross Campbell (Director of Defence Value for Money, NAO)
This session will explain the financial "burning boat" faced by the MOD, and how analysis of the costs and cost drivers of Defence outputs allowed the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review to deliver an affordable Armed Forces structure for 2020.
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8. Transforming delivery and payment of public services – Elaine Bailey (Business Development Director, Serco) and Nick Jackson (Head of Financial Strategy & Planning, MoJ)
This workshop will explore bringing commercial innovation and outcome based commissioning to public service delivery. It will reference work that the Ministry of Justice is doing on Payment by Results (PbR), building on the Work Programme which used PbR to effect significant change in the way the service is delivered and paid for, and employed most recently at HMP Doncaster.
Nick Jackson (MoJ) and Elaine Bailey (Serco), will explore ideas around designing an effective PbR system and describe how the Doncaster model works. They will pose the audience some knotty questions to be debated in small groups, and to feed into a plenary discussion on issues and lessons learned.
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9. Mutualisation – Jerry Gould and Fiona Clark (ERG)
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10. The New Frontier for Accounts Payable Optimisation – Sat Khuntia (J.P. Morgan)
Best Practice Case Study examples:
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Working together: Where one corporation has developed a partnership between AP and Procurement to deliver proven results;
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Changing the way you think about spend segmentation: How detailed segmentation can refine procure to pay automisation and supplier adoption;
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Optimising working capital: How one public sector organisation in the U.S. is
leveraging efficiencies to realize working capital benefits across 100% of supplier payments;
New ways to think about AP process:
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Innovative tools that can improve visibility and control within the accounts payable process;
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11. Why Foreign Exchange Matters – (Barclays) and (DEFRA)
The foreign exchange markets can present government departments with very real financial risk where there are payables or receivables in a currency other than sterling. Understanding this risk is an essential component in the toolkit of an organisation’s finance team. Managing this risk correctly can protect against uncertainty and reduce costs and risk to taxpayers.
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12:40 to 13:25
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Lunch
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13:30 to 13:35
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Welcome – Hunada Nouss (DG Finance, DWP)
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13:35 to 14:15
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First Keynote Address – Sir Nick Macpherson (Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury)
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14:15 to 14:55
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Second Keynote Address – Peter Estlin (Chief Finance Officer, Barclays Retail and Business Bank)
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15:00 to 15:35
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WORKSHOP 3 (Third rotation of workshops above)
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15:35 to 16:00
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Break
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16:05 to 16:20
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Panel introductions – Meet the DGs – Hunada Nouss (DG Finance, DWP), Simon Bowles (Chief Finance Officer, HMRC), Howard Orme (DG Finance and Commercial, BIS)
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16:20 to 16:45
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Panel Q&A
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16:45 to 17:15
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Role of the PAC and expectations for the GFP – Margaret Hodge MP (Chair of PAC)
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17:15 to 17:35
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Response – what the GFP is doing too improve – Richard Douglas (Head of the Government Finance Profession)
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17:35 to 17:55
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Q&A with Margaret Hodge and Richard Douglas
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18:00
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Close
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19:30 – 22:00
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DINNER and GFP Awards hosted by Nicholas Owen (Business attire)
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