Build Confidence With A Virtual Close In Uncertain Times
March 24, 2021
16:30 - 18:30 - GMT
How do you establish sustainable financial close now and into the future to mitigate Covid-19 impacts and continued risks?
Recent global events have challenged companies in unprecedented ways, forcing them to reconsider how they work. For accounting teams, this means quickly adapting to closing the books with a distributed workforce and that can present a number of challenges. From executing period-end processes remotely with little to no disruption to making sure your teams can collaborate and have visibility to essential information in real time. A resilience on spreadsheets, tribal knowledge and in-person communication is not sustainable. It’s time to talk about standardization and automation of the close processes.
Join BlackLine and a select group of industry thought leaders as we discuss how to ensure a better, more efficient close process from anywhere.
Discussion points:
- How did you cope with the abrupt shift from an office setting to a fully distributed working environment?
- How did technology support accountants to close the books?
- What unforeseen challenges are you experiencing right now in your close process?
Shay Carroll - Account Director for Ireland
Blackline
An Accountant (FCMA) with over 25 years’ experience as a Finance Director / Controller in the UK and Ireland. Roles include creating and running Shared Services operations for the EMEA and APAC Regions Companies worked for include industry leaders, Western Union, Skillsoft, Microsoft and Xerox.
He has led Finance Transformation projects covering process re-engineering, systems implementation, shared…
Josh May - Principal Solutions Consultant
BlackLine
Josh May is an ACCA Qualified Accountant and has more than 21 years accounting experience in banking, leasing, gaming etc. Prior to joining Blackline, he led the implementation of BlackLine at Camelot, whilst in charge of the Reporting Team. He is a Certified Implementer and has more than 5 years' experience in Solutions Consulting.
Josh is BlackLine's Lead Solutions Consultant for Modern Accounting…