Scaling Finance in Europe

    Your finance team is scaling. But is it keeping up? Join this on-demand webinar to explore why growth is quietly draining strategic capacity from finance teams across Europe - and what it takes to design a system that actually scales with you.

    10 June 2026
    10am - 11am CEST
    Nordics

Speakers

Peter Dorrington
Host/Moderator
Executive Leaders Network

As host and moderator, Peter will lead the session, facilitating expert discussion and ensuring a valuable experience, with opportunities for participants to ask questions and engage.

Rachel Ferst
Director for Accounting & Ecosystem
Pleo

Rachel leads the strategy for Pleo's integration ecosystem positioning it as the central data hub for modern businesses seeking smarter spending and total financial control. Before Pleo, Rachel spent a decade at Klarna in senior product leadership roles from global market localisation to consumer product.

Scaling Finance in Europe: How to Stay in Control As Complexity Grows

European businesses aren’t short on ambition. Most are scaling - often across multiple markets - but many finance teams are finding that growth comes with a cost.

Time that should be spent on planning and guiding the business is increasingly pulled into checking data, reconciling numbers, and keeping systems aligned. Over half of finance leaders say they haven’t had a full uninterrupted day of strategic work in the past month.

This isn’t a capability problem, it’s a system design problem.

As organisations expand, particularly across Europe, complexity doesn’t just increase, it multiplies. Different markets, different processes, and disconnected tools mean finance teams spend more time managing the system than using it.

In this session, we’ll explore what’s really happening inside scaling finance teams today - where confidence drops, where effort creeps in, and why adding more tools rarely fixes it.

We’ll also look at what starts to change when finance is designed as a connected system, where: 

  • Data can be trusted without rework
  • Control doesn’t rely on manual checks
  • Systems stay aligned as the business grows

And importantly, what that means in practice for finance team operating across European markets.

Key takeaways:​​​​​

  • Why finance teams are losing strategic time as they scale: What’s driving the growing gap between expectations and reality.
  • Where systems start to break under growth: How data, control and visibility become harder to maintain.
  • Why adding tools often increases complexity rather than reducing it: The hidden cost of fragmented systems and manual workarounds.
  • What’s different in Europe: Why cross-border growth creates “more different”, not just more.
  • What good looks like in practice: How finance teams are improving data quality, control and connectivity at the system level.

Good news: This is an on-demand virtual event that can be attended from the comfort of your office/home, eliminating the need to travel. By choosing to attend this virtual event, you are contributing to a more sustainable future while still benefiting from valuable industry insights.