Webinar
October 18, 2022
10:30 - 11:30 - BST
Finance Transformation: Can You Avoid VAT Being a Blocker?
Planning a Finance Transformation? Join our webinar and learn from our expert panellists as they explore how you can bring VAT into the equation.
Routine transactional finance processing and reporting are often the first activities in a finance transformation to be re-allocated to shared service centres or outsourcing. But can you also reallocate the indirect tax part of these activities?
Transformation is more than just changing your technology. People, systems, processes, and organisation impact your options to allocate indirect tax activities.
Our panel will be investigating some of the challenges you might face, what alternatives you could explore, and how to overcome VAT as an obstacle.
Key takeaways include:
- Why finance leaders, CFOs and tax leaders need to consider indirect tax when going through a finance transformation
- How people, systems, processes, and organisation impact your options to allocate indirect tax activities
- How tax technology can support a finance transformation
- The relationship between Finance, VAT and IT
- How tax professionals can be engaged in the financial process (and how to make that happen)
Moderator/Host
Executive Leaders Network
This event is hosted and moderated by the Executive Leaders Network (ELN) in collaboration with our partners.
Our webinars generally take the form of a fireside chat with limited slides. We record the session for you, and automatically send you a replay link & the slides
Peter Boerhof - VAT Director
Vertex Inc
Peter provides insight and thought leadership regarding the impact of tax regulations, policy, enforcement and emerging technology trends in global tax at Vertex. Peter has extensive experience in international transactions, business restructuring, tax process optimization and tax automation.
Laura Gatrad - Head of Tax – Process, Systems & Technology
Tesco
Laura started her career in VAT advisory but developed an interest in technology from her time working on a large scale Finance Transformation programme, which led to her current role. Laura’s main area of focus is the Tax part of the wider Change agenda at Tesco – embedding Tax requirements in upstream systems/processes and ensuring Tax data needs are met.
Marion Israel - Executive Director, Financial Compliance and Reporting
Warner Media
Marion has 24 years’ experience working in Media and Entertainment. She has had roles in controllership, compliance, financial and tax reporting, accounting, management reporting and forecasting. She is an FCA with the ICAEW, on the Board of the ICAEW Entertainment, Sport & Media Community advisory group, Board Trustee of two pension schemes, and a member of various Business Resource Groups.
Roisin Nolan - Director of Global Indirect Tax and Digital Services Tax
Autodesk
Roisin is responsible for US Sales Tax Planning and Compliance, EMEA and LATAM VAT Planning and Compliance and Global Digital Services Tax. Roisin has been the indirect tax business lead on two global finance transformation projects in her career, including implementing Oracle R12 / EBTax & Vertex for an education company and SAP S4 & Vertex for a software company.
Alfredo Espada - Associate Director, EMEA Indirect Tax & Tax Technology
AstraZeneca
Alfredo joined the world of indirect taxes over 15 years ago. He has conducted his professional career both in Spain and the UK, combining different roles in both consultancy and industry. He is currently employed by AstraZeneca and chairs the European Tax Technology committee at the Tax Executive Institute (TEI).
