“It is in the DNA of our company to always pioneer”, says Carlos Garrido Pedraz, Head of European Business Services in this final edition or our CFO Chat with award winner Holcim. Host Armand Angeli of the CFO Automation Experience discussed teamwork as a success factor in the automation journey with him and his colleague Nikola Kisidayova, Manager Robotics, Automation, Process Improvement and Digitalization. “A motivated, happy team is the best investment.”
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“Our automation journey started with RPA”, says Nikola Kisidayova, RAPID Manager (Robotics, Automation, Process Improvement and Digitalization) at Holcim European Business Services in the third edition of our CFO Chat with Armand Angeli of The CFO Automation Experience. In this chat she talks in-depth about the strategic role of RPA, and the evolution towards intelligent automation. “It was an eye-opener for our processes’.
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The CFO Talks with Holcim: A balanced recipe for automation (part 2 of 4)
A balanced approach based on the classical combination of people, processes and technology is the right recipe for success in an automation journey, says Carlos Garrido Pedraz, Head of European Business Services in this second edition or our CFO Chat with award winner Holcim. Host Armand Angeli of the CFO Automation Experience discussed RPA success with Carlos and his colleague Nikola Kisidayova, Manager Robotics, Automation, Process Improvement and Digitalization. “Invest in people, and skill them in the right way.”
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Unilever CFO: Any process flow that can be incorporated into an algorithm should be automated
Head of Finance at Unilever in the Nordics, Alexey Pavlov, works with a team of 35 finance and data specialists, serving a Nordic organisation with approx. 400 employees in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. To drive Unilever’s business, the team converts data into insights by identifying processes that are very complex and highly repetitive.
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Blog: 3 reasons accounting and finance needs automation
by Guestby Guest“Automation is important for three very good reasons”, says Chris Argent, founder and MD of GENCFO. After the deep insights on automation from the GENCFO live virtual summit, Chris has consolidated the importance of automation into three main reasons.
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The Digital Finance Function Awards are back this summer, and will be held in person for the very first time. Hosted by GENCFO in partnership with ACCA and supported by Advanced, these awards recognise individuals and teams in the finance and accounting industry that deserve celebration.
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Finance loves automation-but is it for the right reasons?
by Gary Floodby Gary FloodCFOs are right to look at RPA for bottom line reasons first—but practitioners speaking at last week’s CFO AX webinar on what’s on the digital transformation horizon for Finance teams revealed that automation is actually being influenced by a number of business and non-business factors.
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Together 2022: Automation requires leadership
Leadership, for example by the CFO, is a critical element in successfully automating processes in organizations. RPA pioneer Asher Lake will be talking about this subject at UiPath Together 2022, the largest software event in the Benelux, to be held in a few weeks in Amsterdam. Rocking Robots talked to him about the lessons he learned in automating with RPA at, among others, KLM Air France. ‘It’s all about building a movement in your organization.’
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The UK is one of the front runners in automation. A lot of companies have moved beyond just RPA, and added technology such as process mining and AI to their business. This change has implications for the involvement of the CFO in IT investments. “The C suite has to not only buy into it even but champion it more than anything else, because they’ve paid for costly mistakes in the past already.”
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Automation and the CFO: Always start with the vision
The role of finance changes from compliance to driving environmental and socially responsible value. And the CFO is at the heart of these changes. One of the instruments to accommodate this change, is robotic process automation (RPA). Steve Faulkner, leading the CFO practice with UiPath, a global RPA technology leader. Rocking Robots discussed with him the challenges CFOs are currently facing.