Join our Finance Focus Group to share insights, discuss best practices and collaborate on optimising financial processes and system implementations with fellow SAP finance professionals.
In the Blackline session Ross Booton, Value Architect will take an in-depth look at SAP and BlackLine’s Gold Standard for record-to-report (R2R), a proven blueprint empowering finance and accounting teams to build future-ready operations. The session will feature customer case studies highlighting real-world insights and the measurable impact of adopting a unified R2R approach.
Learning Objectives:
- The foundational pillars of SAP and BlackLine’s Gold Standard for record-to-report and how to apply them within your organisation
- How SAP and BlackLine work together to accelerate financial transformation
- Real-world results and success factors
You will also be able to hear from Nicholas Dean, SAP Technical Lead at Dwr Cymru Welsh Water who will give an overview of Welsh Water's current state, preferred migration path, their Discovery Phase & what it informed them.
Event Speakers
Ross Booton
Nicholas Dean
Community Chairs
Paul Huston
Paul worked in a number Finance roles over a period of 17 years before switching to a career in IT. Paul has spent 12 years working as an IT Business Analyst largely supporting Finance teams using SAP ECC, SAP BPC and SAP BW. Paul currently works as an IT Delivery Manager responsible for the successful delivery of business change and system developments in the Finance, Commercial and HR functions. Paul has spent the past 17 years working for UK food manufacturing companies.
Naresh Ahir
Naresh has been working at Sanctuary Housing since 2004 predominantly in finance providing system support and group financial and management account information. Naresh is a qualified accountant which helps him provide the best advice to his peers on system capabilities to meet accounting requirements.
Geoff Morgan
Geoff has been working with SAP since the first release of R/3 in 1992. He was head of the finance practice at Diagonal Consulting for 12 years and has worked for Shell International since 2006. At Shell he is a member of the Downstream Process Integration team.
