ISCA x Uipath RPA Hackathon Finals 
(Live Voting)

Powering the Modern Finance with Robotic Process Automation & AI

Organisations around the world are using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) & AI to accelerate and streamline business processes, close the gaps in F&A digitisation, and free their teams to focus on the strategic work that adds business value and improves employee and customer experiences. Hear UiPath Global Finance & Accounting Leader Alan Tan presenting on automating F&A operations and putting an end to inefficient manual processes to:

• Cut costs, drive sustainable growth, and improve productivity
• Streamline compliance and minimise risk
• Create the efficiencies that improve employee, customer, and supplier experiences

Speaker: Mr Alan Tan, Global Industry Director (Finance & Accounting), UiPath

Delivering Quality & Efficient Audits In A New Era

How can the audit industry leverage learnings from the tumultuous time we’ve had and return, not to our old normal, but to a better version? Advances in technology have enabled organisations to have access to increased quality and efficiencies that would once have been unthinkable, and the last 1.5 years have provided the impetus to make this happen.

The innovations in audit technology provide an opportunity to increase the quality and efficiency of audits and provide a more robust audit opinion with actionable insights.

Speaker: Ms Dee Guitton, Southeast Asia Account Manager, Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters

Rethinking Compliance around Expense Reimbursement: Preparing for a Post-Pandemic Fraud Landscape

According to the ACFE, 51% of organisations have uncovered more fraud since the onset of the pandemic and 71% expect the level of fraud impacting their organisation to increase over the next year. Given that asset misappropriation is the largest and most frequent type of fraud and 15 to 21% (depending on organisation size) of this fraud type is attributable to expense reimbursement, this is a critical juncture to re-think your organisation’s approach to compliance and risk mitigation.

Join us as we share how organisations should re-think their compliance strategy around expense reimbursements and the latest anti-fraud technology that is available to help organisations navigate this heightened risk environment.

Speaker: Mr Mark Wilfred, Head of Solutions Consulting, Southeast Asia, SAP Concur

Customer Due Diligence in the Digital Age

Technology advancement has brought about many disruptive changes in life and how business is conducted. Likewise, it poses many challenges and opportunities in the compliance space. This presentation will share the current technologies available today that make customer due diligence even more difficult for professional firms, and what can professional firms do to counter these threats.

Speaker: Mr Martin Lim, Founder and Director, Ingenique Solutions

Accelerating Your Digital Transformation

So Cheer Kwek, Transformation partner at PwC Singapore will cover the current landscape of balancing risk and transformation, achieving an intelligent digital enterprise - and successfully embedding transformation across the organisation.

Speaker: Mr Kwek So Cheer, Partner, , Digital Risk Solutions Leader, PwC Singapore

How to manage a virtual financial close and stay agile

Many Finance & Accounting (F&A) professionals continue to rely on traditional manual accounting processes to close their books with a reliance on spreadsheets, tribal knowledge and in-person communication in a normal environment. With the changes in tax incentives, evolving regulations, and the competitive business environment, all these factors add on to the existing challenges faced by the finance team. Today, F&A teams have pivoted to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and at the same time, continue to be tasked to look into other areas of the business. This session aims to build F&A team’s confidence during these uncertain times with some of the best practices to stay agile.

Speaker: Ms Adele Liew, Financial Accounting Advisory Services Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

Supercharge your workflow with automation

Manual data collection and entry can be an arduous task which takes up valuable time that could have otherwise been spent on serving more clients or providing more value add advisory services. But with automation technology, many of these administrative tasks can be easily replaced with tools such as Hubdoc and other integrated apps. Join Ananya Chopra, Partner Consultant, Xero Asia to find out just how the power of automation can change your practice’s workflow and support your clients even better!

Speaker: Ms Ananya Chopra, Partner Consultant at Xero Asia

Disrupt or be disrupted. The Future of Finance starts now. 

Join us in this interactive session as we discuss the Future of Finance transformation. Who says preparing for your monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting must be an exhausting exercise? Explore ways to disrupt from the norm as you take control of your data through unified collaboration and single source of update within your multiple data sources. Enjoy the reality of more time given for your valuable insights and yes, sipping coffee too!

Speakers: Mr Andrew Bremner, Solutions Architect @Workiva and Mr Choo Xuan Zhi, Solutions Architect @Workiva

Shaping The Finance Team in a Digital World

In this session, Doris Cheng, Partner & Singapore Accounting Operations Assurance Leader from Deloitte, will discuss how Finance teams can confidently embark on their digital journey in a rapidly changing environment. She will also be sharing on the main challenges that may initially be encountered, the considerations in selecting the right technology, and key success factors for a Finance function’s transformation. In addition, the session will touch on the crucial role that talent plays in achieving and sustaining an organisation’s vision of how its Finance function should be in a digital world.

Speaker: Ms Doris Cheng, Partner, Singapore Accounting Operations Assurance Leader, Deloitte 

Reimagining Audit for the Future

Technology sits at the heart of every audit. The future lies in harnessing the power of leading technologies and new ways of working in an accelerating digital world. As job scopes and processes in this day and age are fast-changing, join us for insights as we explore what this means for accounting professionals and how they ought to pivot and reframe mindsets to thrive in the transformative future led by automation and technology.

Speaker: Ms Siew Yi Lin, Partner, Audit, KPMG in Singapore

Future of Finance in the Digital Age

Data surrounds us. Automation is here. Our role is evolving. The future is now. Digital technology is redefining the way accountants and financial professionals work and deliver value. Join us as Loreal Jiles shares the impact digital technology is having on our profession and explores use cases that demonstrate how robotic process automation, data analytics, and data visualisation are enabling finance transformation.

Speaker: Ms Loreal Jiles, Vice President of Research and Thought Leadership, IMA

How Technology Can Accelerate the Valuation Process

Valutico is a web-based valuations platform providing the financial services industry and valuation practitioners with data-driven tools to conduct analyses more efficiently.

The Valutico software has proven to accelerate business valuation processes by 30-50% or more. We are excited to present our platform, which not only saves you valuable time in completing an accurate business valuation, but also provides you with the following benefits:

• Valuation process is streamlined digitally
• High-quality, reliable data
• Better engagement with your clients during the valuation process
• Risk-reduction while working on business valuation process

Speaker: Mr Jean Poireau, Director, Valutico

Journey to Success - Digital adoption for SMPs

Embracing and leveraging automation, Artificial Intelligence and other new technology could make the difference between achieving success for your practice in a sustainable way and falling by the wayside as others leap ahead.

How can small and medium-sized practices select and implement the right technology solution for their firm size and stage of growth?

What can they do to maximise benefits such as productivity and efficiency gains post-implementation?

Join us as we share our insights into digital adoption through the eyes of an experienced finance professional and a homegrown SaaS provider.

Moderator: Mr Amin Sulaiman, Operations Director, Tessaract Technologies Private Limited

Speakers: Mr Kee Choon Lee, Managing Director, SyGen-Collaborative Pte Ltd; Mr Colin Lee, Chief Operating Officer, Tessaract Technologies Private Limited