SAP Business Suite Webinar Series Finance
Explore how SAP Business Suite helps finance leaders boost resilience and performance—powered by AI, real-time data, and Business Suite packages for finance.
Finance
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Data fuels AI, and both combined deliver exponential returns from your software technology investments. In this session you will learn how SAP Business Data Cloud is a powerful asset delivered in SAP Business Suite to transform your business from data-driven to data-led business.
Americas
Wednesday, November 19
11:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 a.m. PDT
Europe & Africa
Wednesday, November 19
11:00 a.m. CEST
Asia Pacific
Wednesday, November 19
9:30 a.m. IST / 12:00 p.m. SGT / 3:00 p.m. AEDT
Speakers
Haresh Chhaya
Director, Finance Product Marketing
Haresh Chhaya is responsible for SAP's finance-led ERP Business Suite strategy. He has 25+ years of experience helping many Fortune 500 companies through their financial transformation journeys. Mr. Chhaya believes that data and AI-driven financial technology can exponentially improve the efficiency, transparency, and accountability for businesses.
Paul McDonald
NA SAP Business Group – Finance Transformation Lead
Paul is a Managing Director in Accenture’s North America SAP Business Group with over 30 years of consulting experience. He has responsibilities within Accenture’s NA SAP S/4 HANA Finance practice for driving Finance Transformation, Digital Finance, Tax Efficient Supply Chains, Merger & Acquisition Integration, Divestiture & Carve Out Separation, and CFO Agenda offerings. Paul has architected and provided design advisory over several of Accenture’s largest S/4 Enterprise & Finance Transformation programs across a wide range of industries including Pharma, Medical Device, High Tech, Retail, Wholesale, Consumer Products, and Industrial.
Learn how Business Suite helps companies achieve higher growth and profitability with ERP applications for finance that are user-friendly, supported by embedded AI, and fueled by meaningful data. This webcast will introduce comprehensive packages—including for finance, sales, and procurement— and see in action solutions that help businesses manage uncertainty, increase customer lifetime value, control spend, enable compliance, and become more sustainable.
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Speakers
Haresh Chhaya
Director, Finance Product Marketing
Haresh Chhaya is responsible for SAP's finance-led ERP Business Suite strategy. He has 25+ years of experience helping many Fortune 500 companies through their financial transformation journeys. Mr. Chhaya believes that data and AI-driven financial technology can exponentially improve the efficiency, transparency, and accountability for businesses.
Rafael Rodrigues
Finance Product Marketing Expert
Rafael Rodrigues is the Finance Product Marketing Expert driving SAP's Finance-led ERP Business Suite strategy. With 15+ years of experience in finance transformation, Rafael has successfully led SAP projects, including large-scale rollouts, helping organizations streamline and optimize their financial operations.
Whether you are adopting your first ERP or migrating an existing one to the cloud, find complete, modular solutions with AI and analytics capabilities that move your business forward. Set your company on a path toward revenue growth, cost control, minimized risk, and sustainability.
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Speakers
Pete Graham
Director, Finance Product Marketing
Pete currently leads the global activities on IFRS, accounting change such as revenue recognition, and mobility for Finance Solutions at SAP. Pete also covers in-memory and cloud solutions such as SAP Simple Finance. He often helps customers understand the latest information about SAP solutions and how SAP solutions can make their companies runbetter. Pete also works with SAP colleagues and Partners to bring new solutions to market. He has over 15 years of experience in the Enterprise Software industry in a variety of product and operational roles.
Haresh Chhaya
Director, Finance Product Marketing
Haresh Chhaya is responsible for SAP's finance-led ERP Business Suite strategy. He has 25+ years of experience helping many Fortune 500 companies through their financial transformation journeys. Mr. Chhaya believes that data and AI-driven financial technology can exponentially improve the efficiency, transparency, and accountability for businesses.
Anne-Christin Ahrens
Finance Product Marketing
Anne-Christin Ahrens is a product marketing manager with more than 20 years SAP experience. Starting as a consultant, she was supporting numerous customers with their implementation projects, focusing on different finance topics. This includes areas such as receivables management as well as subscription and service-based processes and credit risk management. As a project manager she took over responsibility for implementation projects, including global roll-outs.
Since 2018 she is part of the product marketing team at SAP, driving go-to-market and commercialization activities around quote-to-cash and receivables management. As part of this position, she is responsible for various marketing activities and drives roadmap in close collaboration with SAP customers.
Anne-Christin Ahrens holds a degree in business administration.
Join our webinar for CFOs to revolutionize financial strategies. Discover evolving finance across industries and learn to implement innovative models, optimize capital, increase efficiency, and reduce risk. Explore finance processes from various sectors including professional services, construction, retail, software, public sector, and transportation. Learn how SAP Business Suite can differentiate your business, provide a competitive edge, and build a compliant, sustainable, and resilient enterprise.
- Navigate business volatility. Predict, simulate, and forecast costs, profitability, and liquidity across integrated financial and operational processes. Identify bottlenecks and monitor corrective actions.
- Increase customer lifetime value and support new business models like XaaS and pay-per-use. Capture and fulfill customer demand efficiently and drive retention
- Transform from reactive problem-solving to proactive orchestration, enhancing efficiency across finance, grants, budgeting, treasury, procurement, and project management
- Control spend while maintaining agility by managing contracts, tracking compliance, and performing continuous supplier risk assessments
- Lower risk, drive compliance & sustainability with effective stewardship of financial and environmental resources
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Speakers
Falk Rieker
GVP, Global Head of IBU Financial Services, SAP
Falk Rieker is the Global Vice President and the Global Head of Financial Services at SAP, the world's leading enterprise software company. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, leading a team of experts who define and deliver innovative and customer-centric solutions and strategies for banks, capital markets, and insurance firms of all sizes and segments.
His responsibilities include business development, customer and partner engagements, solution & GTM strategy. He is the primary spokesperson for financial services, supporting press and analyst relations. He maintains executive relationships in key accounts, owns the industry cloud strategy and drives strategic partnerships and initiatives.
He is a recognized thought leader and speaker in the financial services space, passionate about helping financial institutions leverage the latest technologies and trends, such as software as a service, business data cloud, and artificial intelligence, to transform their business models, enhance their customer experience, and drive efficiencies. His articles have been published and been quoted in leading media like American Banker, Wall Street & Technology and Forbes. He has been recognized as a top 100 “Fintech Influencers to Follow”.
Shenaz Bilkis
Global Head of Professional Services and Engineering, Construction & Operations (EC&O) Industry Business Units, SAP
Shenaz Bilkis is the Global Head of Professional Services and Engineering, Construction & Operations (EC&O) Industry Business Units at SAP, leading the global go-to-market and solution strategy for these sectors. With nearly 15 years of experience across strategy consulting, digital ventures, and enterprise solutions, she brings a proven track record in scaling revenue, leading high-performing teams, and delivering industry-specific innovation.