Autonomous Finance in SAP: Automation, Planning and Control
Finance is being asked to close faster, forecast more often, automate more work and maintain the controls the business and auditors expect, often without adding people or complexity. The opportunity from AI and automation is significant, but the challenge is knowing where it can create value now.
Across three days, see what practical finance transformation looks like inside organisations already doing the work. Learn how IAG automated millions of item-level finance transactions, how Sydney Water brought OPEX, CAPEX and financial-statement planning together in SAP Analytics Cloud, and what Lion learned embedding P2P matching, FI automation and mobile approvals. Go deeper with SAP's Office of the CFO and leave with ideas you can use to prioritise automation, modernise planning and build the controls needed to take the next step toward autonomous finance.
Autonomous Finance — Freeing Capacity Without Losing Control
WORKSHOP · 2:30–4:00 PMHarry Dunn and Saijes Mundadan, SAP Office of the CFO
Ninety minutes with SAP on autonomous finance, AI assistants and the Office of the CFO portfolio, followed by facilitated peer discussion.
Prashant Jagdale, Amaresh Kumar and Nikhiljith Madhavan Nair, IAG
How IAG automated millions of item-level finance transactions in ECC, processing them in around 30 minutes rather than waiting for S/4HANA.
Barbara Rojas, Warner Bros. Discovery
How governance, clear ownership and Finance and IT collaboration help a fast-moving S/4HANA programme maintain control and business continuity.
Naga Chalasani and Rajesh Shanbhag, Sydney Water
How Sydney Water is unifying OPEX, CAPEX and financial-statement planning in SAP Analytics Cloud while moving beyond BPC and spreadsheets.
Tess George and Pat Bulseco, Lion
Three practical improvements spanning P2P matching, FI automation and mobile approvals, and what it took to embed them in daily finance operations.
Saving 100 Hours Through Smarter Expense Integration
James Pearson, Tait Communications
A native Uber and Concur integration that saved around 100 hours and exposed an unexpected cross-border tax problem.
Minesh Sapkota and Kunwar Dev, Mitre 10
How an emailed PDF became a governed S/4HANA finance workflow using Microsoft Graph, Document AI and Integration Suite, with human review retained.
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SAP TechEd curriculum
The foundation SAP says is needed to build, configure, evaluate and continuously improve agents inside real business processes.
A shortlist of high-volume finance processes worth automating first, and the control design that lets you defend each one.
CFO or finance director · Finance systems manager · FP&A lead · Internal audit
Pre-conference 17 Nov · Main conference 18–19 Nov · ICC Sydney · Agenda and timings subject to change