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WHY THIS CONFERENCE?
Increasing competition is forcing companies to constantly reduce operational costs, re-engineering across borders and streamline processes. This can be achieved by concentrating back office finance operations in Shared Service Centres, which have proved to be an excellent return on investment if they are well implemented and well run.

This conference will give feedback from market leaders who will discuss lessons learnt, best practices and pitfalls to avoid in the roll out and long term management of Shared Services Centres

This forum will allow you to:

• Improve operational and financial efficiency of your financial shared services
• Consolidate an existing center : taking financial operations one step further
• Find the right balance between centralisation and decentralisation
• Maximise peak operating efficiency while improving quality of service
• Re-engineer work practices around shared services
• Lower the average fee per transaction while improving quality of service
• Look at the human, financial and operational side of things
• Improve agility, control and cost effectiveness of the finance function
• Find the best location : offshore vs. nearshore
• Chose the metrics to measure results
• Shared services, in-house banks, "payment factories"… the future of corporate finance?
• Looking at the latest developments for shared services : integration technologies, portals, web reporting, STP, SixSygma…