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Financials & GRC Track
Smarter finance. Seamless compliance. Trusted controls.
Finance teams are facing growing expectations - from sharper reporting cycles and embedded analytics, to managing risk, compliance, and control frameworks across increasingly complex landscapes. This track is designed for those working across SAP Finance and GRC - whether on ECC, S/4HANA, or hybrid environments - who want to understand what’s working in practice. From modernising core processes to improving audit readiness and system-based controls, sessions offer a mix of experience-based insights, lessons learned, and discussions on what finance, audit and IT teams need to move forward together.
What You’ll Learn:
- What SAP Finance looks like in hybrid ECC/S4 environments
- How finance teams are improving month-end, audit and controls
- Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) frameworks that work in SAP
- How embedded reporting and analytics are being adopted in Finance
- Building sustainable models for master data governance and approvals
- Understanding the role of automation, AI and machine learning
- Navigating the shift from transactional to strategic finance
- Addressing resourcing, upskilling and ownership of financial systems
Topics to be covered:
- Getting the most out of existing systems for financial reporting and embedded analytics
- SAP GRC (access controls, audit, risk, SoD)
- Period-end close processes and automation
- Hybrid ECC/S/4HANA finance environments
- Master data ownership and governance
- Audit readiness and compliance reporting
- Finance process automation and digital workflows
- Internal controls and role management
- Change management between finance and IT
- Use of AI and machine learning in financial operations
- Planning, budgeting and forecast integration
- Shifting from transactional to strategic finance roles and built-in innovation
This track is about practical, system-driven finance. Whether your team is on ECC or moving to S/4, working through GRC challenges, or looking to support smarter reporting and control, this is where finance and IT come together to share what’s working - and what’s needed next.
Including: SAP S/4HANA Finance | GRC | Treasury | SAP Build Process Automation | Financial Compliance | Tax & Audit | ESG & Green Ledger | Risk Management | Financial Transformation
Financials & GRC Sessions