
2023 FutureCFO Indonesia Conference
- 13 July 2023
- 9:00am - 5:00pm (IDT)
- Jakarta, Indonesia
EVENT OVERVIEW
After last year being held as a virtual event, the 2nd FutureCFO Indonesia Conference is back in person, gathering 120+ CFOs and senior finance executives from across Indonesia. The event will address the latest macroeconomic updates, business risks and opportunities, CFOs’ top action plans to drive change and recover growth in Indonesia. Conference sessions will also discuss ways to succeed in this new “stable instability” and explore value-driven digital transformation strategies and technologies to accelerate future-ready digital finance and stay resilient in the next few years
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
CFOs, MDs, VPs, Directors, Heads, GMs, and Senior Managers, involved in:
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Strategic Planning & Forecasting
- Costing & Budgeting
- Treasury Operations
- Project Financing
- Accounting and Reporting
- Merger & Acquisition (M&A)
- Investment / Portfolio Management
- Auditing & Internal Control
- Tax Governance
- Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
- Statutory & Regulatory Reporting
- Fiscal Policy Planning
- Financial Technology Solutions
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.
This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.
High-Level Industry Speakers
We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.
Interactive Discussions
Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent finance leaders on stage.
Networking Opportunities
Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.
Targeted In-Depth Sessions
8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.
AGENDA
09:00
Chairman’s Welcome Remarks
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
09:05
PANEL DISCUSSION I: Continuing the Pace of Change: Unlocking Growth Opportunities and Tackling Challenges in 2023
The confluence of rising inflation and interest rate, tensions in geopolitical, regulatory changes, energy security, foreign exchange volatility, supply chain disruptions as well as climate change risk had reshaped CFO’s responsibilities in magnitudes. With things are changing rapidly locally and globally, exacerbated by slowing growth, planning for 2023 is certainly not an easy task for finance leaders in Indonesia. CFOs are required to be agile and flexible to capture new opportunities especially with the potential shrinking in customer demands as the world is likely or already in recession.
- Doing more with less in the growing volatility, uncertainty complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) environment
- Managing the margin pressures: How can finance leaders help accelerate recovery?
- Areas to raise and cut spending in 2023
- Ensuring long-term sustainable growth post-pandemic
- Project financing in 2023: Maximising access to capital amidst changing dynamics
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Niraj Jain, CFO, MATAHARI DEPARTMENT STORE
09:45
KEYNOTE I: Moving beyond Automation and into Autonomous Finance
Finance functions want to close faster, cheaper and with fewer errors. According to a recent Gartner survey, 55% of finance functions aim for a touchless close by 2025.
The pandemic, including social and operational restrictions it imposed, rising needs of the stakeholders and macro-economic pressures are creating impetus for a touchless close. However, to achieve a touchless close, it will require finance leaders and controllers to move beyond automation and into autonomous finance.
- Shifting from process automation to intelligent automation
- Autonomous finance for augmented real-time insights, effortless compliance and greater flexibility in financial strategy
- Narrowing the financial close and aiming to make it touch-less
- Accelerating back-and-middle-office finance operations to ensure digital maturity
- Operationalising AI to move an autonomous, touchless financial close
10:10
PANEL DISCUSSION II: Digital Transformation and Reality Gap: What’s Next Post Digitalisation?
Digital transformation has saved many businesses when the pandemic struck. However, in reality, almost no organisation has finished their digitalisation journey. While most organisations are now more digitally mature and they are in the better position to thrive in the post-pandemic era, what businesses are asking for constantly evolves.
- Advancing digitalisation initiatives vs. traditional work environments
- Capitalising on digitalisation investment to stay resilient, flexible and efficient amidst escalating costs
- Keeping up with digital acceleration while ensuring employee’s continuous engagement
- Lesson learnt from 2022: What can be done differently in 2023?
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Riza Nurfadhli, Head of Finance, LION PARCEL
10:50
MORNING COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING
11:15
KEYNOTE I: CFO Playbook for Debt Management on 2023 Budget
- The weight of debt on CFO’s 2023 budget
- Debt refinancing vs. restructuring to strengthen company’s financial outlook in 2023
- Maintaining strong balance sheet and tight watch on credit risks and liquidity against imminent recession
11:40
FIRESIDE CHAT I: Monetising ESG: Measuring the Value of ESG Investments
Today’s CFOs are often tasked to ensure their organisation’s sustainable initiatives successful. With the myriad and speed of ESG developments, calculating the value of the return of ESG initiatives is difficult.
- Stepping up enterprise’s ESG initiatives in a digital world
- Managing the ESG’s values and risks as regulations and standards change
- Tying the benefits of ESG back to the business’ financial returns and income statement
- Leveraging technology to improve productivity, customer experience and intertwine these with ESG strategy
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
12:05
PANEL DISCUSSION III: More than Turnover and Profits: Making Finance a Better Strategic Partner to Business
This session will unfold the new expectations for finance role as strategic business partner and how to transform finance function into strategic business-partner, capable of providing critical supports and insights to deliver sustained profitable growth and seamless operational excellence.
- Rewriting and solidifying finance function’s roles as the most trusted strategic business partner to capture new opportunities
- Evolving transactional finance to value creation and become enterprise’s critical enablers
- Up-skilling the finance team to leverage fully on digitalisation and better partner the business
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Novita Kwee, CFO & HR Business Partner, ABC PRESIDENT INDONESIA
Anuj Kumar Maheswari, Group CFO, KANMO GROUP
Darma Nubary, Group CFO, PT SAMATOR
Senior representative, WOLTERS KLUWER
12:45
NETWORKING LUNCH
13:45
KEYNOTE II: Driving Organisational Speed and Agility with Self-Service Data and Analytics
A Gartner survey reveals that companies that invest in productivity and efficiency to fight inflation will outperform those who just increase prices. Instead of just passing on inflationary costs to customers, improving efficiency, productivity and quick data-driven decision making is a better bet for the business’s long-term competitive advantage.
- Leveraging big data and self-service analytics to drive innovation, higher productivity, growth and revenue
- Empowering finance teams to take on the leadership role with deep, trustworthy and data-driven insights while reducing risks and costs
- Enabling finance teams to turn data into insights independently with self-service data analytics capabilities
- Creating secure collaboration for quick data-driven decision making with autonomous, self-service, cloud data warehouse
- Ensuring data governance and security in self-service data analytics
14:10
FIRESIDE CHAT II: FinOps for CFOs: Taking Control of Cloud Costs
When the pandemic hit, organisations pushed themselves to rapidly modernise their applications and platforms and in the pursuit of cost savings, many aimed to become ‘cloud-first’ enterprises. However, as businesses squaring up this year, organisations may overspend on their cloud technology and struggle to keep the cloud costs under control. This session will delve into FinOps or cloud financial operations, an approach that let organisations realise the maximum business value from using the cloud by making data-driven spending decisions.
- FinOps in the top of CFO agenda 2023
- Developing structure and strategy for cloud financial management
- Establishing FinOps for internal finance, IT and other teams across the organisation
- Metrics that support cloud cost optimisation
- Cloud cost saving methods and mistakes to avoid
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Leon Ruben, CFO & Corporate Secretary, AIRASIA
14:35
PANEL DISCUSSION IV: Ensuring Financial Resiliency in the Face of a Potential Economic Downturn
Pritika Bhattacharjee, Vice President, Research in the Gartner Finance Practice says: “CFOs are telling their FP&A leaders that they need to improve flexibility of budgeting and forecasting, enable faster capital reallocation, and updated financial models to reflect rapidly changing business realities”.
With economic activity slowing down, optimising sales is often a challenge for many businesses. As businesses enter into low-growth and high-cost setting, securing collections has become difficult and cash flows get increasingly difficult to predict.
- Improving working capital and cash flow amidst high interest rate and squeezing credit to ensure business continuity
- Transforming cost structures to operate efficiently and balance fluctuations
- Creating more agile, scalable and flexible FP&A
- Optimising business decisions and cash flows with AI/ML-driven scenario planning
- Rolling forecasts and scenario planning to protect free cash flows and reserves
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Rajat Dutt, Country Representative & CFO, LOUIS DREYFUS COMPANY
15:15
AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING
15:40
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: Fighting Fraud from the CFO’s Seat
According to a report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, organisations lose an estimated of 5% revenue due to fraud every year and 12% typical fraud cases occurred in the finance function or accounting department.
The permanence of hybrid work model and growing use of cloud have increased the occurrence and severity of fraudulent activities, thus added a new dimension to CFO’s overall risk and fraud management strategy within their organisation and possibly in their finance department as well.
- CFO’s role in mitigating organisation’s risk related to unethical conduct
- Using financial rations to investigate fraud
- Auditing company policies, procedures and internal control for weaknesses and bad actors
- Creating a secure environment for all cash transactions regardless of the payment channel
- Cultivating a corporate culture that fights unethical conducts
- Investing in cyber security to prevent fraud and protect sensitive data
16:05
KEYNOTE IV: Tax Updates for 2023: What’s Important for CFO and More
The rapidly changing tax environment presents both new challenges and opportunities for CFOs. This session will address the latest updates on taxation regulations in Indonesia and how this will impact finance leaders in creating appropriate tax defense strategy and improve tax compliance for better risk management approach.
- Adapting to the new set of rulings: The latest tax measures and regulations for businesses in Indonesia
- Getting ready for the implementation of Global Minimum Corporate Tax: Key considerations and implications for CFOs
- Addressing transfer pricing challenges in 2023
- How to stay compliant: Common tax issues for finance leaders in Indonesia and how to avoid pitfalls
16:30
PANEL DISCUSSION V: The New Breed of Finance Team: How to Start a Team of Experts for the Future Finance
Gartner predicts that by 2024, 30% of organisation will implement and use AI-enabled processes within their financial management infrastructure. Also, 40% of organisations in service-oriented sectors will consolidate their core financial and operational solutions in a single ERP system.
To prepare for the future of finance and grow into an AI-driven finance function, CFOs will need to assemble a squad of finance employees that speak data and even write in Python.
- The future of AI-driven finance organisation
- Determining the needs and skills beyond accounting
- Developing AI and data competency in the finance team
- Finding and retaining digital skills: How to attract business-savvy and tech-savvy finance talents?
- Managing the new breed of finance talents in Indonesia
17:10
CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:15
END OF CONFERENCE
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