Topic:  The Future of Finance Work in Agentic Age

Speaker: Bob Woods, Partner, Finance Modernizations, in PwC’s Finance Transformation

Presentation: 

Today’s finance functions are reaching a ‘terminal value’, meaning costs and capacity are at an inflection point while calls to action are increasing. The number #1 call to action for CFOs today is the demand for more timely, actionable insights to business partners, executives, and regulators. At PwC, the answer to this ‘cost-capacity-call to action’ equation is the Future of Work, or the rapidly emerging human-agentic operating model. We see the Future of Work as a strategy, operating model, and workforce program, not a technology tool – one that can unlock human capacity to focus on insight generation.

Speaker's bio:

Bob is a Partner in PwC’s Finance Transformation team with 21+ years of consulting and industry experience in the offices of the CFO and COO. His consulting and services experience is focused on strategy, design, and deployment of process-oriented, automation-enabled solutions powered primarily on the Microsoft suite of technologies.

Additionally, Bob has held a role as a Chief Operating Officer at a global gaming eCommerce company operating an end-to-end strategy, sales, distribution, and support business powered by Microsoft Cloud services. Bob holds a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and is a licensed US Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Illinois and Washington.

Expertise:

•Modern Finance technology-enabled transformations on Microsoft Cloud

•Industry executive in eCommerce, gaming, and distribution

•Sales-to-ship, support, and service optimization

•Enterprise strategy, business development, and program management

•Target operating model and organizational design

•Technology implementations in QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, and Microsoft

•Deal readiness and post-merger integration

Experiences

•eCommerce offer/product launch and revenue automation portfolio

•Cloud and AI capital asset financial data governance program

•Gross and operating margin insights and improvement program

•Transfer pricing and intercompany re-design and automation

•SAP S4, FI-CO, RAR and Vertex implementations

•Regulated Industries business unit stand-up and O2C implementation

•Digital Advertising business unit re-design and O2C re-implementation