The CFO BLUEPRINT: How to Fund your Digital Transformation

E-invoicing? Payment risk monitoring and prevention? Automated supplier onboarding? 

Whatever problem you are trying to solve by transforming from manual to digital processes, you may be overlooking a way to pay for it: For every $1B in spend, $2M in overpayments slip through normal ERP controls. 

Phil Beane and Danny Thompson will share stories of companies who have used findings from a recovery audit to build a best-practice P2P organization. Part benchmarking data and part problem-solving session, join us for this conversation that sheds a light on how you can finally get that critical digital project approved.

Listen and learn:

• Latest benchmarking on levels of automation of invoices, payments, supplier onboarding and more.
• The best practices of accounting for recovery audits so you can use them to fund your next software solution.
• AP success stories of using audit as a key steppingstone to fund digital transformation.
• Additional recovery audits to further fund your projects: unclaimed property, sales and use tax, contract compliance.

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Phil Beane
COO & EVP, Global Transaction Compliance Solutions, apexanalytix

As Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Global Transaction Compliance Solutions, Phil Beane leads our commercial and retail audit teams and international operations. His focus on customer satisfaction and value creation has helped to fuel a period of double-digit growth. 

Phil previously was responsible for leading the apexanalytix audit and software implementation support teams in the Americas. Prior to joining the company, he worked with GMAC Insurance, Questcon Technologies and BCE Emergis, where he specialized in quality assurance consulting and management.

Phil graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in information systems. He also served in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division as a communications specialist.

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market & Product Strategy, apexanalytix

Danny Thompson is Senior Vice President of Market and Product Strategy at apexanalytix.  He works with P2P clients to understand their needs and challenges, and to ensure apexanalytix solutions drive better outcomes to meet those requirements. 

On a 25-year foundation of experience in P2P and shared services experience, process optimization leadership, and ERP system expertise, Danny collaborates with industry analysts and co-innovates with apexanalytix clients.  He is responsible for the definition and communication of innovative services and software that address risk, improve P2P controls, and anticipate the next generation of process automation and efficiency.

He previously was VP of Product Management at a global business-to-business e-invoicing firm, and global process driver for Invoice-to-Pay at Pfizer.