The role of the 21st century finance professional is evolving. In order to be successful, finance teams must become agents of change and leaders in innovation. Are you prepared to make this shift?

You are invited to our annual Oracle EPM Innovation Day Dallas. Our goal? To address how this cultural shift is changing the way modern finance teams are supercharging growth and maximizing profits across their business. Our experts and partners will discuss how to leverage disruptive technologies to leapfrog ahead of the competition.

Join us for a lunch event with three powerful sessions that will enable your modern finance journey.

Drive Revenue and Find Cost Efficiencies: Learn ways to transform your finance function by creating new value across your organization.

Leading Edge Sessions: We’ll dive deep to help you define your team’s modern finance strategy.

Powerful Networking: Collaborate with Oracle thought leaders, partners and top business leaders like yourself from the Dallas business community.

Register now for this one-of-a-kind strategic finance event and learn a new way of thinking for finance, operational and business professionals with P&L responsibility.

12:30 Panel Participants

Natalie Evans, Budgeting & Forecasting Manager, Corner Store

Mike Wells, Vice President of Finance

PrimeLending, A Plains Capital Bank Company – Since 1986, PrimeLending has helped over 500,000 happy homeowners, making it the 6th largest purchase lender in the Nation. Primelending is proud of their continued A+ Better Business Rating and a 96% customer satisfaction rating.

Brad Tyler, Vice President Financial Systems

Alliance Data -Alliance Data is the engine behind loyalty and marketing campaigns for more than 1,000 consumer-facing companies worldwide across all industries: retail, travel, pharmaceutical, financial services, auto, and more. In its own unique way, each of their three businesses better connects consumers with the brands they already love. And, they don’t do it through guesswork. They truly understand millions of individual consumers and their habits through their data analysis expertise.

Sally Storie, Director, Financial Reporting & Compliance, Match.com

Match Group :(Owns 45 mostly dating-themed brands, including Match, OkCupid, Tinder, Meetic, Plenty of Fish, Farmers Only, and Twoo. They have have completed 25 acquisitions since 2009): We have done a global deployment (25 countries spanning five continents) of Planning and HFM; Financial Transformation message to support IPO and continued aggressive acquisition strategy execution.

Breakout Sessions

1:15 PM Session

Implementing Innovation at MV Transportation

Biju Varnan, Sr. Manager FP&A at MV Transportation

MV Transportation is a privately held corporation that provides transportation management, operations, and related services to jurisdictional and private entities around the world. They recently implemented planning budgeting cloud services (Oracle PBCS) to support field operations planning, with corporate overhead and consolidated global reporting. Hear from MV about lessons learned and how to ensure a successful deployment in the cloud. Then see a demonstration of how to leverage key advanced functionality like drill through to detail in the cloud!

2:30 PM Session: Telling the Story of Financial Performance (HFM Suite Integration and Reporting)

Dave Collins, Associate Principal, EPM Strategy, The Hackett Group

Increase the return on your enterprise performance management investments and drive bottom-line benefits. Hackett research has shown that a core competency in enterprise performance management results in superior ability to manage margin: About two-thirds of top performers outperformed their industry – and none underperformed. Come join The Hackett Group to understand how the Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) Suite can drive efficiency, effectiveness and leading practices across your organization. This session will discuss both the on-premise solutions, HFM Suite, as well as the current and imminent Cloud offerings.

Key Topics:

• Learn why companies use Oracle’s HFM Suite solutions to bring together People, Best Practices and Technology
• Facilitate a world-class financial close process with greater automation, flexibility and control
• Benefits other companies have achieved through advanced integration, monitoring and reporting capabilities
• Hackett’s Cloud implementation for Benchmarking

3:30 PM Session

DRM: The Foundation of EPM
Coby Nichols | Director, Business Development, Edgewater Technology – M2

Natalie Evans, Budgeting & Forecasting Manager, Corner Store

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