Wednesday 13 November

9.00 – 9.30am Registration and coffee9.30 – 9.45am Welcome and introduction

9.45 – 11.00am Keynote Robert Peston, Award winning Business Editor

Over the last five years, the challenges of the economy have had a great impact on businesses across the world, and have changed the way in which organisations conduct themselves.

Although the world economy appears to be on the road to recovery, are businesses enjoying the full effect of this? What are the biggest problems that businesses are facing today?

This keynote from award winning business editor, Robert Peston, will evaluate the economic climate for companies at home and abroad, both now and in coming years, the risks and opportunities,

and set the scene for the conference theme - Beyond the financials.

Including Q and A

11.00 – 11.30am Coffee

11.30 – 12.30pm Breakout

Essential soft skills Clare Haynes, Soft skills and organisational psychology specialist, Wildfire Ltd

Mastering the right soft skills can help gain a decisive edge in modern business, whether you’re presenting to clients, at interview or seeking to impress the executive board. This session will explore how to integrate the tactics necessary for team and the top table. Clare will discuss the vital communication and people skills required to stand

out, as well as providing insight into simplifying up-skilling effectively.

Attracting talent in times of scarcity Kevin Green, Chief Executive at Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)

Kevin will look at the current developments in the professional jobs market. The talent war that’s been talked about for over a decade is just about to become a reality. He will also define what employers mean by talent and

explore what employers are doing to attract and retain business critical employees.

When business model theory and the real world collide Andrew Thompson, Finance & Commercial Director, SkyIQ

Andrew will talk us through how Sky makes business models work in practice, what some of the key challenges are, what the operational and people considerations are, and perhaps most importantly

how models need to adapt and evolve.

EuRoPEAn CGMA® ConFEREnCE

12.30 – 1.45pm Lunch

1.45 – 2.45pm Breakout

Creating additional value by partnering the business effectively Gavin Donaldson, Director, KPMG

This session will highlight how finance can add value ‘beyond the financials’ with references to how organisations have developed the role of a finance business partner to influence the business in making the right decisions. The session will be practical and highlight some of the challenges that need to be overcome

for this partnering model to succeed.

Ethical leadership: responsibility and reputation Tanya Barman, Head of Ethics, CIMA

Referring to recent CGMA research into responsible business as well as risk and reputation, this session will highlight the importance of ethical leadership in embedding the right values to do the right thing.

With a rising demand for transparency and increasing distrust in business, the links between ethical leadership and high performing cultures are becoming stronger. As professional accountants, with obligations to uphold

a global code, CGMA designation holders are well placed to champion ‘doing good’ as well as ‘doing well’.

Maximising RoI in finance systems development Andrew Carfax, Enterprise performance management specialist, PureApps Ltd

Whether investing in enterprise performance management, business intelligence or a new ERP solution, the numbers are large and the risk of failure is real and significant.

This presentation will examine each stage of the finance system development from identifying the business need, through to business case, implementation and post implementation review, discussing best practice

techniques to ensure risks are managed and dealt with appropriately and maximum ROI is delivered.

2.45 – 3.15pm Coffee

3.15 – 4.30pm Keynote and panel discussion From insight to impact: unlocking opportunities in big data

Peter Simons BBS (Hons), MBA, ACMA, CGMA, Technical specialist, CIMATechnology is once again changing the rules of business. Like the industrial revolution of the 19th century

and the IT revolution of the 20th century, a new business era is dawning as companies are using new and powerful tools to combine and analyse unprecedented volumes of data. This trend – often described as

big data – marks a major shift in the way companies conduct business.

This session will look at CIMA’s latest report and will explore ways in which management accountants can work with IT professionals, data scientists and business leaders to create a strategy that extracts value

from data assets more effectively.

4.30 – 4.45pm Closing remarks

Evening – Wednesday 13 November

7.00 – 7.30pm Registration

7.30 – 11.30pm CGMA dinner – BAFTA

11.30pm Close

Thursday 14 November 2013

9.00 – 9.30am Registration9.30 – 9.45am Welcome and introduction

9.45 – 11.00am Keynote nick Leeson, The original Rogue Trader

Nick will talk frankly about what happened with Barings, the lack of accounting safeguards, his capture and confinement for 9 months in a Frankfurt prison and being sentenced to 6 years by the

Singapore court for forgery and cheating.

In the aftermath of the AIB trading scandal in New York, and the collapse of Enron and Worldcom, Nick provides a fascinating insight into the continuing failures of senior and middle management at large corporations

who still fail to protect shareholders and customers.

Including Q and A

11.00 – 11.30am Coffee

11.30 – 12.30pm Breakout

Change management: The ultimate challenge – hosting London 2012 Julie nerney, Change management specialist

Change is no longer an option for organisations, it is the status quo. Incremental or transformational, proactive or reactive, what are you doing in your organisation to identify, lead and execute effective change?

Julie will share her personal five point manifesto for change, illuminating this with her experiences with London 2012 and other examples from her varied career. This presentation, and the opportunity for you to share your

challenges in the Q and A, will give you the insight required to confidently manage change in your organisation.

The next generation of employees: The CIMA Higher Apprenticeship in Management Accounting

David Rowsby, Regional Director, Europe, CIMAOrganisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can now recruit management accountants of the future

through this new apprenticeship scheme. The new recruits will be talented, young individuals who will be trained by their employers to gain key business skills while also studying for the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.

Discover how apprentices could benefit your organisation, and get feedback from organisations currently employing apprentices - with Siemens and PwC.

Risk and Innovation: The keys to prospering over the long term Doug Bonthrone ACMA CGMA, former Director for Global Services Strategy, Coca Cola

Risk and innovation are connected, but different. Both are critical to long term business success and are key areas in which CFOs and CGMA designation holders must play and add value.

The multitude and complexity of risks requires a systematic approach to managing them. In discussing how to deal with risk, Doug will break down a risk management process he has used in the past. He will also discuss

the implications and need for a systematic approach to managing innovation. Learn about the five key enablers/prerequisites for successful innovators as well as risk and innovation implications.

12.30 – 1.45pm Lunch

1.45 – 2.45pm Breakout

Developing your personal brand Jacqui Malpass, Personal brand strategist

The reason some people climb the career tree faster and higher than others is not just down to skills, experience and qualifications. You are more likely to be selected for increasingly responsible positions based on how others perceive,

think, and feel about you. That perception is called personal brand.

In this personal branding workshop, we will discuss how to gain clarity about your image and connect who you are to what you do and why. The session will also discuss how the world perceives you and how you can ensure you are

in control and can take advantage of change.

Developing talent Susannah Clements, Deputy Chief Executive, CIPD

Companies can spend thousands or hundreds of thousands of pounds out in the marketplace recruiting top talent – whilst ignoring the high potential individuals within their own organisations. Susannah will explore how to identify and develop your own talented individuals, building a pipeline of experienced high potential people – and will highlight the common pitfalls of internal programmes as well as discussing how to demonstrate the benefits. She will discuss how organisations

can support a culture of talent development, as well as how managers can encourage individuals’ development.

A Sustainable Business Strategy Andrew Jones C.Eng. B.Eng. FEI MCIBSE, Director, EAV Associates

‘Corporate reporting should be driven by proactive integrated thinking and decision-making rather than compliance requirements’. This is an intent at the core of integrated reporting.

But, are we so dedicated to after-the-event reporting that we overlook the real value that a pre-planned sustainable approach can bring to shareholders and society?

In this workshop we will identify and discuss ways that organisations can benefit from a better understanding of sustainability. We will explore what a best-practice sustainable business plan looks like and give members

guidance on how to assess ‘where are we now’ and how do we get to ‘where we want to be’.

2.45 – 3.15pm Coffee

3.15 – 4.15pm Keynote Mike Forde, former Director of Football operations & Executive Club Director

for Chelsea Football ClubDuring his time working in the English Premier League, Mike Forde experienced the pinnacle of high

performance cultures having worked with some of the most successful teams in club football.

Mike will look at a number of areas of performance management, including the DNA of a high performance environment. This will look at how to embrace uncertainty and volatility in the market and seeing it as part of your competitive advantage, as well as setting a culture for sustained success, profiling the next level and developing

a winning organisational mindset. Mike will also look at the performance of the individual by profiling the characteristics of an elite high achiever as well as the role of talent in creating a powerful organisation.

Including Q and A

4.15 – 4.30pm Closing remarks

Kevin Green has been the Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation since June 2008. The REC is the professional body for the UK’s 25 billion private recruitment and staffing industry.

Before starting at the REC, Kevin worked for the Royal Mail from 2003 to 2008. His last role was HR Director for Royal Mail Letters; where he was responsible for all people-related issues for the business with 165,000 employees. He was part of the leadership team which transformed the business from losing £1 million a day in 2003 to making over £600 million profit in 2007.

Prior to this, Kevin was Managing Director of Qtab, a successful strategic HR consultancy that specialised in assisting businesses to develop and implement their people strategies. His clients included Lloyds TSB, First Choice, Fuji, Orange and Unilever. Since arriving at the REC, Kevin has improved its offering to members; this has included the introduction of account management, launched the Institute of Recruitment Professionals and developed a business support unit under the Academy for Business brand. During Kevin’s tenure at the REC it has been recognised for its excellence in service provision and campaigns, winning over nine trade association and member awards, as well as Kevin personally winning the trade association leadership award. He is a much sought-after speaker on subjects such as the future of resourcing; using people strategies to improve competitiveness and how to undertake people-centric organisational transformation. He is also a regular contributor to BBC radios 5’s Wakeup to Money and the Today programme. Kevin has also made many TV appearances on ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Jeff Randall live, Newsnight and BBC news commenting on the UK labour and employment market.

Kevin GreenChief Executive, Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)

SPEAKER InFoRMATIon

Amongst many scoops, it was Robert Peston who revealed that Northern Rock was close to technical insolvency and had approached the Bank of England for emergency support. This was the beginning of a chain of events in the banking sector which affected the entire world economy and in 2009 took the world into recession.

Robert Peston was previously City and Assistant Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, in charge of the business and money sections. Before that he was the FT’s Financial Editor and a member of the editorial board. He had also served as Political Editor, Banking Editor and founder of the investigations unit. Robert’s coverage of Northern Rock won the Royal Television Society’s award for ‘Scoop of the Year’. Other recent honours include winning the digital media category in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Journalist of the Year Awards. Robert is also a past winner of the Harold Wincott prize, and Granada’s ‘What the Papers Say’ award for investigative journalism.

Robert PestonAward winning Business Editor

Clare Haynes is a soft skills specialist who holds a degree in psychology, a post-graduate diploma in marketing plus diplomas in performance, neuro-linguistic programming and coaching. With a background in television, charity, sport and housing, Clare Haynes runs Wildfire, aiming to help achieve ‘Productivity through people: Not rocket science, just common sense!’ Wildfire is committed to helping people and businesses profit by leveraging true talents in rewarding ways. A passionate and engaging speaker, facilitator and coach, Clare has a personal commitment to help finance professionals gain non-accounting skills.

Clare HaynesSoft skills and organisational psychology specialist, Wildfire Ltd

Gavin is a Director in KPMG’s Financial Management Consulting practice specialising in finance business partnering, finance strategy, efficiency and effectiveness of the finance function and BPO/SSC optimisation. He is CIMA qualified and has over 10 years experience working in blue chip finance departments in both line management and change management roles.

Gavin is the subject matter expert for the finance business partnering solution for KPMG Europe and co-authored the “Mastering Finance Business Partnering” paper in conjunction with CIMA. His experience in industry roles and specific client delivery has assisted in shaping some innovative solutions for clients that are making a considerable difference to the operating models and motivation of finance teams.

Gavin has led a number of client engagements related to finance business partnering which have delivered finance academies, finance business portals and associated finance competency mappings.

Gavin Donaldson, ACMA CGMADirector, KPMG

Andy Thomson is a finance professional who, since leaving practice accountancy, has specialised within the media sector. His career has included UK & pan-European finance roles within Disney’s Studio division; commercial finance & business development in Asia & the Middle East, with Star TV & Fox International channels; and more recently finance & commercial roles for BSkyB - inclusive of Finance & Commercial Director for Sky IQ which focused on business transformation activities for this area of the Group. Now Head of Finance for Sky Sports Andy enjoys working within fast paced & dynamic organisations who embrace change & ‘believe in better’.

Andy ThomsonFinance & Commercial Director, SkyIQ

Tanya joined CIMA in 2010 and works with colleagues across the business to co-ordinate CIMA’s ethics and responsible business strategy and related outreach programme and for managing the provision of ethics support and information to members and students globally. Prior roles include organisation development, advocacy and management positions in both commercial and non-profit organisations in the UK, USA, South Africa and in Asia. Tanya has authored a number of reports and speaks internationally on issues of ethics and sustainability. She is CIPD qualified and has an academic background in International Relations and Development.

Tanya BarmanHead of Ethics, CIMA

Andrew Carfax is a renowned expert in implementing Enterprise Performance Management Solutions. Based in the UK, he has also lived in Dubai and the USA delivering large projects to the finance function. Prior to specialising in EPM, he was Head of Controlling for Thomas Cook and has headed up finance functions for small, medium and large blue chip companies.

A regular contributor to LinkedIn discussion groups, he also blogs as the ‘Dark Lord of EPM’ for his blog ‘EPM Nirvana’.

Andrew Carfax, ACMA CGMAEnterprise performance management specialist, PureApps Ltd

Peter is a CIMA member who had over 30 years experience in business before joining CIMA as a member of staff in 2006.

The CIMA qualification enabled Peter to achieve career progression through roles in strategy, corporate lending, credit management and marketing at Bank of Ireland. He was the head of a division and on the bank’s senior management team in London when he left in 2002 to become the managing director of an entrepreneurial small business.

Peter is now the technical specialist in the applied research unit in CIMA’s education department. He works with employers, consultants, software vendors and academics to explore the future roles of organisations’ in-house finance professionals. He also helps to develop CIMA’s expertise in performance management. Peter’s research contributes to the development of the CIMA syllabus and he works with colleagues across CIMA’s value chain to support members.

Peter Simons, ACMA CGMATechnical specialist, CIMA

The collapse of Barings in 1995, and Nick Leeson’s role in it, is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history. How could one trader bring down the banking empire that had funded the Napoleonic Wars?

Nick Leeson, the young gambler who found himself sucked into a terrifying spiral of loss was a working-class boy who lived high in an upper-class world until his unchecked gambling caused the downfall of Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) and chaos in the Singaporean money market. Markets have always been cruel, but rarely have they been so cruel so swiftly - and on such a grand scale.

Curiosity, intrigue and sympathy have been the various reactions to this man’s incredible life story. Following Barings’ collapse, Nick Leeson was sentenced to six and half years in a gang-ridden Singaporean jail, in conditions that defy belief, while at the same time, his wife left him and he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Against all odds, he survived and now fully recovered from cancer, lives happily in Ireland with second wife Leona and three children.

Nick LeesonThe Original Rogue Trader

Julie has been leading change throughout her career. Starting out as an entrepreneur at the age of 17, she founded, ran and sold 14 businesses in the UK and Europe, adapting and changing to different parts of the organisational life cycle, new geographic markets and nine industry sectors. She then established a portfolio career of non-executive and voluntary positions supporting organisations and individuals with their growth and change aspirations. She was invited to be a National Ambassador for Diversity in Public Life, and, as one of a handful of female Chartered Directors in the UK, a Chartered Director Ambassador for the Institute of Directors.

In the past decade, Julie has complemented this portfolio with a series of interim roles delivering business transformation, organisational turnaround and complex change programmes. This work spans the public, private and not for profit sectors, including the delivery of high profile and politically sensitive programmes in Government. Julie has an enviable track record in delivering change, most recently playing a key role in the leadership team for the London 2012 games, delivering the transport operations across the capital.

In addition to her ambassadorial roles, Julie is currently the Vice Chair and Senior Independent Director at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Chair of Brighton City College, Steering Group Member for the Two Per Cent Club, Advisory Board member for Peridot Partners, and is leading a new change programme as Project Director at Ofgem.

Julie NerneyChange management specialist

Doug is a CIMA member as well as a business science graduate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He recently retired after working for nearly 30 years in branded consumer goods, during which time he was based in seven different countries and four continents and worked all over the world. Doug’s last 17 years were spent with Coca-Cola, most recently as Director of Global Services Strategy, and previously he served as Chief Financial Officer for both their Bottling Investments and Europe Groups - the former was a rapidly growing +$10billion business with operations across the globe while the latter was the largest contributor to after tax profits. Prior to Coca-Cola Doug spent 10 years with Diageo in the UK and South Africa.

Doug Bonthrone, ACMA CGMAformer Director for Global Services Strategy, Coca Cola

David had a 17-year career with BT (British Telecom) during which he undertook a number of roles including call centre management and product management. From the late nineties until he left BT in 2004, David worked in BT’s corporate clients division, developing and managing short term strategy and business plans before progressing to help manage and implement a major change programme for client services for corporate clients.

In 2004, Dave left BT and joined CIMA as Head of Service Delivery where he was responsible for the member network in the UK, CIMA’s call centre, information and data management, and managing the logistics of two CIMA exam diets per year (140,000 papers in 240 centres, in 90 countries).

In 2009, David was promoted to the role of Director, CIMA UK where he was responsible for implementing CIMA’s strategy in the UK division. This role was extended in June 2011, to cover Ireland and mainland Europe and David is now Regional Director, Europe.

David has extensive experience of all of CIMAs core processes and has been instrumental in putting together CIMAs global strategy and business plans.

David RowsbyRegional Director, Europe, CIMA

Jacqui Malpass has been described as enthusiastic, high energy, inspirational and fun by her clients. Going by the title Personal Branding Strategist, Jacqui has years of experience to get to the core of you and your business, helping to shine a light and get you more of the results that you want and need. Her personal branding ethos is from the inside out, creating a healthy person who ‘walks and talks’ a healthy personal brand.

She helps people understand who they are, how they are perceived and helps them to manage and control that perception to achieve their desired outcomes.

As a writer, author and book coach her desire is to help you create a blog or book which demonstrates your personal brand, expertise and credibility in a way that no other ‘tool’ can.

Jacqui adores people and seeing people discover their aha moments, find that hidden voice and being able to step up and show up, just as they are.

It was only when Jacqui started to work for herself did she feel that she fitted in. She thrives on variety and challenge. Her quick thinking mind allows her to find solutions in an innovative and original way. She is adaptable, friendly, highly self motivated, flamboyant and original. As a teacher, she wants to pass on what she knows to you, so that you are empowered to be the best you that you can.

Jacqui MalpassPersonal brand strategist

Andrew has over 40 years experience at senior level in engineering, utilities, energy services, sustainability, retail and financial companies/organisations.

In 1992 he set up and ran a UK/US joint-venture energy services company, before joining the property division of a blue chip retailer in 1996 with responsibility for energy and built environment. In 2006 he was invited by DEFRA to join their Sustainable Energy Policy Division in London as Senior Business Strategy Consultant. He is also a former sessional honours lecturer in Sustainability at Aston University, Birmingham.

In 2008, he set up EAV Associates to concentrate on providing sustainable business training and energy/carbon management services to private companies and public sector organisations. A wide range of clients includes: major retailers; energy, property and facility management companies; care homes; BPP Professional Education; CIMA; and Aston University.

He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers.

Andrew JonesDirector, EAV Associates

Mike was employed as Director of Football operations and Executive Club Director at Chelsea FC from August 2007 until his departure from the club in June 2013. He dealt with all areas of performance and team operations relating to the 1st team, including player recruitment; medical; sport science; psychology and performance analysis.

Between November 1999 and July 2007 he was Performance Director for Bolton Wanderers Football Club, also in the EPL. He has a BSc Sport Science from Liverpool John Moores University and an MSc Psychology & Sport from San Diego State University / Leeds Met University.

Mike also serves as a Non-Exec Director with Lawn Tennis Association / Wimbledon and has advised on High Performance Cultures and Talent Management across a variety of Global Sports including NFL, NBA, MLB, International Rugby Union; International Cricket and F1.

Mike is a sought after expert in sports business discussions, drawing on his elite experience to impart and develop wide ranging learning, integration and best practice in high performance and its practical implications and transfer to the world of business.

Mike Forde former Director of Football Operations & Executive Club Director for Chelsea Football Club

Susannah joined the CIPD as Deputy Chief Executive in September 2013. She brings 29 years’ experience in HR, change management and consulting, including time at ITV, Whitbread, Anglian Water, Care UK and PwC. She holds an MBA from the London Business School and a degree from Cambridge University. She joined the CIPD from Carillion, where she was Group HR Director.

Susannah ClementsDeputy Chief Executive, CIPD