Building a Strategic Procurement & Finance Alliance to Enable Growth
Using KPIs and Benchmark Data to Reduce Silos in the Back Office
Join Levvel Research, Coupa CFO, Todd Ford, and Aon CPO, Michael Benvenuto, as we take a look at new Business Spend Management benchmarks drawn from $1+ trillion in actual business spend managed by high-performing organizations.
AIR DATE & TIME
April 25, 2019 6:00 PM, 60min
As organizations look to control spending and drive profitability, creating a strategic alliance between two key back-office departments—-finance and procurement-—is critical. The results of a stronger partnership range from streamlined processes to decreased risk, and most importantly, the ability to respond quickly to opportunities and challenges as they arise.
One way to start building strong ties in your back office is to benchmark your own procurement and finance maturity and efficiency against that of global leaders.
Join Levvel Research, Coupa CFO, Todd Ford, and Aon CPO, Michael Benvenuto, as we take a look at new Business Spend Management benchmarks drawn from $1+ trillion in actual business spend managed by high-performing organizations. We will also provide best practices for creating success metrics within your own back-office and aligning your own procurement and finance teams.
Additional Details
Advanced Preparation: None
Delivery Method: Group internet based
Accreditation: Webinar participants can earn 1 CPE credit in Management Services.
Prerequisites: Previous experience in finance or procurement
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Meet the speakers
Major Bottoms Jr.
Senior Research Consultant
Todd Ford
Chief Financial Officer, Coupa
Michael Benvenuto
Chief Procurement Officer, Aon Plc.
Guests will learn about
- New data on the state of procurement and finance collaboration
- Procurement and finance efficiency benchmarks of high-performing organizations
- Strategies for reducing departmental silos and creating spend management visibility
Who should attend?
- Procurement and Back-Office Finance Professionals
- CFOs
- CPOs
- Finance Directors
- Controllers
Meet the speakers
Major Bottoms Jr.
Senior Research Consultant
Major Bottoms Jr. is a Senior Research Consultant for Levvel Research based in Charlotte, NC. He plays a key role in the analysis and presentation of data for Levvel’s research reports, webinars, and consulting engagements. Major’s expertise lies in the Procure-to-Pay, Source-to-Settle, and travel and expense management processes and software, as well as technologies and strategies across DevOps, digital payments, design systems, and application development. Prior to joining Levvel, Major held various roles in the mortgage finance field at Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Major graduated with a degree in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Todd Ford
Chief Financial Officer, Coupa
Todd Ford is the CFO of Coupa, and oversees the company’s financial operations. Prior to Coupa, Todd served as CFO of MobileIron, where he led the company through a successful IPO in 2014, and was responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury activities, and investor relations. Todd was a Founding General Partner at Broken Arrow Venture Capital, where he invested in early-stage companies. He also previously served as CFO and President of Rackable Systems Inc. (now Silicon Graphics International Corp) where he led the start-up from $20 million in revenues to more than $350 million in revenues as a publicly traded company.
Michael Benvenuto
Chief Procurement Officer, Aon Plc.
Michael Benvenuto is the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and head of strategic optimization for Aon Plc. As a senior leader, Benvenuto has more than 18 years of experience driving organizational impact through strategic sourcing, supply chain management, business and information technology offshoring outsourcing, operating model development & delivery and shared service business transformation. In his current role, Benvenuto is responsible for leading forward-thinking global spend management across 120 countries and $3B in spend. In addition, he also leads the internal business consulting practice which drives the adoption of optimized global delivery functions across business and shared service functions.
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