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Controllership Perspectives
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Controllership Perspectives
Participants will examine the expectations and trends driving the workforce of the future and strategies for building new talent ecosystems.
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Host: Beth Kaplan, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Presenters:
Kristalyn Yancy, senior manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Elizebeth Varghese, partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Personnel/HR
Organizations are facing new challenges as they evolve their approach to attracting and empowering a future workforce amid transformation and an evolving finance and talent landscape. How can organizations create new finance leaders who align with the business and workforce demands of the future? We’ll discuss:
- How leading companies are transforming their finance and controllership workforce
- Strategies for upskilling finance talent to be technologically fluent and creative collaborators
- Considerations for developing a workforce with refreshed career paths and employee-centric experiences
Beth F. Kaplan
Deloitte - United States
Beth is the founder and chief adviser for the Center for ControllershipTM and managing director for Finance Transformation and Controllership Services at Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has more than 35 years of experience in roles as an auditor, CFO/controller, and financial operations consultant, and specializes in helping the Controllership function improve overall finance processes, reduce cost of delivery, and reduce risk. She has served some of the largest global and national organizations as they transform their controllership function driven by mergers, accounting changes, and system transformations. Beth has been published several times with insights into financial close and reporting process improvements, effective control design, the role of the controller, and technology transformation for the future of controllership.
Elizebeth Varghese
Deloitte - United States
Elizebeth is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and co-leads the Cloud Enabled Workforce practice, as well as the People in Space team. Elizebeth has more than 25 years of experience partnering with boards and C-suite leaders and managing significant P&Ls to achieve powerful business outcomes. She focuses on the enablement of technology and strategy through organization and talent initiatives by optimizing operating models, sourcing, skills, and resilience. Elizebeth is on the board of Columbia Business School’s Women’s Circle and co-chairs the Innovation and Entrepreneurship committee and also is an advisor to the SETI Institute. She holds MBAs from both Columbia Business and London Business Schools, a master’s degree in management from TISS, and an undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences.
