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Next-gen controllership: AI and emerging tech’s impact on finance
Thursday, 30 January 2025 2:00 p.m. ET

Past Event

CPE credits | Event language: English

30 Jan. 2025

Thursday, 02:00 p.m. ET | 1 hr

Next-gen controllership: AI and emerging tech’s impact on finance

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Controllership Perspectives

Participants will explore the future of technology in finance and accounting to elevate strategic value, empower future controllers, and drive next-gen controllership. 

Key takeaways

Host: Katie Glynn, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Presenters: Cameron Andriola, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
                       Jonathan Haynes, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
                       JoAnna Scullin, senior manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
                       Court Watson, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP 

1.0 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology

As organizations adapt to rapid technological advancements, the controllership function is well positioned to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies to enhance finance and accounting operations. How will these technologies have an impact on finance transformation? We’ll discuss:

  • The current state and potential future of AI in finance and accounting
  • Key technologies such as process automation, data analytics, and data location management, and their convergence with AI
  • How technology is evolving the role of the controller and critical skills needed for future controllership professionals

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Katie Glynn

Katie Glynn

Deloitte - United States
Katie is partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP. She specializes in helping clients address complex record to report challenges to reduce risk and enhance management oversight through business process re-design, enabling technologies, and finance master data governance. A primary focus of Katie’s is assisting organizations to transform the end-to-end intercompany process by designing and implementing solutions that meet the specific needs of her client constituents across Finance, Treasury and Tax. She holds various leadership roles to driving leading practices and the enhancing the Deloitte brand including the leader of the Deloitte Intercompany Center of Excellence and the Eminence Lead for the Deloitte Center for ControllershipTM.
Court Watson

Court Watson

Deloitte - United States
Court is a partner in Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory’s Digital Controllership practice, with more than 14 years of public accounting experience and 18 years of experience working with the CFOs, CAOs, and Controllers to identify, mitigate, and solve problems related to controllership operations and risk management. He currently helps companies strategically think through business processes and leverage technology to better manage growth and change. Court also helps companies work through the adoption of the new revenue recognition and lease accounting standards, helping them understand and apply technical accounting and forecast and model financial impacts, and design and implement future state solutions. With Court's technical accounting expertise and experience working with finance data models and purpose-built technologies, he assists clients in forecasting impacts from regulatory changes and new business models.