CIA Controlling Intelligence Adventure - reports

2020: Controlling and Finance Business Partners - competences in the era of digitization

The 14th Controlling Intelligence Adventure Congress (CIA) took place on September 14/15, 2020 in Poznań, Poland.

Main topic of the Congress was:

CONTROLLING AND FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNERS – competences in the era of digitization

As ICV POLAND, we guaranteed the highest substantive level and the participation of many industry leaders who shared their rich practical knowledge and inspiring experience in their speeches. Innovative solutions, modern models of controller competence, modern technologies and challenges of the 21st century was the main issues that representatives of the International Association of Controllers (ICV) and Polish and foreign companies faced during the Congress.

Over 250 participants of the congress had the opportunity to hear practical speeches on controlling and finance in the areas of Controlling and Management, Business Partnering, Teamwork and leadership, Competence models, Future of work, Competences in controlling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Advanced Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Shared Service Centers (SSC). 

We also invited the best students in the field of controlling and finance to the XIV Congress of ICV Poland (CIA 2020). At ICV, we believe that controlling is a profession with a future and it is worth taking care of your career path development from the very beginning. That is why we invited them to appear during one of the thematic sessions - ICV Young Controllers Barcamp.

The great value of our congresses was also the ability to build networks and integrate participants. During the afternoon integration event, we provided the opportunity for an informal exchange of experiences.

This was the biggest controlling event in Central and Eastern Europe!

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English: https://bit.ly/39en1ZO
Polish: https://bit.ly/2Lxygo0 

2019: Controlling and finance in digital business models and shared services centers

On May 27 Dr Tomasz M. Zieliński, Managing Director of the ICV Poland and Małgorzata Podskarbi, Board Member of the ICV, opened the two-day 13th Controlling Intelligence Adventure in Warsaw, Poland. After Dr. Tomasz M. Zieliński presented the philosophy and initiatives of the ICV and then gave some insights into the new role of controllers, two keynote speeches followed. First was by Matthias von Daacke, Vice Chairman of the ICV and Director of Controlling at BLANCO Group, entitled „Prepare for YOUR future”. Second, „Ready to accept ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A COLLEAGUE?”, was by Ralph Treitz, Managing Director w Deloitte Digital.

Matthias von Daacke began with some information on the ICV and controlling in the era of digitization and then focused on controlling organization in his company: BLANCO. In his team he tries to keep some balance between experienced and young controllers, between men and women –BLANCO has an interesting steering model which was presented and discusses by the speaker.

Ralph Treitz answered many current questions on digitization in his speech. Why will old controlling tools fail in new digital business models? What can you expect to see on a computer near you soon?  Why may artificial intelligence solutions become the controller’s best friend? What should you bring into this new friendship in return? Why do we have to envision a new occupational profile for controlling? And finally what can you do to benefit?

After a coffee break Dominika Świerczyńska, Financial Director (CFO) at Microsoft Polska presented in her speech “From DATA to BI to ACTION” implementing innovations in financial and controlling processes at MICROSOFT” how you can use innovative IT technologies in finance and controlling. Then Daniel Tiebe, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) in ZALANDO presented a use-case of Predictive Analytics/BIG DATA and their use within Finance at ZALANDO. The session before lunch was closed by a very inspiring and touching speech by Grzegorz Chołuj, actor and coach. Where will artificial intelligence and robotization lead us? Will machines replace men?

Then other speeches and thematic sessions took place.

The day was closed by an evening party with live music.

The second day started with the shared services topic. First speech in this area was „Controlling at Carlsberg Shared Services, development in the context of evolving digitization and process automation”. Maciej Redzimski, Head of Controlling Center of Excellence, Carlsberg Global Business Services. In his very interesting speech he answered some important questions: Why do financial departments have to give in to the transformation? What does the business expect from controllers? What is the role of Carlsberg Shared Services in the implementation of the strategic agenda for Finance? What will be the future of controlling processes? What skills will become essential? Why will shared services centers become an important step in controllers’ and future financial Chief Financial Officers’ career?

The next speech was some kind of introduction into the topic and was a very detailed example of a man who has many years of experience in launching a shared services center for different companies. „Launching a shared services center for an international capital group in practice” by Jacek Białas, Head of SSC/General Manager at Oerlikon Business Services was a wonderful speech that can help controllers plan and launch a shared services center in their group. The speech focused on: cost-effectiveness analysis, what to look for when starting the Shared Services Center (SSC); designing Shared Services Center (SSC) – scope of operation, organizational structure, process modeling; construction of a process migration plan for the Shared Services Center (SSC) and migration of processes to the Shared Services Center (SSC).

The last speech before the coffee break was „Controlling support in the digitization of business processes in TIM S.A.” by Robert Janik, Controlling Manager at TIM S.A. The entire speech focused on the electronic document flow, settling post-transaction rebates on sales transactions and profitability counted on-line on the offer as a strong support of the sales process.

After the coffee break another session of parallel topic centers followed. The participants could once again choose what area of finance and controlling is the most interesting for them. All this just before a summary of the Congress by Dr. Tomasz M. Zieliński. Before saying goodbye the more than 220 participants of the Congress had an opportunity to exchange experiences during lunch.

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