FISCAL Technologies

Are you curious about the top finance priorities for the second half of 2023? Join us for an upcoming webinar where we discuss the results of the recent Hackett survey on Finance Priorities for 2023. Our panel includes a CFO and a Chief Product Officer, who will share their insights and perspectives on the most important priorities for the year ahead.

We'll be covering topics such as supporting growth whilst managing costs and working capital, digital transformation, and risk management, and exploring how these priorities can drive business growth and success. Our goal is to provide practical insights and real-world findings that you can apply in your own organisation.

This is an opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and insights from industry experts in a friendly and collaborative environment. We encourage you to register and secure your spot to stay ahead of the curve in the second half of 2023.

A recent Zurich UK report, based on Freedom of Information data from 43 Police Forces throughout the UK, shows that Employee theft and fraud increased by 19%. Zurich have also seen a rise in claims for commercial crime with companies facing average losses of £140,000.

Have you got the right measures in place to protect against the insider threat?

Our presenters will discuss what leads an employee to commit fraud, what the current insider threats and trends are, and what the future holds and why. They will also consider who is responsible, the employer or the employee.

As a new law is making its way through the House of Lords, the offence of "Failure to Prevent Fraud" is likely to hit businesses soon, this webinar will also tell you what you can do to prevent further incidents and to avoid becoming another statistic.

PRESENTERS

Robert Brooker

Head of Fraud and Forensics @PKF GM

Robert Brooker is Head of Fraud and Forensics within PKF GM and formerly Head of Fraud at Transport for London. He is an accredited Counter Fraud Specialist, Financial Investigation and Wicklander – Zulawski Non-Confrontational Interview Technique trained. Robert has led disciplinary and criminal investigations, concerning Fraud, Bribery and Corruption, security breaches, cybercrime, intellectual property and procurement allegations. He has worked in the private, public and not-for-profit sector within fraud, bribery and corruption, in addition to Fraud Risk Management for over 20 years. Robert is also Chair of the London Fraud Forum, a public/private partnership dedicated to best practice in preventing, detecting and investigating fraud, bribery and corruption. As well as being a founding member of United Kingdom Identify Fraud Advisory a social enterprise assisting victims of identity fraud.

David Griffiths

CEO @FISCAL Technologies

David Griffiths is the driving force behind FISCAL's commitment to delivering solutions that provide customers with real value and a great return on investment. He has 25 years’ experience in growing technology organisations and has spent the last 15 years working with hundreds of AP and Shared Service Centres to help protect their corporate spend. David’s vision and leadership have been crucial in focusing FISCAL as a leading brand in the P2P function. Under his helm, the business has grown 50-fold in revenues across North America and Europe. Prior to joining FISCAL, David was Head of European Marketing for Bottomline Technologies, and Commercial Director for European Internet Technologies, a supplier of e-business solutions. David holds an MBA and Honours Degree in Business and Accounting.

Garry Stevens, Trainer and Coach for the Institute of Financial Operations and Leadership (IFOL) will discuss good practices and key capabilities for scaling invoice and AP functions. He will also look at how AP solutions can deliver fraud detection, a greater accuracy of processing and reduce the need for human intervention.

In these days of stringent cost-savings and added financial risk, it is important that finance teams have strong controls around their working-capital, including the detection and recovery of overpayments, boosting their bottom line.

During this webinar, we will take you on a simple journey which explores all avenues of your next recovery audit.

Step-by-step, we will show you how, by using our platform NXG Forensics, you will ensure your finance team maintains long-term capital protection and return of investment.

Statement Reconciliation is the litmus test at the end of the P2P process.    
 
Our presenter, Alex Tabb, Services Consultant, shares her wealth of knowledge and insights into why this painstaking task is so important and how FISCAL can alleviate that pain to release locked-up cash and recover previous overpayments and credits on the account.​​​

During these times of rapid change, Accounts Payable professionals are sometimes too time strapped to ensure continuous management of all their suppliers.  A poorly managed Master Supplier File is a breeding ground for fraud, payment and sanction issues resulting in high financial penalties.  It can also cause real headaches if you are migrating to a new ERP any time soon.  Without a proactive intelligent approach, these issues typically worsen over time.

This webinar will give insights into why supplier cleansing is so important and how FISCAL Technologies can support you and your team to ensure a cleaner more manageable and compliant Master Supplier File for the whole P2P process.

About Your Presenter:
Brendan Burke is Head of Education and Consultancy Services at FISCAL Technologies.  A qualified fraud auditor, Brendan specialises in Accounts payable software, recovery audit, account payable audit, AP fraud and compliance.

We explore: 

How the procure to pay cycle has been forced to evolve in the current environment

 How Councils are updating their Financial strategies in light of the last 2 years and with the prospect of at least 2 more years of economic challenges and uncertainty.

About our presenter:

Tony Hagland is Senior Business Partner for Corporate & Capital Accounting at Blaenau Gwent Council, where he has worked for over 30 years. Current responsibilities include Statutory Accounts & Returns, Capital, Treasury Management, VAT, Financial System Development and the Creditor Payment function.  Having qualified as a prize-winner in 2000, Tony is a fellow member of CIPFA and has contributed time to the CIPFA Wales Executive and Local Authority Accounting Panel.

Using the latest finance solutions, modern finance teams can shift from a Reactive to Proactive mode of working, which is critical in this post-Covid era.

Our presenter, Brendan Burke, will demonstrate that, with the right tools, your organisation will be able to achieve assurance and visibility while protecting its working capital, regardless of future challenges that may arise.  Learn how FISCAL Technologies can support your finance team's journey to:

• Drive proactivity
• Continuously monitor spend
• Reduce risk
• Improve processes

and importantly, how the last every recovery audit will drive value to your bottom line.

​​​​​ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER: |   | Brendan Burke is Head of Education and Consultancy Services at FISCAL Technologies.  A qualified fraud auditor, Brendan specialises in Accounts Payable software, recovery audit, fraud and compliance.
 

Would you like to help your organisation become more competitive? Or reduce the need for public service reductions?

Dave Verma, fraud investigator, will tell you how. Dave is one of the UK’s most experienced fraud investigators and has trained police investigators and lectured at universities and chartered institutions.

Fraud has become the most common crime in England and Wales, and organisations are losing 6.4% of their expenditure to fraud, on average. Cutting fraud is a cost reduction strategy, so why is the rate of fraud still increasing when organisations have been cost-cutting for decades?

In this webinar, Dave will cover the 5 principles of fraud prevention and steps that Finance and Procurement leaders should take, to move from reactive to proactive methods that reduce procurement fraud.

When FISCAL perform a forensic review of your suppliers and transactions, you receive insight into your procure-to-pay process, FASTER!
 
 Join Brendan Burke, our Head of Education and Consultancy Services, to understand the process we go through, and what you can expect when we perform an Accelerated Forensic Analysis service. 

This includes:
 
 • Find and recover previous overpayments
 • Reduce the future risk of fraud, overpayments, and non-compliance
 • Drive process improvements in:
 - supplier management
 - invoice validation
 - sanctions and ESG compliance
 - P2P processing efficiency