Spend Risk Examined

Join host Adam Kincaid for a conversation with Geoff Brannon, CFO at Oversight, and our guest, Andrew Bartels, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, to discuss the recently commissioned Oversight study conducted by Forrester Consulting, entitled “Minimize Risk and Maximize Gains Through Spend Optimization Solutions.” The guests will discuss the report and its findings and parse out the implications in enterprise.

Oversight’s CMO Chris Juneau shares his thoughts on the company’s new mantra: Nothing Gets By You Now, and the three components that drive Oversight’s mission: See it All, Spot the Patterns and Spot the Patterns.

At most organizations, there are three groups: those who spend company money within the company guidelines, those who violate guidelines but do so unwittingly, and the serially uncompliant. Oversight’s Nathaniel L’Heureux shares the plan for rewarding the first group, teaching the second, and neutralizing the repeat offenders.

When organizations implement technology to monitor their spending, a funny thing starts to happen: some outlandish expenditures rise to the surface immediately. You won’t believe the things they are buying: as told by Oversight’s Client Engagement Manager Beverly Kays.

When COVID-19 began to spread around the world, the door for unprecedented risk opened as organizations underwent rapid shifts and changes never before seen in business. Join Oversight’s Jon Lawrence as he showcases how leading organizations put themselves in the best position against a business landscape unseen in our lifetime.

Traditionally, the three lines of defense tasked with risk mitigation – finance operations, compliance and internal audit – operated in siloes, with little connection or interaction. But for the leaders in the marketplace today, a new best practice for connecting the three lines of defense has emerged – an integrated risk strategy. Join Oversight’s Chris Elliott to learn more about the method that reframes what it means to audit employee and vendor spend.

2019 Gardner data suggests that 85 percent of finance teams are currently undergoing or planning a finance transformation. But a lot has changed since 2019; Join Terrence McCrossan, CEO of Oversight, the world’s leading risk management platform, to unpack how companies are navigating finance transformation through a pandemic.