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Close With Confidence at The Financial Close Livestream

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Is your financial close process slowing you down and leaving you feeling like it's the same old problems, just a different month? Then it's about time you learn how to close your books faster and with more confidence so you can get your time back.

Join us at PlanToGrow.com for The Financial Close Livestream on November 16, 2021 from 12:00-3:30 PM where you'll get to connect with industry leaders, Vena Experts and your peers and learn how to master financial close management.

Plan to Grow Livestreams bring finance, operations and business leaders together throughout the year for a half-day, live and interactive digital experience specific to seasonal needs and challenges.

At the Financial Close Livestream, you'll get to:

  • Learn best practices and methods for tackling year-end planning from industry experts
  • See how to transform financial close management processes with the combined might of Vena and Excel
  • Discover how leading organizations optimize their financial close process
  • Learn, connect and grow with a community of finance and accounting peers
  • Earn up to 3 CPE/CPD credits

For the first part of the afternoon, Vena's very own VP of FP&A Tom Seegmiller and VP of Finance Muneerah Kanji will kick things off in the keynote, Excel at More With Financial Close. You'll learn how to close with confidence in a virtual world, from mapping workflows to building internal controls and other best practices that will help you scale with speed, accuracy and greater visibility.

Following the keynote is the Modern Finance Financial Close Panel, where you'll meet Vena's Chief Solutions Architect and Co-founder Rishi Grover, John Power (Founder and COO, Fluence), Christine Harms (Controller, Arizona Cardinals) and Brian Carlson (VP Financial Planning, Otter Tail). During this discussion, you'll find out how leading finance professionals are transforming their financial close process with automation, data integration, enhanced performance analysis and more, without abandoning Excel.

In the second half of the afternoon, Michelle Canada (Director of Financial Planning, Tanger Outlets) will be joining Rishi and Tom for The Formula To Scale Your Financial Close. In this talk, you'll discover how forward-thinking companies are leveraging Excel through the power of the Vena Growth Engine to accelerate account reconciliation, simplify complex financial consolidations, drive collaboration and save time with their financial close.

Following this session and closing off the afternoon, we'll be holding two Financial Close Interactive Demos, one exclusively for Vena customers, with Vena Experts. Experience Vena firsthand in these live demos as our Experts guide you through our financial close solution and answer all of your questions.

To learn more about all of our speakers, click here.

An afternoon of expert advice, industry best practices, the formula and technology to improve and scale your financial close process is all it will take to help you close your books confidently and in record time. Oh, and did we mention it's free? All you have to do is save your spot.

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