Why Aligning Finance and Accounting is Critical to Your Business’ Agility

November 13, 2025 @ 2:20 pm - 2:50 pm

  • Theater 5

About Session

In volatile markets, finance leaders can’t afford blind spots between accounting and planning. Too often siloed systems slow financial consolidation, obscure insights, and prevent leaders from seeing the impact of change until it’s too late.

In this session, Kevin Crosby, SVP, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer at Fairfield-Maxwell, and James Glau, Senior Director of Finance Strategy and Transformation at Anaplan, explore how unifying finance and accounting processes delivers real-time precision in consolidated actuals that improve your forecast accuracy. By aligning teams on a unified platform, leaders gain agility to respond quickly, mitigate risk, and support smarter decisions — even in unpredictable environments.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand risks of disconnected finance and accounting systems 
  • Learn how a unified environment delivers real-time accuracy and agility to your finance processes  
  • Explore how trusted integration of your actuals and forecasts enable dynamic scenario modeling 

Speakers

James Glau

James Glau

Senior Director, Finance Strategy and Transformation, Anaplan
Kevin Crosby

Kevin Crosby

SVP, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Fairfield-Maxwell

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