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Here are the details!
Speaker 1
Matt Petrich, Business Risk Services – Director, Grant Thornton LLP
With over 20 years of professional experience, Matt specializes in data mining/business analytics and data visualization.
He has worked with various retailers, healthcare organizations, banks, wealth management firms and securities trading organizations, all of which had needs for high-risk element detection, data analytics, data visualization and predictive analytics. Matt designed and managed the initial IT infrastructure build-out for the data analytics work for the largest securities fraud matter in U.S. history. He has also co-authored a book on data analytics and data visualization for internal audit and he written numerous articles and has presented world-wide on the use of data analytics and data visualization to help optimize business performance or reduce enterprise risk.
Presentation:
How to drive change with finance and risk analytics
This presentation will focus on the creation of a finance or a risk-based analytics program that can help support both finance initiatives as well as enterprise-risk initiatives and the internal audit function. See how analytics and visualization can help in optimizing business performance and in the identification and prioritization of enterprise-risk. Finally, we will review how automated machine learning and natural language generation can help bring data-insights to almost everyone.
Specific topics will include:
- An overview of data analytics, data visualization and current hot topics
- How to implement an analytics program for finance or risk-based analysis
- Review of advanced topics such as automated machine learning and natural language generation
- Examples of risk-based and financial analytics and visualizations
- How the company develops quality visuals and dashboards
- Demos of some of Icimo’s internal dashboards.
Speaker 2:
Matt Illuzzi, Principal and Chief Finance Officer @ icimo
A highly analytical and forward-thinker by nature, Matt has primed clients for operational and financial success for over 20 years. An entrepreneur at heart, Matt believes people achieve optimal success when doing what they love. In continuing to grow icimo into a successful company, he’s doing just that. Prior to icimo, Matt has served in roles as Senior Auditor, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations at Arthur Andersen, Omnicom and Wolff Olins. Matt also serves on the Board of Directors of Band Together and as Vice President and Treasurer of the Triangle American Marketing Association. He is a retired Certified Public Accountant.
Presentation:
Most finance professionals can easily answer basic questions from one business system—for example: How many hours have we billed this month? That’s easy. But answering questions that require combining data together from multiple systems—like hours worked vs. contracted—can be notoriously challenging.
Matt Illuzzi will share how his company, icimo, approaches the “holy grail” of financial reporting: Pulling information together data to see real-time performance, getting deeper business insights, and performing fewer manual, repetitive tasks. He’ll cover:
- Icimo’s process for bringing its data together
- How the company develops quality visuals and dashboards
- Demos of some of Icimo’s internal dashboards.
It seems to me that before this webinar it would be worthwhile to take separate business analysis courses in order to understand what the speaker is talking about.
