Title: The Art of the Possible: Business Process Automation for Finance Professionals
Date: 06/28/2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
Earn: 1 CPE
Synopsis: Process automation can have big benefits for Finance Professionals, who are faced with repetitive manual tasks that often aren’t professionally (or financially) rewarding. In this seminar, you’ll see how easy it is to automate processes you perform regularly and leave with a clear understanding of how to decide which process automation you should tackle first - and why.
Learning Objectives: Understand the two types of Business Process Automation and the benefits and risks of each
- Become familiar with a rubric for deciding which processes are likely your best ‘starter’ automation candidates
- See the steps involved in using a modern tool to automate a repetitive manual process
- Learn about various process automation tools that work for finance professionals
Field of Study: Business Process Management, Process Improvement, IT
Speaker Bio: Andrea Mondello has helped organizations around the globe implement, adopt, and derive value from Microsoft technologies, but helping organizations solve their business process problems through a combination of Business Process Management, Data Management, and Process Automation is her specialty, so the principles are applicable to whatever technology you use. Past notable projects include a transformation of a hundred-year-old national non-profit from file share silos to a thriving M365 implementation featuring Teams across five offices, the implementation of M365 for an international NGO with thousands of users across 19 countries in Asia, the development of a revenue recognition system built on Dataverse and Power Apps to handle hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and a document management solution for a legal
organization with thousands of attorneys across the five boroughs of New York. Andrea began her digital career in web development and moved on to be a SharePoint administrator and developer, a Knowledge Management practitioner, a Business Analyst and Project Manager, a Product Manager, and a Business Process Management practitioner. Over her career, she has worked in multiple business verticals, including accounting, publishing, SEO and digital creative firms, drug
development, health advocacy, not-for-profit organizations, education, and consulting. In addition, Andrea founded and led a successful tech consultancy specializing in digital transformation for International Development organizations. Now she is thrilled to work at WithumSmith+Brown, combining her experience in operations and finance with her love for process improvement and automation.