Podcast

In this episode featuring Kate Scolnick, VP Finance, Anaplan we explore to build a Finance Dream and team and how to engage and keep this team motivated in any environment.

Jason Lin, a many-time CFO, shares with us what FP&A success looked like before COVID-19 and how that is evolving as the impacts of the global pandemic continue to unfold. We explore how the role of the CFO has evolved over his career, and how that has changed over the past three months. Jason shares his advice for Finance leaders to lead across the enterprise in the next normal.

Jeff Johnson, a many time CFO and Treasurer during the financial crisis in 2008, shares his insights regarding how he has thrived and survived during the two “once in a career” global market disruptions. Jeff offers actionable advice for Treasury and Finance leaders to deliver even more value in the midst of a global financial crisis.

John Kogan and I take a bit of a trip down memory lane about our journey together in building what was once the largest online community for Finance leaders (Proformative) up to 30K members. John shares his insights regarding the upcoming Stampli endeavor to build a new and improved online community for senior level finance professionals, and what it will take for a CFO to be successful in the new normal and how an online community of senior-level finance executives can help in that endeavor.

This episode of the Finance Trends and Disruption podcast features Anthony Venus, the CEO of YayPay, an AR solution that frees Finance teams to focus on lower DSOs and build deeper customer relationships. We explore the challenges companies are facing in getting paid as the implications of doing business in the midst of a global pandemic continue to play out.

This episode of the Finance Trends and Disruption podcast features Craig Jeffrey, Managing Partner at Strategic Treasurer. We explore the results and implications of the weekly Global Crisis Monitor survey results, which explore sentiments, challenges, and reactions shared by over 700 Treasury and Finance Leaders to deliver business as usual in the next normal.

The initial episode of the Finance Trends and Disruption podcast features the global thought leader in the arena of business partnering, Anders Liu-Lindberg, co-founder, COO (Chief Operating Officer), and CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at the Business Partnering Institute and owner of the largest group dedicated to Finance Business Partnering on LinkedIn with more 8,000 members. Anders and I explore what it takes to be a successful CFO in the next normal and the importance of being a social CFO.

In this episode of the AP Now podcast, Nacha’s Rob Unger joins host Mary Schaeffer to discuss Same Day ACH and the innovations expected in the near future. In a very understandable manner, he began by explaining exactly what Same Day ACH is and how it differs from Classic ACH.

This episode focuses both on an old fraud that unfortunately is still rampant and a new one that AP Now anticipates will occur. Both have ramifications for both your personal life as well as your business. Recharged Education’s Lynn Larson discussing how letting down your fraud protection guard even for one minute can have disastrous consequences.

When Vanessa Taggart, Director, Corporate AP, said that she didn’t know what a second B Notice looked like because Lehigh Valley Health Network had never received one, it was obvious this was an extremely well-run accounts payable operation. Vanessa and Tricia Wieder, Manager Corporate AP at Lehigh Valley Health Network joined Mary Schaeffer on the AP Now podcast to explain exactly how they achieved this remarkable feat.

Mary Schaeffer discusses the changing business environment and shares three goals to help everyone be successful in the new and changing atmosphere. She begins by sharing some statistics that reveal there will be significant job loss due to AI but at the same time there will be an even larger creation of new jobs.

In this episode, Mary Schaeffer, AP Now founder, and podcast host discusses the way crooks are innovating and tweaking existing BEC frauds to take advantage of their targets. She shares three recent cases where the crooks have maneuvered around existing BEC protocols to their advantage.