EVENT OVERVIEW
In 2012 and 2015 NHS Wales embarked on a major AP transformation, resulting in the creation of two services centres servicing four NHS trusts and seven health boards. This ambitious undertaking established an Accounts Payable function of 130 staff that handles 1,800,000 transactions totalling approximately £4.6 billion spend per-annum.
Frances Lawrence, FD at FISCAL Technologies will be meeting with Russell Ward, Head of AP and Enablement to discuss how the NHS Wales Shared Services overcame the many obstacles on the road to accounts payable transformation. Russell will detail how agile working, robotics and automation resulted in process improvement and employee satisfaction. This enabled the team to become an award-winning, remote working, profit centre within a very short timescale.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
| Frances Lawrence, Finance Director, FISCAL Technologies Frances is a commercially-driven and proactive chartered accountant with 20 years post-qualified experience in the technology sector within the UK and US including three years in Silicon Valley. She has a strong track record of enabling top-line growth, closely managing working capital and realising stakeholder value.
About FISCAL Technologies FISCAL Technologies offers a pure play cloud-based AI risk management solution that enables modern finance teams to boost efficiency as well as derive useful insights that drive the best decision-making on behalf of the company.
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| Russell Ward, Head of AP and Enablement, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Russell is an experienced, professionally qualified accounts payable, procurement, commissioning and project manager who holds a Master Degree in Business Administration. He has a track record of delivering multi-million pound efficiency and cash releasing savings to business and in establishing strategic supplier relationships and procurement strategies, including category management. He is experienced in implementing ERP solutions with the associated change management and business re-engineering that is associated with such projects and he is experienced in working in a Shared Service operation.
About NHS Wales created a Shared Services
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) has 120 Accounts Payable (AP) team members who process transactions on behalf of eleven business units, each of which retains their procurement independence billion spend per-annum.
