The Conclave!

The Conclave!

To all our Accountants, it is WD-3, I sense Sub Ledgers heading for closure. To all our Subscribers, its 3 Working Days to the Launch of the Q1 Edition of Finance Transformation Magazine and what's this Newsletter all about? Electing a new Pope...?

You can see above the absolutely cracking 'uber' line up we have assembled for the Q1 Edition, I shall say no more on that. What I want to talk about is Dan Foley and how we will elect the next Pope. I know, I know, the current one is doing fine, but we have a story to tell..

When we launched the Magazine last year my compatriot and fellow Shared Services Guru, Dan Foley of the Parish of Kier Group came to me and said Michael, we need to talk. I said cool, lets book one of these new fangled Teams gigs and pull up a chair.

What followed was 2 hours of setting the World to rights, defining Shared Services for the next 10 years and Dan's acceptance that us Dubs, are always right. We agreed that at some point Dan would headline the Finance Transformation Magazine and he will do that in 2022.

Then as only 2 decent Irishmen can do we started to talk about the Pope...All through 2021 my Business Partner Mark Saywell and I had wanted to do a Finance Transformation Magazine Event and host a shindig of our own.

So when Dan Foley said to me "Michael I just want to sit in a room of my Peers, to talk the talk, no messing, sweep away all the buzzwords and discuss the real Future of Finance" I knew all we needed was a name.

Now Dan is from Kerry and they are never stuck for a word, so he said "look it, its a Conclave, that's what it is" just gather the best people and lets set the Finance World to rights for the next 10 years!

So as we put the final touches to the Online Magazine for release on Tuesday 9am on my LinkedIn Profile, we are adding one page and that page will give Dan Foley what he wants. It may not be a new Pope but it will surely be the best night of Finance craic London has ever seen!

Conclave - 31st March, 6pm Kick Off

Venue to be announced just ahem...download the Magazine :)


Ellen Leith

Bringing together leaders across Finance, P2P, AP and Procurement - elevating careers, passionate about people, processes that work and technology that does what it says it will. ? +44 (0)1344 989240

3 年

Looking forward to it, Michael Ryan. Can't wait to hear from Dan Foley - always has some interesting and insightful stories to share. It'll be great to have you both under the same roof at our event on 7th June too! ??

Chris Gunning

Shared Services | Global Business Services (GBS) | Transformation | Finance Operations | Chartered Accountant | BPO Operations | SSON Advisory Board Member | Craft Beer

3 年

Roll on next week indeed Michael. Should be a great read as always. You've whet my appetite - and hoping for some comedy genius, and inspiring Finance insights, from the one and only Dan Foley . Worth the price of admission alone I'd imagine to the Conclave!

Carol Orr

Marketing | Process Optimization Specialist | Boutique Consulting Firm | Empowering Companies to Maximize Application Value

3 年

I'll keep an eye out for the smoke!

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