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20th UPDATE

BRING THE TEAM: $500 OFF SECOND DELEGATE. SEE BACK PAGE FOR DETAILS.

FEATURING PRESENTATIONS ON:

• How finance can collaborate more effectively to achieve government outcomes

• Ensuring accountability and performance in the public sector

• Improving efficiency to enhance financial outcomes

• An overview of the future of public sector financial management

• Building a resilient workforce – a cultural shift in NZ organisations

PLUS 2 IN-DEPTH WORKSHOPS ON:

• Embarking on your continuous improvement journey - the finance leader’s perspective

• Excel data analysis and reporting

GAIN UP TO 12.5 CPD HOURS ON THE CONFERENCE

PLUS 3.5 HOURS ON EACH WORKSHOP

The changing role of the finance professional in the public sector

13-14 MARCH 2019 TE WHAREWAKA TAPERE, WELLINGTON

DR SUZE WILSON Massey University

PROFESSOR IAN BALLVictoria University

of Wellington

MATTHEW NEEDHAMHousing New Zealand

ANDY FULBROOKMinistry of Justice

20th UPDATE

The 20th One Stop Update for the Accountant in the Public Sector is your chance to gain valuable insights into accounting, finance, law, tax and communication skills for the year ahead.

Learn more as the finance professional’s role evolves in the public sector. TOP THREE REASONS TO ATTEND:

Meet your Chair and special One Stop Interviews

With updates and presentations from:

Hear the latest on your favourite One Stop Updates of legal, tax, accounting standards and economic trends

Immerse yourself in masterclasses and post-conference workshops for in-depth applied practical learning

Connect, learn and network with the experts and your peers who are facing similar challenges

LEFT TO RIGHT: Matthew Needham, CFO, Housing New Zealand | Aimy Luu Huynh, Senior Project Manager Accounting Standards, External Reporting Board | Paul Clark, Industry Economist, Westpac | Robyn Walker, National Technical Director, Deloitte | Sarah Kennedy, Associate Director, Deloitte | Peter Cullen, Partner, Cullen – The Employment

Law Firm | Dr Suze Wilson, Senior Lecturer School of Management, Massey University | Julie Barber, Senior Health and Safety Business Partner, NZ Red Cross

ANDY FULBROOKCFO, Ministry of Justice

MICHAEL MCCARTHY, CFO, Capital and Coast District Health Board

CFO INTERVIEWMEET YOUR CHAIR KEYNOTE INTERVIEW

PROFESSOR IAN BALL Professor of Public Financial Management,

Victoria University of Wellington

8.30 Registrationandcoffee

9.00 Welcome from the Chair Michael McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer,

Captial & Coast District Health Board

9.10 Opening Address: Encouraging strong and diverse leadership in the public sector

• Creating a more responsive public sector to improve outcomes for New Zealanders

• Examining the new imperatives to build leadership, agility, adaptability and collaboration in the New Zealand public sector

• Cultivating strong and diverse leadership with the ability to work across a range of roles and contexts

Dr Suze Wilson, Senior Lecturer School of Management, Massey University

9.30 CFO Interview – Integration and collaboration towards shared outcomes

• Working across the Justice sector – how finance can assist in working more collaboratively to achieve the government’s outcomes

• Investigating what role the financial department will play in this and ways it can help facilitate the collaboration

• Looking into the practicalities of working together to enhance shared outcomes

Andy Fulbrook, Chief Financial Officer, Ministry of Justice

10.10 Ensuring accountability and performance in the New Zealand public sector

• Supporting a high performing accountable and transparent New Zealand public sector

• Improving interaction and collaboration to ensure value from public audits

• Best strategies to prepare your department for audit

10.50 Morning break

11.20 The One Stop Economic Update – Looking into thevariablesaffectingthe2019economiclandscape

• Analysing the variables impacting New Zealand business, the social landscape and international trade

• Discussing the impact of moving towards a carbon neutral economy

• Looking into the factors and competitive forces shaping the accounting industry in New Zealand

Paul Clark, Industry Economist, Westpac

12.00 The One Stop Employment Law Update The recent changes to Employment Law are

now beginning to take effect. Join our expert to talk about the recent and proposed reforms, and how they will affect you in the public sector workplace

• Analysing the recent changes to employment and privacy laws

• Outlining the new powers of Labour Inspectors and how to ensure you are prepared if they call

• Looking into how technology is changing traditional working patterns and employment law

Peter Cullen, Partner, Cullen – The Employment Law Firm

12.40 Lunch Break

1.40 The One Stop Taxation Update • The latest with PAYE and GST • Looking into the latest R&D tax incentive

scheme and it’s availability to the public sector • Discussing best practice to make the most of

the current environment Robyn Walker, National Technical Director,

Deloitte Sarah Kennedy, Associate Director, Deloitte

2.20 Getting traction in enhancing outcomes for customers in the public sector

• Looking into the unique challenges of continuous improvement in the public sector

• Critical elements in improving service to meet the needs of the customer

• Finding a balance between harmonising and automation of processes for better outcomes

Darcy Mellsop, Director, ci lab

3.00 Afternoon break

3.30 Strategicfinancialplanningforthepublicsector

• Best practice for developing and directing your business and finance team

• Utilising tools and reports on financial and non financial information to influence decision making

• Managing key relationships effectively including inter-departmental collaborations

Matthew Needham, CFO, Housing New Zealand 4.10 Closing Keynote Interview – Where is public

financialmanagementheading? • How well is the Public Finance Act 1989

working, and what needs to change? • What things in the Act should not change? • What are the practical implications of

embedding of ‘wellbeing’ into the Public Finance Act 1989?

• Will Integrated Reporting work in Government, and will it be introduced?” Professor Ian Ball, Professor of Public Financial Management, Victoria University of Wellington

4.50 Summary remarks from the Chair & Networking Drinks

Day One 13 MARCH 201920th UPDATE

“Thank you - I enjoyed the two days and learned a lot.”

“This event was well run and I would like to attend

again in future.”

9.05 Welcome back from the Chair Michael McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer,

Captial & Coast District Health Board

9.10 The future of digital government • Reshaping the public sector in the digital era • Leveraging the use of digital technology across

the public sector • Creating a culture to make it easier for

innovation and iteration across government departments

9.50 The One Stop Accounting Standards Update Join our expert from the XRB to give you the

latest updates for the financial reporting of Public Benefit Entities (PBEs)

• Recently issued accounting standards impacting public sector PBEs

• Current public sector accounting standards in development

• The future of global accounting standards Aimy Luu Huynh, Senior Project Manager

Accounting Standards, External Reporting Board

10.30 Morning break

11.00 Managing the budgeting and forecasting process

• Building a better process to produce actionable information

• Communicating the information in easy to understand terms

• Making information transparent to build trust and credibility

• How automating processes can be used to your advantage

• Utilising digital tools to transform decision making and forecasting

11.40 Spotlight on: Cybersecurity • Approaching security through a privacy lens • What have the emerging cyber threats taught

us and how are they evolving • Maintaining cybersecurity within digitally

disruptive environments

12.20 Lunch break

1.20 The One Stop Excel Masterclass – Excel tips and tricks to take you through 2019

• Collaborating across teams with Excel • Creating real-time, on demand, timely reports

aimed at various user groups • Using advanced filter options to analyse and

sort data • Key points to watch out for when accessing

Excel from the Cloud Danny Bedingfield, Trainer, Ace Training

2.50 Closing keynote: Building a resilient workforce – a cultural shift in NZ organisations

• Examining New Zealand’s shift towards a more health and wellbeing aware workforce

• What is psychological wellness and how can we ingrain this into organisational culture?

• Understanding the obligation of your employer to ensure your support and wellbeing

Julie Barber, Senior Health and Safety Business Partner, NZ Red Cross

3.30 Closing remarks from the Chair and end of conference

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“I liked the speakers that were passionate about their topic and engaged with the audience so that we could relate it to what we do at work and how we can apply the changes ourselves.”

“Thank you - I enjoyed the two days and learned a lot.”

GAIN UP TO 12.5 CPD HOURS ON THE CONFERENCE

SEPARATELY BOOKABLE POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Embarking on your continuous improvement journey - the finance leader’s perspective

9.00–12.30PM | 15 MARCH 2019

This half-day post conference workshop offers you practical insights into implementing or honing the continuous improvement programme across your organisation, from the finance leader’s point of view. Inter-woven with case studies and war stories, this session helps for you to realise how to start your continuous improvement journey, or hone and assure the initiatives your organisation has already started:

• Creating and setting your organisational-wide and department-wide continuous improvement strategy

• Defining elements of the role of the finance leader in the continuous improvement programme

• Supporting people, communication and process on organisational-wide change management to help continuous improvement strategy

• Setting up a performance framework across the departments and driving the right behaviours with the right measures

• Blending continuous improvement as part of organisational culture - practical aspects

• Setting up the right benefit realisation framework and assessing a continuous improvement programme cost-benefit analysis

Excel data analysis and reporting

1.30– 5.00PM | 15 MARCH 2019

Designed for regular users of Excel who work with large spreadsheet files that need effective analysing and reporting. It will provide the necessary skills that use the best methods to efficiently analyse data.

• Analysing and reporting different types of data

• Exploring the use of database features and how they can help

• Simplifying analysing large amounts of information

• Learning the best ways to present data to communicate effectively

DARCY MELLSOP Director, ci lab

DANNY BEDINGFIELD Trainer, Ace Training

Darcy is a process and continuous improvement practitioner experienced across Lean Six Sigma, Systems Thinking and the State Services Commission’s better every day methodology for the public sector. Darcy has a proven record of building continuous improvement and customer focused capability in organisations to produce significantly better outcomes for customers. Highlights of Darcy’s most recent engagements include working with Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand Post, Aviation Security Services, Victoria University of Wellington, Ministry of Social Development, and New Zealand Customs Service.

Danny Bedingfield is a Trained teacher who has been in Adult Education for over 12 years. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who specialises in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and more recently in the Office 365 environment. He trains collaboration utilising 365 tools such as OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Danny is often consulted on better and more efficient ways of organising and analysing data. Working through the benefits of using Power Query and Power Pivot are key ways of ensuring clients are able to be more accurate and effective with their analysis.

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