Show Me The Money: Agile & Financial Accounting: Anna Zakoyan & Alistair Corrie

The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you this very topical event with guest speakers Anna Zakoyan and Alistair Corrie.

What if a financial accounting expert was a vital part of your Agile team?

Embark on a transformative journey with us in this workshop where Agile and Finance Accounting Teams converge to reshape collaboration dynamics. Let's dismantle barriers and craft a distinctive partnership aimed at propelling organizations towards success.

During this 90-minute session, we will explore:

1. Tackling the common challenge of departments pulling in opposite directions.

Why finance folks keep trying to reconcile to things which are no longer relevant to the outcome? Why do Agilists keep changing the plan?

2. Understanding the intricacies of each other's mindset and language.
   What do finance people do and what are some common job roles?

3. Highlighting the symbiotic relationship where Agilists seek Finance insights on investment, revenue, and cost-cutting.
   How will the work and effort be accounted for in the financial statements? What data can help us to make better decisions in prioritization, budgeting, financial impact of the work we do?

4. Outlining how Finance seeks Agile support for collaboration and innovation.
   How can we reduce the time it takes to close the month end or the year end? How to be involved in the decisions, rather than sort it out after the fact?

Learning Objectives:

You will leave the session with a profound comprehension of the essential collaboration between Agile and Financial Accounting teams. Armed with a practical toolkit, you will gain one to three actionable steps for immediate individual or team application.
What You'll Take Away:

1. Explore some of the common roles in Finance and Accounting
2. Understand better what is going on in a Profit & Loss Account (P&L) and a Balance Sheet
3. Insight into measurements commonly used in Finance to assess companies, projects, or initiatives, enabling Agilists to create tangible financial impact.
4. Strategies to create time in a Financial Accountant's schedule for collaborative endeavours.

Here's a little more about our amazing guest speaker:

Anna Zakoyan:

Agile Coach, Trainer and Consultant Anna is the founder of PrimeProjekt - helping companies to transform how teams collaborate and how the work gets done to create value with no delay.

Anna has 17 years of experience in leading teams, an Agile practitioner since 2010, and has worked with companies such as SGS Digicomply, Krisp, Ucraft, HSBC, Ameriabank, and Joomag.

She has helped 50+ companies, coached more than 200 teams, and trained more than 3000 individuals.

She has been a speaker at various agile events and conferences, and is the author of two courses that help agilists lead with intention: the Agile Team Accelerator Program and the Ultimate Team Performance Toolkit.

Being herself a true humanist, she loves working with people, craving together "Agile mindset" and getting the most out of each team.

Alistair Corrie:

Alistair is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and a Professional Member of the Agile Business Consortium (Business Agility Catalyst).
He has a keen interest in emotionally intelligent leadership, the neuroscience of problem solving, the psychology of human motivation, and approaches which deliver optimal outcomes.
Alistair is a hands-on agile consultant with extensive experience in business transformation and agile product delivery. He helps leaders and teams bridge the gap between traditional and agile thinking.
He believes that governance is built into Agile, and that Finance and HR can be the Trojan Horses for delivering that Agility “by stealth” into an organisation without the need for expensive learning and transformation programs.
He is currently writing “The Key Elements of Business Agility”.