Agility in Finance SIG
Finance, Procurement and Contracts are central to effective business agility.
Bringing finance closer to decision-making increases agility: balancing reporting and control with the flexibility to feed innovation in the face of change and uncertainty.
This group focuses on how an agile ethos can combine with just enough control and compliance, to create a robust environment – protecting the business and its customers.
The Finance SIG is led by a steering group of volunteers who are committed to connecting the world of finance more closely with the values and principles of agility.
This group runs events where topics are discussed so that thinking for this domain is taken forward.
Events to date have included:
- Agile Finance SIG: Can Finance and Agile ever see eye-to-eye? What’s the worst that could happen?
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Steering Group of Volunteers
Alistair Corrie
Alistair is a Professional Member of the Agile Business Consortium (Catalyst) and a Qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA). He has a keen interest in emotionally intelligent leadership, the neuroscience of problem solving, the psychology of human motivation, and the Inner Game approach to performance. 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 Agile is the Trojan Horse for delivering positive change in an organisation, and that Finance and HR can be the Trojan Horses for delivering that Agility by stealth.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- corriepartnership.com/
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, including Scrum Global Gathering 2019, Agile Z-Day 2020, Lebanese American University Agile event 2020, Frug’Agile 2021, Agnostic Agile Conference 2022, Agile Tour Vilnius 2022, and Agile Alliance 2023 Scotland.
Being herself a true humanist, she loves working with people, craving together "Agile mindset" and getting the most out of each team.
Susie Young
Susie is an enterprise agility coach that specialises in working with business and technology together to deliver end to end value in financial services and retail sectors. Having started her career as a chartered accountant working in Audit and corporate restructuring she understand the importance of robust controls, transparency and strong governance. She will bring experience of working with banks like JP Morgan Chase, LBG, Metro, Nationwide as well as iconic brands such as Dr Martens to the panel. Susie is also a trustee of Certitude which provides support across London to people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health support needs.
Rikard Olsson
Rikard has vast experience of developing control models and management processes, including from his previous role as chief controller at AstraZeneca. He is today a sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars where he challenges how we lead and manage our companies and organizations, often with headlines such as Beyond budgeting / Dynamic management, and Future Finance.
Rikard has the ability to make the difficult easy and is happy to share his international experiences. Rikard's assignments primarily include business analyses, development of new governance models and development of shared services with a focus on financial functions. He has extensive industry experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare / real estate and real estate. Rikard has been the Managing Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute since 2018.
- Website:
- bbrt.org/