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Professional Business Services webinar for Finance leaders

Join this online webinar where we will explore what financial management and strategic planning look like for organisations providing Professional Business Services.

Date: 16 October 2025, Thursday

Time: 11 – 11.50am AEDT / 1 – 1.50pm NZDT

Location: Online webinar

About the event

The professional services industry in Australia employs over 1.3 million people, representing 9% of the workforce. It generates revenues in the vicinity of $360 billion across ANZ.
 
Finance leaders in the sector must ensure their organisation can navigate multiple challenges at any one time. When it comes to Financial Planning & Analysis, they need to closely align accurate revenue forecasts with headcount planning and costs, ensuring skills align with demand and utilisation and billing rates are optimised.
 
Back-office activities must be lean and efficient, despite multiple, often disparate systems and the need for timely and critical information. In such a difficult environment, finance leaders must explore ways to improve collaboration, driver better planning disciplines and improve visibility of performance.
 
Join us for this executive briefing to explore the new role of finance leaders in Professional Business Services.

Main topics of focus

  • Understand how Excel-based Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) processes can limit the office of finance’s influence and impact
  • Learn how FP&A technology can enable Professional Business Services organisations to be more agile, through better alignment of revenue and headcount planning and visibility of performance
  • Listen to a customer panel with Douglas Partners, who have undergone significant transformation in their FP&A processes

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Meet the experts

Speakers

Brett Ruwoldt - QMetrix Managing Director

Director at QMetrix

Brett Ruwoldt (CPA)

Brett is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) and has over 30 years’ experience in finance and technology fields. He is equipped with a powerful combination of skillsets to assist organisations in achieving the right outcomes from their technology investments.

At QMetrix, Brett leads the team responsible for delivering exceptional services and solutions which optimise business processes and drive business agility; QMetrix was recently named 2024 and 2025 APAC Workday Adaptive Planning Partner of the Year.

Adilah Sawawi

Principal Consultant at QMetrix

Adilah Sawawi

Adilah has spent 12 years in the CPM space managing, implementing, and delivering end-to-end data driven business intelligence. She specialises in multi-dimensional planning, 3-way forecasting, management reporting and financial consolidation solutions. Her experience ranges from practice management, mentoring, to pre-sales and post sales implementation in the Asia Pacific region.

Adilah holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, and started her career as a Software Engineer specialising in Microsoft technologies.

Tania Amalen, Finance Manager at Douglas Partners

Finance Manager at Douglas Partners

Tania Amalen (CPA)

Tania is an is Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA-UK), an Associate Member of CPA Australia. She has over 18 years of experience in commercial finance, business partnering, financial planning & analysis and financial strategy.

Tania has worked across many industries namely engineering, manufacturing, freight, airlines, healthcare and not-for-profit, both locally and overseas. She enjoys working with different stakeholders to maximise return and ensure sustainability of the business. At Douglas Partners, Tania lead the implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning. 

Lachlan McPherson

FP&A Solution Specialist at QMetrix (Host)

Lachlan McPherson

Lachlan leverages his expertise in Enterprise Performance Management and Planning to deliver high-value solutions across all levels of business.

At QMetrix, Lachlan helps customers remove silos and gain efficiencies by implementing FP&A solutions with Workday Adaptive Planning. He enjoys working with great organisations and pushing the bounds of creativity and new ideas.

Partnering with Finance teams in Professional Business Services

QMetrix has been partnering with finance teams to deliver FP&A solutions for over a decade. We have worked with over 100 organisations to transform their Financial Planning and Analysis processes, and enable a more efficient and effective finance function. Here are some clients QMetrix has worked with.

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