Teams from 20 BUs and 18 different countries had submitted 60 projects over a period of 4 months for these 2016 Finance Awards. A shortlist of 10 projects was selected by the Operational Finance Directors in February 2017 and on March 21 these teams presented their projects to the Jury of the Finance Awards, chaired by Judith Hartmann.

During the Ceremony, we announced the 4 winners of the competition, which are :

• “Finance Transformation” – BU E&P. See more
• “Process Transformation for facility management bids” – BU UK. See more
• “One Controlling – first FP&A platform to support the Management Dialog across the Group” – BU NewCorp. See more
• “ The Morning Dashboard” – BU France BtoB. See more

Other projects which also made it in the top 10 were :

• SAP By Design – BU MESCAT. See more
• Paiton fixed assets tax uplift – BU APAC. See more
• Automated Bank reconciliation process – BU LATAM. See more
• Sirocco2 (94.7 MW onshore wind farms) project financing : innovation and competitiveness – New Corp. See more
• Externalization of expense notes control – BU Tractebel. See more
• Economic Value Added (EVA): a comprehensive risk/return metric for non-capex transactions – BU GEM. See more

We would like to use this occasion to congratulate and thank not only the winning teams but also all participating teams as their projects have shown the interest and the dynamism of the Finance Function to contribute by their expertise to a better financial and commercial performance and to the transformation of the Group. These projects demonstrated once more their interest in sharing innovative projects with other departments in the Group.

Each winner had the possibility to grant a donation to the charity of its choice. These are : Fête le mur, Energy Assistance France, Tête en l’air, The Prince’s Trust (UK).

Following the success of this first edition, we will launch the Finance Awards 2017.

Let’s keep in touch via our Yammer group “FINANCE AWARDS” for more information and the latest updates on the next competition.

The Finance Awards Team