SAP Connect for Finance 2026 – Melbourne  

The Scalable Core: Powering the Autonomous Finance Engine

Finance leaders are being asked to do more than close the books. You’re expected to improve visibility, strengthen compliance, respond faster to volatility, and support growth without adding manual work. That’s a big ask for any finance team.

SAP Connect for Finance brings finance leaders, SAP specialists and customer voices together for a practical afternoon focused on what comes next. The event is framed around what SAP calls the “Triple Squeeze” facing finance in 2026: market volatility, the approaching 30 June ASRS sustainability audit cycle, and pressure to scale without increasing operational drag.

Sessions are built around how to respond with a more scalable finance core — reducing the manual “shadow work” of finance, improving forecasting, strengthening compliance, and making better real-time decisions. You’ll hear how organisations are approaching faster month-end and group reporting, working capital visibility, and AI-enabled finance workflows, including SAP Joule Agents for Finance.

The agenda includes a welcome on the 2026 Triple Squeeze, a keynote, and focused sessions on Eliminating the Shadow Close, Mastering Predictive Steering, Unlocking Working Capital, a demo of the Intelligence-Led Engine, and The Compliance Shield. A customer panel shares stories from the core, followed by open Q&A and networking drinks.

This event is designed for CFOs, Heads of Finance, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, FP&A leaders, finance transformation leaders, shared services leaders, and ERP and finance systems leaders. It’s particularly relevant if your organisation is balancing reporting pressure, compliance obligations, operational efficiency, and plans for AI in finance.

At Discovery Consulting, we work with organisations that need clearer pathways through complexity. Events like this are valuable because they move the conversation beyond software features into operational reality: reporting pressure, compliance risk, finance capacity, and the decisions leaders need to make next. If you’re reviewing how finance should operate in 2026 and beyond, this is a useful session to have in the diary.