Scottish Universities Finance Conference 2019

Don’t miss out on your free place at the Scottish Universities Finance Conference which will take place on Friday 25^th October 2019 at the University of Edinburgh’s Pollock Halls.

The event is open to all finance staff across departments/schools at all Scottish Universities. The main sessions will be of interest to anyone working in HE finance and we hope to have breakout sessions themed around the key areas of finance work. This event is fully catered.

• Information on how to get to Pollock 
• Limited visitor parking is available on a first come first service basis

If anyone has any further ideas for topics to cover and/or would be willing to present or lead a discussion topic please contact Morag.Eadie@ed.ac.uk or Elizabeth.Welch@ed.ac.uk.

Registration from 8.30 ready for a 9.15am start and an approximate finish time of 4.45pm (buffet lunch to be included).

The provisional agenda includes:

Speakers

• Peter Mathieson, Principal, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Heather McGregor, Executive Dean, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (aka Mrs Moneypenny)
• Director of Finance, University of Edinburgh
• Adam Bullough, Performance Audit & Best Value, Audit Scotland
• Laughology – Laughter and Learning
• Andrew Menzies, Director of Finance, Heriot Watt University
• Carol Prokopyszyn, Director of Finance, University of Dundee
• Andy McGoff,  Director of Finance and Operations, Edinburgh Napier University

Breakout Sessions

(to be led by colleagues from various Scottish Universities and External speakers)

• Wellbeing and Resilience
• Brexit
• Research : Financial Due Diligence
• Business Cases for Major Capital Investments: The University of Edinburgh Methodology
• Personal journeys through major change programmes
• USS – Pensions - The USS valuations – reflections on 2017/18 and the outlook for 2020
• Payment methods – International Payer Research: Busting Some Myths
• Skills Development Scotland: The Modern Apprentice, the next steps.
• Cashless Campus: Challenges in a Changing Payment Landscape
• What is procurement for – all you didn’t dare ask?

Stands

The following stand holders will be at the conference:  ARMA, BUFDG, Charity Stand, Fexco Corporate Payments, Finalysis UK Limited, HMRC, Inoapps, Kames Capital, Oracle, QMPF LLP, Royal London Asset Management, Scottish Funding Council, Simitive, Skills Development Scotland, Student Awards Agency Scotland, Student Loans Company, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Western Union Business Solutions, WPM Education.

In order to book a ticket, you will need to have a BUFDG user account. If you don't yet have one it is a quick and easy process to set up - just follow this link.

Business Cases for Major Capital Investments: The University of Edinburgh methodology