Health & Aged Care Finance and Executive Webinar
What does financial management and strategic planning look like for Health and Aged Care organisations?
Providers in the health and aged care industry continue to face challenges, including frequent policy changes (such as the new Aged Care Act commencing 1 July 2025 in Australia), ongoing shortages of skilled workers needed to support complex care models for residents, and often siloed and aging back-office systems, to name a few.
Many of these organisations have diverse operations, and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) must play a central role in ensuring strong financial management and stability.
To do so, finance leaders must be equipped with the processes and tools to ensure their forecasting is dynamic and agile, scenario planning is robust and comprehensive, and that they can quickly report and analyse results.
Join us for this executive briefing to explore the new role of finance leaders in the health and aged care sector. Learn how industry leaders are tackling these challenges head on by ensuring they are agile in the face of external impacts, and how that helps them be better positioned to take advantage of opportunities in a growing sector.
Date: 20th May 2025, Tuesday
Time: 11am – 12pm AEST / 1 – 2pm NZST
Venue: Online webinar
Main topics of focus:
- Understand how Excel-based FP&A processes can limit the office of finance's influence and impact.
- Learn how FP&A technology can enable health and aged care providers to be more agile, through aligning planning models with commercial aspects – eg, care minute obligations for the aged care industry.
- Extend the strategic remit of the FP&A function through 3-way planning and modelling acquisitions for growth.
- Listen to a customer panel with industry experts from Infinite Care and ECH sharing their insights, having recently undergone significant transformation in their FP&A processes.
Partnering with Health and Aged Care
QMetrix has been partnering with finance teams to deliver FP&A solutions for over a decade. They have worked with healthcare and aged care organisations in transforming their Financial Planning and Analysis processes, and enabling a more efficient and effective finance function. Here are some of the health and aged care clients QMetrix has worked with.
Speakers
Brett Ruwoldt (CPA), Director at QMetrix
Brett has over 30 years’ experience in finance and technology fields and 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 were named 2024 APJ Workday Adaptive Planning Partner of the Year. Brett is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Software Development and Bachelor of Business in Accounting.
Adilah Sawawi, Principal Consultant at QMetrix
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.
Gary Williams, FP&A Solution Specialist at QMetrix
Gary has over 20 years of experience tailoring enterprise application and SaaS software solutions. Throughout his career, he has earned the confidence of several national and international companies, and maintained strong relationships that have developed into trusted partnerships. Gary is skilled at developing the right action plan for each client's needs and helping them select the right solution for their unique requirements.
Zane Ali (CPA), Chief Financial Officer at Infinite Care
Zane has more than a decade of experience as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Manager across aged care, not-for-profit and commercial sectors. He is skilled at social enterprise, leadership, strategic planning, business development and business strategy. As Infinite Care strives to be an Australian leader and innovator of residential aged care, Zane Ali leads the office of finance's role through transformation initiatives like implementing Workday Adaptive Planning and more to drive strategy and growth.
Merrin Nancarrow (CA), Chief Finance Officer at ECH
Merrin brings a wealth of experience in corporate and not-for-profit finance roles, having worked in finance for nearly two decades. She also has experience working in Big 4 accounting firms and ASX listed companies, and is a Chartered Accountant. Merrin’s most recent role was CFO at Autism SA where she helped guide the organisation through significant sector changes and finance improvement programs. She continues to do this at ECH, where she focusses on continuous improvement, cost optimisation, and reporting and analysis.
QMetrix has been partnering with finance teams to deliver FP&A solutions for over a decade, specialising in industries including Aged Care and Healthcare. QMetrix are a Platinum Solution Provider and Preferred Validated solution implementation partner of Workday Adaptive Planning, and was named 2024 APJ Workday Adaptive Planning Partner of the Year. They have delivered over a hundred successful solution implementations.
Workday Adaptive Planning is a market leading cloud technology that has over 7,000 customers globally. It provides budgeting, forecasting, reporting and data visualisation services to help organisations improve their performance. It has been recognised as a 2023 and 2024 Gartner’s Customer’s Choice for Planning Software.