Shared Services Webinar

Creating a SSC for AP (Finance) – A Gannett Case Study

Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT

Gannett is the largest newspaper publisher in the United States and a leading international news and information company. In the United States, the company publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications. Additionally, it operates Internet sites offering news and advertising that is customized for the market served and integrated with its publishing operations. Learn how and why they decided to create a shared service center for AP (Finance), the challenges they faced and the results they achieved.

Topics discussed will include:

Why they automated AP and built a shared service center for Finance
How they got started
Challenges faced when centralizing AP
How to manage internal controls for AP in a centralized environment
Blurring the lines of IT and Finance to improve AP operations
How to drive continuous improvement
Lessons learned and benefits achieved
What’s next?

This is a unique opportunity to see how one of the largest media companies in the world transformed their accounts payable operations by building a shared service center and, in doing so, improved their operational efficiency.

Moderator:

Jon Kabrud
Regional Manager
Basware

Presenter:

Matt Leigh
Project Leader
Gannett

Matt Leigh is a Project Leader in the Financial Systems Services team under Gannett IT. Matt has been with Gannett for over 8 years, starting at USATODAY finance where he worked with AP and GL consolidation projects. Matt moved over to IT to take on more global financial projects and has led the BasWare and AP SSC implementations for Gannett.

Gannett Co., Inc. is a leading international news and information company that publishes 85 daily newspapers in the USA, including USA TODAY, the nation’s largest-selling daily newspaper. The company also owns nearly 900 non-daily publications in the USA and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom’s second largest regional newspaper company. Newsquest publishes nearly 300 titles, including 17 daily newspapers, and a network of prize-winning Web sites. Gannett also operates 23 television stations in the United States and is an Internet leader with sites sponsored by its TV stations and newspapers including USATODAY.com, one of the most popular news sites on the Web.

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