Webinar Details
Course Description
Why Industry Context Matters
Finance complexity doesn't grow at the same rate as your business; it outpaces it. When transaction volume rises, approval chains lengthen, and reporting demands increase. The gap between what your team can handle and what the business needs starts to widen fast.
- AP is usually where that pressure surfaces first. And when it does, the symptoms tend to look the same:
- Invoice volume climbing faster than your team can process it
- Approval delays stalling vendor payments and relationships
- Month-end close extending because of manual reconciliations and coding errors
- Spreadsheets and email chains introducing risk at every step
- Limited visibility into accruals, liabilities, and real-time spend
- Finance teams stuck in reactive mode instead of supporting strategic decision
This session is focused on how to identify these bottlenecks early, quantify their cost, and eliminate them before they constrain your growth.
Learning Objectives
- Identify why finance workload grows nonlinearly as companies scale and where it breaks first.
- Recognize the Finance Scale Maturity Model: four stages from ad hoc to fully automated.
- Identify how to self-diagnose whether your current AP process can keep up with growth.
- Discover A practical roadmap to build a scalable AP foundation without adding headcount.
Who Should Attend
CFOs, controllers, and AP leaders in growing SMB and mid-market companies who need to scale finance operations without scaling headcounts.
Advanced Preparation
None
Presenter Details
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Liz Briggson
- Speaker
Liz Briggson joined the Encoursa team in 2017, bringing a unique mix of accounting, finance, and sales experience. Liz is passionate about education and helping people reach their potential.
Liz's corporate finance experience includes progressive finance roles with Kellogg Company, Amway, and Open Systems Technologies. At Amway, Liz was responsible for management reporting for Amway’s portfolio companies and financial planning & analysis for Amway’s finance and executive divisions. Prior to that, Liz served clients in the utilities, insurance, and manufacturing industries in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Liz is a licensed CPA in the state of Michigan. She leads Partnerships & Education... Read more
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Sara Moghaddhassi
- Account Executive, Quadient
Sara is an Account Executive at Quadient with four years of experience, having grown into the role after starting out as an SDR. She focuses on helping small and mid-sized businesses modernize their AP processes through automation. When she’s not talking workflows and efficiency, you’ll find her spending time with her four-legged best friend, reading a good book, snowboarding, or working on her latest DIY project.
NASBA Sponsor
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Live Webinar
Scaling Finance Without Adding Headcount: How to Remove AP Bottlenecks Before They Slow Growth
Sponsored by Quadient
- May 6, 2026
- 4:00 PM EDT
- Credits: 1.00
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