Business Consulting Group

HR and Finance: Breaking Traditional Mindsets to Team Up for Results

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
7:30-8:00 a.m. – Check in and breakfast
8:00-9:30 a.m. – Presentation and Q&A

One Union Square Boardroom
600 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101

No cost to attend

Registration includes a complimentary continental breakfast. Please register by Friday, September 5, 2008.

Overview

Many HR professionals come up with a nurturing, protective approach to employees, often supplemented with a deferential attitude toward CFOs and CEOs. Finance professionals, trained to focus on dollars and cents, are often instilled with an impulse to control costs and their sources.

Everyone benefits when HR and Finance team up to keep sight of the overall goal – aligning people and skills with the competitive needs of the business. HR professionals come join us to learn how to:

Embrace the idea that sound organizational financial success and creating an efficient workplace environment meet finance and HR’s objectives.
Team up with finance to effectively develop strategy and resolve operational problems.
Show up with your own set up metrics like the finance people, showing trends, results, and outcomes so you’ll be in a better position to affect policy.

Speakers

Aaron Pollock, Principal, Mercer

Prior to joining Mercer, Aaron spent 12 years representing insurance carriers. He has 20 years experience in the employee benefits field and his areas of expertise range from small employers to large public sector organizations. Aaron often helps mediate the communication between HR professionals and CFOs. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Holly Gray, Senior Manager, Moss Adams LLP

A consultant for the past 20 years, Holly has worked with a diverse group of clients to meet a variety of human resource needs. She specializes in compensation consulting to closely held businesses and non-profit organizations across a wide range of industries, including high tech, bio tech, health care, insurance, social services, real estate, manufacturing, professional services and retail sales. She is certified as a behavioral coach by the Behavioral Coaching Institute. She holds a MBA in Human Resources and Marketing from the University of Washington, and both a MS and BA from the University of Kentucky.

Sponsors

Mercer

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Mercer is the world’s leading employee benefits, compensation, and HR consulting firm. Mercer Health & Benefits helps employers of all sizes meet their health and benefit program objectives while controlling costs. They help clients design, administer and manage their health care programs; comply with local regulations; and secure health and welfare coverage to promote the health, security and well being of their employees.

Moss Adams LLP

The 11th largest certified public accounting and consulting firm in the U.S., and the largest firm headquartered in the West. The firm provides business assurance, tax, financial, and consulting services to public and private companies, and governmental/not-for-profit organizations.