Seats at Finance Leader Nexus are limited, because the quality of conversation depends on the right people being in the room.
Please register to confirm your seat, access the full agenda, and receive the post-event insight report, a confidential summary of the day’s key themes and peer perspectives, delivered exclusively to attendees.
This is the room where mid-market finance leaders speak frankly. Come ready to do so.
You have sat through enough vendor pitches and monologues that had little relevance to your actual challenges.
Finance Leader Nexus is built for something different … a room where mid-market CFOs and finance leaders benchmark themselves against peers, pressure-test their hardest decisions, and have the frank, senior-level conversations that simply don’t happen anywhere else.
No presentations dressed as insights. No theory disconnected from your Monday morning.
Just the dialogue your role demands.
Networking & Coffee
Begin the morning with curated networking among Sydney’s mid-market finance leaders.
Welcome note
Update from the field
A short, sharp session on surviving and thriving amidst margin compression and AI acceleration.
Morning Tea
Peer Roundtable
A facilitated dialogue around the role of automation and productivity, recorded via purpose-built AI.
Solution Block
Rapid-fire five-minute introductions to innovative point solutions for ERP, tax, and GRC challenges.
Lunch
Every solution provider at Finance Leader Nexus is here because they passed our curation process, not merely because they paid for a slot.
We select partners whose expertise maps directly to the functional challenges mid-market finance leaders are navigating right now: FP&A, ERP transformation, tax complexity, cash flow visibility and GRC. If it’s not relevant to you, it doesn’t make the room.
By involving partners in our agenda design from the start, not as sponsors but as subject matter contributors, we ensure their knowledge addresses real problems rather than manufactured ones.
They are here to build relationships and help you make better technology and advisory decisions. Not to close a deal on the day.
ShiftCare is the leading care management platform supporting NDIS, aged care, and disability providers to deliver quality care and scale effectively. With a blend of intuitive tech, automation, and industry expertise, ShiftCare helps teams streamline rostering, admin, invoicing and client management, all while reducing paperwork and compliance headaches. The ShiftCare platform empowers providers to scale efficiently, enhance communication, and deliver more personalised support, all without losing the human touch that care depends on.
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Your dedicated partner at Peninsula, Leanne Avery supports NDIS providers across Australia with trusted Employment Relations and Workplace Health and Safety expertise. Backed by Peninsula’s deep experience in the disability services sector, Leanne delivers end-to-end support including HR and WHS advisory, workforce obligations, unlimited tailored documentation, and unlimited 24-hour support.
NDIS providers benefit from tailored guidance on interpreting the SCHADS award, managing employee relations, contracts, policies, and Fair Work obligations, ensuring service continuity and reduced legal risk. Through Peninsula’s 24/7 dedicated Health Care Providers advice line and proactive approach, Leanne helps providers focus on care delivery while safeguarding their teams and operations. As the NDIS landscape evolves, Leanne offers clarity, confidence, and consistency for providers navigating complex employment obligations.
Unison Technology is a trusted IT and cybersecurity partner that supports NDIS providers in building resilient, compliant, and high-performing digital environments. Headquartered in Victoria, Unison delivers managed IT services, helpdesk support, cloud solutions, and cybersecurity tailored to the operational needs of disability services organisations.
Acting as an outsourced IT department, Unison ensures that NDIS providers can operate smoothly, meet privacy and security obligations, and stay focused on participant care. Their high touch service model, plain-language approach, and deep understanding of SME needs make them a valuable partner in improving IT reliability, safeguarding sensitive data, and enabling sustainable growth.
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No, and that’s the founding principle of Finance Leader Nexus. Every partner in the room has been selected for functional relevance to mid-market finance challenges, not for their marketing budget. Partners contribute to the agenda as subject matter experts, not as presenters buying airtime. The peer roundtable and keynote sessions are entirely independent of partner involvement. If a session doesn’t serve the finance leaders in the room, it doesn’t make the agenda.
Attendees are mid-market CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers and Senior Finance Managers from Australian-based businesses, typically operating between $50M and $500M in revenue. Numbers are strictly capped to protect the seniority and quality of conversation. This is not a 150 person conference. Every registration is reviewed to ensure the right composition of the room.
The sessions are built around the decisions mid-market finance leaders are navigating right now … margin compression, automation investment, ERP complexity, cash flow visibility and board-level reporting. Speakers bring real cases and honest numbers from their own organisations. You won’t receive a slide deck of frameworks you already know. You will leave with peer-validated perspectives you can apply immediately.
Because the challenges facing a CFO running a $50M business are fundamentally different from those facing a Big 4 enterprise or an early-stage startup, and most finance events are built for one of those two extremes. Mid-market finance leaders deal with enterprise-level complexity without enterprise-level resources. This event is built specifically for that reality, which is why the conversation in the room is more relevant and more actionable than at a general finance conference.
Yes. Every attendee receives the post-event insight report within the week following the event. It’s a confidential summary of the day’s key themes, peer perspectives and emerging priorities, compiled from the Peer Roundtable session. No individual comments are attributed. The report is one of the most valued outputs of the day and is distributed exclusively to people who attended.
The agenda is built around the issues mid-market finance leaders are dealing with in 2026; AI acceleration and what it actually means for finance teams, margin compression and how peers are responding, ERP and systems transformation, automation and productivity, and the evolving role of finance in board-level strategy. Sessions are practitioner-led, not vendor-driven, and the peer roundtable gives attendees the ability to shape the conversation in the room.
Finance Leader Nexus is designed for mid-market CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of Finance, Financial Controllers and Senior Finance Managers. If you own or influence financial strategy, budgets or transformation in a business operating between roughly $50M and $500M in revenue, this event is built for you. If you’re from a large enterprise or a vendor organisation, this event is not the right fit, and we would rather be honest about that upfront.
Please complete the registration form on this page with your name, company and job title. Places are subject to approval to ensure the right composition of attendees. You’ll receive a confirmation email within 24 hours along with the full agenda and event details. If you have any questions before registering, contact us directly.
Yes. Morning tea and lunch are provided. The day runs from 9:30 AM through to approximately 1:30 PM, giving you the afternoon back.
Please note your requirements in the registration form or contact us directly after registering. We’ll confirm all arrangements with you ahead of the event. Our venue is fully accessible.
Finance Leader Nexus is complimentary for qualified finance leaders. Places are limited and subject to registration approval to ensure the right mix of seniority and function in the room. If your registration is approved, you’ll receive confirmation within 24 hours.
