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.
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Welcome note
Keynote – What FY2027 Will Demand From the Mid-Market Finance Leader
The AI-Enabled Finance Function
In Conversation: A deep dive with David Keys, Founder & CEO of aify
AI Partner to Finance Leaders
Morning Tea
The Hyper-Connected Finance Function
In Conversation: A deep dive with Basil Penkar, Founder & CEO of MakeSense Software Services
Integration Partner to Finance Leaders
Cyber Is Now a Finance Decision
In Conversation: A deep dive with Cole Cornford, Founder & CEO of Galah Cyber
Cybersecurity Partner to Finance Leaders
The Nexus ExchangeNexus Exchange is a curated, peer-led conversation where attendees share ideas, challenges, and perspectives in an open forum. Moderated by RK (Founder & CEO of Nexus42), the session is designed to create practical, relevant discussion and help finance leaders learn from each other.
Lunch & Networking
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.
aify is an Australian AI leadership partner with services purpose-built for finance leaders, helping CFOs and finance functions turn scattered AI experimentation into governed, accountable performance. Founded by Dave Keys, aify operates as an embedded AI leadership resource, working inside finance teams to identify operational friction, prioritise high-impact use cases, and implement AI that is safe, auditable, and commercially real.
From month-end close and management reporting to forecasting, controls, and compliance workflows, aify covers the full operational lifecycle of a modern finance function. Vendor-agnostic and outcome-driven, Dave brings deep sector knowledge to every engagement, ensuring AI adoption is grounded in audit, governance, and regulatory obligations, not just technology trends.
Galah Cyber is an Australian cybersecurity consultancy that helps mid-market boards and finance leaders translate cyber risk into dollars, not red-amber-green charts. Founded in 2021 by Cole Cornford, Galah brings together practical insights and proprietary models that show CFOs where exposure actually sits, where the cyber budget genuinely reduces risk, and where money is quietly being lit on fire.
From preparedness before an incident hits to the real cost of a breach when one does, Galah helps finance leaders fund cyber resilience proportionately as AI-generated code, third-party risk, and a shifting Australian regulatory environment reshape the exposure finance now owns.
Integration is no longer a tech project. It is the foundation underneath every forecast, board pack, and AI initiative finance now owns. MakeSense is the Melbourne-headquartered firm built to deliver on that reality. Led by Founder and CEO Basil Penkar, and recognised as MuleSoft’s preferred partner in Australia, MakeSense connects the systems behind finance, ops, and sales so the business stops reporting three different versions of the truth.
The result is real-time, event-driven data finance can actually act on, a single trusted source for forecasting and board reporting, and continuous audit readiness rather than an annual scramble.
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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.
