EXECUTIVE BIO

Matthew MacEwen

TITLE: VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE TRANSFORMATION

INDUSTRY: FINANCE

LOCATION: CANADA

Matthew MacEwen is the Vice President of Finance, Customer Experience and Corporate Planning, Transformation and Finance Analytics at Bell Canada. In addition to supporting various Business Units in achieving their strategic, operational and financial objectives, Matthew is responsible for executing Bell Canada’s digital transformation for the Finance function. This includes advancing the function’s capabilities with the development and some of their finance operation’s business, including business units from a more financial planning and analysis (FP&A) perspective.

The emerging technologies in question –and central to Bell Finance’s transformation – are, of course, artificial intelligence (AI), the application of machine learning (ML) and predictive analytics within finance processes. These technologies have the potential to provide many organisational benefits, such as providing useful insights to minimise unpredictability, creating sophisticated forecasting capabilities and automating traditionally time-consuming and inefficient processes.

For a finance department, the fiscal knock-on effects of such technologies are able to free up resources that can have a sweeping effect throughout the entire structure of an organisation. This is exactly what Bell finance has set out to do – and they are already seeing the impact of such systems.

Another aspect of this transformation concerns not only technology and data, but also Bell Finance building new capabilities within the actual function, as well as the critical upskilling of their workforce so