A Business Finance Discovery Day at Villa Park

Wednesday 29th April from 10am to 2pm
Birmingham Spring’s Leading Event for Business Finance Professionals

The latest industry trends, expert speakers and innovative business tools to streamline your business operations. Our events are dedicated to the interests of business finance professionals or business executives responsible for financial operations.

The Business Finance and Accounting SHOWCASE in Birmingham Spring will provide valuable insights and innovative ideas targeted to your business, helping to unlock your full potential success.

Expert speakers – free informative seminars

4 hours of Insightful and educational content with the latest finance industry trends, innovative tools to impact your business, future strategies and more…

Eat the elephant: how to de-risk finance system change
Gary McKnight
Thinc
Most finance leaders are stuck on a treadmill. Painful processes like month end crowd out the thinking time needed to change those processes and implement the right finance systems. But you don’t fix finance by swallowing change whole. You fix it one bite at a time – by spreading the risks of change. This seminar covers 5 practical and evidence-backed ways (from how we've helped hundreds of SME finance teams) you can achieve that, starting today - from making sure you don't waste time to justifying the financial investment.
How AI agents are transforming finance teams in 2026
Rasmus Areskoug
Paraglide AI
Rasmus' delivers 5 insights in 20 minutes about how AI agents are transforming finance teams today, and in the future. How are agents different from co-pilots and rule-based automation? Where are the high ROI use-cases? How to tell hype from reality? What impact does AI have on the finance team of the future? What can you do today to get started?
What finance leaders must get right when choosing accounting software
Elaine Birch
AccountsIQ
Selecting new finance software is no longer just about making an IT upgrade. It’s a strategic leadership decision with long-term implications for control, insight and scale. In this fast-paced session, we’ll share five critical considerations every senior finance leader should weigh up before committing to a new platform, from future-proofing and data confidence to organisational impact and ROI.

Our Exhibitors

On hand are industry-leading financial technology firms, presenting innovative software and tools. These are designed to enhance data analytics and optimise management strategies for topics including pensions, private health, employee benefits and payroll.

AccountsIQ
HEADLINE SPONSOR - Scalable cloud accounting to help you grow
ExpenseIn
Expense management built for finance teams
IFOL
Institute of Financial Operations & Leadership
Mandant
Specialists in Finance application integration
Paraglide AI
The smartest way to get paid on time
RSM UK
RSM: Audit, Tax and Consulting Solutions
Xe
Global business payments and FX risk management
Xledger UK
Accounting & Financial Management Software
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- Villa Park

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Testimonials

I wanted to thank the team at financeSHOWCASE for such a great event! The atmosphere was so positive and relaxed and I had some great conversations with the exhibitors. Lots of takeaways from the talks too. Can’t wait for the next one.

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Christine Mooney

Marketing Manager, J+D Forecasting

How to get there

Villa Park
In the Lower Ground Suite
Sat Nav : B6 6HE. Please enter via Lower Ground Suite entrance. Free onsite parking available off Trinity Road.